'arm' Tag

  • jan
    30
    2010

    First prototype for Beagle Board box

    After drawing a sketch for BeagleBoard this week I coud try something real. The board fit perfectly inside the box.

    The whole for DVI-D would be a little bigger, the way it is the user need stick the connector well to don’t loose image quality.

    The entries for USB and MMC fits together in the same whole.  I put [...]

  • jan
    28
    2010

    Byte Order

    In the book about Linux Kernel Programming the author Robert Love demonstrated a trick to check your hardware endianness.

    int x = 1;
    if (*(char *)&x == 1)
    /* little endian */
    else
    /* big endian */

    Using GCC you can use -mbig-endian or -mlittle-endian to generate appropriate endianess. Remember to check man pages section on your architecture (i.e: i386 and [...]