CFFI

ARM / AArch64 support?

Bug #1909977 reported by Pierre Neidhardt
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Bug Description

It seems that CFFI does not have support for ARM yet. Some ARM / AArch64 users have asked for ARM support on the Nyxt tracker:

- https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/932
- https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/1087

Is there any plan to support ARM at some point? Are there specific guidelines to contribute?
Thank you in advance!

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Luís Oliveira (luismbo) wrote :

CFFI contains virtually no architecture-specific code, so there's no need to add ARM support. The cl-cffi-gtk code mention in nyxt issue 932 uses cffi-features which has been deprecated in favor of trivial-features almost 15 years ago. Please use trivial-features instead. However, trivial-features doesn't mention ARM. I'm not familiar with all the ARM variants, but the first step to specify ARM features in trivial-features would be to survey what CL implementations currently push to features on that platform. HTH.

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status: New → Invalid
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Pierre Neidhardt (ambrevar) wrote :

Oh, I wasn't aware of the details, thank you!

I don't own ARM hardware myself but I'll let the others know.
Thanks!

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