If you're interested modifying the base image beyond what's provided you'll need to get familiar with OpenEmbedded. It's essentially a complete embedded framework for cross compilation, filesystem generation, and whatever embedded coolness you're interested in. The E100 has a Gumstix Overo board which contains a TI OMAP3530 which contains an Armv7 GPP and a C64x+ Texas instrument fixed point DSP ... basically no x86. you would need to get familiar with how to use OpenEmbedded to target the gumstix overo which is fairly well supported.
I know Philip is providing images which also allow you to download installation packages using opkg so people won't have to mess with OpenEmbedded ... I'll leave further commenting to Philip. al fayez -----Original Message----- From: Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> To: discuss-gnuradio <discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org> Sent: Thu, Apr 28, 2011 2:40 pm Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Questions about E100 On 28/04/2011 2:26 PM, Stefan Gofferje wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, as far as I understand, the E100 is a complete standalone system. I'm just a bit irritated by the descriptions "Console (USB)" and USB on-the-go. I assume, console USB is a serial console via some getty to ttyUSBx? How am I supposed to use it? Adaptor USB->Mini-USB and a USB-Serial adaptor? What is USB on-the-go? SB on-the-go (OTG) is a USB standard that allows a USB port to adopt ither "host" or "device" personality, depending on application. It's fairly common on mbedded-system platforms to supply this. It's also *very* common for such embedded systems to provide a virtual erial-port via USB, by virtue of "looking" exactly like a USB serial port. Such devices work with xisting Linux serial-port software, and as you observe will "manifest" as /dev/ttyUSBx or ometimes, /dev/ttyACMx. > How about the software? Is the box x86 compatible or do I have to wait for Ettus to create some kind of software image if there is an update of gnuradio? he E100 is based on an TI OMAP platform. Phil Ballister could fill in he details, but it ships with a Linux image pre-installed, and you can do either a cross-build or ative build of Gnu Radio yourself, and most E100 users do so. It's completely end-user configurable, rogrammable, as you would expect any Linux platform to be. But it's not X86. > And finally - how about the performance? Does the box run X? Is it powerful enough to run grc-created WX-stuff? t's not a desktop-class platform by any stretch of the imagination. _______________________________________________ iscuss-gnuradio mailing list iscuss-gnura...@gnu.org ttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
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