Re: M1 port: Call for funding
Tim McNerney <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Jan 2024 22:20:59 -0500
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Many hanks to Shannon Spires <[email protected]> for his collection of documentation on the IBM PowerPC architecture. https://github.com/svspire/PowerPC-docs This is quite an important trove. In 2022, I found that Google had an impossible time finding PPC architecture docs. Shannon adds "This is a bunch of mostly-PDF files that are very old but AFAICT they still open. Any problems let me know." --Tim On 12/31/23 1:04 AM, R. Matthew Emerson wrote: >> On Dec 30, 2023, at 5:42 AM, Gail Zacharias <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm willing to contribute on a milestone-based plan. > Here’s a rough list of proposed milestones that I wrote today. If I had adequate financial support to work on CCL, this is the path I would follow. I followed a similar path when doing the 32-bit x86 port. > > https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/wiki/ARM64-port-draft-milestones > > I believe I configured the wiki so that it is editable by anyone. > > One thing that I didn’t mention explicitly is thoroughly documenting the porting process as it progresses. That would have to be an essential work product. > > >