Re: RISC-V Support for GNUstep

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Hi Nikolaus,

I am especially interested in ObjC 2 support, hence I’d like to see https://github.com/gnustep/libobjc2 being ported (and it needs to, as I understand it). 

I guess you’re satisfied with GCC’s runtime which you need for your legacy hardware (Sharp Zaurus and the like). Since the GCC ObjC runtime contains no assembler it probably works out of the box (I have no experience here).

Kind regards,

Lars

Am 07.10.2021 um 22:20 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com>:

Hi Lars,

I think besides objc-compiler support there is nothing special needed for RISC V (or other processor architectures like i386, arm, mips, ppc).

If you look at

https://packages.debian.org/sid/gnustep-base-runtime

https://packages.debian.org/sid/libgnustep-base1.27

you will see that there is experimental riscv64 support in Debian Sid, e.g. compiled binary libs:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/riscv64/libgnustep-base1.27/filelist

So IMHO there is no gap or anything special to do. Like for most other user-space code (unless you want to use architecture specific features like vector instruction sets).

What I can't judge is how buggy basic objective c support is.

Best regards,

Nikolaus

Am 07.10.2021 um 19:19 schrieb lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de:

Hi David,

well, I didn’t consider if you (and others) are aware of RISC-V. Therefore I post some basic, introductory links regarding RISC-V FYI now:

https://riscv.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V

kind regards,

Lars

Am 07.10.2021 um 19:09 schrieb David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de>:

Hi!

Did I miss something regarding risc?

I thought many companies are now looking to go to ARM?

Also on their servers. 

Cheers,

David

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

Am 2021-10-07 um 12:53 schrieb lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de:

Hi fellow GNUsteppers,

I am thinking about purchasing a HiFive Unmatched https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched board for helping to port GNUstep and especially the GNUstep ObjC runtime to RISC-V.