- 18 May, 2025
Supporting multiple build configurations with Yocto
When adding new MACHINE and DISTRO configurations to Yocto, handling build setup for all of them can become complicated. The increased complexity is especially obvious when new DISTRO configurations are introduced, since different build directories are needed in order to avoid polluting each other's environment (like we had in the previous post on QEMU NOR SPI). Having separate build directories a ...
- 04 May, 2025
QEMU SPI NOR flash with SWUpdate recovery
In the QEMU Custom SPI peripheral post the support for SPI controller for Cubieboard was introduced. A custom SPI peripheral was developed to demonstrate basic functionality. QEMU comes with out-of-the-box support for several different SPI peripherals, one of which is the SPI NOR flash memory, modeled after M25P80 chip, but supports different variants, from various manufacturers and memory sizes. ...