[Elecraft] Elecraft utilties compiled for ARM (raspberry pi)?

[Mike Clarke]

On 11/Apr 19:57, Greg Troxel wrote:
 
> Mike Clarke <clarkema at clarkema.org> writes:
> 
> > I'm prepared to be judged completely insane for this, but:
> > Elecraft guys, are there any plans to make the firemware update
> > tools available compiled for linux/arm?
> >
> > I'm experimenting with a radio-control-system-inna-box using a
> > Raspberry Pi, and it would be great to be able to update the
> > hardware as well as control it.
> 
> It would be nice to have the update/utility tools available in source
> form (even if under a non-free license), so that they could be compiled
> for various environments.  I appreciate that they are available for
> linux/i386, but that's only one Free operating system (leaving out the
> BSDs and OpenSolaris) and a limited selection of CPU types.
> 
> It could be that some gcc intermediate representation would be useful as
> a middle ground between portable and acceptable discomfort on the part
> of Elecraft.
 
Source would certainly be ideal; you don't need much horsepower
to control a radio, and there is an increasing number of very
interesting low-power boards on the market.  It would be great
for users of the BSDs and experimenters with other boards to be
able to update their rigs without having to resort to a more
'standard' machine (_BIG_ bonus points for a command-line version
of the updater so you don't need X and GTK...)

Having said that, I can understand a certain amount of reluctance
from Elecraft's point of view with regard to people 'tinkering'
with the update code and consequently bricking their radios; but
by and large anyone who feels the need to compile the updater
themselves for NetBSD on a toaster probably knows what they're
doing.

I'd be happy to help out with testing, etc. for anything along
these lines.

73,

-- 
Mike, M0PRL