[Caml-list] Follow up to: Status of the OCaml RISC-V port (repost)

[Caml-list] Follow up to: Status of the OCaml RISC-V port (repost)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

[Reposting without the attachment which was apparently too large
for this list]

Previously ...
https://inbox.ocaml.org/caml-list/20180226142050.r5bautl4orekd3rf@annexia.org/T/

The Fedora project recently received the HiFive Unleashed U540 board,
courtesy of SiFive Inc.  I thought I'd follow up the thread with
observations on how OCaml (with nojb's patch) works on the real
hardware.

From a development point of view the board is a mixed bag.  It's quite
fast, but because it has no I/O ports except ethernet (no SATA for
example) it requires an awkward installation where you have a second
machine next to it acting as a file server and use NFS/NBD/iSCSI/etc
root support.

I built and tested OCaml from source on the board.  There are some
test failures which I need to investigate.  (See also attachments.)

I also rebuilt a selection of OCaml packages from Fedora on the board
using Fedora's ocaml 4.06 (which has nojb's patch).  These rebuilt
fine so I guess the test failures don't affect real world jobs much.

Hope this is interesting,

Rich.