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[edpimentl at gmail.com]

Hello FS Members,

Are there any example of FS running on a Thumb Flash USB?
Thanks in advance,
-E

[krice at freeswitch.org]

Could be done ed... FS itself isnt that big From: EdPimentl <edpimentl@gmail.com> Reply-To: <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:50:50 -0500 To: <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org> Subject: [Freeswitch-users] Anyone running FS from a Thumb Flash USB? Hello FS Members, Are there any example of FS running on a Thumb Flash USB? Thanks in advance, -E _______________________________________________ Freeswitch-users mailing list Freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org

[edpimentl at gmail.com]

I would be glad to put a bounty for a FS(and Skypiax/softphone) running on Flash Thumb Drive.
Project would be documented on Wiki for others to use and improve.
-E

[kristian.kielhofner at...]

FreeSWITCH now compiles in AsLinux:

http://www.astlinux.org

AstLinux with the new bootloader Runnix (or you could just use
syslinux) boots from flash. It also boots from PXE, ISO, disk, etc.
Pretty much anything .

FreeSWITCH (compiled against uClibc) is about 3.3MB and as Tony
pointed out, mod_sofia is 1.2MB of that. The sample configs and
sounds are much larger. Luckily the sounds compress well with
something like squashfs.

Put it this way:

- Default AstLinux install (quite a bit of stuff these days)
- FreeSWITCH (default mods + mod_xml_curl, -spidermonkey, but w/ lua,
snom, vmd, and others)
- Sample configs (pretty big too but also compress well)
- 8k Sounds (HUGE, but compress well)
- Native sounds (G723, G729, GSM, PCMU, PCMA all 8K obviously)

Results in a squashfs disk image of about 41MB. You could run off a
64MB flash drive and have plenty left over for your union filesystem
(configs, etc).

Be aware that if you are going to run from such a config we
recommend the default (which is to run AstLinux from RAM). Otherwise
you take quite a hit reading audio from a squashfs filesystem.

If you want an ISO to boot on a generic machine (VMware, virtualbox,
etc work too) let me know.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:50 AM, EdPimentl <edpimentl@gmail.com> wrote:

[brian at freeswitch.org]

Great news!!! Good Job!

/b

On Feb 17, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:

[jaybinks at gmail.com]

wow... this is awesome !
good job mate.


On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Kristian Kielhofner <kristian.kielhofner@gmail.com (kristian.kielhofner@gmail.com)> wrote:

[msc at freeswitch.org]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Kristian Kielhofner
<kristian.kielhofner@gmail.com> wrote:

[gkuri at ieee.org]

awesome work! on a slightly related [embedded] note, do you know if any
work has been done to port FS to any of the Analog Blackfin MCUs? I'd be
interested in hearing if anyone has had any such luck.

Gabe

Kristian Kielhofner wrote:

[kristian.kielhofner at...]

Ah yes, the "pinnacle of online discussion"!

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:

[kristian.kielhofner at...]

I don't think so but something tells me that FreeSWITCH won't do too
well without an MMU and the external libs and modules could cause
quite a problem. Not that it is impossible but the uh, performance,
would be interesting...

Can anyone call me out on this assumption?

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Gabriel Kuri <gkuri@ieee.org> wrote:

[nik.middleton at noble...]

Kristian,

You're my hero, if I hadn't come across astlinux 3 years ago, I wouldn't
be doing this stuff right now. Not too sure if that's a good thing
though

-----Original Message-----
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Kristian Kielhofner
Sent: 18 February 2009 00:19
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Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Anyone running FS from a Thumb Flash
USB?

Ah yes, the "pinnacle of online discussion"!

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org>
wrote:

[gkuri at ieee.org]

That and the lack of an FPU, I'm curious how that would affect FS,
especially with transcoding. At one point I was interested in building a
little embedded PBX running FS on the Blackfin MCU. Since Analog Devices
seems fairly open with the Blackfin, I thought it might be a good
choice, but I'm not sure how the lack of an MMU or FPU would affect FS.

Gabe

Kristian Kielhofner wrote:

[brian at freeswitch.org]

So you sticking with the Astlinux name? or switching it to something
more general?

/b

On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:

[kristian.kielhofner at...]

Brian,

We'll figure something out...

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Brian West <brian@freeswitch.org> wrote:

[mike at jerris.com]

Pretty much all the codecs (mod_voipcodecs, mod_speex, mod_ilbc,
mod_g722_1, mod_celt) and the resampler all have fixed point
implementations (in tree) as well.

Mike

On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:44 PM, Gabriel Kuri wrote: