Hi everyone,
I'm conducting a bit of a survey. I am holding a "Birds-of-a-Feather"
session at ELC Europe in a few weeks on the topic of embedded
Linux tips and tricks. For that session, I'd like to collect
ideas from people about tips or tricks that you use in your own
embedded Linux development
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 09:35:26AM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> Also, I use 'git format-patch' quite a bit when I'm converting
> from git commits to a quilt series. I know people use this
> for submitting patches to mainline, but I use it a bit differently
> (I think) when I'm making a quilt patch se
On 10/23/2012 10:35 AM, Tim Bird wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm conducting a bit of a survey. I am holding a "Birds-of-a-Feather"
session at ELC Europe in a few weeks on the topic of embedded
Linux tips and tricks. For that session, I'd like to collect
ideas from people about tips or tricks that you
On 10/23/2012 11:04 AM, Todd Fischer wrote:
> I use a tool, finds, I got from someone about 15 years ago. It simply
> does a recursive look for a string in all files of interest in a
> directory tree. When I get a big tarball of code that I don't intend to
> build, but want to grab some logic, I
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:20:41 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 11:04 AM, Todd Fischer wrote:
> > I use a tool, finds, I got from someone about 15 years ago. It
> > simply does a recursive look for a string in all files of interest
> > in a directory tree. When I get a big tarball of code th
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:35:26 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> 1. git commands:
> Do you have any 'git' commands that you use, that
> you think are not commonly known or used?
>
> My own is 'git describe', which I used quite a bit when
> preparing my 'status of embedded Linux' talks.
>
> Also, I use 'gi
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
wrote:
>> > find . -exec fgrep -H "$1" {} \;
>> >
>> > but with lots and lots of other qualifiers. You can see a usable
>> > version at
>> >
>> > https://www.ridgerun.com/developer/wiki/index.php/Tip_of_the_day#finds_-_find_a_string_in_common_text
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
wrote:
>> Also, I use 'git format-patch' quite a bit when I'm converting
>> from git commits to a quilt series. I know people use this
>> for submitting patches to mainline, but I use it a bit differently
>> (I think) when I'm making a quilt patc
On 09:35 Tue 23 Oct , Tim Bird wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm conducting a bit of a survey. I am holding a "Birds-of-a-Feather"
> session at ELC Europe in a few weeks on the topic of embedded
> Linux tips and tricks. For that session, I'd like to collect
> ideas from people about tips or tric
Hi Todd,
Am 23.10.2012 20:04, schrieb Todd Fischer:
> A recurring problem I had was finding the right /dev/ttyUSB? device. I have
> a nice USB to 4 serial port adaptor in a metal box I have screwed to my
> bench. I also use several USB serial dongles. For reasons I don't
> understand, they
On 10/23/2012 11:42 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
> wrote:
find . -exec fgrep -H "$1" {} \;
but with lots and lots of other qualifiers. You can see a usable
version at
https://www.ridgerun.com/developer/wiki/index.p
On 10/23/2012 11:43 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
> wrote:
>>> Also, I use 'git format-patch' quite a bit when I'm converting
>>> from git commits to a quilt series. I know people use this
>>> for submitting patches to mainline, but I use it a
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:55:11 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> > Agreed. Once you start using "git rebase -i", you start wondering
> > how you ever could have lived with quilt.
>
> It must just be me. I've tried "git rebase -i" a few times, and I
> always manage to completely mess up my patches. If I h
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Tim Bird wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 11:43 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
>> wrote:
Also, I use 'git format-patch' quite a bit when I'm converting
from git commits to a quilt series. I know people use this
On 10/23/2012 11:40 AM, Frieder Ferlemann wrote:
> Hi Todd,
>
> Am 23.10.2012 20:04, schrieb Todd Fischer:
>
>> A recurring problem I had was finding the right /dev/ttyUSB? device. I have
>> a nice USB to 4 serial port adaptor in a metal box I have screwed to my
>> bench. I also use several U
On 10/23/2012 11:33 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> git rebase -i
that's another vote: :-)
> also tig
I've never even heard of 'tig', and lo, after
"sudo apt-get install tig", I've got what looks to
be a very handy text-mode browser for git!
Thanks! I'll definitely play around wi
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 09:09:04PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > It must just be me. I've tried "git rebase -i" a few times, and I
> > always manage to completely mess up my patches. If I hadn't done a
> > git stash, I would have been dead. I probably just need to muscle my
> > way through
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:48:57PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> > I use also pxe
>
> Yeah. I mostly use tftpboot with dhcpd dishing out a custom
> kernel (and rootfs dir) for each board based on MAC address.
> (using the bootp protocol? I can't remember which part of the
> exchange is dhcp and which
On 10/23/2012 01:01 PM, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:48:57PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
>>> I use also pxe
>>
>> Yeah. I mostly use tftpboot with dhcpd dishing out a custom
>> kernel (and rootfs dir) for each board based on MAC address.
>> (using the bootp protocol? I can't rem
Hi Tim,
Am 23.10.2012 20:20, schrieb Tim Bird:> On 10/23/2012 11:04 AM, Todd Fischer
wrote:
>>
>> /dev/ttyUSB4: 9705: picocom -b 115200 -r -l /dev/ttyUSB4
>>
>
> Just out of curiosity - why picocom?
>
> I've never heard of it. Is it just tradition or do you have a reason
> to use it over minicom
Hi Tim,
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Tim Bird wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 11:42 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
>> wrote:
> find . -exec fgrep -H "$1" {} \;
>
> but with lots and lots of other qualifiers. You can see a usable
> v
Hey everyone!
Just wanted to send out a remote participation invite to our upcoming
Linaro Connect (or in-person participation if you can manage it). All
of these sessions will support remote participation via IRC and Google
Hangouts, so you can be part of the action, even if you're not in
Copenha
> 3. development practices:
> Do you have a way that you debug or develop Linux software, that
> may be different from others. For example, I'm a bit of a
> debugging medievalist. I still do probably 70% of my kernel debugging
> with printks.
Problem: When tracing user mode application together
Trace function entry and return with caller function name and
visualize nested function calls in single shoot:
#define _trace_enter_exit_() char _caller[200];
lookup_symbol_name((unsigned
long)__builtin_return_address(0),_caller); \
char __attribute__ ((cleanup(printk))) _ret_msg[100];
spr
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Todd Fischer wrote:
> I use a tool, finds, I got from someone about 15 years ago. It simply does
> a recursive look for a string in all files of interest in a directory tree.
> When I get a big tarball of code that I don't intend to build, but want to
> grab some
Hi Tim,
On 24/10/12 02:35, Tim Bird wrote:
I'm conducting a bit of a survey. I am holding a "Birds-of-a-Feather"
session at ELC Europe in a few weeks on the topic of embedded
Linux tips and tricks. For that session, I'd like to collect
ideas from people about tips or tricks that you use in you
On 12:48 Tue 23 Oct , Tim Bird wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 11:33 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > git rebase -i
>
> that's another vote: :-)
>
> > also tig
>
> I've never even heard of 'tig', and lo, after
> "sudo apt-get install tig", I've got what looks to
> be a very handy text-
On 12:48 Tue 23 Oct , Tim Bird wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 11:33 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > git rebase -i
>
> that's another vote: :-)
>
> > also tig
>
> I've never even heard of 'tig', and lo, after
> "sudo apt-get install tig", I've got what looks to
> be a very handy text-
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:37:50 +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> There are so many :-)
> Its difficult to follow too many at any given time. But I often go
> looking through mailing list archives in areas of the kernel I am
> working on. You can quickly get a feel for how active the area is,
> what peop
> "Robert" == Robert Schwebel writes:
Hi,
Robert> Another nice thing if you work with (recent) ptxdist and with
Robert> barebox: Barebox is not only able to load a kernel via tftp,
Robert> but also via NFS. And ptxdist builds a userspace nfs
Robert> server. So you can remote boot your t
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