Gumstix is an American multinational company headquartered in Portola Valley, California that develops and manufactures small computers-on-module (COMs), compatible expansion boards and single-board computers.
Questions tagged [gumstix]
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How do I use ioctl() to manipulate my kernel module?
So I'm trying to write a kernel module that uses the linux/timer.h file. I got it to work inside just the module, and now I am trying to get it to work from a user program.
Here is my kernel module:
//Necessary Includes For Device Drivers.
#include…
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hahuang65
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Precise Linux Timing - What Determines the Resolution of clock_gettime()?
I need to do precision timing to the 1 us level to time a change in duty cycle of a pwm wave.
Background
I am using a Gumstix Over Water COM (https://www.gumstix.com/store/app.php/products/265/) that has a single core ARM Cortex-A8 processor running…
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Mouse and Keyboard not working in qemu emulator
I am trying to run Yocto Image in qemu on my Ubuntu laptop with the following command.
qemu-system-arm -M overo -m 256 -sd ./test.img -clock unix -serial stdio -device usb-mouse -device usb-kbd
Qemu works fine and the image is booted pretty clean,…
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Zafrullah Syed
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Gumstix Overo wifi drops continously
I am using Gumstix overo and from the past many days I am unable to get my Wifi working correctly.
I followed the instructions from Gumstix Overo Wifi and Overo Wifi to set correct parameters in /etc/network/interfaces and…
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Zafrullah Syed
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How to insert hwmon module (ARM)
I fear that this is a very specific question.
Hardware: Gumstix Overo Fire (ARM Cortex A8)
Distro: Poky (customized with the Yocto Project)
Kernel: 3.5.7
I tried to write a program to read a HIH6130 i2c sensor, using /dev/i2c-3 and <…
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mathiasfk
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Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
I'm getting the following error every time I try to run Linaro on Gumstix Overo board. Does anyone had the same issue? I can't figure out what the problem is. Tried to reinstall Linaro several times, but the same error comes out again.
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Compiling tesseract-ocr on ARM/Gumstix?
Is it possible to compile tesseract-ocr for the Intel PXA270 found in certain Gumstix boards? Has anyone done this successfully, and if so, how did you do so?
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user21293
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Getting my own ROS package on Gumstix overo (Bitbake yocto project)
I'm trying to get my own ROS package to work on a Gumstix Overo. The final goal of the project would be to get an image from the Caspa (camera) and stream it with ROS. To do so, I had the most success with the Yocto project: Pocky, which uses the…
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Plugin "Tools for mobile linux runtime" on Eclipse
Currently working on Gumstix Boards, I am setting up my environment and I try to upload my code in Gumstix board.
I was following this wiki and I was told to install the plugin "Tools for mobile linux runtime". However, I cannot find this plugin…
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Laila
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problems downloading openjdk on gumstix
From the jpcap installation instructions http://netresearch.ics.uci.edu/kfujii/Jpcap/doc/install.html, I understand that I need JRE 6 in order for jpcap to work on my Gumstix board. (Is that correct?)
When I tried downloading openjdk-6-java using…
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user1269789
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asm/ioctl.h is missing on my gumstix linux image
I am trying to include ioctl.h on my Gumstix Linux in order to use the on-board ADC.
In turn, ioctl.h includes asm/ioctls.h which is missing on my machine.
In fact, the entire /usr/asm directory is missing. Does anybody know how I am supposed to…
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Itamar
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Cannot Use Raspberry Pi Camera v1/2 with Gumstix Pi Compute Dev Board
Referencing this item:
https://store.gumstix.com/gumstix-pi-compute-dev-board.html
I cannot use the official Pi camera(s) using either the official Raspberry Pi "Buster" disk image or the Pi disk image provided by Gumstix:
Disk image referenced…
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CRMANN
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Trouble building u-boot for gumstix overo on yocto "thud" release
Attempting to build a yocto image using the "thud" release, bitbake fails on building the version of u-boot that comes with the meta-gumstix thud branch, which is 2016.03 (which seems antique?).
The error I'm seeing is regarding conflicting types,…
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draison
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Linux Bluetooth not finding Android Service with UUID
I am trying to write a program on an embedded system running GUMSTIX(Linux) to connect and talk to an Android 2.x device over bluetooth. The GUMSTIX is the client and the Android is the server. I am trying to find the channel number that my…
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u-boot hangs after enabling secured boot : on overo
I was trying to enable the secured boot in u-boot for gumstix overo storm.
based on http://www.denx-cs.de/doku/?q=m28verifiedboot
After I prepared by SD cards, u-boot is not able to boot and gives the below error message.
U-Boot SPL 2015.07 (Apr 28…
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Arun Kuttiyara Varghese
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