Mateusz Kaczanowski Personal Blog
I have been thinking about porting one of the modern programming languages on Epiphany architecture. At first, I thought Rust is the new cool kid in town, so maybe I'll give it a whirl. But it would require me to implement the LLVM backend...
A Supercomputer For Everyone - the title of Kickstarter campaign got my attention. A single-board computer 2-core ARM with a powerful 16-core Epiphany coprocessor just for just a 99$ seemed to be an affordable option, even for a first-year student like me...
In previous articles, such as Kernel or ISA, we saw how complicated interacting with Epiphany chip could be. A whole bunch of registers, memory banks, and funky addressing scheme. It's a lot to know, for someone who just wants to run a "hello world" program... If only we had some C library that would hide all this complex logic from us?!
Kernel, compiler, bsps, libraries, examples, userspace daemons... Because no one wants to deal with this alone, hardware manufactures (or community) often release pre-configured/customized OS distribution...