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Building a big-endian Arm system in Yocto

For reasons I won't bore anyone with I needed to build a 32-bit big-endian system with the Yocto Project to test a package, and I...

PySnooper and BitBake

Yesterday I discovered PySnooper, which describes itself as "a poor man's debugger": Your story: You're trying to figure out why your...

Faster image transfer across the network with zsync

Those of us involved in building operating system images using tools such as OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project or Buildroot don't always have a...

Rewriting Git Commit Messages

So this week I started submitting a seventy-odd commits long branch where every commit was machine generated (but hand reviewed) with...

Identifying concurrent tasks in Bitbake logs

One fun problem in massively parallel OpenEmbedded builds is when tasks have bad dependencies or just bugs and you can end up with...

Dynamic source checksums in OpenEmbedded

Today we were cleaning up some old bugs in the Yocto Project bugzilla and came across a bug which was asking for the ability to specify...

So long Wordpress, thanks for all the exploits

I've been meaning to move my incredibly occasional blog away from Wordpress for a long time, considering that I rarely use my blog and...

Cycling Dad Nirvana Approaches

Last week Alex wanted to go for a bike ride so we had a play on the local pump track and some of the cheeky trails hidden away nearby....

UEFI Validation

The Linux UEFI Validation Project was announced recently: Bringing together multiple separate upstream test suites into a cohesive and...

Reproducible builds and GPL compliance

LWN has a good article on GPL compliance (if you're not a subscriber you'll have to wait) that has an interesting quote: Developers, and...


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