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Five years with OpenEmbedded

It is hard to believe but I started using OpenEmbedded 5 years ago…

2004-02-11 — bought Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 2004-03-20 — my first submission to OE (SubApplet 1.0.7) 2004-05-08 — my first push to OpenEmbedded repository 2005-04-05 — got first donation due to my OE/OZ work — Zaurus C760 2005-06-28 — joined OPIE developers team to push OE patches [...]

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 [...]

BUG has arrived

On Thursday I got package from DHL courier (one note for future: if you need to send me something by courier service avoid Fedex). Inside was nice box with BugLabs logo.

After unpacking I got BUG, or to be more precise:

BUGbase BUGview module BUGmotion module VonHippel module BUGlocate module external antenna for BUGlocate GPS power supply SD->microSD adapter 2GB microSD card

This is how modules [...]

Beavers invasion

Today my workplace was invaded by beavers. But they are not normal beavers but Poky Linux ones.

At the beginning there was just one of them — he came and checked clock to know which timezone is in use here:

Few minutes later his companies arrived and synchronized clocks:

After few minutes they invaded my working place…

Good that [...]

Bug Labs and their BUG device

Month ago I ended work for OpenedHand. Some people asked me what I am doing now, who is my client etc. Now I can write a bit about it.

I am working as contractor with Bug Labs Inc. to help them with their development of BUG Linux (which is based on OpenedHand’s Poky). Target device is [...]

Merging stuff from Poky into OpenEmbedded

Recently I started merging interesting stuff from OpenedHand’s Poky into OpenEmbedded. Now, with OE using GIT as storage for metadata it is much, much easier then it was in Monotone times.

I have over 3 thousands of revisions exported (using git format-patch) from Poky and I am reviewing them and adapt to add into OE. Useful [...]