Book description
Embedded Linux will help the user: select an Embedded Linux platform based on hardware requirements; build and boot a custom Linux kernel for the platform; remote debug programs running on the platform using GNU tools; connect data acquisition and control electronics/peripherals using the platform's serial, parallel, USB, I/O port and I2C interfaces; interface the peripherals to the kernel and applications using modules; collect, control, store and present data via open source protocols and applications; and analyze Embedded Linux vendor product offerings.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
Getting Started
- Introducing Embedded Linux
- System Architecture
- Selecting a Platform and Installing Tool Sets
-
Booting Linux
- The Target PBRs
- The Linux Boot Process
- The Linux root Filesystem
- Creating the root Filesystem
- Installing the TFTP Server
- Installing minicom
- Booting the Embedded Planet RPX-CLLF
- Booting the Brightstar Engineering MediaEngine
- Booting the Tri-M MZ104 and the COTS PC with a Flash IDE Drive
- Boot Comparison
- Summary
- Additional Reading
- Debugging
- Interfacing
- Index
Product information
- Title: Embedded Linux®: Hardware, Software, and Interfacing
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2002
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 0672322269
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