[Freeswitch-users] SwitchPi

Sat Jun 4 22:53:43 MSD 2016

It's not about endianness, but pointer alignment.
On Jun 4, 2016 02:54, "Ken Rice" <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:

> I asked steve about this and yes i have duplicated it. Looks like possibly
> an endian issue
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 3, 2016, at 7:11 PM, Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Ken, you probably hit this bug with faxing:
> https://freeswitch.org/jira/browse/FS-8651
>
> we're still waiting for Steve's feedback on that one.
>
>
>
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>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>
>> Why the Pi you ask? Why custom hardware to go with it?
>>
>>
>>
>> Generic X86 Hardware is not the end all be all. While the X86 based CPUs
>> means that there can be less portability issues than say something like ARM
>> or SPARC or other architectures, the PI still typically offers several
>> other capabilities that may not be offered on the other Single Board
>> Computers at a $35 price point.
>>
>>
>>
>> Then there is the well documented pile of GPIO ports that make it quite
>> easy to drive things like custom keypads, servos, steppers, etc etc etc…
>>  this means you can spin a small custom board (in my case its about 1.5
>> square inches) that has the specific additional hardware for adding an
>> additional 24 GPIOs giving room for a combination of something like 36
>> buttons worth of keypads and 12 other dry contact inputs and outputs (if
>> you use 12 of the GPIO pins to drive a keypad array you can get 36 buttons.
>> Basic formula  for max number of potential keys   (n/2)^2 where n is the
>> number of GPIO pins used in the keypad array.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now mix that with that fact that ARM is not a second class Linux citizen
>> anymore, we can pretty easily copy the source over compile and go. And
>> things just work (barring the occasional endian issue that happens when
>> taking software between architectures that are big vs little vs bi endian)
>>
>>
>>
>> Now theres always talk of a new cheap x86 based SoC such as the Edison,
>> or other Arm based SBC like the odriod, or the CHIP, but I have yet to see
>> one that is as readily available as the Pi at the $35 with the myriad of
>> addons and software already running on it.
>>
>> (Yesterday I installed FreeSWITCH on a Pi and it took about 45 minutes…
>> there was 1 issues with Faxing that we are looking into and its probably an
>> endian issue)
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:
>> freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] *On Behalf Of *Colton
>> Conor
>> *Sent:* Friday, June 3, 2016 7:59 AM
>>
>> *To:* FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] SwitchPi
>>
>>
>>
>> May I ask the question of why make something customer just to run on the
>> Rasberry Pi? There are X86 SOC coming to the market that will be close to
>> the cost of the Pi, and be much more powerful. Plus, you can run regular
>> x86 operating systems.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>>
>> The custom boards allow for hardware DTMF keypad interface, hook switch
>> and a few other things like LCD for CLID on old school phones with that
>> provision.
>>
>>
>>
>> There will be official Raspian packages sooner or later… theres a know
>> issue with the cowbuilder that’s blocking this at this time, we’re working
>> on a work around…
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:
>> freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] *On Behalf Of *William
>> Scott
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 1, 2016 6:52 PM
>> *To:* FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] SwitchPi
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, I have FusionPBX/freeSwitch running on a RPi3. Will the ARM build
>> ever become "Official"?
>>
>>
>>
>> I've watched a 'tube video or two. What is the functionality of the
>> custom boards?
>>
>>
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