Overview
In 2007, the AUV operations group set forward to port the AUV control software from QNX to Linux. There were 2 ARM boards available that run Debian linux for development. The transition to ARM was delayed.
The AUV-Linux port was completed with a sea trial by the end of 2008 running Debian 4.0 on the Geode x86 platform.
To help the transition to Support Engineering, Tom O'Reilly has created AUV-Linux tutorial.ppt in addition to the porting guide and programming guide in the CVS repository.
Notes
Here's a list of Missing Headers
Brent Roman has suggested that we use the same ARM-9 hardware as ESP for the AUV port. He has a Linux port that's designed to run headless, auto-connects to the network, boots fast, runs in 4 MB. (i.e. Talk to Brent Roman)
IPC
Tom O'Reilly has implemented the IPC using CORBA (OmniORB). Other fall-back options considered were shared memory and D-Bus
