[Vm-dev] Re: [squeak-dev] Built 64 bit vm for 64 bit compaq ES40 alpha server running gentoo linux.

[David T. Lewis]

Richard,

Very nice. Thanks for the link to http://mypals.info/tikiwiki-2.1/tiki-index.php?page=SqueakForAlpha.

I am CCing this to the vm-dev mailing list, where various interested
parties (including Ian) are likely to be reading.

Dave


On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:39:01PM -0500, richard snow wrote:
> http://mypals.info/tikiwiki-2.1/tiki-index.php?page=SqueakForAlpha
> 
> Here is a page with the two vms I've made (source code).
> 
> the 3.8 is a 64 bit that runs 64 bit images, the 3.10 is a 64 bit that
> runs 32 bit images.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:08 PM, David T. Lewis<lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:40:38AM +1200, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:30 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:16:02PM -0500, richard snow wrote:
> >> > > I was able to use vmmaker to generate a 64 bit vm for the Alpha.
> >> > > However it can't run 32 bit images, so I'm kind
> >> > > of stuck. Where could I get an image (3.10-6 hopefully).
> >> >
> >>
> >> I'm guessing that this would be a 64-bit image:
> >>
> >> http://squeakvm.org/squeak64/dist3/
> >> Squeak64-3.8g-6548.image.tar.gz<http://squeakvm.org/squeak64/dist3/Squeak64-3.8g-6548.image.tar.gz>
> >>
> >> But it's (IIRC) unsupported and probably unstable. 32-bit images are better
> >> supported and the garbage collector isn't really designed for images bigger
> >> than 4GB.
> >
> > There's nothing unstable about that image, but unfortunately it does not run
> > on today's VMs (http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5239). Personally I use a
> > descendent of that original 64-bit image (mainly for testing VMs) but as far
> > as I know nobody is actively working on this.
> >
> > In any case, it's of acedemic interest in this case, because what Richard needs
> > is a 64-bit VM to run normal 32-bit images.
> >
> > Dave
> >