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New multi I/O card installed

Some days ago I exchanged my MOS9835 based I/O card with newer version based on MOS9845. Old one had one parallel port (which I never used) and two serial ports. New one do not have parallel port but has 6 serial ports instead. Why so much?

The answer is simple — more devices on desk require [...]

Powering all devices

On my desk I have lot of things which require power. USB hubs, developer boards, customer devices etc. So far I counted 3×12V (ngw100, at91sam9263ek, edb9301) and 4×5V (usb hubs, beagleboard, bug). I do not count under desk devices because there is more space so extra cables from power supplies are not a problem (voltage [...]

How many serial ports are enough?

My desktop has few RS232 ports:

one FTDI RS232-USB converter one connected to mainboard two on additional PCI card (which also gives me parallel port)

When I got BeagleBoard I had to remove the one connected to mainboard — connected that cable to BB itself. But today I got new package from Atmel: NGW100. And it means need [...]

Does Vortex86sx based devices are worth something?

At FOSDEM 2009 I grabbed one Vortex86SX based device — Koala Nano PC which is available at Koan software. Device came with Ångström distribution and was running 2.6.26 kernel. I wanted to get something more fresh on it and after some fighting I booted 2.6.29-rc5 kernel today.

Device use Vortex86SX SoC which is based on 486SX [...]

Serial cables for BUG

During this year FOSDEM Bug Labs gave 4 BUG Starter Kits for people. Two were given for best ideas of application/module/way of using BUG — here Ken and Peter selected best entries. Other two were possible to win by donating FOSDEM.

I already knew two of those lucky guys. If you are one of other ones [...]

Contributing to Poky is not hard

About 2 years ago I started to work (as contractor) for OpenedHand as full time Poky developer (I did not worked on kernel/applications — just Poky itself). During that time we made few releases, and last of them (’elroy’) was prepared but never got released (it is present on OH servers anyway). I also worked [...]