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Mike Clarke-5

Elecraft utilties compiled for ARM (raspberry pi)?

I'm prepared to be judged completely insane for this, but:
Elecraft guys, are there any plans to make the firemware update
tools available compiled for linux/arm?

I'm experimenting with a radio-control-system-inna-box using a
Raspberry Pi, and it would be great to be able to update the
hardware as well as control it.

Thanks and 73,

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Stewart Bryant

Re: Elecraft utilties compiled for ARM (raspberry pi)?

Can you use QEMU?

Stewart/G3YSX

On 10/04/2013 16:40, Mike Clarke wrote:

> I'm prepared to be judged completely insane for this, but:
> Elecraft guys, are there any plans to make the firemware update
> tools available compiled for linux/arm?
>
> I'm experimenting with a radio-control-system-inna-box using a
> Raspberry Pi, and it would be great to be able to update the
> hardware as well as control it.
>
> Thanks and 73,
>

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Tighe Kuykendall

Re: Elecraft utilties compiled for ARM (raspberry pi)?

In reply to this post by Mike Clarke-5

As a Pi owner, this had crossed my (insane?) mind as well. Count me as
interested.

Tighe
NK4I

On 4/10/13 11:40 AM, Mike Clarke wrote:

John Hendricks-2

Re: Elecraft utilties compiled for ARM (raspberry pi)?

I am also interested.

John Hendricks K7JLT

On Apr 10, 2013, at 12:08, Tighe Kuykendall <[hidden email]> wrote:

> As a Pi owner, this had crossed my (insane?) mind as well. Count me as interested.
>
> Tighe
> NK4I
>
>
> On 4/10/13 11:40 AM, Mike Clarke wrote:
>> I'm prepared to be judged completely insane for this, but:
>> Elecraft guys, are there any plans to make the firemware update
>> tools available compiled for linux/arm?
>>
>> I'm experimenting with a radio-control-system-inna-box using a
>> Raspberry Pi, and it would be great to be able to update the
>> hardware as well as control it.
>>
>> Thanks and 73,
>>
>
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Eduardo González

Re: Elecraft utilties compiled for ARM (raspberry pi)?

Hello, i'm trying work with GHPSDR3 over Raspberry PI as server only, so
clients software can connect to me, similar to websdr project

Edu YY4GMJ

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:30 PM, K7JLTextra <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I am also interested.
>
> John Hendricks K7JLT
>
> On Apr 10, 2013, at 12:08, Tighe Kuykendall <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > As a Pi owner, this had crossed my (insane?) mind as well. Count me as
> interested.
> >
> > Tighe
> > NK4I
> >
> >
> > On 4/10/13 11:40 AM, Mike Clarke wrote:
> >> I'm prepared to be judged completely insane for this, but:
> >> Elecraft guys, are there any plans to make the firemware update
> >> tools available compiled for linux/arm?
> >>
> >> I'm experimenting with a radio-control-system-inna-box using a
> >> Raspberry Pi, and it would be great to be able to update the
> >> hardware as well as control it.
> >>
> >> Thanks and 73,
> >>
> >
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Mike Clarke-5

Re: Elecraft utilties compiled for ARM (raspberry pi)?

In reply to this post by Stewart Bryant

To be honest the thought of emulating another instruction set on
a system as limited as the Pi hadn't crossed my mind, but I see
that qemu is availble in the repo. I'll give it a shot tonight
and see how it works.

73,

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Mike, M0PRL

On 10/Apr 16:57, Stewart Bryant wrote:

> Can you use QEMU?
>
> Stewart/G3YSX
>
>
> On 10/04/2013 16:40, Mike Clarke wrote:
> >I'm prepared to be judged completely insane for this, but:
> >Elecraft guys, are there any plans to make the firemware update
> >tools available compiled for linux/arm?
> >
> >I'm experimenting with a radio-control-system-inna-box using a
> >Raspberry Pi, and it would be great to be able to update the
> >hardware as well as control it.
> >
> >Thanks and 73,
> >
>

Greg Troxel

Re: Elecraft utilties compiled for ARM (raspberry pi)?

In reply to this post by Mike Clarke-5

Mike Clarke <[hidden email]> writes:

> I'm prepared to be judged completely insane for this, but:
> Elecraft guys, are there any plans to make the firemware update
> tools available compiled for linux/arm?
>
> I'm experimenting with a radio-control-system-inna-box using a
> Raspberry Pi, and it would be great to be able to update the
> hardware as well as control it.

It would be nice to have the update/utility tools available in source
form (even if under a non-free license), so that they could be compiled
for various environments. I appreciate that they are available for
linux/i386, but that's only one Free operating system (leaving out the
BSDs and OpenSolaris) and a limited selection of CPU types.

It could be that some gcc intermediate representation would be useful as
a middle ground between portable and acceptable discomfort on the part
of Elecraft.

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Mike Clarke-5

Re: Elecraft utilties compiled for ARM (raspberry pi)?

On 11/Apr 19:57, Greg Troxel wrote:

> Mike Clarke <[hidden email]> writes:
>
> > I'm prepared to be judged completely insane for this, but:
> > Elecraft guys, are there any plans to make the firemware update
> > tools available compiled for linux/arm?
> >
> > I'm experimenting with a radio-control-system-inna-box using a
> > Raspberry Pi, and it would be great to be able to update the
> > hardware as well as control it.
>
> It would be nice to have the update/utility tools available in source
> form (even if under a non-free license), so that they could be compiled
> for various environments. I appreciate that they are available for
> linux/i386, but that's only one Free operating system (leaving out the
> BSDs and OpenSolaris) and a limited selection of CPU types.
>
> It could be that some gcc intermediate representation would be useful as
> a middle ground between portable and acceptable discomfort on the part
> of Elecraft.

Source would certainly be ideal; you don't need much horsepower
to control a radio, and there is an increasing number of very
interesting low-power boards on the market. It would be great
for users of the BSDs and experimenters with other boards to be
able to update their rigs without having to resort to a more
'standard' machine (_BIG_ bonus points for a command-line version
of the updater so you don't need X and GTK...)

Having said that, I can understand a certain amount of reluctance
from Elecraft's point of view with regard to people 'tinkering'
with the update code and consequently bricking their radios; but
by and large anyone who feels the need to compile the updater
themselves for NetBSD on a toaster probably knows what they're
doing.

I'd be happy to help out with testing, etc. for anything along
these lines.

73,

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