Marcus Folkesson

Embedded Linux Artist

Write a device driver for Zephyr - Part 3

Write a device driver for Zephyr - Part 3 This is the third post in this series. See also part part1, part2 and part4. Overview In the previous part we prepared Zephyr for our soon to be born driver. Now we have finally come to the fun point - write the actual driver code! Driver API I used to write code for the Linux kernel which is a little bit more complex kernel than Zephyr.

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Posted by Marcus Folkesson on Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Write a device driver for Zephyr - Part 4

Write a device driver for Zephyr - Part 4 This is the forth post in this series. See also part part1, part2 and part3. Overview This is the forth and last part of this series where we will focus on contribute the driver back to the Zephyr project. Zephyr use Github for hosting the project and all contribution is by Pull Requests. The process is all well documented [1], both on how to contribute but also what the project expect from you as a contributor.

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Posted by Marcus Folkesson on Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Encrypted storage on i.MX

Encrypted storage on i.MX Brief Many embedded Linux systems does have some kind of sensitive information on a file storage. It could be private keys, passwords or whatever. It's always a risk that this information could be revealed by an unauthorized person that got their physical hands on the device. The only protection against attackers that who simply bypass the system and access the data storage directly is encryption.

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Posted by Marcus Folkesson on Monday, April 3, 2023

TIL - Buildroot & BR_NO_CHECK_HASH_FOR

TIL - Buildroot & BR_NO_CHECK_HASH_FOR TIL, Today I Learned, is more of a "I just figured this out: here are my notes, you may find them useful too" rather than a full blog post In Buildroot [1], the integrity of (allmost) all downloaded packages is verified against a hash. Even packages that are fetched from a git repository is verified this way. This is a good thing that no one really should work around.

Posted by Marcus Folkesson on Thursday, March 30, 2023

Bug in the iMX8MP ECSPI module?

Bug in the iMX8MP ECSPI module? Background I do have a system where I can swap between iMX8M Mini and iMX8M Plus CPU modules on the same carrier board. I did write a a SPI driver for a device on the carrier board. The device is connected to the ECSPI1 (the CPU contains several ECSPI modules) and use the hardware chipselect 0 (SS0). The driver has been used with the iMX8MM CPU module for a while, but as soon I swapped to the iMX8MP it certainly stopped working.

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Posted by Marcus Folkesson on Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Capture an image with V4L2

Capture an image with V4L2 Brief As we has seen before, cameras in Linux could be a complex [1] story and you have to watch every step you take to get it right. libcamera [2] does a great job to simplify this in a platform independent way and should be used whenever it's possible. But not all cameras does have a complex flow-chart. Some cameras (e.g. web cameras) are "self-contained" where the image data goes straight from the camera to the user application, without any detours through different IP blocks for image processing on its way.

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Posted by Marcus Folkesson on Sunday, March 19, 2023

TIL - Git jump

TIL - Git jump TIL, Today I Learned, is more of a "I just figured this out: here are my notes, you may find them useful too" rather than a full blog post The Git v2.40.0 was released [1] yesterday (2023-03-13) and one of the release notes that caught my eyes was this one: * "git jump" (in contrib/) learned to present the "quickfix list" to its standard output (instead of letting it consumed by the editor it invokes), and learned to also drive emacs/emacsclient.

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Posted by Marcus Folkesson on Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Service of a pocket watch

Service of a pocket watch Mechanical watches is fascinating. A mechanical timepiece that gets its energy from unwinding a tightly coiled flat spring. All this energy does feed another spring-driven balance wheel that oscillates back and forth in a given frequency. All without any batteries. Isn't that cool? Mechanical watches is quite expensive and need regular services, so I bought a no-name brand pocket watch that suddenly could stop tick and didn't keep time very well.

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Posted by Marcus Folkesson on Monday, February 27, 2023

Razor leather case

Razor Leather Case My safety razor broke during usage last week, so I sadly had to order a new one. I'm not really into shaving at all, but I want something that works and safety razors does both work and is cheap in the long run. For those interested, I bought a AL13 razor from Henson Shaving [1]. This time I used my Laser cutting machine to cut out the leather.

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Posted by Marcus Folkesson on Monday, February 20, 2023

Route traffic with NAT

Route traffic with NAT Long time ago I wrota a blog post [1] about how to use NAT to route traffic to your embedded device via your host computer. Back then we were using iptables to achieve it, nowadays nftables is the preferred successor, so it's time for an update. What is NAT anyway? Network Address Translation, or NAT, does map an address space into another by modifying the network address infromation in the IP header for each packet.

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Posted by Marcus Folkesson on Friday, February 17, 2023