On 11/15/2011 01:35 PM, Deren Dohoda wrote:
It looks like everything is moving ahead fine for the Raspberry Pi, a
ridiculously inexpensive single-board computer based on ARM. The
mailing list here doesn't have a lot of discussion on ARM except as it
related to things like tablets. While it might be fun to tinker on my
phone with Racket, I could actually find better use for it on
something like this in a very soft-time embedded situation.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_pi
Current plans include a Debian distribution, and a few others. What is
the feasibility of getting Racket up here? What if GUI features were
not included, would that help? I suddenly have dreams of a super cheap
SBC running my racket applications on init...
Racket is already packaged by Debian on ARM. There is no current JIT
support for ARM though, so things will be slower than they might
otherwise be.
Be wary of the "ultra cheap" part as well - by the time you add a power
supply, case, WiFi card (if necessary), and storage you may be nearing
the cost of the more powerful Cortex-A8 based Efika MX Smarttop. With
512MB of RAM instead of 256MB on the Raspberry Pi board, it should
provide a more pleasant Racket experience.
--
Brian Mastenbrook
br...@mastenbrook.net
http://brian.mastenbrook.net/
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