Don't hold your breath on the cross-compilation support.  Looking at the 
timestamps on the tarball, the files haven't been touched in 2+ years.

I looked at the way that the environment is built, and it struck me as a 
bit unwieldy.  You can't easily make things in small stages, tweaking as 
you go, and you can't easily separate out all the drivers and subsystems 
you don't need, either.  It's all rigged to be "monolithic".  (I have 
foggy memories of being told "modular is good" in S/W engineering 
classes in school... but that was a long time ago... perhaps KISS has 
fallen out of favor.)

As for a USB device... it would probably speak IP-over-USB, which would 
mean that you then wouldn't be able to (a) have a single box solution, 
obviously, (b) use it with Soekris boards (which have a single USB port, 
and it's for the USB key disk holding the configuration), and (c) 
couldn't access statistics on the performance of the line easily... such 
as the noise margins, bits per bin, constellation info, receive and 
transmit SNR's, etc. which make it a lot simpler to troubleshoot a line.

-Philip


Lachlan Dunlop wrote:
> Phillip,
>
> We have a setup like you describe that we deploy today....  But it is 
> in small microATX type systems with a small install of Gentoo (glibc) 
> handling Asterisk/firewall/gateway.
>
> So the software all exists it's just a matter of can it be deployed in 
> an Astlinux setup?  It sure looks like they are close to getting 
> things working.  I don't have any idea is the ATM drivers for the S518 
> will compile under the ulibc.
>
> What would be really cool is a USB based S518 or a miniPCI version!!!  
> Now that would unstoppable!
>
> -Lach


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