[squeak-dev] Fwd: MultiCore [response to: partially Squeak based OS]

ken.dickey at whidbey.com ken.dickey at whidbey.com
Sun Feb 21 20:52:27 UTC 2021


On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 at 03:51, <ken.dickey at whidbey.com> wrote:

>> I responded directly to Liam, but noted a lof of interest on this 
>> list..

> Did you? May I ask -- to which address?

   lproven at cix.co.uk

Following is copy of missive to VM-Dev.

vv-------- Original Message --------vv

Other useful idea mines: L4 microkernel and Genode UI:

https://microkerneldude.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/how-to-and-how-not-to-use-sel4-ipc/

https://genode.org/about/index -- multiple concurrent window systems

https://sel4.systems/ -- very fast message based IPC (think multiple VM 
spaces)

Just thinking of making multicore more useful & robust..

I think Aarch64 and particularly RISC-V are more useful starting points, 
BTW.  (BeagleV is coming soon.. https://beagleboard.org/beaglev :)

$0.02,
-KenD
^^----------------------------------^^

Still research, but Bee Smalltalk looks like an interesting approach for 
small binaries done in direct style with no C  (e.g. for multicore 
server/interrupt code communicating via fast microkernel messages).

https://github.com/KenDickey/BeeYourself README.md has references to 
salient papers & code.  [Just started this; no need to look at the 
BeeYourself repo itself].

FYI,
-KenD


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