Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Armel Port of GCS

[John Burt]

Gareth,

I think that porting GCS and the associated tools to the N810 would be 
an excellent idea. I bought an N810 last year with that in mind: the 
device (unlike the N800 BTW) has a daylight viewable transflective touch 
screen. I had visions of mounting it on my RC transmitter and linking it 
to a ground station modem via bluetooth. My UAV application involves 
deployments in rugged environments where being untethered and replacing 
the laptop with a low power device would be a significant advantage.

But then I discovered the problems with porting Paparazzi to Maemo. My 
thought was to wait for someone to port Ubuntu Mobile to the N8X0 
devices, and then compile/install GCS on the device running 
debian/Ubuntu. Apparently, the mojo project at is working on porting 
Ubuntu Mobile to the N810 (not sure how far they've gotten).

Gareth Roberts wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I am currently in the early stages of porting the main parts of gcs to 
> armel along with packaging for debian lenny.  I've got xmllight and 
> ivy-c built up,but am having serious problems with ivy-ocaml, as the 
> makefile specs the native compiler (which doesn't exist for armel). I 
> have no experience with ocaml,and dropping in ocamlc doesn't work.
>
> I am carrying out this port in order to ultimately run gcs on nokia 
> n8*0 devices using maemo.  I believe that it could prove to be an 
> excellent ground station device.  Once ported, the next step would be 
> to 'hildonise' the interface slightly to make it more finger-friendly.
>
> Further ideas I've had involve wimax and the internal gps...
>
> Comments,suggestions,ideas and reasons this is stupid and won't work 
> are all welcome!
>
> Cheers
>
> Gareth R
>
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