Driver station coding and other

[Thomas Clark]

Originally Posted by codedr

Building a cross environment on Linux would require
- build a ppc cross compiler for x86 linux

GCC was ported to Linux almost twenty years ago. It can be easily targeted to vxWorks PPC.

Originally Posted by codedr

- integrate and test compiler in eclipse

Not really. Eclipse already runs on Linux as well.

Originally Posted by codedr

- test the method for downloading the code to robot

FTP on a normal non-VPN connection. (or non-VLAN or whatever)

Originally Posted by codedr

versus
- taking the existing wind river environment and deploy

Which required Windows. As I said, not everyone uses Windows.

Originally Posted by codedr

If you can convince a small group of robo linux enthusiasts to build the
environment, you could grow support for this endeavor.

Good idea. This would be easier, of course, if there were some sort of open specifications on how the virtual terminal monitor thing works. Is it SSH? Telnet? RSH?

In the meantime, I'll try getting GCC and WPIlib to work together on Linux and maybe write a small IDE in PyGTK.