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[Jack Ferris]

Matthew Schnall and I attempted to start porting it over in the fall 2010
semester, and I think we got as far as setting up a build target with a
semblance of proper linker scripts and we were able to turn on virtual
memory *just* enough to not fall over. I was under the impression that our
work got tarred up and sent to tilera or something (We've both since
graduated).

To be perfectly honest, neither of us had any particular experience with
kernel build systems or the tilera architecture, so I'm sure someone who
had better knowledge of either could probably replicate our work in a
couple of days time. In any case, looping in Dave to figure out where the
code may have gotten to/if any other students picked up the work.

-Jack

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at tilera.com> wrote:

> On 1/31/2012 9:39 AM, Mark Blackman wrote:
> > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> >
> >> On 1/31/2012 9:22 AM, Mark Blackman wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 1/31/2012 3:56 AM, Mark Blackman wrote:
> >>>>> Anyone still working on the FreeBSD port for Tilera? Perhaps 2011
> >>>>> was very productive but very stealthy!
> >>>>
> >>>> Let's hope so - but I haven't heard anything about it either. :-)
> >>>
> >>> Hmm, so Tilera isn't pursuing this? The messages from 2010 suggested
> >>> Tilera engineers were doing something, but perhaps they were looking
> >>> for more FreeBSD involvement.
> >>
> >> My understanding (from a purely engineering perspective) is that we are
> >> prepared to support a FreeBSD port, but we are not currently planning to
> >> drive the port ourselves.
> >
> > Ok, fair enough. I wonder if the foundation would be prepared to fund
> > dedicated effort on porting. I've only just belatedly appreciated how
> much
> > more useful Tilera's application targets (64-bit + FP performance) are
> > compared to ARM.
>
> Indeed :-)
>
> Some work was going on at CMU under David Eckhardt, but I'm not sure how
> much progress they made.
>
> --
> Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
> http://www.tilera.com
>
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