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From: Samuel L. B. <sa...@mi...> - 2003-06-09 13:54:08
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For a while now i've been working with the GalaxyCommunicator which is part of an essay i'm finishing. I've been searching in the web if there has been any attempts of making a Galaxy Server in a PDA. As I haven't found any i was woudering if anyone has tried or even if you think it worths a shot. If yes I would also ask if you have any advice of which pda application Development Tool to use (Linux). Thank you for your time, Rafael Aranha Here at MITRE, we've played with running small Communicator-compliant servers on Linux PDAs. We succeeded (you'll notice that there are cross-compilation instructions for the StrongARM chip in the installation documentation). One of the sites funded under the Communicator program actually built a Communicator-compliant demo on a PDA, using PocketPC, I believe; I don't know whether this required any modification of the Galaxy Communicator system itself, because no modifications were reported back to us. So yes, it's possible. My own experience with Linux on StrongARM is that it was a little bit of a pain, but perhaps no more of a pain than Linux typically is. One thing you may not know: the StrongARM chip doesn't have a floating point accelerator, so writing audio drivers may be a little more challenging than usual. However, I know it's possible, because another site produced a non-Communicator-compliant audio front end on a PDA, which connected via a socket interface to a Communicator-compliant system. Hope this helps - Sam Bayer |