raspberry-pi

Just imagine this scenario: one day you turn off your pc and you try to turn it on the following day. And it doesn’t or, more precisely, your trustworthy Maxtor/Seagate HDD (Model No. STM3320614AS) is no longer detected during the boot or shows a size of 0GB. You get mad, you get angry. Then you try to figure out how to get your data back. It appears that, due to a firmware bug, some particular Maxtor and Seagate HDDs lock up their SATA port (BSY bug) or corrupt show as 0 sized (0 LBA)....

I’m having a lot of fun these days with my Raspberry-pi! Since I’ve already built my own tool chain to cross-compile from my Windows plus Cygwin machine and setup my IDE to compile and debug my software using it, I finally started to compile some projects. Unfortunately I had to face a couple of problems: how to make the ./configure script use my tool chain to generate Raspberry-Pi binaries in cygwin?...

I finally succeeded in compiling a working cross-compilation tool chain for my Raspberry Pi. It took me a while, but thanks to some valuable posts on the Raspberry Pi forum by Ian Linsdell and some luck I finally made it. The tool chain contains the Linaro versions of GCC (gcc-linaro-4.6-2012.07) and GDB (gdb-linaro-7.4-2012.06) compiled with the hardfp option. Simply unpack the archive in the /opt/cross/x-tools folder of your Cygwin installation (i....

In the past few days I’ve spent quite a lot of time on my new shining Raspberry-Pi. It’s an amazing little devil, worth every Euro I spent! Since I’ve planned to deploy a software component of my augmented reality system on this board, I needed to figure out how to remotely debug it in order to troubleshoot any issue I would run into. It took me some time, but thanks to the friends on Raspberry Pi Forum and to this awesome tutorial I finally made it: I can deploy my software to the raspberry-pi from Eclipse CDT and debug from my comfortable Windows 7 machine....