On 21 March 2011 17:30, Javier Pim��s <
elpochodelagente@gmail.com> wrote:
> For all those who may be intrested, we are glad to announce that we have
> just uploaded an updated version of SqueakNOS to our site.��You can find the
> updated download links here.
> This release adds the following items to the previous version:��(99.9%
> modeled with objects)
> - Improved support for ATA devices access
> - Implementation of a model of files and directories
> - Implementation of FAT32 filesystem
> - Support for reading sources from the hard disk
> - Support for X86 paging setup and handling of page faults
> - Implementation of a model of free and used memory
> - Implementation of image snapshotting (based on the paging mechanism)
> - Based on Pharo, but also supporting Squeak and Cuis
> - Added some primitives for communicating between VM and image
> - Support for Alien and FFI
> - Added basic support for writing to serial via VM so that it's possiblo to
> out debug info to the outside world.
> - Added pretty basic ATA benchmarks
> - Added some scripts to automatize work done from the outside world
> - Many code cleanups
> Future directions are:
> - Support for Cog VM
> - Investigate replacing SqueakNOS plugin with NativeBoost so that we do more
> on the image
> - Offloading memory pages to disk
> - More tests
> - Benchmarks
> For the brave ones, remember that you can always generate a SqueakNOS image
> by using the ConfigurationOfSqueakNOS (which is a bit outdated now), or by
> manually loading the packages from monticello. Also to generate a SqueakNOS
> VM download its code from GIT (hosted on��
sourceforge.net).
> Don't forget to visit��
squeaknos.blogspot.com��for news and instructions. We
> hope to be able to write more soon.
> Many thank's t all the people who made it possible to understand the code
> and to develop all this.
> SqueakNOS' Team
>