Comments on: Designing a Hardware Abstraction Layer: A VM for an operating system http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/07/11/designing-a-hardware-abstraction-layer-a-vm-for-an-operating-system/ Sarah and Alaric Snell-Pym living in interesting times Tue, 22 May 2012 23:38:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: alaric http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/07/11/designing-a-hardware-abstraction-layer-a-vm-for-an-operating-system/comment-page-1/#comment-98838 alaric Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:56:35 +0000 http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/?p=1561#comment-98838 <p>COLA on the OLPC: Judging from http://www.vpri.org/fonc_wiki/index.php/XO_Hacking it looks fun, but they don't seem to be making an attempt at a general HAL, as opposed to just porting their compiler to a target platform and playing about with twiddling the hardware once it's booted.</p> <p>Synthetix: Got a URL?</p> <p>SPIN and Genera: What of them?</p> COLA on the OLPC: Judging from http://www.vpri.org/fonc_wiki/index.php/XO_Hacking it looks fun, but they don't seem to be making an attempt at a general HAL, as opposed to just porting their compiler to a target platform and playing about with twiddling the hardware once it's booted.

Synthetix: Got a URL?

SPIN and Genera: What of them?

]]> By: Faré http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/07/11/designing-a-hardware-abstraction-layer-a-vm-for-an-operating-system/comment-page-1/#comment-98727 Faré Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:22:24 +0000 http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/?p=1561#comment-98727 <p>Also of course, Synthetix, the SPIN kernel, Genera, etc.</p> Also of course, Synthetix, the SPIN kernel, Genera, etc.

]]> By: Faré http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/07/11/designing-a-hardware-abstraction-layer-a-vm-for-an-operating-system/comment-page-1/#comment-98726 Faré Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:21:11 +0000 http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/?p=1561#comment-98726 <p>What do you think of the VPRI's COLAs and the attempts at running it on the bare metal on some platforms such as the OLPC?</p> What do you think of the VPRI's COLAs and the attempts at running it on the bare metal on some platforms such as the OLPC?

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