I’m currently:
- Running linux on a gumstix
- Running gdbserver on that gumstix.
- Debugging a program on the gumstix using gdb on my laptop (which is running linux)
- Remotely debugging the msp430 that’s connected to the gumstix I2C bus
Oh, but wait, msp430-gdbproxy and friends aren’t free. Arrrrgh. I can feel my soul dissolving.
If I ignore the dissolving for now, it’s all amazing. So much debugging.
Getting python onto the gumstix requires some work. By selecting python, the file system goes from 4 Mb (4131692 bytes to be exact) to 11Mb (11495444 bytes). That’s OK for the 16Mb gumstix boxes, but seems a little wasteful. After close inspection with the help of baobab, I find that a lot of it’s taken up by the python libraries:
Thought I better make the kernel patches available, in case I inadvertantly annoyed some people. There are two: ti_usb_fix.patch
and
ti_usb_fix2.patch
.
It just happened. There is a PCB that was generated from the parts of some laser printers!
I think I’m going to go absolutely insane with joy. Maybe after some sleep.
This is possibly the most informative post I’ve found on the mspgcc-users mailing list so far. It’s possibly amazing. I should be able to use either the UIF or EZ430 tool that TI sell.
I spend a reasonable amount of time in my news aggregator program these days. I want to stay up to date with project changelogs. Subtelty (edit 2012: link now broken — was http://subtlety.errtheblog.com/) provides me with a useful service.
- Handed in my project progress report today! I’m glad it’s finally in! Now I can get on with doing some actual work… after writing a management essay…. and doing some exams of course.
- Started some musing about using GStreamer to simulate error correction codes and using them over lossy transmission lines. Mind debating whether the addition of GStreamer is really necessary. It would be kind of cool to put some video/audio over the error corrected lossy line.
- Got slightly more annoyed that I can’t set my default GNOME editor to be emacs (without setting it for everyone on the system)
- Need something to supercede Latex as a document editing system. Compiling the document to see a small change is too slow.
- Been learning how to get my bluetooth headset to work with my laptop. The bluetooth-alsa stuff looks like it has been in a state of flux for quite a while. It seems to be homing in on something good though. My headset almost works with the latest stuff. Apparently I need to use the latest (i.e. git) Linux bluetooth stuff along with the latest (bitkeeper i think) bluez stuff to get it working. At the moment, when I attempt to play something to the headset it successfully creates a connection (indicated by the headset’s magic beep) but then the software gives up complaining about some function returning zero (this was with a very very slightly patched 2.6.19.2). Anyway, looks promising :-) Should be fantastic when mixed with telepathy and gossip.
- My LPC2418 development module was shipped the other day. Now I’ve got to wait around a month until I get it.
Interesting links du jour:
- KVM Gets paravirtualisation – Moderately exciting. Makes me want to run rawhide even more in KVM.
- EU Commission Study Finds You’ll Save Money Switching to FOSS – Yay.
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