How to safely update your firmware - fwupd and LVFS to the rescue!
Published at July 11, 2019 · Artur Raglis · 7 min read
Many people come out of the mistaken belief that changing the firmware is a very complicated task and fears that they can "brick" their platform or personal computer. Others do not know where to find matching updates. There is a simple answer - meet fwupd with LVFS....
The smallest Embedded Linux System - Yocto vs Buildroot
Published at June 26, 2019 · Łukasz Łaguna · 4 min read
Fully working Linux based system below 5 MB. Is it even possible? It turns out that yes. What's more, you can get even lower values! Comparison of results obtained with Yocto and Buildroot....
Categories: os-dev
RTE v1.1.0 - enhanced remote testing now available!
Published at June 21, 2019 · Artur Raglis · 4 min read
Get familiar with new RTE revision - what has been changed, which features are now more sophisticated and which items have been added to the RTE kit available at our online shop....
Categories: manufacturing miscellaneous
Hummingboard Pulse - first impression
Published at June 12, 2019 · Tomasz Żyjewski · 5 min read
In this post, we will take a look at one of the SolidRun product - the HummingBoard Pulse. After power up the board we will try to boot operating system on it....
Categories: firmware
MuxPi - surprisingly powerful validation kit
Published at June 7, 2019 · Artur Raglis · 6 min read
Wish to start real hardware and firmware testing? This post is what you are looking for! Start your validation journey with MuxPi testing board. Easy setup, rich user interface, full remote control over Device Under Test and much more...
Categories: manufacturing miscellaneous
Meltdown and Spectre on PC Engines apu2
Published at May 29, 2019 · Michał Żygowski · 9 min read
As a continuation the Meltdown and Spectre blog post, this post present the vulnerability status and mitigation with microcode update on PC Engines apu2. Read the post and get to know the open source tools for vulnerability and mitigation checks, as well as exploiting proof of concepts....
Published at May 22, 2019 · Krystian Hebel · 3 min read
Recently we made sure that every build of PC Engines' firmware is built in a reproducible manner. This short post shows what exactly does it mean and why this should be important to firmware developers....
Categories: firmware
Building and running Bareflank
Published at May 15, 2019 · Krystian Hebel · 13 min read
In this second post of a series, we will build and start our first hypervisor. It won't do much just yet, but it is good to get known with its build system....
Categories: firmware
Published at May 8, 2019 · Łukasz Wcisło · 4 min read
RTE used to control tested devices could be used as a programmer. But RTE doesn't have SWD interface, which is crucial. We tried to walk around this using Bit Banging method....
Categories: firmware manufacturing miscellaneous
5 terms every hypervisor developer should know
Published at April 30, 2019 · Krystian Hebel · 11 min read
This is the first post of a series about developing bare-metal hypervisors. It introduces to Intel's VMX technology, describes interactions between a virtual machine and a hypervisor as well as gives some insight on the control structures required. This post should give some theoretical knowledge base required for the next ones, in which we will implement a basic hypervisor....
Categories: firmware
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