Random tech musings from an Aussie living in London
So where has the last six months gone? I was planning on getting images done for Fedora 44 Beta but I was unwell and busy and ran out of time. So what better time to get them out than Pi Day!. So compared to the last image what do we have now? Quite a lot Continue reading Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5
I know this has been much awaited because of all the queries on the various forums and direct to me so here we are the first Fedora image that can run a native userspace with a Fedora kernel with some enablement patches. This image is far from complete and is NOT yet suitable for desktop Continue reading Initial Minimal Fedora Image for Raspberry Pi 5
As everyone probably knows rust is considered a great language for secure programming and hence a lot of people are looking at it for everything from low level firmware to GPU drivers. In a similar vein it can already be to build UEFI applications. Upstream in U-Boot we ve been adding support for UEFI HTTP and Continue reading Building rust UEFI apps on Fedora
NVIDIA has just released the Jetpack 6 for the NVIDIA Jetson Orin hardware. The thing that is most exciting about this release is they finally support the ability to use upstream kernels and other Linux distributions. This means you can start to use both RHEL (9.3 and later) and Fedora on the Jetson Orin hardware! Continue reading Any Linux distro on NVIDIA Jetson Orin with JetPack 6
Mesa, the open source low level graphics stack, has featured support for Open Compute Language (OpenCL) for some time via a front end called Clover. The problem was that the GPUs that it supported were limited, it didn t have Image support, and wasn t really under active development. Around a year ago Karol Herbst filed a Continue reading Getting started with OpenCL using mesa/rusticl
Fedora uses NetworkManager as the default for managing all the various different types of network. Underneath NetworkManager uses wpa_supplicant to connect to 802.11 based, AKA WiFi, wireless networks. There is an alternative called iwd which in a number of use cases works better, it also has the advantage that it offloads a bunch of things Continue reading Using iwd for WiFi in Fedora
One of my little maker projects has a need for a battery powered micro controller, some DIY to clean up some old equipment and some basic HW design. Ultimately I d like to be able to integrate it as a fun thing into home automation possibly even using Matter. More on the project for another post. Continue reading Getting started with CircuitPython on Fedora
The fabulous fwupdmgr provides the ability to easily update firmware that is published to Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) but it can also be used to apply updates that aren t necessarily in LVFS. One type of firmware that it supports updating is NVME firmware, that s basically any NMVE, because the standard specifies a standardised mechanism Continue reading Using fwupdmgr to update NVME…
There s been the starting pieces of hardware video offload with the stateless engine support for some time and it now supports at least H264/HEVC/VP8/VP9/mepg2 decode offload depending on the hardware capabilities. The problem has been support for software/userspace has taken longer then the initial drivers but now that s catching up now with gstreamer support landing Continue reading HW video…
So chatting with a colleague about some git tricks this week I discovered that not everyone was aware you could change the bash prompt to give certain git status, such as branch, and things like if you re in merge/am/bisect modes etc. I ve had the pieces in my .bashrc for so long I had literally got Continue reading Helpful git tips