Alasdair Allan

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icon company Babilim Light Industries icon location Exeter, UK icon location Scientist, Author, Hacker, Tinkerer, Maker and Journalist. Used to be in charge of writing things down at Raspberry Pi.

Results 247 comments of Alasdair Allan

Fix questionable onboard LED handling. Enforce/limit on/off time, extend to both SWD and UART read/write.

> What needs to be done to get this lot resolved? I was discussing it with a journalist friend of mine who's writing on the Debug Probe, and it would...

Please write environment variable configuration to ~/.pam_environent and ~/.profile, or /etc/profile.d instead of ~/.bashrc

> I also never heard of ~/.pam_environment before and I've never really seen ~/.profile being used at all. Not sure, if this would even work as expected on most operatings...

setup fails if $HOME/.bashrc does not have a new line at the end of the file

> But the whole "setup" is broken anyway from a Linux-perspective. Within Linux, you would not install software in the home-directory of a user. We're not installing "software" (aka binaries...

setup fails if $HOME/.bashrc does not have a new line at the end of the file

> I am quite baffled about how much there is to talk about when a newline is missing from the end of a file. Please see #20. This, along with...

If pico_setup.sh fails during install it can't be re-run

Happy to accept a PR that checks for the directory before trying to create it.

If pico_setup.sh fails during install it can't be re-run

Many thanks! The maintainer will take a look soon as he has a chance.

wifi scan: Enable USB output

> It's probably a fair comment that we (or is it just me) wrongly default the examples to using the uart. If anything requires the user to look at the...

Please add support for RPi Pico (RP2040)

> We already contacted the RPi Trading team and have not received an answer yet. As we have said previously, we're happy to support you if you have any questions....

SASS is deprecating the ability to use a / (slash) for division.

We have temporarily hidden the warnings in our build (raspberrypi/documentation#2866) but would definitely appreciate an upstream fix. Yes, it's not crucial, but it is a horrible user experience.

SPI bus section needs updating for Pi 5

No so fast github bot.