Re: Pi GNURadion challenge.

[Christoph Mayer]

Hi all,

are there any binary packages adapted for Raspberry PIs allowing to
use full NEON SIMD (armhf/aarch64) for gnuradio+volk?

Cheers
Christoph

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 7:05 PM Glen Langston <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Yes. 3.8.1 is the version I’d started to install.   I ran into trouble
> downloading all the support packages.  Slowly but surely I was
> installing everything needed.  But after a few hours of good progress
> I ran out of time.    So I thought I’d just ask if someone more talented
> had already done the install before I put more time into the install.
>
> Definitely, for me, a complete install of the OS is the best, rather than
> on a package by package basis.   Remember to compress (and remove all gmail
> etc logins) before distributing.
>
> It is fairly quick to do the whole install to the SD card, from the
> compressed .img file.   With “Etcher” they uncompress and write 
> simultaneously,
> so you are only working with a couple gigabyte file.
>
> I have 4 working horn radio telescopes working this way and a few more almost
> ready to start observing.  I thought I would get up to date with the
> 3.8.? Gnuradio then restart observations.
>
> Maybe I have to wait.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Glen
>
> > On Mar 9, 2020, at 1:05 PM, Chris Vine <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 10:59:04 -0400
> > Glen Langston <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Thanks for your summary of experience with installing Gnuradio 3.8.1 for 
> >> Raspberry Pi.
> >>
> >> I’ve started the install on a fresh version on the latest Raspberry Pi OS,
> >> but ran into a few issues I’m still working on.
> >>
> >> One question/request for this group:
> >>
> >> The folks at SDRPlay have done a very nice job of porting a good working 
> >> version of
> >> gnuradio into a working image of the Raspberry OS and compressed it.
> >> (https://www.sdrplay.com/downloads/)
> >>
> >> After downloading (about 2GB) and writing to the SD card, this version 
> >> just works fine.
> >> The simple-minded user can then just start enjoying Gnuradio.
> >>
> >> However they don’t yet have Gnuradio 3.8.1 on the SD card.
> >
> > As far as I can tell there is no gnuradio-3.8.1.  Where did you find it?
> > I can see a first release candidate as of some weeks ago, which of
> > course is something different.
> >
>
>