On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, jefm wrote: > Hi, > We are looking to use Python on an embedded Linux ARM system. > What I gather from googling the subject is that it is not that > straight forward (a fair amount of patching & hacking). > Nobody out there that has done it claims it is easy, which makes me > worried.
>From my ocassional googling, I was quite convinced that ARM (and StrongARM) were well supported targets. Besides Debian, already mentioned by OPs, you can also try Familiar Linux Distribution, aimed at StrongARM-based devices: http://www.handhelds.org/geeklog/index.php They have a wiki, maybe you can find some pointers there: http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/BuildSystem?action=highlight&value=crosscompile http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/FamiliarUnderQemu?action=highlight&value=crosscompile > (or is it safer to wait for industrial spec Intel Atom boards to avoid > the cross compilation altogether ? Depends. If you know for sure when they are going to be here and if they will be price-performance-competitive. Regards Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list