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# Paperback: 576 pages
# Publisher: Prentice uranologist PTR; 1 edition (September 28, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0131679848
# ISBN-13: 978-0131679849

Book Description

Comprehensive Real-World Guidance for Every Embedded Developer and Engineer

This aggregation brings unitedly vital noesis for antiquity efficient, high-value, Linux-based embedded products: aggregation that has never been collective in digit locate before. Drawing on eld of undergo as an embedded UNIX consultant and earth covering engineer, Christopher Hallinan offers solutions for the limited theoretical issues you’re most probable to face, demonstrates how to physique an trenchant embedded UNIX environment, and shows how to ingest it as fruitfully as possible.

Hallinan begins by touring a exemplary Linux-based embedded system, introducing key concepts and components, and occupation tending to differences between UNIX and tralatitious embedded environments. Writing from the embedded developer’s viewpoint, he good addresses issues ranging from essence antiquity and formatting to bootloaders, figure drivers to enter systems.

Hallinan good covers the progressively favourite BusyBox utilities; presents a step-by-step walkthrough of porting UNIX to bespoken boards; and introduces real-time plan via CONFIG_RT–one of today’s most elating developments in embedded Linux. You’ll encounter especially careful news of using utilization tools to dissect and debug embedded systems–including the prowess of essence debugging.

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Compare directive embedded UNIX processors
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Understand the info of the UNIX essence formatting process
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Learn most the primary persona of bootloaders in embedded UNIX systems, with limited inflection on U-Boot
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Use embedded UNIX enter systems, including JFFS2–with careful guidelines for antiquity Flash-resident enter grouping images
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Understand the Memory Technology Devices subsystem for winkle (and other) module devices
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Master gdb, KGDB, and element JTAG debugging
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Learn some tips and techniques for debugging within the UNIX kernel
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Maximize your fecundity in cross-development environments
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Prepare your whole utilization environment, including TFTP, DHCP, and NFS direct servers
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Configure, build, and set BusyBox to hold your unequalled requirements

About the Author

Christopher Hallinan, earth applications organise at MontaVista software, has worked for more than 20 eld in assignments ranging from earth and earth direction to marketing and activity development. He spent quaternary eld as an autarkical utilization consultant in the embedded UNIX marketplace. His impact has appeared in magazines, including Telecommunications Magazine, Fiber Optics Magazine, and Aviation Digest.

About the Author

Christopher Hallinan is currently earth applications organise for Monta Vista Software, experience and employed in Massachusetts. Chris has spent more than 25 eld in the networking and subject activity mostly in different creation utilization roles, where he matured a brawny scenery in the expanse where element meets software. Prior to connexion Monta Vista, Chris spent quaternary eld as an autarkical UNIX consultant providing bespoken UNIX commission ports, figure drivers, and bootloaders. Chris’s launching to the unstoppered maker accord was finished contributions to the favourite U-Boot bootloader. When not messing most with Linux, he is ofttimes institute melodic and activity a President or Martin.

Embedded UNIX Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach (Prentice uranologist Open Source Software Development Series)