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July 21, 2010July 17, 2012 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

Block CVS Commits without message

If you are in my case, and you found it difficult to make some people in your team make proper comments/messages or any comments at all (cvs commit -m “Description of the changes”) while committing their changes to CVS, here’s what can be done to block commit without comments and with short comments. Checkout the CVSROOT directory cvs co CVSROOT Edit verifymsg in CVSROOT as follows #Set the verifymsg file to run a script DEFAULT /usr/local/bin/validate-cvs-log.sh Create /usr/local/bin/validate-cvs-log.sh script (make it executable for all cvs users): #!/bin/sh # # validate-cvs-log.sh logfile # test that log message has some characters in it if [ cat $1 | wc -c -lt 12 ] ; then echo “log message too short; please enter a description for the changes” exit 1 else exit 0 fi Commit verifymsg cvs commit -m “Added script to set minimum message size to 12 characters” verifymsg That’s it ! […]

July 18, 2010December 20, 2016 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 9 Comments

How to do a framebuffer screenshot

I’ll explain how to do framebuffer screenshots on 16-bit and 32-bit framebuffer. For 16-bit this is fully based on http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=framebuffer Capturing screenshots Whatever the bit-depth of your framebuffer, the first step is to capture the frambuffer raw data on the board:

cat /dev/fb0 > screen.raw

1	cat /dev/fb0 > screen.raw

Now the you need to take the raw image, and convert it to a standard image format. This step depends on what type of display is there Converting 16-bit Framebuffer screenshot (RGB565) into png To convert the raw rgb data extracted from /dev/fb0, use iraw2png perl script

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$w = shift || 240;
$h = shift || 320;
$pixels = $w * $h;

open OUT, "|pnmtopng" or die "Can't pipe pnmtopng: $!\n";

printf OUT "P6%d %d\n255\n", $w, $h;

while ((read STDIN, $raw, 2) and $pixels--) {
   $short = unpack('S', $raw);
   print OUT pack("C3",
      ($short & 0xf800) >> 8,
      ($short & 0x7e0) >> 3,
      ($short & 0x1f) << 3);
}

close OUT;

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$w = shift || 240;

$h = shift || 320;

$pixels = $w * $h;

open OUT, "|pnmtopng" or die "Can't pipe pnmtopng: $!\n";

printf OUT "P6%d %d\n255\n", $w, $h;

while ((read STDIN, $raw, 2) and $pixels--) {

$short = unpack('S', $raw);

print OUT pack("C3",

($short & 0xf800) >> 8,

($short & 0x7e0) >> 3,

($short & 0x1f) << 3);

}

close OUT;

To do the conversion, type the following command in the host:

./iraw2png 640 480 < screen.raw > screen.png

1	./iraw2png 640 480 < screen.raw > screen.png

where 640 and 480 are respectively the width and height of your framebuffer. This has been tried on a 16-bit framebuffer on EM8620 series. Converting 32-bit Framebuffer screenshot (ARGB, RGBA, BGRA…) into png The solution proposed here is not as neat as the blackfin’s solution for 16-bit framebuffer, […]

July 11, 2010November 24, 2019 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

uClinux kernel panic: Stack overflow

If you’re using ucLinux, you may get kernel panic errors coming out of nowhere. There may be several reasons (buffer overflow, out of memory..), but the most common is stack overflow for the process or one of the threads. To increase the stack size of a flat binary you’ll need to adjust the LDFLAGS as follows:

LDFLAGS+=-Wl,-elf2flt="-s65536"

1	LDFLAGS+=-Wl,-elf2flt="-s65536"

This will set the stack size to 64KB. To change the stack size of a thread (e.g. 32KB below), you’ll need to set the stack size attribute:

pthread_attr_init(&attr);
err = pthread_attr_setstacksize(&attr, 32*1024);
if (err) {
    printf("pthread_attr_setstacksize returned non-zero: %s\n",
    strerror(errno));
}
err = pthread_create(&pthThread, &attr, thread, NULL);

pthread_attr_init(&attr);

err = pthread_attr_setstacksize(&attr, 32*1024);

if (err) {

printf("pthread_attr_setstacksize returned non-zero: %s\n",

strerror(errno));

}

err = pthread_create(&pthThread, &attr, thread, NULL);

How to detect which thread suffers from stack overflow? First, you can check your code for recursive function calls and local variables (especially arrays) both of which will be added at runtime to the stack to estimate what should be the stack size. So if you have large arrays you may use a pointer + a call to malloc instead. If this can not fix […]

July 4, 2010 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

Installing 2 Linux distributions in one PC

Here are the step I followed to install two distributions of Linux: Install the first distribution normally with GRUB in the MBR. While installing the second distribution make sure to set GRUB in its root partition. At this point the second distribution should not be available in GRUB Boot loader, login in the first distribution as root and edit /etc/grub.conf and add the following lines: Linux Distribution 2 root (hd0,2) chainloader +1 Save and restart your PC you should have 2 choices in GRUB, select “Linux Distribution 2”or whatever name you gave in grub.conf and this should start the second Linux distribution. Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011. www.cnx-software.com

July 3, 2010April 13, 2016 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 1 Comment

Finding large files in a Linux system

To list large files in a directory and subdirectories

find /home/user -type f -size +10000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }'

1	find /home/user -type f -size +10000k -exec ls -lh {} \; \| awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }'

This command looks for files larger than 10MB in /home/user directory and displays the result as follows: /home/user/largefile1.tar.bz2: 32M /home/user/bugzilla.sql: 21M Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011. www.cnx-software.com

July 1, 2010November 25, 2010 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

Using vi as an hex editor

To use vi as an hexadecimal editor: vi doc.txt [esc] :%!xxd Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011. www.cnx-software.com

June 26, 2010March 2, 2017 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

EP9307 Thin Client with DirectVNC

One of my reader had issues running Thin-clients ENTC Encore-1000 based on EP9307 and wanted to update the firmware in his systems. So I’ll explain how to access Linux, Windows XP or any other operating systems using a thin client based on Cirrus Logic EP9307 hardware. This is for reference only, and the performance may not be suitable for your environment/setup. One PC (server) is needed to run VNC (Virtual Network Computing) server for each remote desktop (i.e. each thin client), then the thin client can run the software without hard disk by just using the network connection. This can be used for checking emails, browsing internet, office applications, etc.. All resource heavy tasks are done on the server side whose specifications may be chosen to match the applications requirements. I’ll explain how to use Linux, but Windows XP (or any other operating systems for that matter) could also be […]

June 6, 2010January 14, 2011 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 47 Comments

Installing Android in HTC Touch Cruise Polaris – HTC P3650

If you have an HTC Touch Cruise (Polaris) running Windows Mobile 6.1, you may want to try out Android in this hardware. The good thing is that you do not need to remove Windows, but you can just bootstrap Linux from Windows Mobile. Just go to XDA Developers Forum below for further details: Android for HTC Touch Cruise Polaris or just follow the simple instructions below: Instructions to install Android in SDCard: Download either the 320×480 or 240×320 version Extract the content of the downloaded zip files to a temporary directory Rename default.polaris.txt to default.txt (rename or delete the original default.txt file) in andboot directory Copy extracted /andboot folder to the Root of your SDCard In your mobile phone, inside /andboot folder, Run HaRET, then hit “run” to launch android The first time, press Volume Up to start the installation and follow the menu instructions. If you don’t follow that […]