Does GHC 7.8 make targeting bare metal ARM any easier?

[John Meacham]

kiwamu has been targeting an arm cortex-m3 succesfully with jhc. this
is a CPU with 40k of RAM running Haskell code very much on bare metal.
:)

    John

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Jeremy Shaw <jeremy at n-heptane.com> wrote:
> There have been at least a couple projects, such as hOp and HaLVM
> which attempt to run GHC on the bare metal or something similar.
>
> Both these projects required a substantial set of patches against GHC
> to remove dependencies things like POSIX/libc. Due to the highly
> invasive nature, they are also highly prone to bitrot.
>
> With GHC 7.8, I believe we will be able to cross-compile to the
> Raspberry Pi platform. But, what really appeals to me is going that
> extra step and avoiding the OS entirely and running on the bare metal.
> Obviously, you give up a lot -- such as drivers, network stacks, etc.
> But, there is also a lot of potential to do neat things, and not have
> to worry about properly shutting down an embedded linux box.
>
> Also, since the raspberry pi is a very limited, uniform platform,
> (compared to general purpose PCs) it is feasible to create network
> drivers, etc, because only one chipset needs to be supported.
> (Ignoring issues regarding binary blobs, undocumented chipsets, usb
> WIFI, etc).
>
> I'm wondering if things are any easier with cross-compilation support
> improving. My thought is that less of GHC needs to be tweaked?
>
> - jeremy
>
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