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Archive for December 2011

Ubuntu on Beagleboard xM with Easycap Video Capture (Compiling Driver)

Attempt to run Ubuntu in BeagleBoard xM rev C board has taken me to try various options of kernel and release. The goal was to have both Ubuntu and widely-available Easycap as video input via the USB of this compact TI OMAP board. Porting Ubuntu would spare us some flexibility to try different alternatives of [...]

Hello World with JamVM Embedded JVM on Ubuntu ARM

While waiting for my BeagleBoard xM shipment, I was considering Java as one of the possible application platforms. Anyhow, the keyword “embedded Java ARM” landed me to the tiny JamVm. This JVM is said to be working with ARM Cortex A8 which can be emulated under QEMU running Ubuntu ARM. The fact that there had [...]