Hi Everyone,

Thanks for the interest. Based on the interest we have setup a SIG for this. I encourage you to join if you have time to participate.

I wonder, if it is necessary to create an extra SIG for this. Although the group of people interested in ROS on ARM has grown to a significant size, there are still not so many people out there.

In order to avoid people getting scattered all over the place (and might even lost), I suggest we use the existing Embedded SIG (http://www.ros.org/wiki/sig/Embedded) for this.

It gathers people interesting in and working on different embedded levels, such as ROS on ARMs running Linux distributions and ROS on/with "bare-metal" embedded boards.

If this list/group gets to busy in the future, we still could split it up in different groups later.

Cheers,

Marcus

Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/group/ros-sig-arm

WIki Page: http://www.ros.org/wiki/sig/arm

Tully

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Tommy Persson <tommy.persson@liu.se> wrote:

On 01/13/2013 07:41 PM, Ian wrote:

I have experience using gumstix to run fuerte under debian 6.05 at
Upenn's Modlab [1]. We compiled ROS-base from source in place without
any real issues, and for our purposes (using ROS for networking and data
serialization on the gumstix, and doing the heavy lifting on more
powerful computers) it worked well.

We opted to do all compilation locally on the gumstix, which was our one
source of frustration; the shortest compilation times were measured in
minutes. A cross-compiling environment would have been worth the time
to setup.

We have done something similar on the gumstix but using Ubuntu on the gumstix. I am planning soon to test this with groovy.

The biggest problem for me was that data communication between ARM and X86 did not work properly if the message contains an uint8. The padding is different. This was if I remember correctly with fuerte. Have not tested yet if groovy have the same bug.

I am very interested reading more about peoples work with ARM.

/Tommy Persson
Linköping University
Sweden

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