Thank you all for your encouraging replies. @Scott : I 'm also wondering what the Pi is capable of dsp-wise. @Charles : I don't know the power of the dark side, but I'm dying to learn more about it!
I guess we'll continue this thread when one of us managed to get his hand on a Pi. Pierre. 2012/3/1 Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> > > There are some fedora packages of pd floating around. It would be great > for someone to update them and include them in the pure-data SVN or some > repo somewhere. Also, if someone makes a fedora package .spec file for the > Library Template, it'll be really easy to package lots of other libraries > for Fedora. > > If you get Debian running on the Pi, then just apt-get install puredata. > > .hc > > On Feb 29, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Scott R. Looney wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Pierre Massat <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > 2012/2/29 Charles Henry <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Pierre Massat <[email protected]> >> >> 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > “We must become the change we want to see. - Mahatma Gandhi > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >
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