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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:40:13 +0700
From: "Mikhail Loenko" <mloenko@gmail.com>
To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org, geir@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [general] POLL : supported platforms
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2006/10/17, Geir Magnusson Jr. <geir@pobox.com>:
>
>
> Mikhail Fursov wrote:
> > On 10/16/06, Geir Magnusson Jr. <geir@pobox.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Great!  Write that down with your votes.  (Note, I was just kicking this
> >> off, not being comprehensive...)
> >>
> >
> > OK,  I'll try to add more restrictions to the list.
> >
> > 1) DRLVM JIT has a limitation today: we can run only on PC with SSE/SSE2
> > support.
> > This can be an advanced task for JIT gurus to add x87 support, but before
> > that we can't claim that we officially support hardware without SSE2.
> >
> > 2) Do we need to add to the 'officially supported' list platforms that are
> > unable to run HelloWorld app?
>
> I don't understand - how would it be supported if it didn't work?

What do you mean by "work"? Runs hello world app?
At the point we decide to support a new
platform it's unlikely that the new platform "works".

But if we don't support a platform then we doubtfully will be able to make
it running even hello, because each our commit could make the code for
that unsupported platform worse and worse.

I think if we decide to support a platform then we define a set of tests that
must pass on that platform after each commit and we do roll back if they
fail. That is how I understand "support"

Thanks,
Mikhail


>
>  > Maybe we can give another name to the list of
> > such platforms and move a platform into the 'officially supported' list
> > only
> > when it runs simple apps?
> >
>
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