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Mastering embedded Linux programming : harness the power of Linux to create versatile and robust embedded solutions /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simmonds, Chris (Autor)
Otros Autores: Purdie, Richard (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2015.
Colección:Community experience distilled.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Starting Out; Chapter 2: Learning About Toolchains; Chapter 3: All About Bootloaders; Chapter 4: Porting and Configuring the Kernel; Chapter 5: Building a Root Filesystem; Chapter 6: Selecting a Build System; Chapter 7: Creating a Storage Strategy; Chapter 8: Introducing Device Drivers; Chapter 9: Starting up
  • The init Program; Chapter 10: Learning About Processes and Threads; Chapter 11: Managing Memory; Chapter 12: Debugging with GDB.
  • Chapter 13: Profiling and TracingChapter 14: Real-time Programming; Index; Selecting the right operating system; The players; Project lifecycle; Open source; Hardware for embedded Linux; Hardware used in this book; Software used in this book; Summary; What is a toolchain?; Types of toolchain
  • native versus cross toolchain; Choosing the C library; Finding a toolchain; Anatomy of a toolchain; Other tools in the toolchain; Looking at the components of the C library; Linking with libraries: static and dynamic linking; The art of cross compiling; Problems with cross compiling; Summary.
  • What does a bootloader do?The boot sequence; Booting with UEFI firmware; Moving from bootloader to kernel; Introducing device trees; Choosing a bootloader; U-Boot; Barebox; Summary; What does the kernel do?; Choosing a kernel; Building the kernel; Compiling; Cleaning kernel sources; Booting your kernel; Porting Linux to a new board; Additional reading; Summary; What should be in the root filesystem?; Programs for the root filesystem; Libraries for the root filesystem; Device nodes; The proc and sysfs filesystems; Kernel modules; Transfering the root filesystem to the target.
  • Creating a boot ramdiskThe init program; Configuring user accounts; Starting a daemon process; A better way of managing device nodes; Configuring the network; Creating filesystem images with device tables; Mounting the root filesystem using NFS; Using TFTP to load the kernel; Additional reading; Summary; No more rolling your own embedded Linux; Build systems; Package formats and package managers; Buildroot; The Yocto Project; Further reading; Summary; Storage options; Accessing flash memory from the bootloader; Accessing flash memory from Linux; Filesystems for flash memory.
  • Filesystems for NOR and NAND flash memoryFilesystems for managed flash; Read-only compressed filesystems; Temporary filesystems; Making the root filesystem read-only; Filesystem choices; Updating in the field; Further reading; Summary; The role of device drivers; Character devices; Block devices; Network devices; Finding out about drivers at runtime; Finding the right device driver; Device drivers in user-space; Writing a kernel device driver; Loading kernel modules; Discovering hardware configuration; Additional reading; Summary; After the kernel has booted; Introducing the init programs.