Re: Ada and beagleboard

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

On Apr 30, 8:33 am, Olivier Scalbert <olivier.scalb...@algosyn.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Do you think it is possible to experiment a little of Ada on the
> beagleboard ?http://beagleboard.org/

Yes, I think it is possible. There are two options, both requiring a
significant amount of work:

1) cross-compilation

You'd build a cross-compiler targetting arm-linux. If your host is
Debian, I'd be interested in your patches so that future Debian
releases support such a cross-compiler out of the box[1].

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2009/02/msg00053.html and
replies

2) native compilation

It should be possible to install Debian's arm port on the board.
Unfortunately gnat-4.3 is not currently supported on arm, so you'd
have to build it using the cross-compiler. I'd be happy to integrate
your patches so that future Debian releases include gnat on arm. The
128 MiB of RAM might prove insufficient to run gnat comfortably,
especially if the board doesn't support paging.

--
Ludovic Brenta.