Re: [Communicator-user] GalaxyCommunicator in a PDA

[Samuel L. B. <sa...@mi...>]

   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