It would also make a really good platform for developing E3-specific applications.
Surely that's the whole point; otherwise it's just another Linux Arm development system. The attraction for me is that with the E3 you have the embedded ARM processor and a lot of interesting hardware attached to turn it into a useful appliance.
My ultimate ambition for the E3 would be to turn it into a point-to-point video phone... is that a realistic ambition?
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Surely that's the whole point; otherwise it's just another Linux Arm development system. The attraction for me is that with the E3 you have the embedded ARM processor and a lot of interesting hardware attached to turn it into a useful appliance.
I should probably have been clearer; I meant, a platform for doing development of applications on, rather than a platform for deploying applications on.
My ultimate ambition for the E3 would be to turn it into a point-to-point video phone... is that a realistic ambition?
Sure. That is, after all, what Amstrad sold it for! It would be really good as a SIP or H323 device. Unfortunately, the feeble little processor probably isn't up to realtime video encoding, which means someone's going to have to write some video codecs that run on the OMAP DSP, and a very brief search for open source tools turned up a C55 assembler and no compiler... so that'll be fun.
Does anyone know where I can find some documentation on getting started with the DSP under Linux? I found the link driver in the kernel, but I couldn't find any other resources. Do I need a scheduler operating-system-let running on the DSP to manage tasks? If so, where do I get one?
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:20:25PM +0100, David Given wrote:
Does anyone know where I can find some documentation on getting started with the DSP under Linux? I found the link driver in the kernel, but I couldn't find any other resources. Do I need a scheduler operating-system-let running on the DSP to manage tasks? If so, where do I get one?
I haven't investigated, but I have http://dspgateway.sourceforge.net/ bookmarked for when I get round to looking at the DSP.
J.
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I haven't investigated, but I have http://dspgateway.sourceforge.net/ bookmarked for when I get round to looking at the DSP.
Gah. Didn't know why I didn't find this the first time... ta.
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