[Sugar-devel] The ARM is near

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 04:36, Bobby Powers<bobbypowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think having something like:
>
> example.activity
> |-arch/
> |-arch/x86/
> |-arch/x86/bin/
> |-arch/x86/lib/
> |-arch/armel/
> ...
>
> could work.  Sugar could set an environmental variable ARCH to the
> relevant value, and we could have a reference activity_startup.sh
> which adds the correct lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH and launches the
> appropriate executable (or maybe a flag in activty.info which has
> sugar do this).  This is still somewhat kludgy, but I'm not sure of a
> better way.

I think Aleksey has been doing something similar to that with some bundles.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Bobby
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> We're going to do all of this for the XO-2 (ARM, dual haptic
>> multitouch screens), and as with trees, the sooner we plant the
>> better.
>>
>> Can we get a virtual ARM running on a Linux X86 system? It seems
>> likely. QEMU has some form of ARM emulation. Also,
>>
>> https://wiki.cse.buffalo.edu/services/content/virtualmhz-arm-vm-arm
>> The VirtualMHz for ARM (VM-arm)
>>
>> Virtera is shipping a free tool that can simulate a 217MHz ARM
>> processor and embedded Linux system in real-time. The VirtualMHz for
>> ARM (VM-arm) uses dynamic instruction compilation, rather than the
>> interpretive simulation techniques used by competitors.
>>
>> Has anybody seen it? Tried it? Liked it?
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Ton van Overbeek<tvoverbeek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > There have been demos to run Sugar on a Nokia N810 (ARM based)
>> > starting from the Debian Armel packages.
>> > Probably a good idea to check with the Debian folks. Debian supports
>> > multiple architectures for their
>> > distributions.
>> > I do have a N810 myself, but I will be very busy the next few months
>> > (relocating back to Europe),
>> > so I will not have much time to contribute (and yes, touchscreen,
>> > stylus, virtual keyboard, etc. are
>> > problematic with Sugar).
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