Anyone running FS from a Thumb Flash USB?
Hello FS Members, Are there any example of FS running on a Thumb Flash USB? Thanks in advance, -E
Could be done ed... FS itself isnt that big From: EdPimentl <edpimentl@gmail.com> Reply-To: <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:50:50 -0500 To: <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org> Subject: [Freeswitch-users] Anyone running FS from a Thumb Flash USB? Hello FS Members, Are there any example of FS running on a Thumb Flash USB? Thanks in advance, -E _______________________________________________ Freeswitch-users mailing list Freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
I would be glad to put a bounty for a FS(and Skypiax/softphone) running on Flash Thumb Drive. Project would be documented on Wiki for others to use and improve. -E
FreeSWITCH now compiles in AsLinux: http://www.astlinux.org AstLinux with the new bootloader Runnix (or you could just use syslinux) boots from flash. It also boots from PXE, ISO, disk, etc. Pretty much anything :). FreeSWITCH (compiled against uClibc) is about 3.3MB and as Tony pointed out, mod_sofia is 1.2MB of that. The sample configs and sounds are much larger. Luckily the sounds compress well with something like squashfs. Put it this way: - Default AstLinux install (quite a bit of stuff these days) - FreeSWITCH (default mods + mod_xml_curl, -spidermonkey, but w/ lua, snom, vmd, and others) - Sample configs (pretty big too but also compress well) - 8k Sounds (HUGE, but compress well) - Native sounds (G723, G729, GSM, PCMU, PCMA all 8K obviously) Results in a squashfs disk image of about 41MB. You could run off a 64MB flash drive and have plenty left over for your union filesystem (configs, etc). :) Be aware that if you are going to run from such a config we recommend the default (which is to run AstLinux from RAM). Otherwise you take quite a hit reading audio from a squashfs filesystem. If you want an ISO to boot on a generic machine (VMware, virtualbox, etc work too) let me know. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:50 AM, EdPimentl <edpimentl@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello FS Members,
Are there any example of FS running on a Thumb Flash USB? Thanks in advance, -E
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Great news!!! Good Job! /b On Feb 17, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
FreeSWITCH now compiles in AsLinux:
AstLinux with the new bootloader Runnix (or you could just use syslinux) boots from flash. It also boots from PXE, ISO, disk, etc. Pretty much anything :).
FreeSWITCH (compiled against uClibc) is about 3.3MB and as Tony pointed out, mod_sofia is 1.2MB of that. The sample configs and sounds are much larger. Luckily the sounds compress well with something like squashfs.
Put it this way:
- Default AstLinux install (quite a bit of stuff these days) - FreeSWITCH (default mods + mod_xml_curl, -spidermonkey, but w/ lua, snom, vmd, and others) - Sample configs (pretty big too but also compress well) - 8k Sounds (HUGE, but compress well) - Native sounds (G723, G729, GSM, PCMU, PCMA all 8K obviously)
Results in a squashfs disk image of about 41MB. You could run off a 64MB flash drive and have plenty left over for your union filesystem (configs, etc). :)
Be aware that if you are going to run from such a config we recommend the default (which is to run AstLinux from RAM). Otherwise you take quite a hit reading audio from a squashfs filesystem.
If you want an ISO to boot on a generic machine (VMware, virtualbox, etc work too) let me know.
wow... this is awesome ! good job mate. On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Kristian Kielhofner < kristian.kielhofner@gmail.com> wrote:
FreeSWITCH now compiles in AsLinux:
AstLinux with the new bootloader Runnix (or you could just use syslinux) boots from flash. It also boots from PXE, ISO, disk, etc. Pretty much anything :).
FreeSWITCH (compiled against uClibc) is about 3.3MB and as Tony pointed out, mod_sofia is 1.2MB of that. The sample configs and sounds are much larger. Luckily the sounds compress well with something like squashfs.
Put it this way:
- Default AstLinux install (quite a bit of stuff these days) - FreeSWITCH (default mods + mod_xml_curl, -spidermonkey, but w/ lua, snom, vmd, and others) - Sample configs (pretty big too but also compress well) - 8k Sounds (HUGE, but compress well) - Native sounds (G723, G729, GSM, PCMU, PCMA all 8K obviously)
Results in a squashfs disk image of about 41MB. You could run off a 64MB flash drive and have plenty left over for your union filesystem (configs, etc). :)
Be aware that if you are going to run from such a config we recommend the default (which is to run AstLinux from RAM). Otherwise you take quite a hit reading audio from a squashfs filesystem.
If you want an ISO to boot on a generic machine (VMware, virtualbox, etc work too) let me know.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:50 AM, EdPimentl <edpimentl@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello FS Members,
Are there any example of FS running on a Thumb Flash USB? Thanks in advance, -E
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-- Sincerely Jay
Ah yes, the "pinnacle of online discussion"! ;) On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Kristian Kielhofner <kristian.kielhofner@gmail.com> wrote:
FreeSWITCH now compiles in AsLinux:
Nice work! I'll go tell our friends over in the Yahoo financial forums - I'm sure they're dying to hear about it! ;) -MC
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Kristian, You're my hero, if I hadn't come across astlinux 3 years ago, I wouldn't be doing this stuff right now. Not too sure if that's a good thing though ;) -----Original Message----- From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Kristian Kielhofner Sent: 18 February 2009 00:19 To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Anyone running FS from a Thumb Flash USB? Ah yes, the "pinnacle of online discussion"! ;) On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Kristian Kielhofner <kristian.kielhofner@gmail.com> wrote:
FreeSWITCH now compiles in AsLinux:
Nice work! I'll go tell our friends over in the Yahoo financial forums - I'm sure they're dying to hear about it! ;) -MC
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Nik, Thanks but I'm not sure I want to take the credit (blame?) for that! ;) On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Nik Middleton <nik.middleton@noblesolutions.co.uk> wrote:
Kristian,
You're my hero, if I hadn't come across astlinux 3 years ago, I wouldn't be doing this stuff right now. Not too sure if that's a good thing though ;)
-- Kristian Kielhofner http://blog.krisk.org http://www.submityoursip.com http://www.astlinux.org http://www.star2star.com
Awesome work, Kristian! And very much needed for the Freeswitch platform (to me, at least). A suggestion: if the FS team doesn't mind (after getting over the naming issue), it would be a good idea to put Kristian's latest blog entry on the FS Wiki. -----Original Message----- From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Kristian Kielhofner Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:10 PM To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Anyone running FS from a Thumb Flash USB? Nik, Thanks but I'm not sure I want to take the credit (blame?) for that! ;) On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Nik Middleton <nik.middleton@noblesolutions.co.uk> wrote:
Kristian,
You're my hero, if I hadn't come across astlinux 3 years ago, I wouldn't be doing this stuff right now. Not too sure if that's a good thing though ;)
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Sent from my iPhone On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:55 AM, "UV" <uv@yuvalhertzog.com> wrote:
Awesome work, Kristian! And very much needed for the Freeswitch platform (to me, at least).
A suggestion: if the FS team doesn't mind (after getting over the naming issue), it would be a good idea to put Kristian's latest blog entry on the FS Wiki.
Not a problem at all. We already link to Kristian's blog from our main page. I will give KK's new ISO a test drive and then put some directions on the wiki. -MC
-----Original Message----- From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Kristian Kielhofner Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:10 PM To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Anyone running FS from a Thumb Flash USB?
Nik,
Thanks but I'm not sure I want to take the credit (blame?) for that! ;)
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Nik Middleton <nik.middleton@noblesolutions.co.uk> wrote:
Kristian,
You're my hero, if I hadn't come across astlinux 3 years ago, I wouldn't be doing this stuff right now. Not too sure if that's a good thing though ;)
-- Kristian Kielhofner http://blog.krisk.org http://www.submityoursip.com http://www.astlinux.org http://www.star2star.com
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awesome work! on a slightly related [embedded] note, do you know if any work has been done to port FS to any of the Analog Blackfin MCUs? I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has had any such luck. Gabe Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
FreeSWITCH now compiles in AsLinux:
AstLinux with the new bootloader Runnix (or you could just use syslinux) boots from flash. It also boots from PXE, ISO, disk, etc. Pretty much anything :).
FreeSWITCH (compiled against uClibc) is about 3.3MB and as Tony pointed out, mod_sofia is 1.2MB of that. The sample configs and sounds are much larger. Luckily the sounds compress well with something like squashfs.
Put it this way:
- Default AstLinux install (quite a bit of stuff these days) - FreeSWITCH (default mods + mod_xml_curl, -spidermonkey, but w/ lua, snom, vmd, and others) - Sample configs (pretty big too but also compress well) - 8k Sounds (HUGE, but compress well) - Native sounds (G723, G729, GSM, PCMU, PCMA all 8K obviously)
Results in a squashfs disk image of about 41MB. You could run off a 64MB flash drive and have plenty left over for your union filesystem (configs, etc). :)
Be aware that if you are going to run from such a config we recommend the default (which is to run AstLinux from RAM). Otherwise you take quite a hit reading audio from a squashfs filesystem.
If you want an ISO to boot on a generic machine (VMware, virtualbox, etc work too) let me know.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:50 AM, EdPimentl <edpimentl@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello FS Members,
Are there any example of FS running on a Thumb Flash USB? Thanks in advance, -E
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I don't think so but something tells me that FreeSWITCH won't do too well without an MMU and the external libs and modules could cause quite a problem. Not that it is impossible but the uh, performance, would be interesting... Can anyone call me out on this assumption? On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Gabriel Kuri <gkuri@ieee.org> wrote:
awesome work! on a slightly related [embedded] note, do you know if any work has been done to port FS to any of the Analog Blackfin MCUs? I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has had any such luck.
Gabe
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That and the lack of an FPU, I'm curious how that would affect FS, especially with transcoding. At one point I was interested in building a little embedded PBX running FS on the Blackfin MCU. Since Analog Devices seems fairly open with the Blackfin, I thought it might be a good choice, but I'm not sure how the lack of an MMU or FPU would affect FS. Gabe Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
I don't think so but something tells me that FreeSWITCH won't do too well without an MMU and the external libs and modules could cause quite a problem. Not that it is impossible but the uh, performance, would be interesting...
Can anyone call me out on this assumption?
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Gabriel Kuri <gkuri@ieee.org> wrote:
awesome work! on a slightly related [embedded] note, do you know if any work has been done to port FS to any of the Analog Blackfin MCUs? I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has had any such luck.
Gabe
Pretty much all the codecs (mod_voipcodecs, mod_speex, mod_ilbc, mod_g722_1, mod_celt) and the resampler all have fixed point implementations (in tree) as well. Mike On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:44 PM, Gabriel Kuri wrote:
That and the lack of an FPU, I'm curious how that would affect FS, especially with transcoding. At one point I was interested in building a little embedded PBX running FS on the Blackfin MCU. Since Analog Devices seems fairly open with the Blackfin, I thought it might be a good choice, but I'm not sure how the lack of an MMU or FPU would affect FS.
Gabe
Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
I don't think so but something tells me that FreeSWITCH won't do too well without an MMU and the external libs and modules could cause quite a problem. Not that it is impossible but the uh, performance, would be interesting...
Can anyone call me out on this assumption?
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Gabriel Kuri <gkuri@ieee.org> wrote:
awesome work! on a slightly related [embedded] note, do you know if any work has been done to port FS to any of the Analog Blackfin MCUs? I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has had any such luck.
Gabe
So you sticking with the Astlinux name? or switching it to something more general? /b On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
I don't think so but something tells me that FreeSWITCH won't do too well without an MMU and the external libs and modules could cause quite a problem. Not that it is impossible but the uh, performance, would be interesting...
Brian, We'll figure something out... On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Brian West <brian@freeswitch.org> wrote:
So you sticking with the Astlinux name? or switching it to something more general?
/b
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Brian West
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EdPimentl
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Gabriel Kuri
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jay binks
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Ken Rice
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Kristian Kielhofner
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Michael Collins
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Michael Jerris
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Michael S Collins
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Nik Middleton
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UV