[squeak-dev] Gumstix and Squeak

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 23:35:59 UTC 2008


On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Dave Hylands <dhylands at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Brad,
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think Dave Hylands has placed Squeak 3.6 on a gumstix (BTW, Dave,
>> which motherboad?)
>
> It should work on all of them.
>
>> 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)?
>
> I expect that the only difference with OE will be setting up the build rules.
>
> If you can build Squeak for linux, then you should be able to build
> Squeak for the gumstix.
> The biggest issues in the early days was making sure that the
> softfloat stuff was enabled for the toolchain. That should all be
> automatic with OE.
>
>> 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.
>
> My brother Jon uses it for some of his robots.

Thanks Dave.

Do you know what VM he used and what Squeak version? I assume he also
uses buildroot like you do. True?

-- 
Brad Fuller



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