On Monday 31 December 2007, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > > Before I go into the whole process of coming up to speed with the Fedora > > packaging guidelines, etc, I wanted to ask here if anyone else here is > > working on GNU Radio packages for Fedora. > > GNU Radio is there on the WishList: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList and no one > has claimed it there yet. Yeah, I saw it on the Wishlist, but didn't know if it had yet been claimed. The only potential snags I know of with it are the two firmware files needed for the usrp portion of the package; the one is the firmware for the USB device controller on the USRP, which is easily generated with the free toolchain 'sdcc' already in Fedora, and thus isn't probably a snag at all. On the other hand, the FPGA bitstream, while it itself is open and the verilog source is GPL'd, it needs a non-Free toolchain (Quartus II; although the web edition is no-cost, it is not Free) to build. Prebuilt FPGA bitstreams meet the requirements mentioned in the Firmware section of the packaging guidelines on the wiki, as far as I can tell, but I would certainly submit whether that is the case or not to the group. I actively use GNURadio here, and have the USRP hardware on which to test builds and such. Learning this new build system will be what will challenge me the most; it does appear to be a timesaving system, though, and quite well thought-out (back in the day, I built PostgreSQL RPMs on the actual target platform; even if that meant pressing an old 486 into use, which I did, frequently, for Red Hat 6.2 builds (when Red Hat 9 was Old Hat and Fedora Core 1 was the talk of the town); Mock looks like it makes builds so much easier and more automatic; I still remember taking a full weekend to get all the builds done for all the archs I supported). -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
