Foreword
If we look back at the last 15 years of the field of embedded systems, we will see that everything has changed radically. Embedded systems have become more and more powerful and have gained new functionalities. Today, you can find "embedded" quad-core systems with 1 GB of RAM and several GBs of storage, comparable to a few-years-old desktop computer. Nowadays, it is not unusual that the requirements of an embedded system are low consumption, graphic acceleration, multimedia capabilities, sufficient storage, and so on.
On the software side, if we look back again at those 15 years, we will notice that most of the Linux-running embedded systems at that time were in-house developments built from the ground up. Their main functionality was ...
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