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Karim Yaghmour (Author), Jon Masters (Author), Gilad Ben-Yossef (Author), Philippe Gerum (Author)

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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (22 Aug 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0596529686
ISBN-13: 978-0596529680
Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 23.1 x 2.8 cm

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There's a great deal of excitement surrounding the use of Linux in embedded systems -- for everything from cell phones to car ABS systems and water-filtration plants -- but not a lot of practical information. Building Embedded Linux Systems offers an in-depth, hard-core guide to putting together embedded systems based on Linux.

Updated for the latest version of the Linux kernel, this new edition gives you the basics of building embedded Linux systems, along with the configuration, setup, and use of more than 40 different open source and free software packages in common use. The book also looks at the strengths and weaknesses of using Linux in an embedded system, plus a discussion of licensing issues, and an introduction to real-time, with a discussion of real-time options for Linux.

This indispensable book features arcane and previously undocumented procedures for:

Building your own GNU development toolchain
Using an efficient embedded development framework
Selecting, configuring, building, and installing a target-specific kernel
Creating a complete target root filesystem
Setting up, manipulating, and using solid-state storage devices
Installing and configuring a bootloader for the target
Cross-compiling a slew of utilities and packages
Debugging your embedded system using a plethora of tools and techniques
Using the uClibc, BusyBox, U-Boot, OpenSSH, thttpd, tftp, strace, and gdb packages

By presenting how to build the operating system components from pristine sources and how to find more documentation or help, Building Embedded Linux Systems greatly simplifies the task of keeping complete control over your embedded operating system.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, 22 Oct 2003

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If you want to know everything about embedding Linux this is it!

I have been involved in Embedded Linux for the past three years, and often spent countless hours on the net, reading through vast amount of documents, done by the kind folks of the Linux commmunity.

Karim has done a splendid job, pulling together everything you need to know, to embed Linux on a varaiety of architectures, and walks you through in simple, easy to understand manner.

This book is a "must have" for anyone deploying Linux on embedded systems. Besides its a cracking read anyway, if you like to broaden your knowledge on Linux internals.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent embedded linux starting point, 20 Nov 2003

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The book is an excellent embedded GNU/Linux starting point: Karim drives you through almost all aspects of embedded Linux system configuration and installation giving a lot of 'pointers' to software and documentation, saving many hours of 'googling'. At the end of the book I found myself with a perfectly configured and specifically taylored GNU/Linux embedded system cross/development framework and a running target board.
Congratulation Karim !

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3.0 out of 5 stars quite useful, 25 July 2004

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The book is interesting and fairly useful in that it confirms that what I have been doing to create cross compilers, embedded versions of Linux etc, is more or less correct. However, I was disappointed that quite a lot of the build procedures in the book simply don't work so I had to resort to hacking as normal!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book that deserves better index, contents page and reference handling.
Good: breadth of coverage including udev, rootfs and library alternatives (to save memory etc.)

Bad: index and contents pages make it difficult to use as quick... Read more

Published on 9 Jan 2010 by ratuk

5.0 out of 5 stars A plug from PLUG for this book
At our LUG (PLUG.fi), we have a gadget club, where we play with devices. They're not all GNU/Linux based, but we do strive to move in that direction. Read more

Published on 12 May 2009 by Troy Korjuslommi

4.0 out of 5 stars Very usefull, but not definitive.
Although most embedded projects are based on fairly old versions of the kernel, there are still developments and applications that will eventually render this book outdated,... Read more

Published on 4 Jun 2008 by scruffy bob

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The Linux operating system is fantastic, documentation and training aids on the subject are poor. This book is a great introduction to linux when used in an embedded context... Read more

Published on 22 May 2003 by markjdoherty

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