Re: [Openbts-discuss] OpenBTS with Raspberry Pi

[David B. <da...@ra...>]

Shaddi -

We have managed to (barely) run a combination 5 beacon plus 1 TCH/F on a 500 MHz Gumstix Overo. So I would expect that you see better performance. Not a lot better, but better.

-- David

David A. Burgess
CEO, Range Networks, Inc.
Making cellular networks simple and affordable.  
http://www.rangenetworks.com


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Am 17.02.2013 um 15:03 schrieb Shaddi Hasan <sh...@cs...>:

> Yes, we were using a kernel that had hardware floating point support enabled (the official Raspian one).
> 
> Nicholas: we just followed the normal build instructions for OpenBTS and built it on the rPi itself. I don't recall having to do anything special. Our pi had a 700MHz chip, we did not try overclocking it or anything.
> 
> On Sunday, February 17, 2013, David Burgess wrote:
>> Shaddi -
>> 
>> Does the r-Pi have floating point support? If not, did you try the 1.15 fixed point library?
>> 
>> -- David
>> 
>> David A. Burgess
>> CEO, Range Networks, Inc.
>> Making cellular networks simple and affordable.  
>> http://www.rangenetworks.com
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from some appliance with no real keyboard. Please excuse typos and crazy autocorrections.
>> 
>> Am 16.02.2013 um 13:03 schrieb Shaddi Hasan <sh...@cs...>:
>> 
>>> Yes. We tried it with Range hardware. We were able to get a phone to camp but as soon as we tried to make a call or send an SMS CPU usage maxed out and the call/SMS failed. In general it's just too underpowered.
>>> 
>>> I saw some marketing material for some company in the UK that claims to have got it working, maybe they patched OpenBTS to take advantage of the DSP on the rpi.
>>> 
>>> If anyone has had a different experience I'd love to hear about it.
>>> 
>>> sent from a phone
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Nicholas Johnson <nej...@me...> wrote:
>>>> All,
>>>>   I'm looking into getting openBTS running on a Raspberry Pi and I'm curious if its possible and if anyone has been through the process before.  Any advice?  Thanks.
>>>> 
>>>>  nicholas
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