Speed up Yocto build time using ASSUME_PROVIDED

If you are compiling core-sato-image yocto root filesystem, then you might have observed that it compile lot … Read more

Meaning of “CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE” in ELF sections

Once we disassembled the ELF to check the sections using “objdump” command, we can see the lines … Read more

How to check sections and its memory map of Binary / ELF using GDB ?

In this post, we hope you already have GDB debugging setup already done for your development or … Read more

Create a Dual Partition SD Card with Linux / Ubuntu

Start ‘fdisk’. For me, the SD card reader/writer has the SD card show up on /dev/sdc. I … Read more

What is m4 and How to Fix: “m4: command not found” error ?

If you have installed fresh Ubuntu on your development machine and tried to compile some opensource source … Read more

Understanding Android AOSP build system

In this post, we tries to understand the android open source build files written to add a … Read more

How to use mtrace to detect memory leaks in executable in Linux ?

The mtrace() function installs hook functions for the memory- allocation functions malloc, realloc, memalign, free. These hook … Read more

Cross compiling Linux kernel for Beagleboard

We assume, we are compiling for omap3 beagleboard embedded hardware platform, Clone the kernel Download toolchain Extract … Read more