[Freeswitch-users] Freeswitch on embedded device: interesting or not?

[Cavalera Claudio Luigi]

Hello guys,
lately I've been trying to compile Freeswitch for a MIPS architecture.
With the help of the community I've understood that my target
architecture was wrong because of limitations in the SDK toolchain's.
I'm not writing now to get help but to start (I hope) a discussion.
I would like to understand your points of view about the general idea of
porting FS on embedded devices.
I'm not hardware expert at all; someone says that porting FS to any
appliance which is not x86 based is a loss of time, because ARM and MIPS
processors just lack computational power, this could be true, but maybe
it depends on what you expect FS to do on such an embedded architecture.
We are now all used to the amazing performance of FS on multicores 64bit
cpus but still the one line description of FS is:
"FreeSWITCH is an open source telephony platform designed to facilitate
the creation of voice and chat driven products scaling from a soft-phone
up to a soft-switch".
Therefore a scaled down FS could be done, do you think is interesting?
I'm not speaking here from a technical point of view, I know others have
already compiled FS for ARM and MIPS and their experience is on the
wiki.
Would you consider a scaled down FS only for x86 architectures (e.g. the
pfSense package or Atom)?

Regards,
Claudio


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