Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio on ARM

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 10/08/2010 07:41 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> On Oct 9, 2010, at 3:05 AM, Steve Mcmahon wrote:
>
>   
>> Has anyone compiled and run GNU Radio 3.3.0 on an ARM processor?? I would 
>> like 
>> to get it running on a Gumstix Overo Water, which uses a TI OMAP 3530, which 
>> contains an ARM Cortex A8 CPU, and runs OpenEmbedded. Any help is very much 
>> appreciated. Thanks.
>>     
> Philip Balister has done some work running parts of GNU radio on the 
> BeagleBoard, which is compatible with the Gumstix Overo. 
>
> I myself have an Overo Fire, and a Chestnut43 board (which has wired 100mbps 
> ethernet interface). So it could can be hooked up to a USRP2.
>   
Not to be a wet-blanket or anything, but the USRP2 requires 1GiGe.  The
PHY/MAC isn't set up to negotiate 100Mbit.  To support
  USRP2, you need a 1GiGE interface.  That's part of the reason I went
with the Sheeva Plug--it has 1GiGe.  But it doesn't have floating
  point :-(



> I think it should be feasible to at least compile parts of gnuradio core, to 
> run on the overo first and creating a dial-tone first, using an openembedded 
> recipe. 
>
> What application do you plan to run on the Overo? This is to determine how 
> much of GNU Radio would have to be ported to run on the Overo.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Elvis Dowson
>
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Marcus Leech
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