Bradford Embedded

If you are building a non-consumer commercial system that uses embedded Linux, you will probably be interested in long term support.

When I wrote my blog entry last week about the Raspberry Pi project, I was being negative.

I was incorrect in some of the statements I made before when discussing the TI AM170x booting.

Trying to buy SD cards sucks.

Although I haven't spent much time working on the TuxedoBoard in the past few months (newborn daughter in July), I've been thinking about it again recently as my sleep schedule is starting to normalize a bit.

I'm torn about the Raspberry Pi project.

Somewhat ironically, if you search Google for: Stanford database class, my blog is showing up (at least some of the time, even when searching when I'm using a different browser and not logged into Google services) in 5th spot, ahead of the actual db-class…

This morning, I found this article from the Harvard Business Review blog that's mostly about job hunting but also a few other things.

The Stanford online database course's enrollment has opened and I've got my course notes blog started!

Meg Whitman is the new CEO of HP.

Stanford is running a free online databases course this fall.

I found a nice series of lectures given at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur by Prof.

Yesterday, I wrote a little about reconfigurable FPGAs attached to the PCI-Express bus as an addition to the general purpose computer.

General purpose computers are great at doing a huge variety of things because they are programmable via software.

Function pointers are pretty cool.

At my day job, I work a reasonable amount of time with cryptographic and authentication systems.

Watch Conan O'Brien give the commencement address to the Dartmouth class of 2011.

At work, I started using a ghetto standing desk with my lab PC about a month ago.

Quick instructions on how to install HP's webOS SDK (software development kit) on Debian 6 Squeeze x86_64.

My expectations were high for the Freescale i.MX53 lab session that was held this morning.

I've chosen an ARM SoC (system on chip) for the TuxedoBoard!

I've been wandering around the Definition of Free Cultural Works open source hardware Statement of Principles and doing a little thinking.

After some discussion with Brian and lots of reading, I've learned quite a bit more about BGAs and ball pitch.

I don't yet know which ARM SoC (system on a chip) I'm going to use for the TuxedoBoard.

In order to have a name that I can refer to my planned open source hardware embedded Linux board with, I've chosen TuxedoBoard.

I'm that much closer to designing a completely open source embedded computer!

At the LFCS (Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit) recently, some of the discussion was about system on chip (SoC) vendors including IP blocks (basically special circuitry to interface to the world in a specific way, like for outputting 3D graphics) in t…

Yesterday, I received an email from a Freescale representative saying that they would be holding a free day-long "lab" session in Rochester (where I live) next month about the i.MX53 Quick Start Development Board.

I'm working on adding a patch to the CLFS embedded book this morning to enable soft floating point support in libgcc for ARM when used with uClibc.

I've gotten an Embedded CLFS system running on my BeagleBoard-xM!

In this week's BeagleCast, my blog post about getting a kernel running on my BeagleBoard-xM with CLFS got a mention.

I've been working on the CLFS embedded book for a few months now.

I've recently switched to using Chromium.

Ted Dziuba inspired me to try installing multiple concurrent Linux distributions inside of an existing distribution.

The other day, I was reading Joel Spolsky's blog post about product compliments.

I was thinking about my ARM + FPGA computer idea some more.

I upgraded to Debian 6 Squeeze last weekend on my desktop.

If you follow the CLFS embedded book for ARM, you'll see that your ABI choice isn't used until compiling packages (ie: after you've built a cross-GCC).

When building a GCC cross compiler, you're going to run into GCC's configure options named --without-headers and --with-newlib.

I was maintaining a Git repository that mirrored the embedded CLFS book's master and my own changes on github but I've now got my own repo on the actual CLFS server.

I've compiled a list of all the major BeagleBoard-xM parts and links to the part product pages (and to the part datasheets) in a Google spreadsheet.

Some things I'd like to do next: Compile a spreadsheet of all the major parts on the BeagleBoard-xM with links to the part product page and datasheet.

What if there was a low cost, small, power efficient ARM processor based computer with a reasonable FPGA attached to it?

I'm attempting to compile all of the datasheets for the parts used on the BeagleBoard-xM, but Micron is being unhelpful.

My BeagleBoard-xM lives!

I got two ARM devices for Christmas!

I've been having conversations with various different people over the past few months about the state of America: our education system, economy, corporations, tax law, and politics.

A month ago, I wrote a post saying I want to be clear about the work I want to do and that I'd follow up every month or so.

Gawker got hacked over the weekend and had all their users' data stolen, including encrypted passwords.

I like playing with computers.