First, let me say that the fire is long gone and we were never evacuated. It was stressful waiting around for them to decide if we needed to go or not, but in the end the fire moved away from us and not closer to us. Now we have everything […]
Linux
If you’re playing with the idea of getting into embedded Linux, you might start with the most basic question: what does embedded Linux mean? In the not so distant past that was a little easier to define. An embedded board was typically physically smaller or at least used a very […]
What makes it embedded Linux?
I’ve finally got a build for PiBox that supports a proper XBMC build. The latter took some finagling to force a cross compile that didn’t pick up any bits and pieces from the build system. So it’s all checked in and the builds placed on the SD card and it’s […]
PiBox / BeagleBox update: lost keyboard access?
Once again, a new year means new toys. This holiday season, my wife got me an Acer C7 Chromebook, a pair of PowerLine ethernet adapters and a new printer. We also got new phones. On the non-techy side, she got me some classic Big Little books. The techy stuff has […]
A new beginning
2 It took some work, but I finally have SGX fully integrated into the build and have BeagleBox booting into an X session that can run opengl apps. I ran the SGX demos and they all seem to run fine. A couple showed frame rates betweeen 45 and 52 frames per […]
BeagleBox: SGX fully integrated
So I've integrated TI's SGX package into the BeagleBox build. What this does is to run the SGX package's Makefile-based build which in turn installs a bunch of stuff from the archive into another directory. This directory will then contain a bunch of files which need to be installed again, […]
BeagleBox: SGX “install” script sucks
My media server died this past week. Actually, just the hard drive. It was running Fedora 14 and needed to be updated anyway. This server hooks into my Sony Bravia TV via HDMI using an nVidia GeForce 9800GT. After installing Fedora 16 to a new drive, I loaded kmod-nvidia and […]
Media servers: Flash, Hulu, Amazon, ARM and Fedora 16
So I've upgraded three machines to F16 (from F14) so far, two at work and a laptop at home. The latter I spent a lot of time tweaking to work as much like my old GNOME 2 setup. XFce comes close but there are some tweaks an I have a […]
F16 an XFce: minor bits migrating from GNOME 2
I ran into an interesting problem today. I have a C application with functions calling writev() to send data across the network. The messages being sent range from very small – a few bytes – to over 1MB. These functions have worked great up to this point. Today I integrated […]
writev() vs send() when using signals
5 The man page for timer_create() (used in applications, not in kernel code) gives a useful example of how to create and start high resolution timers. However, it fails to mention that if you use multiple timers with a single signal then you need have a single signal handler that can […]
Working with timer_create() to use multiple timers using a single ...
I'm installing on an Asus A53S at work using Fedora 14. I won't use Fedora 15 until they clean up the GNOME 3 fiasco (I want my old workflow, not something cool just to be cool). The installation fails when it tries to launch X. If you don't want a […]
Quick note: Installing Fedora on an Asus Intel i5 w/ ...
This past weekend I completed verification that the build works on Ubuntu (see below). In this process I also cleaned up the component builds a bit, added documentation and verified that a build from scratch (no local archives) works correctly. And it does. The resulting packages provide a booting system […]