Port for the MIPS architecture

[jkiddo]

Hi forked-daapd team Since you have undertaken the rather large job to update the mt-daapd project I would like to know if the forked-daapd project is as portable to other architectures as the mt-daapd. Especially the MIPS architecture used on many routers?

[jasonmc]

(This is just a mirror of the forked-daapd git repository. Blog covering development: http://blog.technologeek.org/2009/12/26/261)

I know forked-daapd has already been compiled and run on Arm compatible hardware (a SheevaPlug). There's some info here: http://blog.zortrium.net/archives/7

[thorstenhirsch]

Hi, I could install forked-daapd succesfully on Debian Squeeze@mipsel (Buffalo Linkstation 2). I'm not sure if it works. The db is initializing since 20h and it doesn't seem to stop soon. The db file in /var/cache/forked-daapd grows steadily and veeeeery slowly.

The old mt-daapd could initialize its database (scan all my files) within 10minutes or such. So maybe forked-daapd makes heavy use of floating point functions, which is the bottleneck on the Linkstation 2.