BuildBot-slave for GHC on Solaris/Sparc

[Ben Lippmeier]

Hi Florian,
As Simon PJ said, you'll need to check with Simon M - but I think the 
main issue is that the GHC dev team simply has no access to Sparc 
machines to test on - so no compile has been attempted for some time. 
However, it /used/ to work and the code for the native generator is all 
still there..

However, while I was at MSR in July - Sept this year, I implemented a 
new graph colouring register allocator which is intended to replace the 
existing linear allocator in a subsequent version. The colouring 
allocator will need to be extended to deal with the floating point 
register pairing on the Sparc. I had this in mind when I wrote the code, 
and it's set up for it, but at the time I didn't have access to a 
machine to test on so it's not complete.

If you can get the code compiling with at least the linear allocator, 
and provide a Sparc shell account then it should only take me a few days 
to add. It would certainly be nice to be able to target the new 
Niagara/Rock multi-core machines...

Cheers,
Ben.

Florian Lorenzen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to set up a BuildBot for Solaris 10 running on Sparc for
> GHC. If you are interested, please tell me, so I will send you the
> details.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Florian
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