Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > >> >> > > It depends a *lot* on what is meant by "embedded" : > Ha, very true....
> This definition seems to cover everything from: > - a cut down PC in a non standard box, through > - a processor in a Washing Machine, to > - a bare PIC processor in a Burglar Alarm... > We are considering now are mobile phone and pocket pc-esque devices. I know that several phones with arm processors are running an arm version of linux now, we're thinking how reasonable it might be to run python applications on a phone, and which python might best apply. Is there a good way to determine the "minimum requirements" for a python application? I'd imagine these might be something like the min requirements of python (cpython, pymite, etc) + additional requirements placed by the design of the application. Is there a good way to study a python application and figure that type of thing out? > I think the main hassles are that you need something big enough > to run a reasonable OS in, and it must support being programmed in C, > (which most things do), and it must have some MegaBytes of RAM > loose for the Python. (where more is merrier) > > Trying to run this on say an AVR or 8031 with a 64k address space and > a scarcity of RAM, will, to say the least, be a bit of a challenge... > > As far as the OS goes, Linux is probably the best bet, if you can get it to > fit in your hardware - It has been ported to ARM type processors from > various companies (Atmel springs to mind), and is free, which is a help > in a personal project. You could of course also roll your own kernel, > which will be good practice, as with a limited set of peripherals its not > THAT hard to do, but its a bit far away from Python - :- ) > Yea, we are thinking on the more robust end of the embedded side. So a system capable of running Linux or Windows CE (or something similar) > What display device are you going to use, or is it going to be a webserver > sitting on a power over ethernet link? > > I haven't actually taken the plunge myself yet to put Python on any of the > hardware we make, as it seems to add a lot of overhead to a simple device > - but I come from the bottom up, as it were, and the idea is intriguing, > as I in fact discovered Python because it is embedded in a GPS module > we were evaluating for building into a device - so I will follow your > progress with interest... > > -- Carl J. Van Arsdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build and Release MontaVista Software -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
