Hello: I am about to try to build and install GNU Radio 3.3.0 on a Gumstix Overo Water board. I have seen people on this list working with the BeagleBoard. I have some questions about this.
1. Both the Gumstix Overo Water and the BeagleBoard use a TI OMAP 3530, which uses an ARM Cortex A8 CPU. Since it contains a single-precision floating point unit, this should be adequate for running GNU Radio with floating point support, right? Here's more information on the ARM Cortex A8 CPU and the Gumstix: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a8.php http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=228 2. Should I use the GNU Radio 3.3.0 tarball from the website, or should I get the very latest code from git? Which git branch should I use? 3. I know the USRP2 requires a 1Gb Ethernet link, but the Gumstix and BeagleBoard only support 100 Mbps Ethernet. Is there any way around this? I am only going to use it for low-bandwidth signals, say around 100e6/500 = 200 kHz sample rates. Does anyone know whether 1 Gb Ethernet will be supported on the Gumstix or BeagleBoard anytime within the next six months? 4. The Gumstix Overo Water board uses OpenEmbedded Linux. Can GNU Radio work under this distribution, or must I use Ubuntu on my Gumstix? (I don't even know whether the Gumstix can run anything other than OpenEmbedded) Thanks a lot for your help!! Steve McMahon _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
