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Starting Linux directly from AT91bootstrap3 15 Jul 2013 | 01:25 pm
Here is an update for our previous article on booting linux directly from AT91bootstrap. On newer ATMEL platforms, you will have to use AT91bootstrap 3. It now has a convenient way to be configured to...
Free Electrons contributions to the 3.10 kernel 2 Jul 2013 | 04:47 pm
The 3.10 Linux kernel has been released a few days ago. According to LWN, with almost 13.500 non-merge commits, the 3.10 has been the busiest ever, and also the fastest. Free Electrons engineers again...
pdf-link-checker – find broken hyperlinks in PDF documents 30 Jun 2013 | 01:36 am
Tired of seeing your documents out of date? Don’t want to manually review them? pdf-link-checker is a simple tool that parses a PDF document and checks for broken hyperlinks. It does this by sending ...
Workshop on the Altera SoC FPGA platform 29 Jun 2013 | 09:39 am
On June 25, 2013, Altera and some partner companies where organizing a workshop in Toulouse (where some of the Free Electrons offices are located) about the Altera SoC FPGA platform. For $99, I partic...
GSoC: Buildroot gaining improved ARM multimedia support 21 Jun 2013 | 09:39 am
The Buildroot project is participating for the first time to the famous Google Summer of Code. This program, operated by Google, allows open-source projects to have students working on specific tasks ...
Buildroot 2013.05 released, Free Electrons contributions inside! 18 Jun 2013 | 06:34 pm
As planned by the release schedule, the Buildroot 2013.05 version landed at the end of May. Peter Korsgaard, the project’s maintainer, highlighted the most important additions in his release email. Wi...
Free Electrons contributions to the 3.9 kernel 4 Jun 2013 | 08:57 am
A few months ago, we published a blog post showing our contributions to the 3.8 Linux kernel. With 128 commits merged in 3.8, Free Electrons was ranked as the 17th company in terms of kernel contribut...
FIQ Handlers in the ARM Linux Kernel 30 Apr 2013 | 07:54 pm
Part of the work on the CFA-10036 and its breakout boards was to write a driver that was using the FIQ mechanism provided by the ARM architecture to bitbang GPIOs on the first GPIO bank of the iMX28 p...
Sysadmin notes: post-only mailing lists with GNU Mailman 22 Apr 2013 | 04:53 pm
Need for notification mailing lists I found several people looking for a way to implement post-only mailing lists with GNU Mailman. However, I couldn’t find solutions that are described in sufficient ...
Linux kernel 3.8 released, Free Electrons top #17 contributor 28 Feb 2013 | 09:36 am
Early last week, version 3.8 of the Linux kernel has been released by Linus Torvalds. The KernelNewbies web site, has, as usual, a great summary of what’s new in this release, together with lots of li...
