[squeak-dev] Gumstix and Squeak

Norbert Hartl norbert at hartl.name
Wed Nov 5 11:48:42 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 15:34 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 13:09 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
> >> I think Dave Hylands has placed Squeak 3.6 on a gumstix (BTW, Dave,
> >> which motherboad?)  Has anyone else experimented with squeak on the
> >> gumstix lately, maybe with the latest 3.10 and the latest VM?  Dave:
> >> your notes online mentions using buildroot and not OE. Anyone run
> >> squeak on OE (gumstix or other platform)?
> >>
> >> If you've done work on the gumstix and squeak, or OE and squeak, what
> >> has been your experience? I have a 600MHz verdex board that I"m
> >> looking into porting squeak to, but I'd like to not reinvent the
> >> wheel, and would love to hear your trials, errors and successes.
> >>
> >
> > I didn't do much work with squeak and OE. But a friend of mine ported
> > for me the squeak vm to openmoko. I did some tries with a pharo image
> > on the device and was impressed that even Morphic is fast enough to
> > be used on the device. The build file in openmoko should be migrate
> > into the main OE tree and should available there sooner or later.
> 
> Thanks Norbert.
> Was that for the Neo phone? It has a ARM9 @ 400 MHz, so that would
> sound promising.
I have a freeunner which is the next (GTA02) version after the Neo. 

> 
> Do you know what VM version he used? I ask because I recall a msg a
> while back mentioning that they used an older VM since it seemed to
> work better on lower-powered cpus.
> 
He used quite new stuff to build it. Clue files from svn and I think
it was a 3.10 image with VMMaker from universe. So the vm should be
pretty up to date. I know this only because he isn't a smalltalker and
I explained the process of installing software and using vmmaker over
instant messaging ;)

Norbert




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