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

["Nicolás Ojeda Bär" <nicolas.ojeda.bar@lexifi.com>]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the update!

As for the tests:

- tests/asmgen: this one has not been ported, so it is not supposed to work;
- tests/lib-dynlink-native/main: ditto, but I never got around to see
why it fails exactly;
- tests/unboxed-primitive-args: this one **is** supposed to pass, will
investigate.

Best wishes,
Nicolás

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 3:53 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
>
> 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.