Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Older Linux Kernel Compatibility?

[Eric Blossom]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:35:40PM -0500, Michael Dickens wrote:
> I'm not a Linux expert by any stretch [though this coming week I get  
> to do my first Linux install: Ubuntu 6.10 onto an Intel-Mac running  
> Parallels ... should be interesting].  I'm trying to get GNU Radio  
> installed onto an ARM-based "embedded"-style board running Debian  
> Linux 2.4.26 ("Sarge", I think), and am having difficulties.   
> Something is going wrong with SWIG, in its' creation of the C++  
> python interface code; everything else seems to work OK up to that  
> point.  Thus my wondering (naively?) if the kernel version is too  
> old?  Thanks! - MLD

The kernel's probably fine, though I don't know if the USRP / libusb
stuff has been tested on it.  It's been a while since I had a 2.4
kernel on any of my machines.

When you say "something is going wrong with SWIG", what do you mean?
Does it fail to generate the code, or can't the generated file be
compiled, or something else?

What version of g++ are you using?

How much memeory does the embedded system have?
Does it have swap?

The virtual size of g++ when compiling the swig generated code is on
the order of 350 - 400MB for the x86 architecture.  I don't expect
it's much different for ARM.

Eric