Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Armel Port of GCS

[John Burt]

Gareth, perhaps you know this, but there is now a more standard 
"desktoplike" version of debian for the N8X0 series called "easy debian" 
that eliminates the pain and limitations of Maemo/Hildon. I just 
installed it (very easy to do) and it looks great. It's optimized for 
the ARM processor on the tablet, and uses the LXDE desktop environment 
(even comes with Firefox 3 and Open Office).

To find it, google "*Easy Debian Turbo-Charged Edition"*

Correct me if I'm wrong, but using this would eliminate the need to 
"hildon-ize" Paparazzi. Of course, we'd still need armel versions of the 
Paparazzi dev and arm7 dependencies.

John

Gareth Roberts wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I am currently in the early stages of porting the main parts of gcs to 
> armel along with packaging for debian lenny.  I've got xmllight and 
> ivy-c built up,but am having serious problems with ivy-ocaml, as the 
> makefile specs the native compiler (which doesn't exist for armel). I 
> have no experience with ocaml,and dropping in ocamlc doesn't work.
>
> I am carrying out this port in order to ultimately run gcs on nokia 
> n8*0 devices using maemo.  I believe that it could prove to be an 
> excellent ground station device.  Once ported, the next step would be 
> to 'hildonise' the interface slightly to make it more finger-friendly.
>
> Further ideas I've had involve wimax and the internal gps...
>
> Comments,suggestions,ideas and reasons this is stupid and won't work 
> are all welcome!
>
> Cheers
>
> Gareth R
>
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