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- Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical, Real-World Approach
- Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical, Real-World Approach
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Section 1.1. Why Linux?
- Section 1.2. Embedded Linux Today
- Section 1.3. Open Source and the GPL
- Section 1.4. Standards and Relevant Bodies
- Section 1.5. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 2. Your First Embedded Experience
- Section 2.1. Embedded or Not?
- Section 2.2. Anatomy of an Embedded System
- Section 2.3. Storage Considerations
- Section 2.4. Embedded Linux Distributions
- Section 2.5. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 3. Processor Basics
- Section 3.1. Stand-alone Processors
- Section 3.2. Integrated Processors: Systems on Chip
- Section 3.3. Hardware Platforms
- Section 3.4. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 4. The Linux KernelA Different Perspective
- Section 4.1. Background
- Section 4.2. Linux Kernel Construction
- Section 4.3. Kernel Build System
- Section 4.4. Obtaining a Linux Kernel
- Section 4.5. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 5. Kernel Initialization
- Section 5.1. Composite Kernel Image: Piggy and Friends
- Section 5.2. Initialization Flow of Control
- Section 5.3. Kernel Command Line Processing
- Section 5.4. Subsystem Initialization
- Section 5.5. The init Thread
- Section 5.6. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 6. System Initialization
- Section 6.1. Root File System
- Section 6.2. Kernel s Last Boot Steps
- Section 6.3. The Init Process
- Section 6.4. Initial RAM Disk
- Section 6.5. Using initramfs
- Section 6.6. Shutdown
- Section 6.7. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 7. Bootloaders
- Section 7.1. Role of a Bootloader
- Section 7.2. Bootloader Challenges
- Section 7.3. A Universal Bootloader: Das U-Boot
- Section 7.4. Porting U-Boot
- Section 7.5. Other Bootloaders
- Section 7.6. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 8. Device Driver Basics
- Section 8.1. Device Driver Concepts
- Section 8.2. Module Utilities
- Section 8.3. Driver Methods
- Section 8.4. Bringing It All Together
- Section 8.5. Device Drivers and the GPL
- Section 8.6. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 9. File Systems
- Section 9.1. Linux File System Concepts
- Section 9.2. ext2
- Section 9.3. ext3
- Section 9.4. ReiserFS
- Section 9.5. JFFS2
- Section 9.6. cramfs
- Section 9.7. Network File System
- Section 9.8. Pseudo File Systems
- Section 9.9. Other File Systems
- Section 9.10. Building a Simple File System
- Section 9.11. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 10. MTD Subsystem
- Section 10.1. Enabling MTD Services
- Section 10.2. MTD Basics
- Section 10.3. MTD Partitions
- Section 10.4. MTD Utilities
- Section 10.5. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 11. BusyBox
