On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 19:19 +0100, Peter Howkins wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 06:24:20PM +0100, Chris Young wrote: > > > > Talking of Firefox, this is something people want to run under ArcEm. > > I guess it doesn't work under RISC OS 3.11 anyway, but are there any > > plans for ArcEm to get network support so it is usable under ARM > > Linux? > > There's a few different ways of doing networking that get talked about > every so often, but no one has a complete solution for ArcEm (as far as I > know). Peter N has some code in the SWI magic version of QEMU that may > well be portable to ArcEm.
I need to bitchslap Daniel until he finishes his vague ArcEm podule support such that there's a nice way of getting data into RISC OS without having it poll. Once he does that, writing a DCI driver to make use of a TUN/TAP devices on the host side shouldn't be tricky (I have some proof of concept code based on the EtherY sources.) > As for browsers, firefox, even if you could squeeze it into 16MB, is > unlikely to be usable at the speeds we can currently emulate. However > Fresco, Browse and Arcweb should use less cpu time and memory and > are known to work with RISC OS 3.1. I don't see why NetSurf shouldn't work, either. > > Is it possible to address more than 16MB or is that a physical > > limit for the ARM2? > > Yeah, 16MB is the limit. Even with evil thoughts in my head about Dynamic > Area fudging, we can't get to the 64MB that Peter N points out that > Firefox needs. I had a disgusting thought about that the other day: Emulate a load of podules that just have memory in their mapped space. Then trap Dynamic Area SWIs to use the new memory. B. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ arcem-devel mailing list arcem-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/arcem-devel
