Miguel, Thanks.
I'm very interested in this particular project for possible use in a product that we offer however, platform support is currently the limiting factor. Any help you provide is appreciated, --Jeff-- Jeff Currier EDS PLM Solutions Teamcenter Engineering - Product Development Phone (248)712-2476 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax (248)712-2412 -----Original Message----- From: Miguel de Icaza [mailto:miguel@;ximian.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 1:23 AM To: Currier, Jeff Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Platform support hello, > What are the plans for other Unix platforms? Specifically, I'm thinking of > HPUX, IRIX and AIX. There are three variables involved in supporting a platform: * CPU support (required for trampolines, delegates, pinvoke) * Operating System support * JIT/Interpreter. Today we have support for x86 JITing; x86, ppc, sparc, s390 support for the interpreter (with known problems in the sparc version). Operating system wise we support Linux, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Solaris and some versions of BSD. HP-UX is an OS that runs in various architectures: hppa, ia64 and some older cpus. None of those CPUS are supported today. IRIX runs on MIPS CPUS (some very old versions ran on m68k), and currently there is no support for the MIPS architecture in Mono. AIX runs at least on the PowerPC architecture, which we support today in the interpreter. My current plans are to support the x86 very well. Our new JIT compiler should be a lot simpler to port to new architectures as well, which might reduce the time to get the JIT running. But my main priority is the x86 if only because of the volume of those machines out there. PPC/Linux+MacOSX and Sparc/Solaris come close next because of their volume. We have been talking to a number of people that are interested in having Ximian support specific architectures and specific operating systems, and I will keep people posted on any progress in that area. Miguel. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
