SqueakOnLinuxFramebuffer getStatus.

Jay Carlson nop at nop.com
Sun Oct 8 15:57:11 UTC 2000


Jecel Assumpcao Jr writes:

> 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

...just don't expect to be able to distribute what you've built.  The
licenses are incompatible.

Jay





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