[project @ 2003-09-19 09:12:22 by simonmar]

[ghc-hetmet.git] / docs / building / building.sgml

diff --git a/docs/building/building.sgml b/docs/building/building.sgml
index faeec72..1fa1656 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/building/building.sgml
+++ b/docs/building/building.sgml
@@ -1000,12 +1000,21 @@ $ cvs checkout nofib/spectral
          <term>sparc-sun-solaris2</term>
          <indexterm><primary>sparc-sun-solaris2</primary></indexterm>
          <listitem>
-           <para>Fully supported (at least for Solaris 2.7),
+           <para>Fully supported (at least for Solaris 2.7 and 2.6),
            including native-code generator.</para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
 
        <varlistentry>
+         <term>sparc-unknown-openbsd</term>
+         <indexterm><primary>sparc-unknown-openbsd</primary></indexterm>
+         <listitem>
+           <para>Supported, including native-code generator. The
+           same should also be true of NetBSD</para>
+         </listitem>
+       </varlistentry>
+
+       <varlistentry>
          <term>hppa1.1-hp-hpux (HP-PA boxes running HPUX 9.x)</term>
          <indexterm><primary>hppa1.1-hp-hpux</primary></indexterm>
          <listitem>
@@ -1080,8 +1089,8 @@ $ cvs checkout nofib/spectral
          <term>ia64-unknown-linux</term>
          <indexterm><primary>ia64-unknown-linux</primary></indexterm>
          <listitem>
-           <para>GHC currently works unregisterised.  A registerised
-           port is in progress.</para>
+           <para>Supported, except there is no native code
+           generator.</para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
 
@@ -4084,10 +4093,13 @@ Hello World!
        <para>To support GHCi, you need to port the dynamic linker
        (<filename>fptools/ghc/rts/Linker.c</filename>).  The linker
        currently supports the ELF and PEi386 object file formats - if
-       your platform uses one of these then you probably don't have
-       to do anything except fiddle with the
-       <literal>#ifdef</literal>s at the top of
-       <filename>Linker.c</filename> to tell it about your OS.</para>
+       your platform uses one of these then things will be
+       significantly easier.  The majority of Unix platforms use the
+       ELF format these days.  Even so, there are some
+       machine-specific parts of the ELF linker: for example, the
+       code for resolving particular relocation types is
+       machine-specific, so some porting of this code to your
+       architecture will probaly be necessary.</para>
        
        <para>If your system uses a different object file format, then
        you have to write a linker &mdash; good luck!</para>