{"id":359,"date":"2019-09-04T19:27:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T23:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2021-04-09T22:14:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T02:14:21","slug":"lisp-on-talos-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Lisp on Talos II"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been following the status of Lisp on ppc64le lately.<\/p>\n

I’m running ppc64le Debian sid. Just after I had set up my system, I did some experimentation with what Debian packages had to offer. ECL was the only Lisp that worked, so I started using it for various projects. (I’ve since learned on #sbcl that CLISP built from source is also a good option.)<\/p>\n

Ideally I wanted to be able to use SBCL, so I wondered how far into an SBCL bootstrap I could get with ECL as the host compiler. A few months ago, I found the answer was not very far.<\/p>\n

Since then though, the SBCL maintainers have been hard at work on two fronts: making SBCL bootstrap against ECL again (on any architecture) and porting SBCL to PPC64.<\/p>\n

Recently with a few minor local changes, I was able to bootstrap SBCL natively<\/a> on my Talos II starting with ECL, then build SBCL again with the bootstrapped SBCL. I had to build ECL from the tip of its development branch, but it has a nice build system and, being based on C, doesn’t require any bootstrapping steps.<\/p>\n

So the SBCL ppc64 port is really shaping up; hopefully the next release will advertise ppc64le support. For now, plenty of packages work for me already, like SILME and Quicklisp.<\/p>\n

I’d also like to try the same bootstrap procedure on ppc64be ABI version 1 (Debian sid) and ppc64be ABI version 2 (another distro, probably Ad\u00e9lie). I’m working on setting up an environment with qemu-system-ppc64.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m happy that I can now use SBCL on my Talos II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been following the status of Lisp on ppc64le lately. I’m running ppc64le Debian sid. Just after I had set up my system, I did some experimentation with what Debian packages had to offer. ECL was the only Lisp that worked, so I started using it for various projects. (I’ve since learned on #sbcl that … <\/p>\n

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