On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 08:31 +0200, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:23:48PM -0400, Jeff Stoner wrote:
I'll ask but I suspect I know what the answer is already: has anyone done a port to the ARM platform yet? Specifically, I'm using a Intel XScale PXA255 on a Gumstix (http://www.gumstix.com).
It's situations like this where autoconf comes in real handy. I imagine I'll have to hack the entire configure "system" to get this working.
It's more of a question what OS is on these boxes. As far as I can see from the webpage they are running Linux, so it really should compile "out of the box" without any problems.
Except, I'm cross-compiling on a x86 system. I didn't install a compiler toolchain on my device so I can't "./configure; make; make install". The config scripts don't let me specify specific libraries - I have to hack them apart so they use my ARM-compiled libraries, not the x86 system libraries. Once I have all that in place, I can write a top-level Makefile fragment and incorporate hobbit into Buildroot (www.buildroot.org) which is used to manage development, from the toolchain itself to the kernel and packages to building the root filesystem for loading into flash.
It'll be a fun exercise. I'm starting with the client-only portion of Hobbit, then I'll move on to the server. I can document the whole process so others can benefit.
consuming. So I try to write code that is portable instead. So far, it has worked well :-)
Some of reasons I'm using hobbit:
- I know you write good code
- Hobbit's channels is a unique feature that I really like
- I can completely replace the web interface
-Stoner