June 2008 Archives

2008-06-12

TechWeek in Vachdorf

Over the last week, directly after LinuxTag, I was in Vachdorf. If you like to know more about this small village take a look at OSM. Of course we mapped the whole village while being there.

The reason for being there was the TechWeek from Pengutronix, a company from my area doing a lot linux embedded projects for the industry. I already known some of the people working there privately. While being there I got known to the other ones. I must admit that it is a nice bunch of smart people loving what they are doing. What I actually appreciate a lot is their work to get their patches into mainline, even if it costs a lot of time and money. This is a not-so-common practice in the industry linux embedded world.

While hanging out there and having good talks about git, patch handling and submission workflows I spend most of my time working on geting some of the EZX patches mainline ready. We now have a svn branch that contains patches sitting directly on top of the arm git tree pxa branch. While working on this I also started to submit three one-line fixes upstream to get used to the arm-linux workflow. 2 Are already in the git tree, one is acked and waiting in incoming.

I enjoyed the week. Smart people, good food and hacking on stuff you like. Life could be that easy...


Posted by Stefan Schmidt | Permanent link | File under: openezx, events

2008-06-12

XO laptop for OpenEmbedded integration

While giving a talk and help to manning the OpenMoko booth at the LinuxTag I also got some interesting hardware to play with.

The great guys from the OLPC Deutschland e.V. long-term borrowed up to 70 XO laptops for people which have interesting projects with them.

I asked for one to work on OpenEmbedded integration for it. This divides into two parts:

  1. Machine support. This one should not be to hard as it is a x86 device and the first rootfs it ever booted in the AMD labs was build with OE. :) Still it will help me to understand the deeper internals from OpenEmbedded better.

  2. Writing recipes for the sugar applications and libraries. Having recipes for them in the OE metadata will make it easy for other distros using OE as their buildsystem to use them and put them in their feeds.

I will be busy with EZX the next two weeks. I plan to work on this afterwards.


Posted by Stefan Schmidt | Permanent link | File under: openembedded, events