Posted by Cliff Brake on 2010-06-17 | 
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When using git submodules, eventually you’ll run into a situation where a workspace has checked out a submodule as (no branch), and you unknownly make modifications and commits to (no branch). Now what? It turns out Git has a very useful feature named reflog. Reflog keeps a local time based log of all activity. That [...]
Posted by Cliff Brake on 2010-06-14 | Be the First to Comment
This article and screen-cast is a continuation of that last couple posts describing the BEC OE build template. The purpose again for a build system is to automate tedious manual tasks, and in doing so, we end up documenting how the build system works. Having a good build system is important during product development so [...]
Posted by Cliff Brake on 2010-06-08 | Be the First to Comment
In this article screencast, we’ll demonstrate how to create a custom Linux OS image using the OpenEmbedded build system. This demonstration builds on the earlier article about using the BEC OE build template. The OpenEmbedded build system is similar to Linux distributions in that you can select from a wide array of components to install. [...]
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A password protected version of this article accidently got pushed into the feed before it was finished, so this post is simply to indicate the following article is now available. Sorry for the confusion. http://bec-systems.com/site/637/oe-build-template
Posted by Cliff Brake on 2010-06-05 | 3 Comments to Read
Setting up an OpenEmbedded build is a fairly simple process if you carefully follow the instructions. There are also a number of scripts available that automate the setup such as the OpenEmbedded Tools for Eclipse, the Angstrom setup scripts, the KaeilOS Openembedded Manager, and I’m sure there are many more (feel free to add in [...]
Posted by Cliff Brake on 2010-06-02 | Be the First to Comment
As we evaluate various technologies that might be applicable in embedded systems, MeeGo is the subject of this article. MeeGo is a collaboration between Intel and Nokia, and is replacing the Moblin and Maemo efforts. For this review, MeeGo was installed to a USB flash disk and booted on a Asus EEPC. This was quite [...]