Posted by Cliff Brake on 2011-03-31 | 
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Recently I tested support for the Verizon UML290 and Sprint U600 USB Cellular modems in an embedded Linux system. Both modems support 3G and 4G networks, but only the 3G modes were tested due to lack of 4G coverage at the testing location. Fortunately, both modems function very similar to previous modems, so with the [...]
Posted by Cliff Brake on 2011-03-29 | Be the First to Comment
This is part of an ongoing series of articles on the Git version control system. The “many repository” paradigm has been partly driven by the distributed development paradigm. Git solves the problem of multiple developers working in multiple repositories very well. Because we want to use and customize projects like the Linux kernel, U-boot, and [...]
Posted by Cliff Brake on 2011-03-19 | Be the First to Comment
As we help customers design products, we often try to leverage the latest cell phone practices and technologies. One of these is USB charging. There has been a push in recent years to standardize on USB chargers for cell-phones. There are a number of organizations involved including the USB-IF and OMTP. Two of the specification [...]
Posted by Cliff Brake on 2011-03-17 | Read the First Comment
This is part of an ongoing series of articles on the Git version control system. This article discusses the trend in software configuration management toward multiple repositories, rather than one large repository. In the past when many companies used Subversion or comparable systems, there was typically one huge company repository (I’ve seen them in the [...]
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This screencast (use Firefox to view the screencast) provides an overview of the Git version control system. There are 3 features of Git that are especially interesting: many repositories (vs. one large repository) distributed development cheap branches The fundamental driver for better tools is increasing system complexity. More and more we are required to manage [...]