FYI PIAF on Cubieboard

[alang]

Is it possible to port the PIAF into the Cubieboard, which is another single-board computer similar to the Raspberry Pi?

 

[rossiv]

Is it possible to port the PIAF into the Cubieboard, which is another single-board computer similar to the Raspberry Pi?

It has been mentioned before here I'm almost positive. I think the answer was no.

 

[alang]

Thanks rossiv for your reply.

If anyone can share how to port PIAF from x86 into the Raspberry Pi, I can help try making the PIAF for Cubieboard and will share it here.

 

[rossiv]

It's not truly PIAF on the Pi. I think this post was lost in the Great Crash as well, but I'll post what I remember. PBX in a Flash is a modified version of CentOS (to an extent) that includes Asterisk, FreePBX, and other goodies all in one ISO. The Raspberry Pi is running Incredible PBX which, in this case, is just FreePBX, Asterisk, and a select number of Pi CPU-friendly and Pi RAM-friendly utilities. wardmundy or darmock would be of more use here.

 

[magna.vis]

I think one of the major problems here (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong, this is outside of my expertise) is that "mobile" (ARM) CPUs, like the one in the Pi and Cubieboard, are a different architecture than the usual x86 processors in most computing platforms. From what I understand, this means that each package has to be recompiled to work with each processor on each distribution. The reason the Pi became a viable option for IncrediPi is because of the massive efforts put in by the open source community to do this. A lot of time and effort went into getting each distro onto the Pi. None of packages optimized for the Pi in each distro are able to run efficiently on any other processor, effectively making the Pi version of Debian "Raspbian," etc. Without the support of a massive community keeping packages up to date, or to recompile and optimize current packages for the Cortex-A7 (used as the processor in the Allwinner A20) that's in Cubieboard, odds of it having a good lifetime of support is slim.

 

[wardmundy]

magna.vis: Exactly right. Without a huge development community, lots of groundbreaking work by the RaspPBX project, and the support of the Raspberry Pi developers themselves, Incredible PBX on the Raspberry Pi platform never would have been possible. Nothing remotely similar has happened with the Cubieboard or other ARM platforms.