Tag: kernel
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Seven steps to grow your embedded Linux skills
A variant of this article also exists as a conference presentation. Do you already have a job in embedded Linux but wish to be given more challenging goals? Or are you in IT, already using Linux on your own laptop, and dreaming about landing an embedded Linux job, possibly starting as your own boss? Follow…
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Virtual Packages in Yocto Project / OpenEmbedded
Understanding Virtual Packages in Yocto Project / OpenEmbedded If you are using Yocto, this post will help you learn about Virtual Packages: how they work, why they are useful, and how to create them step by step. We assume you are already familiar with: What is a Virtual Package? Imagine you have multiple implementations of…
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Build and run the mainline Linux kernel on your PC
Last week, I gave a “How to test a specific version of Linux on PC hardware” talk at the Alposs conference in Echirolles near Grenoble, France. This was a very nice technical conference, with 330 participants (+110 compared to last year), organized in the city hall of Echirolles near Grenoble and by Belledonne Communications (the…
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Booting the Raspberry Pi 5 with the Mainline Linux Kernel
If you have other boards, read on, these instructions support multiple other Raspberry Pi boards. Hardware In this tutorial, we assume you have the Raspberry Pi Debug Probe to access the board’s serial port. You could use the GPIO UARTs too, but they are neither enabled by default at the bootloader level nor as a…