"Because I can:" non-x86 CPU?

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

I'm running one of those nifty embedded ARM systems at home -- more horsepower than the Pi (http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G135235611947).  While I *FULLY* understand that it's wildly unsupported, I was wondering if there were anything preventing me from doing a BBB install on it -- real showstoppers (e.g., x86 binary CODECs or something).

Don't worry -- if I break it, I'll own both pieces.  Just curious to see if it's even feasible, or if I should not even try.

Thanks,

-Ken

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Ken,

Does it run Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit or 64-bit?   All the current packages are compiled for i386/x64 architecture, so they may not even install on an AMD architecture.

Unfortunately, we don't have any experience running BigBlueButton on AMD.

All the best,... Fred 

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[Calvin Walton]

It might be interesting to see what happens :)

If you can get Ubuntu (ideally 10.04, but I don't think they had an ARM
build of that version - you might have to try something newer) on,
you're going to end up building BigBlueButton completely from scratch.
This is something that we don't have documented at all, unfortunately.
Our packages are built i386/amd64 only, so they'd be practiaclly useless
for your purposes.

The main key points are:
1. You'll need working Java (There might be openjdk 7 packages in the
Ubuntu repos?)
2. In terms of native code, you'll need to build freeswitch, and
depending on the ubuntu version you'll need to build ruby as well.

Most of the actual code in the BigBlueButton project is either Java,
Ruby, or client-side Actionscript.

As I recall, the high-end ARM systems rate poorly in terms of CPU power
compared to even a a low-end Intel ATOM; and we recommend much
higher-power systems than that for production! Even if it does work at
all, I wouldn't expect it to handle more a couple of users very well...

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[Ken]

Hmmm... does sound like a bit of a project -- wasn't really thinking of the BBB stuff needing to be compiled. I'll probably back burner until I'm bored in a hotel room some night.  Thanks for the info!  (I do have Ubuntu -- 12.04 -- and it's zippy enough; compiles my d/l of 3.0.5 kernel in under an hour with -j4.  That being said, also did some reading -- apparently ARM blows chunks with floating point, so if that's heavily used, it might get filed under "don't bother.")

-Ken