On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, Aaron J Reichow wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Karl Ramberg wrote:
> > A link to the SqueakNOS, a no os Squeak project. Seems feasible and 
> > more ram efficient than putting Squeak on top of the linux kernel.
> 
> It'd also be a lot more work, re-writing drivers for all that Linux
> already supports.  Using Squeak on top of the Linux fb (not X), you can
> put a Squeak OS on any architecture Linux already runs on, whereas
> SqueakNOS would require writing drivers/porting for the various
> hardware framebuffers, video cards, processors, network cards, keyboards
> and mice (USB, PS/2, &c), sound, serial, so on and so forth...

You can borrow drivers from Linux and BSD using the OSKit:

      http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/index.html

-- Jecel