Hi all,
I didn't realize this was about running PD on handhelds when reading the original postings on the familiar list...
Interesting :)
It's been a while that I've played with audio/MIDI stuff but this got me curious.
Anyways, a few notes as a familiar/OE developer:
familiar is still in a transition to build everything from sources using OpenEmbedded, so certain packages/features may still be missing from the OE built 0.8.x releases/feeds.
ALSA support is being worked on, someone announced working on TCL/TK .bbs (.bb being the package description ("recipe") format used for OE) on the OE list, too.
familiar and OpenZaurus are both built from the OpenEmbedded repository, so that the resulting packages are virtually identical.
However, they're not binary (ABI) compatible. OpenZaurus uses a softfloat enabled toolchain while familiar doesn't to stay compatible with Debian/ARM. You can't mix apps or libraries from familiar and OpenZaurus (well, you can try, but things will likely be unstable).
If anyone is interested in writing .bbs for PD, PDa or other audio/MIDI apps (so that they will be part of future familiar and OpenZaurus releases) I'll be happy to assist with that.
Unfortunately there is no comprehensive documentation available for OpenEmbedded yet. There are however the bitbake manual and the OE wiki.
http://bitbake.berlios.de/manual/ http://openembedded.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/GettingStarted
Regards,
Rene