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Howto optimize Linux – SD card as rootfs

Wednesday, 09 November 2016 by Peter Steenbergen

The write performance of a SD card is a little bit different then using a conventional spinning disk under Linux. The main problem is that a SD card can not write data over existing data. So whenever it want to write something it has to delete the content of that section first. To add to

Published in Embedded, ICT Matters, Linux

Tagged under: ARM, Embedded, ICT-Matters, Linux

Initramfs support for Linux-ARM (Allwinner A10)

Wednesday, 09 November 2016 by Peter Steenbergen

If you use any of the ubuntu based distributions out there you might want to make use of Initramfs support for the Allwinner A10. Using a initramfs solves a lot of errors related to boot profilers such as ureadahead. Secondly you are able to load kernel modules soon in the boot process, hence the reason

Published in ARM, Embedded, ICT Matters, Linux

Tagged under: ARM, ICT-Matters, Linux

PETER STEENBERGEN

Born on the 25th of July 1978 in Leiderdorp - The Netherlands. A "geek" who is working 15+ years in the Oil & Gas industry. As a result of that, visited many parts of the world. His strong affinity with ICT matters has earned him certain online recognition and got him involved in multiple interesting projects. Was a co-founder of "The Little Black Box", a multimedia streamer based on XBMC / Kodi. A device that was brought available to big retail shops in the Netherlands such as MediaMarkt, BCC and many big online webshops as bol.com as an end result.

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