• set
    09
    2010

    unnamed files

    I’m a heavy user of command line interface and often named files without extension. This behavior forces me to use file utility every time I have doubts.
    $ file stick-note1
    stick-note1: ASCII text
    When organizing my home/ I came across with many files like that, so I decided make this script to walk throughout files and check if it’s text file [...]

  • set
    08
    2010

    Installing Buildroot toolchain for Nuttx

    On my previous post I discussed some stats using Buildroot toolchain to build Nuttx. Today I’ll add the necessary steps to build on Ubuntu. Ubuntu is de-facto GNU/Linux distribution (although I’m Gentoo user) and many users, from different areas, uses it [they are not necessary command line experts] so I decided to publish my raw [...]

  • set
    06
    2010

    Compiler for Nuttx

    I was following this thread on Nuttx maillist on recommended compiler to build Nuttx RTOS. As a matter of practicality I guess that many users use CodeSourcery arm-none-linux-gnueabi but today I decided test the code generated for Cortex-M3 (LPC1768) using the toolchain from Buildroot. As Greg Nutt said (text adapted):
    They were configured using OABI [old arm ABI], but [...]