[ gpsdrive ] OpenMoko (Openembedded) package for gpsdrive 2.10pre4

[Guenther Meyer]

Am Dienstag 01 Januar 2008 schrieb Gernot Hillier:
> Well, as it looks that you're currently restructuring a lot of stuff, it
> might make not too much sense to invest a lot of time in clever
> packaging of the current state...
>
yes, you're right. but it's good to have someone who knows the openmoko 
platform and may help us to optimize things... :-)

one other thing that comes to my mind:
I guess the memory footprint of gpsdrive could also be an issue on an embedded 
platform?
currently the memory handling is far away from being the optimum, because for 
compatibility with some older functions, a lot of stuff is kept more than 
once in memory.

> > The perl Stuff is normally only needed if you like to rearrange POIs of
> > want to download maps or want to setup database ...
> > So this can surely be omitted.
> >
I hope, most of the perl stuff can be dropped completely someday.

> Thanks for all those hints. I'll try to come up with a suggestion based
> on the current OpenEmbedded habits and your ideas soon. Probably it
> won't be that detailed, though, as I learned that a lot is changing
> right now...
>
great! any effort is welcome :-)

> > And is there an easy way to run the cross-compiled stuff in an emulator
> > on my debian machine?
>
> No real idea, sorry. It looks like the environment created in the
> procedure described above already contains some sort of qemu-based
> emulation support, but I have not looked into this yet.
>
yes, there is also compiled a version of qemu in this environment.
I already tried this some month ago, but it didn't really work.
at the startup screen the progress bar stopped at about 70%.



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