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Snowball, a new community Linux development platform

The success of the BeagleBoard platform, a low-cost development platform, that has greatly contributed to the success of Texas Instruments OMAP3 processor in the embedded Linux industry, seems to have inspired another processor manufacturer: ST Ericsson. They have recently unveiled Snowball, a low-cost development platform for their AP9500 processor, which features a dual Cortex A-9 … Continue reading “Snowball, a new community Linux development platform”

Buildroot 2011.02 released, with many interesting updates and commercial support!

As usual, the latest Buildroot version has been released just in time on the last day of the month: Buildroot 2011.02 is available for download! This release of the increasingly popular embedded Linux build system provides new interesting features and updates: Support of external toolchains has been improved with support for toolchain profiles. Those are … Continue reading “Buildroot 2011.02 released, with many interesting updates and commercial support!”

Videos from FOSDEM 2010

Like every year, the Free and Open Source Developer European Meeting took place early February in Brussels, and Thomas Petazzoni, from Bootlin, attended and recorded a few talks from the embedded session. However, contrary to previous years, I haven’t been able to record all talks from the embedded session, since I attended talks from other … Continue reading “Videos from FOSDEM 2010”

Ubuntu 10.04 on the IGEPv2 board

Installing Ubuntu 10.04 on the IGEPv2 board. Using the board as a small server. Last year, folks at Texas Instruments told me about the IGEP v2 board. This board is similar to the Beagle board, but also features 512 MB of RAM and NAND flash (instead of 256 for the Beagle), on board Ethernet (RJ45), … Continue reading “Ubuntu 10.04 on the IGEPv2 board”

ELC 2010 program announced

The program of talks and BOFs of the 2010 edition of the Embedded Linux Conference has been published a few days ago, an opportunity to look at the most important and interesting conference for embedded Linux developers. For the record, ELC 2010 will take place from April, 12th to April, 14th in San Francisco, CA, … Continue reading “ELC 2010 program announced”

Linux 2.6.33 features for embedded systems

Interesting features for embedded Linux system developers Linux 2.6.33 was out on Feb. 24, 2010, and to incite you to try this new kernel in your embedded Linux products, here are features you could be interested in. The first news is the availability of the LZO algorithm for kernel and initramfs compression. Linux 2.6.30 already … Continue reading “Linux 2.6.33 features for embedded systems”

Embedded Linux practical labs with the Beagle Board

Note: the materials for training with the Beagle Board are no longer available, and would be significantly out of date anyway. We advise you to check our Embedded Linux System Development and Linux Kernel and Driver Development training courses for up-to-date instructions that work on cheaper boards, which are still available on the market today. … Continue reading “Embedded Linux practical labs with the Beagle Board”

Building Android on Beagle

Note: these instructions are now out of date and refer to URLs which no longer exist. See the elinux.org wiki for more recent instructions. These instructions are derived from Embinux.org’s Android Porting Guide to Beagle Board (the corresponding web page no longer exists), based on their work to port Android on the Beagle board. They … Continue reading “Building Android on Beagle”

FOSDEM 2009 videos

As previously announced, I had the chance to attend the FOSDEM conference again this year. And once again, the famous Bootlin video camera was with me, and I could record a few talks. I’m pleased to make them available today. Here are the available videos, with my personal comments. Of course, except the talk about … Continue reading “FOSDEM 2009 videos”

Agenda of FOSDEM embedded devroom announced

The FOSDEM is now scheduled in less than two weeks in Brussels. The agenda of the developers room dedicated to embedded topics has been published recently. A nice set of interesting talks will take place : OpenWrt: UCI and beyond Wt, a C++ web toolkit, for rich web interfaces to embedded systems Dynamic voltage and … Continue reading “Agenda of FOSDEM embedded devroom announced”