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Published inDec 2014
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Hunyue Yau
Hunyue Yau
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Hunyue Yau

Hunyue Yau is an electrical engineer who graduated from the California Institute of Technology. He has worked with Linux since the early '90s, starting with the Soft Landing System. He created one of the first embedded Linux devices in 1996 with a custom-made distribution. He has worked on various products such as embedded Linux appliances, embedded BSD-based devices, and embedded Linux mobile devices. As an active member of the BeagleBoard community, he has volunteered at numerous community events, from Maker Faire to Google Summer of Code mentoring. Today, Hunyue synergizes his electrical engineering skills with embedded Linux software skills to provide turnkey embedded Linux consulting services through HY Research LLC (http://www.hy-research.com/), a company founded by him.
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The boot process can be altered by pressing the user button to force booting from an external microSD card or other devices. Regardless of which device or boot media, the BBB/BBW only knows to look for MLO. The MLO file is the first member of the chain that ends with Linux running. As such, a corrupt MLO/u-boot can make the board appear dead unless the debug serial port is examined.

After going through the exercises and building an understanding of the essentials of the BeagleBone, the next step is to build on what you have learned. You can apply this knowledge on your own projects or adapt one of the many open source projects for the BeagleBone. In the course of your project, you will learn more advanced techniques as you encounter hurdles. The theory presented in this book should provide a foundation to help surmount the challenges from your own projects.

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Hunyue Yau

Hunyue Yau is an electrical engineer who graduated from the California Institute of Technology. He has worked with Linux since the early '90s, starting with the Soft Landing System. He created one of the first embedded Linux devices in 1996 with a custom-made distribution. He has worked on various products such as embedded Linux appliances, embedded BSD-based devices, and embedded Linux mobile devices. As an active member of the BeagleBoard community, he has volunteered at numerous community events, from Maker Faire to Google Summer of Code mentoring. Today, Hunyue synergizes his electrical engineering skills with embedded Linux software skills to provide turnkey embedded Linux consulting services through HY Research LLC (http://www.hy-research.com/), a company founded by him.
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