Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

[Jan Wielkiewicz]

Dnia 2020-08-16, o godz. 09:44:38
Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> napisał(a):

> Jan Wielkiewicz <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl> writes:
> 
> Hey Jan,
> 
> I'm an occasional Hurd web contribute (I haven't contributed anything
> useful in a while).  I'm not really a Hurd developer, but if I can
> motivate/encourage you to achieve your goal, please let me know!
> 
Okay, nice.
> 
> I wonder if you know about this open 3D GPU:
> https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class
> 
> I'll email the leader the libre-risc-v and let him know about the
> libre-soc.org website.  Those guys should work together!
They're the same actually :)
They changed the name, because they abandoned(?) the idea of using
Risc-V as the Risc-V foundation was hostine towards libre development.
https://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-riscv-dev/2019-October/003035.html
OpenPOWER foundation is just more cooperative.

> 
> I'm fairly certain that the Hurd developers would agree with you in
> this.  I believe that they would love it for the Hurd to work on
> numerous architectures.  I believe that the Hurd's glibc's port to
> OpenPower, will need to be completed.  For the more technical porting
> details, you'll have to ask the other Hurd devs.  I believe that this
> is quite an involved task.  :)
> 
I just wanted to make sure people are aware of this project, I'm not
competent enough to work on this task, but maybe in the future.

> Please do!  We would love it if the Hurd looked "hipster" and fun!
Will do!

> Please send any patches to the
> website, to bug-hurd@gnu.org.  We haven't used web-hurd@gnu.org in a
> while.
Okay.

> Again, I'm speculating here, but Samuel might be ok with this.  I
> don't know how well rust support is in the Hurd.  You might have to
> port rust to the Hurd, which is non-trivial.   I think we are still
> working on getting Go to work on the Hurd.  :)
I don't like Rust (yet) nor Go, but I think the project could gain from
using these new languages, just because they're *brand new* and popular
right now - people are looking for projects to contribute to gain
experience and have fun.

> --
> Joshua Branson
> Sent from Emacs and Gnus
> 

I have to try sending my mails from Emacs one day

Jan Wielkiewicz