i figure it won't be too long before nearly everyone including planet CCRMA has a build going specifically for the Pi. there' s a very good chance the Pi Foundation can license the design to other makers, so by May or so i'd bet a number of different places will have them in stock. the biggest issue for me is how much DSP performance you get out of something whose speed matches the iPhone 3GS. the awesome thing would be to put their display engine to work doing DSP but i think that's a long way down the line if ever due to the limited API access. i started a thread about this a bit ago and if i remember, the falling down point of ARM was that it didn't handle floating point well. i'd be curious how much these devices could be pushed.
scott
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Charles Henry czhenry@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Pierre Massat pimassat@gmail.com wrote:
2012/2/29 Charles Henry czhenry@gmail.com
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Pierre Massat pimassat@gmail.com wrote:
Dear List,
I'm planning to buy a Raspberry Pi sometime soon, and I'd like to know the implications of the ARM11 chip on the use of Pd. I know nothing about the differences in architectures, so i'd like to know :
- why an ARM chip would be a problem for compiling, installing and
running Pd,
It's not a problem--Pd compiles and runs on the arm architecture. Android devices for example have arm processors. Debian pure data packages are available for arm.
That's good news! I suppose Debian packages can't be installed in Fedora, can they?
No--planet CCRMA has some i386 pd packages, but not arm. If you want to run Fedora and Pd, you will need to compile it. If only you knew the power of the dark side, and by dark side, I mean Debian.
If you didn't get your pre-order in time for this batch, you'll have to wait a month, I bet. By the time I got to work this morning, it was too late.
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