The Socketcan test applications and utilities are now available in OpenEmbedded. The socketcan kernel modules already exist in OE. To build and deploy: get the… Read More »Socketcan utils and test apps added to OpenEmbedded
I just added a recipe to OpenEmbedded to build the Socketcan kernel modules from the socketcan SVN. So if you are using the latest OpenEmbedded… Read More »Socketcan CAN-bus drivers added to OpenEmbedded
As we look at new projects, both the Intel Atom and the TI OMAP3 processors generate considerable interest. As we have already shown, the OMAP3… Read More »Intel Atom vs TI OMAP3
Several of my customers have built applications using the GTK+ tookit. While GTK+ works fairly well for what we have done, I have been wondering… Read More »GTK performance on PXA270 vs. OMAP3
During system verification for a customer, we noticed occasional failures when writing to a SD card using the Marvell PXA270 MMC/SD controller. The failure is… Read More »Fix for PXA270 MMC/SD Controller Write Corruption
UPDATE: 2009-03-17 — It appears that hard drive issues I encountered are likely due to the HW RAID formatting on the drive I tried. I… Read More »Installing Ubuntu on a Core i7 DX58SO motherboard
After using Joomla for several years, I’m switching my web site to wordpress. As I mostly use my site for writing technical articles, it makes… Read More »Switching to WordPress
With Linux, some of the things that seem like they should be easy are not — at least at first glance. For example, how do… Read More »How to implement an interrupt driven GPIO input in Linux
Recently I’ve been following the Vala programming language and using it some in embedded systems. Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring… Read More »Using the Vala Programming Language in Embedded Systems
I recently added Mono 2.2 RC1 to OpenEmbedded. The last usable version of Mono in Openembedded was 1.2.6, so this is a big step up. … Read More »Mono 2.2 RC1 added to Openembedded