Re: "Ada for Automation" Boutique

[brbarkstrom@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 5:19:41 AM UTC-4, Simon Wright wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> By the way, someone asked (I think it was Bjorn) if "Ada for
> >>>> Automation" could be used on a Raspberry Pi. I can confirm since a
> >>>> friend has lent me his own Model B. But it is a no-brainer since
> >>>> Debian based. Also Gnoga was reported to work on it.
> >>>
> >>> I'm surprised this still comes up considering I wrote a getting
> >>> started with Ada on RPI in MagPI.
> >> 
> >> You or I might expect that 'Ada for Automation', Gnoga would work on
> >> an RPi (though mine was still on wheezy, GCC 4.6); others might need
> >> convincing.
> >
> > Why 4.6? Debian testing has 4.9 and if you switch to Fedora you could
> > have GNAT 5.x for Raspberry Pi.
> 
> Mine *was* on wheezy; not obvious enough how to upgrade just the Ada
> component, and MCUs more interesting, so passed it on.

I'll also mention that you can adapt the Intel Atom x86 chips to get
Ada on a Ubuntu Linux OS without any reduced instruction set.  I even
assembled a no fan Atom and installed both Ubuntu and GNAT GPL.
I need to reinstall the Ubuntu to include just the CLI, since the
video is slow.  On the other hand, this approach would make for an
interesing base to build a low power Beowulf cluster.

Bruce B.