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Up-to-the-Minute, Complete Guidance for Developing Embedded Solutions with Linux
Linux has emerged as today’s #1 operating system for embedded products. Christopher Hallinan’s Embedded Linux Primer has proven itself as the definitive real-world guide to building efficient, high-value, embedded systems with Linux. Now, Hallinan has thoroughly updated this highly praised book for the newest Linux kernels, capabilities, tools, and hardware support, including advanced multicore processors.
Drawing on more than a decade of embedded Linux experience, Hallinan helps you rapidly climb the learning curve, whether you’re moving from legacy environments or you’re new to embedded programming. Hallinan addresses today’s most important development challenges and demonstrates how to solve the problems you’re most likely to encounter.
You’ll learn how to build a modern, efficient embedded Linux development environment, and then utilize it as productively as possible. Hallinan offers up-to-date guidance on everything from kernel configuration and initialization to bootloaders, device drivers to file systems, and BusyBox utilities to real-time configuration and system analysis. This edition adds entirely new chapters on UDEV, USB, and open source build systems.
- Tour the typical embedded system and development environment and understand its concepts and components.
- Understand the Linux kernel and userspace initialization processes.
- Preview bootloaders, with specific emphasis on U-Boot.
- Configure the Memory Technology Devices (MTD) subsystem to interface with flash (and other) memory devices.
- Make the most of BusyBox and latest open source development tools.
- Learn from expanded and updated coverage of kernel debugging.
- Build and analyze real-time systems with Linux.
- Learn to configure device files and driver loading with UDEV.
- Walk through detailed coverage of the USB subsystem.
- Introduces the latest open source embedded Linux build systems.
- Reference appendices include U-Boot and BusyBox commands.
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Up-to-the-Minute, Complete Guidance for Developing Embedded Solutions with Linux
Linux has outstripped all competitors as today’s #1 operating system for embedded products. Christopher Hallinan’s Embedded Linux Primer has proven itself as the definitive real-world guide to building efficient, high-value, embedded systems with Linux. Now, Hallinan has thoroughly updated this highly praised book for the newest Linux kernels, capabilities, tools, and hardware support, including advanced multicore processors.
Drawing on years of experience as a consultant and field application engineer, Hallinan helps you rapidly climb the learning curve, whether you’re moving from legacy environments or you’re new to embedded programming. Hallinan addresses today’s most important development challenges, and demonstrates how to solve the problems you’re most likely to encounter.
You’ll learn how to build a modern, efficient embedded Linux development environment, and then utilize it as productively as possible. Hallinan offers up-to-date guidance on everything from kernel configuration and initialization to bootloaders, device drivers to file systems, and BusyBox utilities to real-time configuration and system analysis. This edition adds entirely new chapters on UDEV, USB, and open source build systems. Throughout, Hallinan presents extensive downloadable code examples–all assembled from operational hardware running the latest versions of embedded Linux.
· Tour the typical embedded system and development environment, and understand its concepts and components.
· Compare the standalone and integrated processors that Linux now supports.
· Understand the Linux kernel and userspace initialization processes.
· Walk through bootloading, with specific emphasis on Das U-Boot, the most popular Linux bootloader for embedded systems.
· Understand Linux device driver concepts, architecture, and licensing, and the role device drivers play in virtual memory operating systems.
· Choose the right Linux file system for your application.
· Use the Memory Technology Devices (MTD) subsystem to interface with flash (and other) memory devices.
· Make the most of BusyBox, the Linux embedded development environment, and the latest open source development tools.
· Expanded and updated coverage of kernel debugging.
· Build and analyze real-time systems with Linux.
· Learn to configure device files and driver loading with UDEV.
· Detailed coverage of the USB subsystem
· Introduction to the latest open source embedded Linux build systems in use today
· Reference appendices include U-Boot and BusyBox commands, SDRAM interface considerations, sample BDI-2000 configuration file, and more.
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Books like "Embedded Linux Primer" are my salvation. The author states in his preface "This book describes my view of what an embedded engineer needs to know to get up to speed fast in an embedded Linux environment". I am not an engineer, but I am a technologist and this book got me off to a flying start in terms of letting me quickly expand my knowledge of embedded Linux.
This book will not teach you how to use Linux or how to program in C and you'd best have some experience in both to even read the book.
It is not a hardware book either or a book on the Linux kernel.
It is what its title states, a primer on embedded Linux systems and how to get them up and running.
In 19 chapters, author Hallinan walks the reader through initial discussions of why to choose embedded Linux and quickly moves into the anatomy of an embedded Linux system. Hallinan's writing style is wonderfully clear and he rarely deviates from the subject at hand. There are lots of tips in the text covering the idiosyncrasies of working with an embedded system, which I found particularly helpful.
Each of the chapters is a lesson. At the end of each, there are suggestions for additional reading.
In my case, I just needed a coherent overview of embedded Linux. I got that quickly and easily thanks to Hallinan's style. Now that my initial purpose has been accomplished, I can do as Hallinan suggests: take out an old x86 system and follow along as he explains how to get an embedded Linux system up and running. Hallinan makes it a fun task.
Jerry
The explanation of the boot process was good. The short walk through on the kernel source code was a good primer. Could not find how to burn new files into Flash though.
Most of the books strong points were showing the reader where to go on line to find the answers. But some of the links to the web no longer exist. I guess this is a problem writing a book on a fast moving technology. It would have been better to go ahead and include the info in the book.
I would also recommend rearranging the chapters to where the Tool-Chain is covered first in an attempt to get the reader up and running so the rest of the book can be applied as the material is read. Thanks for the effort.
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