adding libraries to L4/fiasco & L4re

[Johan Dams]

Hi,

Porting a library can be as simple as just recompiling the code, or a
whole lot harder. It really depends on the library. Have a look at the
libpng port, and also the openssl port that was posted in this list a
while back.

We have ported several low level libraries from Linux (with kernel
dependencies) whereby we replaced the IOCTL's with IPC between a server
(representing the Linux kernel dependency) and the library for instance.
We also ported video streaming libraries without much change at all.

I believe porting the basic image processing aspects of OpenCV should be
relatively easy. Reading from a camera, openGL, cuda, etc. will be
harder since you will have to build a support infrastructure on L4 for
that. 

I would suggest starting with some of the basic core functionalities to
see what is involved...


Best regards,
Johan

On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 14:58 +0900, smkim wrote:
> Hi hackers.
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> I have questions about adding additional libraries for L4/fiasco &
> L4re.
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> I tried to find some documents about it, but I failed.
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> My question is
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> Is there any guildlines which explains the process how to port
> additional
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> libaries in L4/fiasco & L4re?
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> If not, I hope you to suggest the way to solve it.
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> What I wanna port is OpenCV.
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> Best regards, Seongmin Kim.
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