Yocto Project Build Times
Last month our friends at Codethink were guests on FLOSS Weekly, talking about Baserock. Baserock is a new embedded build system with some interesting features/quirks (depending on your point of view)...
View ArticleMutually Exclusive PulseAudio streams
The question of mutually exclusive streams in PulseAudio came to mind earlier, and thanks to Arun and Jens in #gupnp I discovered the PulseAudio supports them already. The use-case here is a system...
View ArticleUsing netconsole in the Yocto Project
Debugging problems which mean init goes crazy is tricky, especially so on modern Intel hardware that doesn’t have anything resembling a serial port you can connect to. Luckily this isn’t a new problem,...
View ArticleSolving buildhistory slowness
The buildhistory class in oe-core is incredibly useful for analysing the changes in packages and images over time, but when doing frequently builds all of this metadata builds up and the resulting git...
View ArticleNetwork Oddity
This is… strange. Two machines, connected through cat5 and gigabit adaptors/hub. $ iperf -c melchett.local -d ------------------------------------------------------------ Server listening on TCP port...
View ArticleRemote X11 on OS X
I thought I’d blog this just in case someone else is having problems using XQuartz on OS X as a server to remote X11 applications (i.e. using ssh -X somehost). At first this works but after some time...
View ArticleBetter bash completion?
Bash completion is great and everything, but I spend more time than is advisable dealing with numerous timestamped files. $ mv core-image-sato-qemux86-64-20140204[tab]...
View ArticleMisc for Sale
As we’re moving house we are having a bit of a clear out, and have some techie gadgets that someone else might want: Netgear DGN3500 ADSL/WiFi router. £15. Bluetooth GPS dongle. £5. Seagate Momentus...
View ArticleReproducible builds and GPL compliance
LWN has a good article on GPL compliance (if you’re not a subscriber you’ll have to wait) that has an interesting quote: Developers, and embedded developers in particular, can help stop these...
View ArticleUEFI Validation
The Linux UEFI Validation Project was announced recently: Bringing together multiple separate upstream test suites into a cohesive and easy-to-use product with a unified reporting framework, LUV...
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Cycling Dad Nirvana Approaches
Last week Alex wanted to go for a bike ride so we had a play on the local pump track and some of the cheeky trails hidden away nearby. This was his first ride off the pavements so I was cautious but...
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