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From: Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: understanding runtime support
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On Tue, 15 May 2012 01:48:08 -0500
"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> One needs customers in order to make the large investments needed in this 
> sort of technology. RRS, at least, has never had anyone express any real 
> interest in ARM targets, so we've never even thought about such machines. 

Well, since I could be considered as RRS customer, you now know one
who is interested in running Ada on ARM.

Last year, I queried three Ada vendors (although not RR Software) and
asked whether they had some sort of support for ARM. Two of them
didn't have and third one was willing to do it for $$$$$ euros, so in
the end, I purchased ARM board (Gumstix Overo) capable of running
Debian armhf, and ported FSF GNAT there myself.

>From vendors, I originally asked Ada compiler for a smaller ARM
microcontroller without MMU or any kind of OS (=bareboard version), but
like Raspberry Pi has shown, more powerful ARM systems can be pretty
cheap and small also.

> 
> Things rarely happen for free, you know.

FSF GNAT for Debian armhf is available for free (if you can accept
GMGPL license).

The .deb packages are now located at
http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/debian/armhf/deb-packages/ , but
I hope that they end up to official Debian repositories at some point.

Have fun. :)

-- 
Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/

PS. Of course, since I have now GNAT for ARM, I don't expect to
have Janus/Ada for ARM.