Building Embedded Linux Systems

By Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Philippe Gerum

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008, Paperback

Product Description

There's a great deal of excitement surrounding the use of Linux in embedded systems — for everything from cell phones to car ABS systems and water-filtration plants — but not a lot of practical information. Building Embedded Linux Systems offers an in-depth, hard-core guide to putting together embedded systems based on Linux.

Updated for the latest version of the Linux kernel, this new edition gives you the basics of building embedded Linux systems, along with the configuration, setup, and use of more than 40 different open source and free software packages in common use. The book also looks at the strengths and weaknesses of using Linux in an embedded system, plus a discussion of licensing issues, and an introduction to real-time, with a discussion of real-time options for Linux.

This indispensable book features arcane and previously undocumented procedures for:

Building your own GNU development toolchain
Using an efficient embedded development framework
Selecting, configuring, building, and installing a target-specific kernel
Creating a complete target root filesystem
Setting up, manipulating, and using solid-state storage devices
Installing and configuring a bootloader for the target
Cross-compiling a slew of utilities and packages
Debugging your embedded system using a plethora of tools and techniques
Using the uClibc, BusyBox, U-Boot, OpenSSH, thttpd, tftp, strace, and gdb packages

By presenting how to build the operating system components from pristine sources and how to find more documentation or help, Building Embedded Linux Systems greatly simplifies the task of keeping complete control over your embedded operating system.

Product Details

Title: Building Embedded Linux Systems
Sales Rank: 59247 in Books
Author: Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Philippe Gerum
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2 edition, 2008-08-26, Paperback, 462 pages, ISBN: 0596529686
Package Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 1.2 inches, 1.45 pounds

Customer Reviews

a good book to have in your arsenal: This book was a highly recommended reference book at my previous job at an embedded systems company. As the title of the book suggests, this text gives the reader a good foundation on the concepts required to build an embedded Linux system.… More reviews

Building Embedded Linux Systems: I'm a beginner in embedded development on Linux. I find the book very good. It's compact, very well written and has detailed descriptions of the procedures to building embedded Linux systems. More reviews

A must-have for this kind of project!: On the one hand, a typical Linux user is going to install a pre-built package (Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu, etc) on pre-built PC. This book isn't for them - there are plenty of books for learning and using Linux.
On the other hand, embedded systems developers often have a good, working toolchain from a vendor like WindRiver or DataLight. This… More reviews

Book is kind of outdated: Book is based on 2.4 kernel. Since we are currently at 2.6 kernel this book does seem to have outdated information More reviews

Good guide: It would be a good guide to a person to prepare for a project to develop embedded linux system. It gives you the information what is necessar, what is work well and how to get them. But you should have some experience on linux language.
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