[squeak-dev] Is anyone maintaining a VM for Linux on the ARM architecture?

Michael van der Gulik mikevdg at gmail.com
Sat Apr 11 23:30:43 UTC 2009


On 4/12/09, Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/12/09, Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/12/09, Phil (list) <pbpublist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This week I was looking around at the 'state of the art' in low power
>>> and mobile linux options and was pretty impressed with some of the
>>> things being done on the ARM architecture and was just curious if
>>> anyone out there is maintaining a VM for this platform running on
>>> Linux?  If there aren't, has anyone put together any sort of porting
>>> notes documentation that might point out things to keep in mind when
>>> porting?  Just curious re: what I'm getting myself into when
>>> considering this...
>>
>> Ironically, I'm trying to compile the VM for a Jornada 820 running a
>> Linux 2.4 kernel.
>>
>> My current problem is that the VM doesn't work if you compile it
>> without any plugins at all. I only have 16MB of RAM to play with on
>> this device. It only starts up with a blank screen on my main x86
>> machine. Any ideas?
>
> Found it. My image won't start up if the BalloonEnginePlugin isn't
> internal.
>
> This may or may not be a bug... I'm still investigating.

http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7334

Gulik.

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