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The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

Browsing Posts published in December, 2010

Recently, a new version of binutils was released. I had reported earlier about some patches needed to work around errata bugs in the Loongson CPUs.  There were also some other big updates since.  GCC 4.5 and Perl 5.12 have both been unmasked, enough has changed to warrant a rebuild before things get too far out [...]

Well, I’ve recently gained some employment where I’m making use of VMWare Server to run a Windows 2003 virtual machine.  This VM runs ION Enterprise, Schneider Electric’s energy management package.  The project I’m working on will involve communicating with this software package. Now, I’m working from home, and luckily I had the foresight to upgrade [...]

I picked up a few new toys recently.  I’ve been looking around for a small microcontroller based device to act as a combined remote face / DTMF generator for my FT897D.  The idea is that this device could interface with the FT897D via its CAT port, and allow me to adjust the frequency and mode, [...]

Well, binutils-2.21 has been released. Amongst the changes were some fixes for Loongson 2E and 2F systems, and a whole host of MIPS related commits. I tried experimenting with one of the binutils CVS releases, and had good success building Qt and the KDE desktop on the Yeeloong. I still have issues with JavaScript in [...]