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🪑 The missing leg of reliability
After a conversation with Tim Bird about Space-Grade Linux, an idea about reliability emerged. The obvious legs of reliable systems are design and testing. What is less obvious is the third leg: active users. Use, coupled with the ability t…
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🔵 The Big Blue Button
In the past days, we’ve been focusing on the Big Green Button, but there is another side of this - what happens after the release? Does the release get used? If not, why not? If a release does not get used, there is little point in releasin…
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🤝 Modern product development is a collaborative endeavor
There is no way around this – even if you are a Company of One. You must collaborate with: ▶ OSS communities who provide the tools and software you use, ▶ Your customers – if you are not learning from them, you probably won’t understand and…
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🚀 Advanced technology and small players
Integrated circuits (IC) vary widely in complexity from the small devices that are easily documented and understood to complex beasts that would require a stack of books and years to fully document. If you are a high-volume manufacturer of …
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🐙 Github and why does it matter?
For the last two days, we have been discussing aspects of several high-quality Yocto BSPs. Another characteristic of these three BSPs is that they are all hosted on Github. Yes, there are many other platforms you can host Git repositories o…
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🔁 Tracking upstream and why does it matter?
Yesterday, we discussed three Yocto BSP layers that are exceptional: meta-tegra (69 contributors) meta-freescale (174 contributors) meta-raspberrypi (157 contributors) The above three layers make an effort to keep up with upstream develop…
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🔧 What makes a good Yocto BSP?
As we evaluate technology to use in our platforms, Yocto Embedded Linux BSPs often come into the mix. Recently we talked with Matt Madison, who maintains the meta-tegra BSP layer, which provides Yocto support for Nvidia’s embedded processor…