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

[Michael Jerris]

I know of at least one person who has had good luck with small  
applications on arm, in fact there are good working instructions for  
how to cross for arm on the wiki that are known to work.

Mike

On Sep 24, 2009, at 5:34 AM, Cavalera Claudio Luigi wrote:

> 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
>