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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...

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...

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...

Remote X11 on OS X

I thought I'd blog this just in case someone else is having problems using XQuartz on OS X as a server to remote X11 applications (i.e....

Solving buildhistory slowness

The buildhistory class in oe-core is incredibly useful for analysing the changes in packages and images over time, but when doing...

Using netconsole in the Yocto Project

Debugging problems which mean init goes crazy is tricky, especially so on modern Intel hardware that doesn't have anything resembling a...

Mutually Exclusive PulseAudio streams

The question of mutually exclusive streams in PulseAudio came to mind earlier, and thanks to Arun and Jens in #gupnp I discovered the...

Yocto Project Build Times

Last month our friends at Codethink were guests on FLOSS Weekly, talking about Baserock. Baserock is a new embedded build system with...


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