What we've been reading in October (2024)

Here are the articles, videos, and tools that we’ve been excited about this October.

What have you been reading? Share in the comments or on the Interrupt Slack.

Articles & Learning

• LLVM Hello World | Dr James Hamilton
  Getting started with LLVM IR. — Noah

• Quake ported to Arduino Nano Matter and Sparkfun Thing Plus Matter Boards | Silicon Labs
  Porting and shrinking Quake to run on an embedded device. — Heiko

• Blinky | Adam Gulyas
  Nice technique: v-cut vias for panelized boards for testing. — Noah

• What Is New In LLVM 19? | Arm Community
  Roundup of LLVM 19 contributions by ARM. — Noah

• Playing with BOLT and Postgres | Tomas Vondra
  Writeup about applying LLVM’s Binary Optimization and Layout Tool (BOLT) to a practical program: PostgreSQL. — Noah

• Supporting Custom RISC-V Extensions in LLVM | Alex Bradbury, Igalia
  Presentation on how LLVM supports custom RISC-V extensions. — Noah

• MQTT Turns 25 – Here’s How It Has Endured | Andy Piper, The Lost Outpost
  The co-creator of MQTT shares a brief look back at the history. — Eric

• PlayStation Vita Architecture (Part 1) - A Practical Analysis | Rodrigo Copetti
  Great writeup on the PlayStation Vita architecture. — Eric

• Zero or Sign Extend | The Ryg Blog
  A post on the ins and outs of sign-extension on fixed-width integers with some interesting implementations. — Eric

• 5 Tips to Make the Most of Zephyr Documentation | Zephyr Project
  Some improvements to the Zephyr documentation and how to take advantage of them. — Eric

• Ubiquitous Successful Bus: Version 2 | Hackaday
  Very high level overview of USB 2.0. — Noah

• Android Debugging Crash Course | LineageOS
  Debugging AOSP, divided into user space, kernel space, and vendor/OEM customizations, from the folks maintaining the LineageOS AOSP distribution. — Victor

• Jailhouse - Linux-based partitioning hypervisor | Siemens
  Cool hyper visor for Linux + bare metal real time. — François

• WrapMaster: Dynamic Function Wrapping for Enhanced Debugging | wafgo
  Neat tool (only for binaries with relocatable symbols though 😮‍💨 ) — Noah

News & Announcements

• Samsung Galaxy Ring Arrives in India with Support for Galaxy AI | Republic World
  The new Samsung Galaxy Ring is running Zephyr! 🪁

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Gillian Minnehan is a firmware solutions architect at Memfault. Gillian previously worked on embedded software teams in space and defense.