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Building Embedded Linux Systems
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When the author of this book’s first edition, Karim Yaghmour, first suggested using Linux in an embedded system back in 1997 while working for a hardware manufacturer, his suggestion was met with a certain degree of skepticism and surprise. Today, Linux is either in use already or is being actively considered for most embedded systems. Indeed, many industry giants and government agencies are increasingly relying on Linux for their embedded software needs. This book was very well received in its first edition, but a number of advances in the Linux kernel and accompanying tools since the book’s appearance make Linux even more attractive. Foremost among these are a number of real-time extensions and com- panion environments, some of which are discussed in the last three chapters of this edition. Also, since the first edition of this book, enthusiastic open source and free software programmers have simplified the building and installation of GNU/Linux components (we use “GNU” here to acknowledge the centrality of tools from this free software project in creating functional Linux systems). This second edition therefore introduces you to a world of wonderful high-level tools, including Eclipse and various tools that “build the build tools” for embedded Linux systems. But we preserve much of the low- level information for those who need it, and to help you understand what the helper tools are doing behind the scenes. In keeping with the explosions of progress on various parts of Linux and accompanying tools, it’s useful to get a variety of expert perspectives on topics in embedded and real- time Linux. Therefore, for the second edition of this book the authors are joined by a number of key participants in the GNU/Linux community, including those doing kernel development or creating related projects.
Second Edition
978-0-596-52968-0
NONE
Computer Science
English
2008
1-464
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