[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Live! CF

[The VoIP Connection]

We use Via EPIA Mini-ITX boards extensively and have had NO problems, with
interrupts or otherwise.  I can't vouch for or defend any of the Pentium
mainboards you reference, but the single board machines we use run Asterisk
very reliably.  We don't load them up with a bunch of peripherals or exotic
graphics cards, but I don't know why anyone ever would. It is true that they
will not run gcc i686 binaries reliably.

Michael Crown
Managing Partner
The VoIP Connection
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kanuri, Seshu (Company IT) 
> [mailto:Seshu.Kanuri at morganstanley.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 1:55 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Live! CF
> 
> Abel,
> 
> I am working on Intel boards only.
> 
> I have tried VIA boards and I do not recommend anyone to work 
> on VIA boards for a production system. The reasons for this 
> being that there are just way too many issues with these 
> boards, gcc being just one of them. The main issue is 
> Interrupt Conflicts and incompatibility for many accessories.
> 
> The link below has more information on these problems:
> http://pcbuyersguide.com/hardware/motherboards/VIA-Problems.html
> 
> A few more snippets are here
> 
> http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/
> 
> Kris probably will answer your other question.
> 
> Seshu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of abel
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 12:29 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Live! CF
> 
> Seshu,
> Are you working on a VIA based motherboard?
> I am working on a VIA based motherboard.
> Andy Powell (author of Asterisk Live! distro) tells me that 
> VIA is not quite good when emulating i686 behavoir and since 
> his distro is compiled for i686...
> We are trying to confirm that but may be interesting to know 
> about your setup and how is Kristian's distro compiled.
> 
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:41:43 -0400, Kanuri, Seshu (Company IT) wrote
> > Kristian,
> > 
> > I am talking about your distro, that does not seem to be 
> able to boot 
> > when I have mounted (if that is the right word) the CF  
> into my Dell 
> > Server and tried to boot from it as the only IDE drive available.
> > 
> > The Linux just does not kick in.
> > 
> > If you want to debug this I can Fedex to you, my 800MB CF disk with 
> > your distro on it, you for your R&D.
> > 
> > Seshu
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf 
> Of Kristian
> 
> > Kielhofner
> > Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 3:36 PM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Live! CF
> > 
> > abel wrote:
> > > My theory is that the 64 MB image is built with a 
> specific hdd form 
> > > factor and when burning onto a different size CF it is mapped 
> > > differently and it does not work.
> > > On the other hand, you always can find out how the device 
> is beeing 
> > > seen by the system and customize the binary image accordingly.
> > > Other software prepared to be run from CF (I recall WISP, 
> the LEAF 
> > > branch for wireless routers) have a final step which takes the 
> > > software already compiled and 'packages' it to build the 
> disk image.
> > > I would be extremely happy if I could download the code 
> tree and run
> 
> > > that final step by myself to get the disk image that 
> suits my needs.
> > > Second best would be to get the source tree and compile all the 
> > > stuff to get that point.
> > > Is that possible? Is the code available in the way I need for this
> > operation? 
> > > TIA.
> > 
> > abel,
> > 
> > 	This is simply untrue.  My distro's (AstLinux) 32mb CF images
> work on 
> > anything...
> > 
> > 
> http://www.kriscompanies.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=
> > 3
> > 
> > --
> > Kristian Kielhofner
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