Embedded Programming with Modern C++ Cookbook

Running software remotely

Embedded systems are designed to solve a particular problem using a specific combination of hardware and software components. That is why all software components in a system are tailored to fulfill this goal. Everything non-essential is disabled and all custom software is integrated into the boot sequence.

Users do not launch embedded programs; they start on system boot. However, during the development process, engineers need to run their applications without rebooting the system.

This is done differently depending on the type of the target platform. For powerful-enough systems based on SoC and running a preemptive multitasking operating system such as Linux, it can be done using a remote shell.

Modern systems usually ...