ARM support

[Piotr Szturmaj]

Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Thu, 09 Jan 2014 19:07:17 +0100
> schrieb Piotr Szturmaj <bncrbme at jadamspam.pl>:
>
>> Hello,
>
> Answers for GDC:
>
>> I'm developing embedded system product on ARM9/Linux platform and I
>> wish I could use D and vibe.d for this task.
>>
>
> ARMv5 or ARMv4? I tested ARMv5 and that should work. ARMv4 should work
> as well but is untested.

It's ARM926EJ-S CPU (ARMv5).

>> I have couple of questions in this matter:
>> - Can you estimate eventual cost of supporting D on ARM (think of
>> paid bounty).
>
> Can't speak for anyone else but for me it's more a matter of missing
> time than of money. Probably donating a board for the auto-tester could
> help.

I can do that, but it might be easier to run QEMU tester. QEMU supports 
emulation of Versatile board with exactly same CPU and it should run at 
the same speed as the board (~400MHz) on modern x86 machine. What do you 
think?