Embedded Linux

Requirements

The years I’ve spent making ShareTheNet work have taught me many lessons in how to make Linux perform in a very limited environment. After looking at the many “embedded Linux” products available for free or fee today, I felt that a simple, well explained, nuts-and-bolts example of an extremely small Linux toolkit would serve the developer community well. Therefore, I decided to risk even more hours of staring blankly at messages like the following while building the Embedded Linux Workshop:

Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. 

The workshop doesn’t try to be all things to all people. As I mentioned earlier, I put it together primarily as a teaching aid, but I’ve been using it as the basis of all of my ...