Comprehensive Real-World Guidance for Every Embedded Developer and Engineer
This book brings together indispensable knowledge for building efficient, high-value, Linux-based embedded products: information that has never been assembled in one place before. 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 building and initialization to bootloaders, device drivers to file systems.
Hallinan thoroughly covers the increasingly popular BusyBox utilities; presents a step-by-step walkthrough of porting Linux to custom boards; and introduces real-time configuration via CONFIG_RT--one of today's most exciting developments in embedded Linux. You'll find especially detailed coverage of using development tools to analyze and debug embedded systems--including the art of kernel debugging.
Compare leading embedded Linux processorsUnderstand the details of the Linux kernel initialization processLearn about the special role of bootloaders in embedded Linux systems, with specific emphasis on U-BootUse embedded Linux file systems, including JFFS2--with detailed guidelines for building Flash-resident file system imagesUnderstand the Memory Technology Devices subsystem for flash (and other) memory devicesMaster gdb, KGDB, and hardware JTAG debuggingLearn many tips and techniques for debugging within the Linux kernelMaximize your productivity in cross-development environmentsPrepare your entire development environment, including TFTP, DHCP, and NFS target serversConfigure, build, and initialize BusyBox to support your unique requirements
About the Author
Christopher Hallinan, field applications engineer at MontaVista software, has worked for more than 20 years in assignments ranging from engineering and engineering management to marketing and business development. He spent four years as an independent development consultant in the embedded Linux marketplace. His work has appeared in magazines, including Telecommunications Magazine, Fiber Optics Magazine, and Aviation Digest.
- ISBN10 0134497201
- ISBN13 9780134497204
- Publish Date 28 March 2020 (first published 15 September 2006)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Prentice Hall
- Edition 3rd edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 560
- Language English