New challenges ahead

[Daniel Waddington]

Norman,
It might also be of interest to you that we are looking at working with 
Purdue University to port multiMLton (ML not Haskell) to Genode also - 
we are currently making an assessment of feasibility.

Daniel

On 03/25/2011 01:31 AM, Norman Feske wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
>
> the HalVM project was brought to our attention by an anonymous posting
> at our Sourceforge forum:
>
>    http://sourceforge.net/projects/genode/forums/forum/825067/topic/3983252
>
> Even though I am not experienced with using Haskell myself, I recognize
> the potential of using this language in the context of systems
> development. E.g., it plays a pivotal role in the seL4 verification
> project at NICTA, and I have been impressed by the work of Mark P. Jones
> and his group at OGI/PDX with conducting the House project. We listed
> this project idea because we realize that HalVM (or in a broader sense,
> Haskell) should receive our attention at some time in the future.
>
> Do you think that porting GHC to Genode is a necessity? I expected that
> GHC could just be used to cross-compile code. So only the Haskell
> runtime has to be ported. But as I said, I lack profound knowledge in
> this area.
>
> Are you somehow involved in the development of HalVM?
>
> Regards
> Norman
>
> On 03/24/2011 07:29 PM, Thomas DuBuisson wrote:
>> I'm curious - who added all the language-specific topics?
>> Specifically the HaLVM?  Has anyone talked to Adam Wick about porting
>> HaLVM to Genode or is this more of an off-hand "that would be nice"
>> item in the list?  Also, wouldn't it be more sensible to say "port GHC
>> to the a Genode platform" or are there HaLVM-specific features you're
>> wanting like the redevouslib for page flipping?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Thomas