Re: [Caml-list] Status of the OCaml RISC-V port

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 04:30:08PM +0000, SP wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 04:14:30PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Fedora has been maintaining an out of tree RISC-V patch in our OCaml
> > package for about 18 months, from:
> > 
> >  https://github.com/nojb/riscv-ocaml/commits/trunk
> 
> Is it possible to get with opam switch?

Do you mean on an x86_64 host?  Given that I haven't finished
compiling all the deps for opam it definitely won't work in the Fedora
RISC-V image.  In any case we're developing a distribution, so my
primary concern is with the Fedora OCaml package.

> > There are also development boards coming but it's likely you'll have
> > to wait til July for general availability and even then they will cost
> > $1000 and are not expected to have very good performance.
> 
> I've been looking at this from the periphery, for 1k is a tall bill just
> for messing around. What's the forecast for something more affordable
> and usable?

Eventually, but not likely this year.

Rich.