Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical, Real-World Approach Paperback - 2007

This book talks about succeeding with Embedded Linux, and provides comprehensive real-world guidance for every developer, engineer, and manager. This book covers everything you need to know to build efficient, high-value, Linux-based embedded products. Drawing on years of experience as an embedded Linux consultant and field application engineer, Christopher Hallinan offers solutions for the specific technical issues you're most likely to face, demonstrates how to build an effective embedded Linux environment, and shows how to use it as productively as possible. Hallinan begins by touring a typical Linux-based embedded system, introducing key concepts and components, and calling attention to differences between Linux and traditional embedded environments. Writing from the embedded developer's viewpoint, he thoroughly addresses issues ranging from kernel initialization to bootloaders, device drivers to file systems. The book's highlights include: detailed coverage of the increasingly popular Busybox utilities; a step-by-step walkthrough of porting Linux to custom boards; and real-time configuration via CONFIG_RT-one of today's most exciting developments in embedded Linux. what to know before you start, it helps you to: compare leading embedded Linux processors, architectures, and distributions; understand the Linux kernel and initialization process; control bootloading in embedded Linux systems-including practical coverage of U-Boot; use embedded Linux file systems, including JFFS2-including instructions for building file system images; utilize the Memory Technology Devices subsystem for flash (and other) memory devices; maximize your productivity in cross-development environments, and master the powerful NFS root mount development configuration; master gdb, KGDB, and hardware JTAG debugging; and, configure, build, and initialize Busybox to support your unique requirements.