Posts under ‘Linaro’

So that I can find it next time I need it, here’s what you need to do to checkout and build the Ubuntu kernel for a PandaBoard: First up, clone it using git: git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-natty.git You can see the current list of kernels on the getweb page. Branch the remote ti-omap4 branch and check [...]

matplotlib is a great mathematics and plotting package for Python. I’m using it to report on some benchmarking numbers but needed a way to automatically trim the extra whitespace before putting onto a web page. Here’s the ImageMagick command I ended up using: convert input.png -bordercolor white -border 1×1 -trim +repage -alpha off +dither -colors [...]

Sorry for the commercial post, but Genesi have been a good friend to Linaro and Emdebian. If you’re looking for a small ARM-based machine, have a look at the Efika MX series from Genesi as they’ve just come down in price. The Smarttop is $129 US while the Smartbook is down to a much more [...]

The Fedora ARM project have released beta 1 of Fedora 13 for ARM. Chris Tyler has instructions for trying it out under Fedora, so I thought I’d give it a quick go with Ubuntu and qemu-linaro. Here’s the steps: Download, build, and install qemu-linaro. I used the 2011.02-0 release. See Chris’s page for the Fedora [...]

chdist is a nice tool that makes working with different releases much easier. You can use it to poke into and download packages from different releases without setting up a chroot for each one. I use from my Maverick host to grab the source packages from Natty when trying to track down a bug. For [...]

I’d like to say thanks to the people at Genesi. I was a lucky recipient of one of the many EFIKA MX Smartbooks they gave away at the Linaro November LDS. It’s a nice little ARM-based smartbook with a 10″ screen, decent processing power, decent storage, and a quite good keyboard. My day-to-day machine is [...]

My office was getting a bit messy so I re-purposed an old PC case and mounted my ARM boards, a switch, and far too many power supplies into it: It turns out that my Pandaboards and KwikByte Beagleboard clones fit well into a 5 1/4″ floppy drive adapter while keeping the Ethernet and power out [...]

Linaro is an open organisation, and as part of that I’ve been recording our meetings so that people can catch up with them later. Here’s what I use: Skype, to call into the meeting rec-applet, to record the audio from Skype off into an ogg file Audacity, to trim, normalise, and noise reduce the file [...]

Ran across this: The (L)ittle (K)ernel Android bootloader u-boot has always seemed a bit big to me and not so appropriate for a final product. The lk bootloader is a thin, Snapdragon focused bootloader that gives you the basic initial startup, splash screen, kernel loading, and handoff. It looks like there’s basic Beagleboard and ATSAM7 [...]