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Mastering Embedded Linux Programming - Third Edition

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Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789530384
Pages 758 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Frank Vasquez Frank Vasquez
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Frank Vasquez is an independent software consultant specializing in consumer electronics. He has over a decade of experience designing and building embedded Linux systems. During that time, he has shipped numerous devices including a rackmount DSP audio server, a diver-held sonar camcorder, and a consumer IoT hotspot. Before his career as an embedded Linux engineer, Frank was a database kernel developer at IBM where he worked on DB2. He lives in Silicon Valley.
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Chris Simmonds Chris Simmonds
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Chris Simmonds is a software consultant and trainer living in southern England. He has almost two decades of experience in designing and building open-source embedded systems. He is the founder and chief consultant at 2net Ltd, which provides professional training and mentoring services in embedded Linux, Linux device drivers, and Android platform development. He has trained engineers at many of the biggest companies in the embedded world, including ARM, Qualcomm, Intel, Ericsson, and General Dynamics. He is a frequent presenter at open source and embedded conferences, including the Embedded Linux Conference and Embedded World.
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Elements of Embedded Linux
2. Chapter 1: Starting Out 3. Chapter 2: Learning about Toolchains 4. Chapter 3: All about Bootloaders 5. Chapter 4: Configuring and Building the Kernel 6. Chapter 5: Building a Root Filesystem 7. Chapter 6: Selecting a Build System 8. Chapter 7: Developing with Yocto 9. Chapter 8: Yocto Under the Hood 10. Section 2: System Architecture and Design Decisions
11. Chapter 9: Creating a Storage Strategy 12. Chapter 10: Updating Software in the Field 13. Chapter 11: Interfacing with Device Drivers 14. Chapter 12: Prototyping with Breakout Boards 15. Chapter 13: Starting Up – The init Program 16. Chapter 14: Starting with BusyBox runit 17. Chapter 15: Managing Power 18. Section 3: Writing Embedded Applications
19. Chapter 16: Packaging Python 20. Chapter 17: Learning about Processes and Threads 21. Chapter 18: Managing Memory 22. Section 4: Debugging and Optimizing Performance
23. Chapter 19: Debugging with GDB 24. Chapter 20: Profiling and Tracing 25. Chapter 21: Real-Time Programming 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Finding a toolchain

You have three choices for your cross-development toolchain: you may find a ready-built toolchain that matches your needs; you can use one generated by an embedded build tool, which is covered in Chapter 6, Selecting a Build System; or you can create one yourself as described later in this chapter.

A pre-built cross toolchain is an attractive option, in that you only have to download and install it, but you are limited to the configuration of that particular toolchain and you are dependent on the person or organization you got it from.

Most likely, it will be one of these:

  • An SoC or board vendor. Most vendors offer a Linux toolchain.
  • A consortium dedicated to providing system-level support for a given architecture. For example, Linaro, (https://www.linaro.org) have pre-built toolchains for the ARM architecture.
  • A third-party Linux tool vendor, such as Mentor Graphics, TimeSys, or MontaVista.
  • The cross-tool packages for your desktop Linux...
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Frank Vasquez is an independent software consultant specializing in consumer electronics. He has over a decade of experience designing and building embedded Linux systems. During that time, he has shipped numerous devices including a rackmount DSP audio server, a diver-held sonar camcorder, and a consumer IoT hotspot. Before his career as an embedded Linux engineer, Frank was a database kernel developer at IBM where he worked on DB2. He lives in Silicon Valley.
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Chris Simmonds is a software consultant and trainer living in southern England. He has almost two decades of experience in designing and building open-source embedded systems. He is the founder and chief consultant at 2net Ltd, which provides professional training and mentoring services in embedded Linux, Linux device drivers, and Android platform development. He has trained engineers at many of the biggest companies in the embedded world, including ARM, Qualcomm, Intel, Ericsson, and General Dynamics. He is a frequent presenter at open source and embedded conferences, including the Embedded Linux Conference and Embedded World.
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