[pypy-dev] Status of ARM backend

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
> I asked on the #linaro channel on IRC (related to the Linaro
> organization [1]) and Chris Ball said he could arrange for one of the
> OLPC project's [2] special large-RAM dev boards to serve as a
> buildslave. What's the next step? Maybe someone should volunteer to
> install buildbot on it and Chris should give that person ssh access?
> Send your ssh public key to Chris "cjb" Ball, carbon-copied.
>
> Also, I don't know if the OLPC project can afford to do this, but if
> that dev board could be dedicated just to the PyPy project then maybe
> it could run http://speed.pypy.org measurements so that we can get a
> perspective on PyPy performance on ARM. What would that take?
>

I think it would take, besides the good will and the machine, a
dedicated volunteer making this stuff run. it's probably not a lot of
work, but someone has to be responsive and care about this slave.