Linux has emerged as today’s #1 operating system for embedded products. Christopher Hallinan’s Embedded Linux Primer has proven itself as the definitive real-world guide to building efficient, high-value, embedded systems with Linux. Now, Hallinan has thoroughly updated this highly praised book for the newest Linux kernels, capabilities, tools, and hardware support, including advanced multicore processors.

Drawing on more than a decade of embedded Linux experience, Hallinan helps you rapidly climb the learning curve, whether you’re moving from legacy environments or you’re new to embedded programming. Hallinan addresses today’s most important development challenges and demonstrates how to solve the problems you’re most likely to encounter.

You’ll learn how to build a modern, efficient embedded Linux development environment, and then utilize it as productively as possible. Hallinan offers up-to-date guidance on everything from kernel configuration and initialization to bootloaders, device drivers to file systems, and BusyBox utilities to real-time configuration and system analysis. This edition adds entirely new chapters on UDEV, USB, and open source build systems.

Tour the typical embedded system and development environment and understand its concepts and components.

Understand the Linux kernel and userspace initialization processes.

Preview bootloaders, with specific emphasis on U-Boot.

Configure the Memory Technology Devices (MTD) subsystem to interface with flash (and other) memory devices.

Make the most of BusyBox and latest open source development tools.

Learn from expanded and updated coverage of kernel debugging.

Build and analyze real-time systems with Linux.

Learn to configure device files and driver loading with UDEV.

Walk through detailed coverage of the USB subsystem.

Introduces the latest open source embedded Linux build systems.

Reference appendices include U-Boot and BusyBox commands.

作者简介：

Christopher Hallinan 著名嵌入式Linux技术专家。现任Mentor Graphics公司技术市场工程师，曾任MontaVista软件公司现场应用工程师，3Com公司工程总监，Crosscomm公司工程总监。他有25年以上网络和通信产品的软硬件开发经验。曾担任Linux咨询师，提供定制Linux主板接口、设备驱动程序和引导装入程序等方面的解决方案