converting digital camera movies to ogg format
Now that firefox (v3.5) has built in support for ogg videos, ogg is now the most convenient format for “easy to view” video files (assuming… Read More »converting digital camera movies to ogg format
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Best practices for building Gtk+ applications with OpenEmbedded
I recently wrote an article about best practices building Qt applications with OpenEmbedded, and it occured to me that I should write an equivalent article… Read More »Best practices for building Gtk+ applications with OpenEmbedded
Best practices for building Qt applications with OpenEmbedded
This article describes how to cross compile a Qt application (named qt_tutorial) with OpenEmbedded, and several best practices you should consider. OpenEmbedded currently includes fairly… Read More »Best practices for building Qt applications with OpenEmbedded
Gumstix Overo Pinout Spreadsheet updated
The Gumstix Overo Pinout Spreadsheet has been updated with the Palo board connector pinouts, and a few mistakes have been fixed.
How to capture source changes to an OpenEmbedded package
One task that is a often confusing to new OpenEmbedded users is how to capture changes to the source code for a package/recipe. First, lets… Read More »How to capture source changes to an OpenEmbedded package
Embedded Linux versus Windows CE
Occasionally I am asked how Embedded Linux compares with Windows CE. I have spent the past 5 years doing mostly embedded Linux development, and the… Read More »Embedded Linux versus Windows CE
Dealing with large data structures efficiently in embedded systems
I’m currently dealing with a programming problem where I need access to several 64MB, file-backed data structures concurrently on an Embedded Linux system that only… Read More »Dealing with large data structures efficiently in embedded systems
MontaVista Linux 6 is based on OpenEmbedded Technologies
Very interesting news from MontaVista yesterday as they announced MontaVista Linux 6. It turns out they are using bitbake, which is the core of the… Read More »MontaVista Linux 6 is based on OpenEmbedded Technologies
How to set up a NFS root filesystem for embedded Linux development
Although ssh and friends work really well for embedded systems, occasionally you want to set up a NFS root for development. One of the scenarios… Read More »How to set up a NFS root filesystem for embedded Linux development
Compulab cm-x270 kernel updated to 2.6.29 in OE
The cm-x270 kernel support in OpenEmbedded has just been updated to version 2.6.29.