> On 2019-06-26, at 3:43 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:42 AM Peter Crowther <peter at ozzard.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 03:06, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> Now to find someone to fund the work to do the 64bit ARM Cog..
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> How many zeros are we talking after the leading digit?  Are we talking thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars? 
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> Tens.  A few tens.  40k would be fantastic.

The ARM32 Cog took some initial time from Lars to make an Alien Debugger plugin, then something like 4 months of my time and probably a couple of months of Eliot.

For ARM64 we need to essentially do the same for an Alien Debugger plugin, but built from the gcc simulator sources for ... ARM64 instead (duh). Quite a lot of the work we did previously would help, even if it didn't directly carry across. 

So yeah, a billion would cover it nicely but 40k might be enough.


tim
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