Many thanks to those who recently landed the ARMv8 build of Cog. (Per
the commit history I think the main person responsible was Ken Dickey? Thanks Ken!)
That was 99.997% Eliot. I just got the vm-display-fbdev up with libevdev on Raspi3/4 & LePotato.
Great thanks to Eliot !!!
-KenD
Hi Ken, Hi Tony, Hi All,
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 7:26 AM ken.dickey@whidbey.com wrote:
Many thanks to those who recently landed the ARMv8 build of Cog. (Per
the commit history I think the main person responsible was Ken Dickey? Thanks Ken!)
That was 99.997% Eliot. I just got the vm-display-fbdev up with libevdev on Raspi3/4 & LePotato.
Ken, it feels to me much closer to 50/50. You actually wrote the code and did the testing to get the FFI working. Yes I helped you because it's my framework and my architecture, but you learned it and made it work. But you *were* & *are* instrumental in realizing the ARMv8 VM. Thank you. In fact I'm extending your structs-passed-in-registers code right now to cope with HFAs (homogenous float arrays with four or fewer elements). Once we have the JIT fully working then I can take some more credit, but you've supported me with crucial testing.
Great thanks to Eliot !!!
and to Ken!!
-KenD
_,,,^..^,,,_ best, Eliot
Thanks all for great work :-D Best, Karl
On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 19:08, Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Ken, Hi Tony, Hi All,
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 7:26 AM ken.dickey@whidbey.com wrote:
Many thanks to those who recently landed the ARMv8 build of Cog. (Per
the commit history I think the main person responsible was Ken Dickey?
Thanks Ken!)
That was 99.997% Eliot. I just got the vm-display-fbdev up with
libevdev on Raspi3/4 & LePotato.
Ken, it feels to me much closer to 50/50. You actually wrote the code and did the testing to get the FFI working. Yes I helped you because it's my framework and my architecture, but you learned it and made it work. But you *were* & *are* instrumental in realizing the ARMv8 VM. Thank you. In fact I'm extending your structs-passed-in-registers code right now to cope with HFAs (homogenous float arrays with four or fewer elements). Once we have the JIT fully working then I can take some more credit, but you've supported me with crucial testing.
Great thanks to Eliot !!!
and to Ken!!
-KenD
_,,,^..^,,,_ best, Eliot
On 8/28/20 7:08 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
Once we have the JIT fully working
Oh, wow, is there no JIT on ARMv8? I can report that it's quite usable on my phone, so far at least. I'm still working on input support so I haven't had much of a chance to *use* it on the phone yet, but the display repainting, device detection, DPI-adjusting code I've written so far runs fast enough it hadn't occurred to me to wonder about JIT or not.
Tony
On 8/28/20 4:17 PM, ken.dickey@whidbey.com wrote:
That was 99.997% Eliot. I just got the vm-display-fbdev up with libevdev on Raspi3/4 & LePotato. Great thanks to Eliot !!!
Well, hear hear, many thanks indeed to Eliot for this and all the other great work he does (but thanks to you also for your part) :-)
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