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Johan_B · 04-10-2007, 08:10 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by ShawJohn

I have been doing some reading, maybe I should still do more

Anyway, I was wondering if the info on the following pages could be of some use in making TomTom work natively on a Linux PC.

http://www.tomtom.com/page.php?Page=gpl

and

http://www.opentom.org/Main_Page

I am currently trying to get the PPC emulator/TomTom combo working from within Centrafuse, but just wondered if any of you Linux bods might know of a more elegant solution...

Although TomTom is Linux software on a Linux system, the source is not available.
As it runs on a small embedded system, it's likely to be very stripped down and heavily modified Linux Kernel.

As such, the TomTom software will probably not work on a "standard" Linux kernel.
Although theoretically you could try it, debug and patch the kernel, It's not easy to do.

Johan.

04-10-2007, 08:10 AM	#3
Johan_B Newbie Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 12	Quote: Originally Posted by ShawJohn I have been doing some reading, maybe I should still do more Anyway, I was wondering if the info on the following pages could be of some use in making TomTom work natively on a Linux PC. http://www.tomtom.com/page.php?Page=gpl and http://www.opentom.org/Main_Page I am currently trying to get the PPC emulator/TomTom combo working from within Centrafuse, but just wondered if any of you Linux bods might know of a more elegant solution... Although TomTom is Linux software on a Linux system, the source is not available. As it runs on a small embedded system, it's likely to be very stripped down and heavily modified Linux Kernel. As such, the TomTom software will probably not work on a "standard" Linux kernel. Although theoretically you could try it, debug and patch the kernel, It's not easy to do. Johan.