Mastering Embedded Linux Programming

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "We could use the stream I/O functions fopen(3), fread(3), and fclose(3)."

A block of code is set as follows:

static struct mtd_partition omap3beagle_nand_partitions[] = {
  /* All the partition sizes are listed in terms of NAND block size */
  {
    .name        = "X-Loader",
    .offset      = 0,
    .size        = 4 * NAND_BLOCK_SIZE,
    .mask_flags  = MTD_WRITEABLE,  /* force read-only */
  }
}

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