[Cuis-dev] [offtopic] Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi

[ken.dickey at whidbey.com]

Gastón,

Thanks for pointing this out!


I would like to plant the seed of another idea here as well.

For arm64/aarch64 Raspberry Pi, my thought was to use a "shim" OS to 
supply the drivers.  In particular USB us a bear.  Networking code is 
nice to have as well.

Then use Cuis as _the_ GUI via OpenSmalltalk's FrameBuffer interface.

Why spend time reimplementing code in an area which is not value added?


I started on this path, but ran out of time and got side tracked into 
other areas.

Non-working code in (just a start, TLC needed)

   https://github.com/KenDickey/FBDevVM

Shim OS is Alpine Linux, which uses MUSL and BusyBox.  Very light 
weight.

   https://www.alpinelinux.org/

Somebody faster in C than I am could help/take this and push it over the 
top.

Not enough hours in the day,
-KenD
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On 2020-07-17 17:35, Gastón Caruso via Cuis-dev wrote:

> Hi all! I've just found this interesting project on Hacker news, I 
> thought it might be interesting to share.
> 
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23874206
> 
> On the HN thread they talk about the performance on BitBlt.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gastón