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[KenDickey]

Greetings,

I am an old hobby programmer, retired 20 years ago from commercial software development but still doing open source SW.

I have been playing mostly with Cuis Smalltalk and have ported the OpenSmalltalk VM to aarch64/arm64 and riscv64, running on Linux under XWindows/Wayland or via FrameBuffer+libevdev. Smalltalk is portable, which means that I can be working on my wife's Macintosh, copy the working image to my Raspberry Pi 4 (aarch64) or VisionFive2 (riscv64) and continue where I left off, with the windows in the same places -- pixel per pixel.

I have seen Minix, Genode, et al and am interested in the promise of microkernels to be robust in the face of buggy device drivers.

I like software to be comprehensible and look for projects which are large enough to be interesting but small enough to be tractable.

So I would like to be able to run Phoenix-RTOS on a VisionFive2, get the framebuffer up, and run the Cuis Smalltalk IDE. That's my goal here.

Thanks much for making Phoenix-RTOS open source!
-KenD [Ken (dot) Dickey (at) Whidbey (dot) COM]