Here is a late post on Linux 3.17 which was pushed out a few weeks ago. I planned to post a short status of my contributions, as usual, but then I was busy making preparations to go to LinuxCon and ELC Europe -- more on that later.
Anyway, this one …
I'm a happy hacker right now. Just received a MIPS Creator CI20 board in the mailbox a couple of days ago, thanks to Imagination Technologies.
Attention to detail: notice the many power plug adaptors for various countries.
This is a small sized development board powered by an Ingenic JZ4780 SoC …
A new kernel release, and with it comes another patch of mine.
A single patch this time, but this one has been in the works for a while now. It's about providing documentation for the MUSB driver I wrote for the Ingenic JZ4740 SoC which was included into Linux kernel …
The main part of the GNOME Users And Developers European Conference (GUADEC) -- which took place in Strasbourg, France, this year, actually just ended.
GUADEC consists of two parts. The core days are when talks, keynote presentations as well as the GNOME Foundation Annual General Meeting happen. The "Birds of a …
The serial line soldered to my Ben NanoNote for debugging purpose started to behave erratically. I was getting frequent disconnects while in minicom or gdb. It happened before, but last week it got out of hand and I couldn't get anything done by moving the wires a bit like I …
Last edit on 2014-04-09: added details on the whatabouts.
Linus Torvalds released version 3.14 of the Linux kernel last week.
Anything special this time around ? Well, first and foremost, I managed to get a few patches inside \o/ (<-- hacker joy).
Being part of the Qi-Hardware community, I worked on …
FOSDEM 2014 took place a month ago in Brussels, Belgium, and the event was once again a success, with over 5000 visitors attending during the weekend. This year I was lucky enough to help the OpenEmbedded guys holding a booth during the event.
I started contributing to OpenEmbedded while playing …
I recently bought a GCW-Zero to play with in my spare time.
My interest being in hardware related issues, I will be needing a serial console output to debug low level code. It turns out this hardware feature is missing on the GCW-Zero out of the box, as it's often …