Cloudflare DDNS and Unifi USG

This is a quick post for those of you looking for a completely free dynamic DNS solution for your home network running on Unifi. For years, I was a happy DynDns user and even paid once for a premium plan. But now it is time for a change as I recently switched to Unfi network equipment including a USG. Currently, I am using Cloudflare for CDN, DDOS protection, free SSL certificates and DNS with a free account....

July 13, 2019 · 2 min · Christian Gmeiner

mesamatrix

You might be familiar with mesamatrix - a nice site to track the state of all GPU drivers provided by Mesa. Ohh.. did I say all? Let’s have a closer look: This page is a graphical representation of the text file docs/features.txt from the Mesa repository. So wouldn’t it be sick to get etnaviv mentioned in docs/features.txt and onto the matrix? First mesamatrix needs to know/support etnaviv. This seems to be quite simple as there is already a pull request to add a bunch of embedded GPU drivers: Add VC4,VC5 and Vivante GPUs...

June 16, 2019 · 1 min · Christian Gmeiner

device-tree introspection

From time to time I need to inspect a used device-tree of a running device. For instance, the used bootloader (u-boot, barebox, …) patches the the initial specified dtb and I want to see the modified one. All that is needed is an installed device-tree-compiler on the target. $ dtc -I fs -O dts /sys/firmware/devicetree/base

September 20, 2017 · 1 min · Christian Gmeiner

etnaviv officially landed

After years of hard work the etnaviv team reached an other very important milestone. The gallium driver and the renderonly library got pushed into mesa’s git repository and will be released with mesa 17.0 - yeah! This does not mean we are done with development at all. There are many interesting topics to work on and some of them like better support for newer IP cores or a reworked GLSL compiler should see the light of day during the next months....

January 12, 2017 · 1 min · Christian Gmeiner

Let’s Encrypt

As HTTPS is a must nowadays I decided a year a go to give it a try and got a certificate from startssl. The process at startssl took quite some time and was not that easy. With lets encrypt everything should be much easier and faster to setup – lets give it a try @ueberspace (my hoster). There is a very good (German) tutorial directly from ueberspace for the whole process....

January 30, 2016 · 1 min · Christian Gmeiner