[Vm-dev] ChromeOS/ARM/Cog problem

[tim Rowledge]

At our CampSmalltalk over the weekend Ken Dickey & I were trying to make CogSpur run on his Acer ARM/Chromebook/ChromeOS machine. At first I thought we simply had the same problem that required me to rewrite the closed PIC system but right now it seems there is something about ChromeOS that is preventing u from running generated code.

A simple test program that allocates some memory, set up permissions so we can execute from there, puts a few instructions in and jumps in, runs perfectly. However, in the full VM during the early stages of startup we generate a bunch of code for trampolines and when we make the first (I think( attempt to call one of those routines (ceCaptureCStackPointers IIRC) we get instead an illegal dereference to address 0.

I didn’t have a great deal of time to debug this since we had a lot going on, so everything is a bit tentative for now. Is anyone out there sufficiently familiar with chromeos to know of the details of setting memory area permissions and so forth?

Since chromeos doesn’t yet seem to support Pi hardware I can’t do much here unless I buy a chromebook - or of course, someone sends me one!

tim
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