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SBR600 Intro
Hello, I am Stephen a 6th semester student i the CTY program at Seneca. I am mainly interested in security and networking, but I believe this course will be useful and an interesting learning...
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Creating RPM’s
I built RPM’s for the this course where macchanger and wget. The RPM’s are for 64bit machines and where not built or tested on 32 bit machines. To build the sources as a regular user I needed to add...
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Using Mock and Koji
I configured a default profile for mock because I would be testing my builds on a dist-f13 setup. This was done by creating a symbolic link to the fedora 13 x86_64 config file and naming it default....
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Setting Up Panda Board
My configuration is a 64bit version of Fedora 13 running as a virtual machine on a Windows 7 64bit host. Over the weekend I had the joy of setting up a Panda Board for the first time. I got it working...
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PandaBoard 1GB limit
Thanks to armin76 from the pandaboard channel I was able to learn that the reason the board did not see the full 1 GB was because the boot loader that ships with the board and in minimalfs is old and...
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PandaBoard Milestone 0.1 OS seeing more than 460MB of RAM
This is a update to the 1GB limit. Using armin76′s source guideline , available here, I was successfully able to build a MLO, u-boot.bin that is able to see the full 1GB of the PandaBoard. I had...
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0.2 – Videoless uImage to maximize RAM on PandaBoard
When the PandaBoard boots it reserves 33554432 bytes (32MB) of RAM for VRAM. As these is no need for video this RAM can be better used by the builder so I went about removing the video drivers from the...
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0.3 Plan
For my 0.3 I will be doing testing on the Koji farm to determine the optimum build factor for the PandaBoards. Currently it is 2 which is the default for Koji, this currently only allows for one task...
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0.3 Koji Build Factor Optimization update
For my 0.3 I was to figure out the best build factor on koji for the PandaBoards. Due to unforeseen technical issues with hongkong the arm koji server. Even if the site was fully restored and...
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SBR600 Concluding Post
I had come into the course not knowing what to expect, the whole community aspect I knew about but was always on the sidelines watching in. I had built small programs before nothing really notes worthy...
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