Re: RISC-V Support for GNUstep

[David Chisnall]

Hi,

QEMU is fast enough for development (that's how I did the AArch32, 
AArch64, and MIPS bring-up for libobjc2).  I haven't written the 
assembly code paths for RISC-V because I don't have sufficient time + 
interest.  I'm happy to review patches.

If I have time, I'd like to refactor the existing objc_msgSend code into 
a set of platform-specific macros and a generic implementation, which 
should make porting to new architectures a bit easier.

David

On 07/10/2021 17:46, lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de wrote:
> Hi fellow GNUsteppers,
>
>
> I am thinking about purchasing a HiFive Unmatched 
> https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched 
> <https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched> board for helping to 
> port GNUstep and especially the GNUstep ObjC runtime to RISC-V.
>
> But first I would need to know if there is interest in porting GNUstep 
> to RISC-V.
>
> If so, I would buy such a board and connect it to the network with ssh 
> access for those doing the porting. Sorry for doing it this way, I am 
> just not fit enough to port things like 
> https://github.com/gnustep/libobjc2 
> <https://github.com/gnustep/libobjc2> on my own.
>
> Please reply if you have the skills to help porting GNUstep and want to 
> help porting GNUstep to RISC-V.
>
>
> kind regards,
>
> Lars