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.

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.


-- 
Brad Fuller