Squeak chugging by on the Zaurus SL-5500

Tommy Thorn thorn at meko.dk
Tue Aug 27 06:16:41 UTC 2002


Ohshima, Yoshiki wrote:

>  I have a source tree of a VM that doesn't need X11.  This
>version runs under Qtopia yet it directly access the frame
>buffer.  I have been saying I'll make up a distributable
>version of source code, but I'm very demand-driven (lazy)
>and it seems I would not be able to do that some time soon.
>Anyone who is interested in it, I can send copy.
>
Ohshima-san, let me repeat me plea for those sources ;-)

However, I think there is a case for two different VM's for the Zaurus. 
 The QtopiaSqueak is probably what the mainstream would want, but 
personally I would like to have a "pure" Squeak PDA with just a minimal 
Linux installation.  However, until the Dynapad or similar is more 
mature, a Qtopia version would be welcome.

My VM is based on sqUnixDirectFB and a hacked up version of DirectFB. 
 However, I'm not convienced that DirectFB (in the case of Squeak) adds 
much apart from overhead, so I'll be looking at /dev/fb solution, parts 
of which are already floating around.

/Tommy

>  (My feeling is that this Qtopia-with-direct-framebuffer
>version makes sense as an end-user app.)
>
>-- Yoshiki
>  
>






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