[arm-allstar] Software directions --was: Bug fix update!

[David McGough]

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to make a few comments about software directions.

Currently most of the code updates I'm making aren't being contributed or
integrated back into the base AllStar repository. There are several
reasons for this.

Much of the code and strategies I'm implementing are only targeted at ARM
processors, such as the Cortex-A53 family found in the RPi3.  Some of this
code won't even run on a x86 processor. I see the ARM architecture and
later derivatives being the future of AllStar--even in the scenario where
you've got a hub server with dozens of users. To that end, I've been
carefully studying the "hot spots" (meaning high or critical CPU use
areas) and working hard on optimizing/parallelizing this code.

Some have questioned the stability of an RPi3 when compared to a PC. I've
found RPi boards, when properly setup (good power and adequate cooling) to
be just as reliable as any PC, even my favorite pcengines embedded boards!


73, David KB4FXC





On Tue, 23 May 2017, "Brett Friermood via arm-allstar" wrote:

> It's great seeing long standing bugs in asterisk/app_rpt/AllStar are being
> fixed as time allows. Are these changes also being migrated to the base
> repository or just being made within the HamVOIP code?
> 
> Brett KQ9N
>