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"I don't know art, but I know what I like"

Cross-posted from the Yocto Blog, www.yoctoproject.org. Would love to get your feedback here.

We're currently looking over this website (www.yoctoproject.org) and discussing what we could improve. If you have any ideas, we would love to hear them - just pop a mail over to yocto@yoctoproject.org and send us your thoughts.

Announcing new Yocto Project kernel documentation

The Yocto Project is pleased to announce some new kernel documentation on the yoctoproject.org web site and a revision for the Poky Reference Manual.

Kernel Architecture and Use Manual

We have just released a new manual on the project web site which explains the major concepts and usage of the Yocto Project kernel. The kernel is based on the Linux kernel from kernel.org, and includes a mechanism for applying git branches for various architectures, platforms and devices. The document is available from

The natural evolution of building embedded Linux

Cross-posted from my blog on the Yocto Project home site. Comments are welcome.

The thing I love about engineers and working with engineers is that they rarely leave well enough alone.

Particularly software engineers. They work with computers every day. Any kind of activity which is repetitive and boring is perfect to farm out to a computer.

Making embedded demos is not pretty

Cross-posted from my blog on the Yocto Project website:

There is an old saying that is quite reliable: "Those who love sausage and the law should see neither being made." I have a friend who once was involved in making what he called "hot pack" sausage. The description nearly turned me into a vegetarian.

But I would perhaps extend this to technology demos.

See you at the International SOC Conference

I'll be speaking this week at the 8th International System-on-Chip conference in Irvine, California.

My topic is "Creating Coherence in SoC Linux" and I'll be talking about the Yocto Project. My intent is to show how Yocto can help embedded developers produce Linux-based solutions quicker and more reliably.

I will also be on a panel discussion called "Software Strategies, Planning, and Solutions, for Embedded Multicore SoC Platform Development" with a group of embedded software experts. Hope I do OK.

Four embedded architectures, grooving together under the Yocto Project

I posted this blog on the Yocto Project blog and reposted it here. You can access the Yocto Project at http://www.yoctoproject.org




As an operating system, Linux really is highly portable. But for all of the places that Linux runs, embedded systems are the one place where you see a huge variety of instruction set architectures.

Intel® IDF2010: Were you there?

This year I got the pleasure of attending our Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.  I was even able to attend some great vPro sessions, so I thought I’d write about them and provide the link that you can use to see the presentations yourself.  Think of this as the next best thing to being there.

Me @IDF2010 in San Francisco:



Parallel Programming Talk #91: Lori Matassa and Max Domeika discuss new Intel Press Book "Break Away with Intel Atom Processors – A Guide to Architecture Migration"

Welcome to Parallel Programming Talk #91. Today is September 7th, 2010 and we'll be talking with Intel Engineers Lori Matassa and Max Domeika.

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First the News

    Shopping athletes get new embedded help

    I'm not really big on "shopping" as a sport. Some people love to wander the up and down the aisles of Costco on a "treasure hunt" to see new and unexpected items for sale or wander from store to store in a shopping mall.  I'm more one of those "hunters" who targets what I need, goes in for the kill, and relaxes in the cave after the hunt.

    But I can see how something like the smart kiosks that Paul Otellini showed off in his Comdex keynote would be cool for shopping athletes. (Spendletes?) In case you missed it the first time around, here it is again:



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