I just saw where the FreeBSD foundation has awarded a grant to have the OS ported to the Genesi Efika MX Smartbook portable computer. I would like to get Squeak running on this platform. Also looking at their MX53 as the core of a self-made project. I am concerned that the hardware is underpowered, 800MHz Freescale i.MX515 CPU and 512MB RAM. I see where the new OLPC uses 1GB RAM. If we assume that the FreeBSD port will be on par with the available Linux OS in terms of RAM requirements and performance, is this enough juice to provide an acceptable level of performance in Squeak?<br>
<br>How difficult would it be to port the existing FreeBSD vm, which is Intel based, to the Freescale CPU? (<a href="http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=i.MX515">http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=i.MX515</a>)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 2012-11-06, at 19:02, Chris Cunnington <<a href="mailto:smalltalktelevision@gmail.com">smalltalktelevision@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 2012-11-06 12:42 PM, tim Rowledge wrote:<br>
>> Hi folks;<br>
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>> On 02-11-2012, at 4:09 PM, David T. Lewis <<a href="mailto:lewis@mail.msen.com">lewis@mail.msen.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> Tim talked about how he's networked his house: his lights have switches<br>
>>>> similar (if not actually from) Insteon.<br>
>> Actual Insteon. See <a href="http://www.insteon.net" target="_blank">www.insteon.net</a> & <a href="http://www.smarthome.com" target="_blank">www.smarthome.com</a> Cool new product - a network enabled LED lightbulb. Details on the house at <a href="http://www.rowledge.org/tim" target="_blank">www.rowledge.org/tim</a><br>
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>>>> Discussion of the Raspberry Pi computer and its low price point<br>
>>>> reemerged. Tim pointed out that the RiscOS now runs on the R. Pi computer.<br>
>>> RiscOS on the Raspberry Pi?!? Woohoo! Clearly this calls for an update to<br>
>>> the RiscOS VM on <a href="http://squeakvm.org" target="_blank">squeakvm.org</a>, otherwise people will not be able to have<br>
>>> proper block closure support on their Pi. Tim, I'll promise to buy you a<br>
>>> brand new Raspberry Pi if you compile a fresh RiscOS VM for it ;)<br>
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>> I might be able to do something to resurrect RISC OS Squeak. It's interesting to see how people are trying it on RPi and liking the responsiveness over linux etc. Of course, it's still not a 'proper modern OS' since it lack memory protection and pre-emptive process scheduling, but in practice it works really quite well. Some of the other ARM boards currently available are even faster.<br>
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>> I'd need a pi, the RISC OS SD card, the NutPi package for the relevant dev tools and some idea of a display to use with it. I'll investigate. Who knows….<br>
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>> tim<br>
>> --<br>
>> tim Rowledge; <a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org">tim@rowledge.org</a>; <a href="http://www.rowledge.org/tim" target="_blank">http://www.rowledge.org/tim</a><br>
>> Liability: a valuable political skill<br>
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> I'm interested in this too. I also would be willing to provide you (like David) a RPi or related tool if you needed it. I think this would be a fun way to poke around how the vm works.<br>
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> Chris<br>
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I got a Raspberry Pi sent to Tim.<br>
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He still needs an SD card with RISC OS, the Nut Pi tools card, and a paying job.<br>
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Nut Pi tools (£35 plus P&P):<br>
<a href="https://www.riscosopen.org/content/sales/nutpi" target="_blank">https://www.riscosopen.org/content/sales/nutpi</a><br>
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RISC OS (free, just need an SD card):<br>
<a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads" target="_blank">http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads</a><br>
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