Just confirming for the list that I'm aware of this and supportive, but am not the dedicated support for this effort.
I also haven't reviewed the changes yet, but provided nobody is strongly opposed to taking on a supported platform (without additional releases on python.org), I expect I'll do a big part of the reviewing then. Cheers, Steve On 05Feb.2019 1709, Paul Monson via Python-Dev wrote: > Hi Python Developers, > > I'm Paul Monson, I've spent about 20 years working with embedded > software. Since 2010 I've worked for Microsoft as a developer. > > Our team is working with CPython on Azure IoT Edge devices that run on > x64-based devices. > > We would like to extend that support to Windows running on ARM 32-bit > devices and have a working proof-of-concept. Our team is prepared to > provide support for CPython for Windows on ARM32 for 10 years, and to > provide build bots for ARM32. > > I like to propose that the initial sequence of PRs could be: > - Update to OpenSSL 1.1.1 (without anything ARM specific) - ready to go > - Migrate to libffi directly (finish > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/3806) > - Build file updates for OpenSSL ARM and check into cpython-bin-deps > - Build file updates for CPython ARM > - ctypes updates for ARM > - Test module skips for ARM > - Library updates and related test fixes for ARM > > Updating OpenSSL and libffi are independent of ARM support but need to > be done as prerequisites. OpenSSL 1.1.0 doesn't have support for ARM32 > on Windows but OpenSSL 1.1.1 does. > > I have OpenSSL 1.1.1a ready to check in to master with all tests passing > on x86 and x64 on Windows. Since work has already been done on this for > other platforms only very small changes were needed for Windows. > > I have also integrated and tested the current libffi on Windows x64. > Some additonal porting of x86 assembler to MSVC tools will need to be > done. I have a working port of ARM32 assembler for MSVC but it may need > to be brought up to date and cleaned up. > > The last four all need to go in together, but can be reviewed separately. > > We are not planning to support Tk/Tcl on ARM32 because Windows IoT Core, > Windows containers don't support GDI, which is a depenency of Tk/Tcl. > > Since Window IoT Core and Windows container don't support the .msi or > .exe installers found on python.org my team at Microsoft will build the > CPython for Windows ARM32 from the official repo and distribute it. > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com