On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:04:20 +0200, Mr.Freeze wrote: > Hi, > Quirky question: is it possible to run PureData (or another > <place_your_name_here> *modular*) on a DSP (or, still, another > <place_your_name_here> microcontroller) under a port of Linux? > > I was thinking of building an hardware expander that would share the patches of > its software counterpart, just by dumping them on the device... > > Does "m68k" refer to a family of Motorola DSPs? > http://www.linux-m68k.org
No its refers to the 68000 series processors. Most DSP chips are not capable of running something like linux nativly, you run linux on a host processor that controls the DSP. Porting the opcodes of pure data to a 56k DSP would be an enormous ammount of work, and you'd probably get similar price/performance by just buying a faster CPU anyway. If we had audio over firewire working you could offhand the DSP work to a stack of cheap miniitx boxes or something, but we dont ;) - Steve
