From: Jeff S. <jef...@gm...> - 2007-05-20 18:24:09
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someone was talking about hooking up a floating point processor hmm :-? On 5/20/07, Dave Hylands <dhy...@gm...> wrote: > HI Alex. > > On 5/20/07, Alexander Crits- Christoph <lin...@gm...> wrote: > > > You can run normal linux applications. There are people who have > > > installed debian. What the gumstix comes with is a "stripped" down set > > > of user-mode apps, mostly provided through busybox. > > > > > > This is what I'm a bit confused about. So you CAN run Flash Player 9 for > > Linux on a gumstix even though it is an ARM architecture? So a gumstix could > > become the equivalent of a Desktop Linux system? After of course, installing > > the X window System, necessary bash files, and system files. I don't think > > that RAM will be a problem, but would it be possible to add external RAM to > > a gumstix? and how much could be added? > > Well, some stuff on desktop linux uses binaries from Windows, and the > only reason they're able to get it to work is becasue most desktop > linux machines are x86, and the binaries can be fooled into working. > > As a general rule, for a package to work on the ARM, you need full > source code to the package in question, and any assembler bits have to > have been ported by somebody. > > Now, even if you could get Flash Player 9 (I don't know anything about > it) to work, it's highly likely that it's way to slow to actually play > video clips in realtime. > > The gumstix has no hardware floating point, and most apps are written > with the presumption that hardware floating point is available. > > -- > Dave Hylands > Vancouver, BC, Canada > http://www.DaveHylands.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > |