Hi Ken,

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On Nov 22, 2015, at 6:43 PM, KenD <Ken.Dickey@Whidbey.com> wrote:

Greetings,

welcome!

I though to take a look at transitioning a Cuis image into Spur format.

Great!

I presume there is a Smalltalk package which either runs in an old VM and writes the active image into the Spur format or code for a Spur image which reads the old format.

Yes, the Sour bootstrap is in the Cog package which is where I put support code for the VMMaker.oscog package, which is where the Cog VM lives.

[1] Where would I locate this code?

There are scripts to build a Cog VMMaker image and to run the Squeak 4.5 to Spur conversions in http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/image. See http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/build-image/

You'll want to redefine the GetGoodVM.sh or GetGoodSpurVM.sh scripts to run the relevant VM (if I recall the names correctly).

[2] Is there a Non-Cog Spur VM available? [Chromebook currently does page protect to disallow JIT]

Yes. In http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/spurstacksrc is a non-Cog Spur VM and there are pre-configured builds for it in eg http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/build.linux32x86/squeak.stack.spur

Note that VMMaker.oscog /should/ load and run in non-Spur squeak but I've not tried this for over a year now.

Thanks much,
-KenD

Perhaps some time we can discuss what's necessary to get Cog VMs running on Chromebooks. Is it a matter of doing the entry into machine code appropriately or is there a deal breaker or...?

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