Squeak on Linux/iPaq page updated
Bruce ONeel
beoneel at bluewin.ch
Thu Jul 26 17:29:48 UTC 2001
Hi,
Thanks, this is in the unix-linux area on the ftp site.
cheers
bruce
Kevin Fisher <kgf at golden.net> wrote:
> Hi Folks:
>
> At long last I've updated things at my Squeak on Linux/iPaq page
> (http://www.reasonability.net/ipaq).
>
> I have a new Linux-ARM compiled VM linked off that page. This VM was
> generated from a fairly recent 3.1 image, and contains the Genie Plugin as
> well as OSProcess 2.2. It also contains the serial port fix for the 2.4.X
> kernel series that appeared some time ago. CommandWindow is included as well.
>
> The VM is built with GCC 2.95.1. I tried building with GCC 2.95.3, but Squeak
> segfaults on startup when run on the latest stable release of Familiar (found
> at www.handhelds.org). Probably some more wierdness with ARM for GCC, who
> knows. :( As before, this is an unoptimized VM due to perpetual optimisation
> bugs in ARM GCC.
>
> I also uploaded a new TinySqueak.image. This image is a 3.0 image with Genie
> backported to it (thanks, Nathanael!). The reason I'm not using the 3.1 image
> anymore is size....try as I might I couldn't get the latest 3.1 image to
> shrink down to anything smaller than 8 megs, which is too big for my purposes.
>
> The new TinySqueak.image is roughly 4.8 megs in size, and that's WITH Genie,
> OSProcess+CommandWindow, and Morphic. Tiny!!
>
> I've also linked to my shrinker changesets of there, for anyone that's
> interested. The latest shrinker jettisons a -lot- to get that 4.8 meg image
> size, but the image is quite functional (a perfect Squeak Runtime Environment
> for loading your changesets into).
>
> (I'm trying to keep things as small as possible...I want to work within the
> limits of the stock iPaq, with no added flash RAM or microdrives. :)
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