Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical, Real-World Approach

by Christopher Hallinan

Book Overview

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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131679848
• ISBN13: 9780131679849
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 537 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book

This book is excellent to construct embedded software using Linux. This book explain all the process involved in embedded devices (toolchain, bsp, bootloader, cross-compilation, etc). This book is not inteded as entry book, you must have experience with Linux, C, compilers, etc. There are plenty lines of code an examples therefore is a practical book but you need to work on it This book is a professional one, therefore this book can carry you to get real embedded linux appliances. Jorge Luis

Really heapful

For those engineers who start their first embedded Linux project, this book is a must have. The book is not for those who want to understand how kernel runs but it gives you the most important concept and work flow to bring up the OS on your development board. The author also provides a useful further reading list in case you want to dig more. A very practical and clearly written book and I would recommend it to those who have solid experience in embedded development but just start to explore in Linux.

Very good book to study embedded Linux

This book, the CALAO SYSTEM USB-A9260 card, an eeePC and a cross over cable is all that you need to study embedded system everywhere (even along the Seine river in Paris - yes I did it !). The chapters about the U-BOOT bootloader, the BUSYBOX embeded Linux and an extra piece of information on the JFFS2 file system are welcome. If the cross-development environment chapter had been about BUILDROOT, this book would have been THE BOOK for the present embedded Linux based systems designers.

Excellent survey

I am an experienced embedded developer that just inherited an embedded Linux-based project already in progress. As there happens to be no one else at my company with any embedded Linux experience, I automatically became the de-facto Linux expert and I needed to come up to speed on a lot of topics very quickly. I found this book to be an excellent survey of the must-know topics for the embedded Linux developer. It also contains many references to the most definitive sources of information on the various topics. Highly recommended for coming up to speed on embedded Linux.

Practical advice from an experienced practitioner

Hallinan's book presents a balanced tour of the basic knowledge required for an embedded Linux design effort. The subject is exceedingly large and the author wisely chooses to focus on essentials such as tools, debugging, and architecture. There is less emphasis on quickly dated material such as source code tours and build instructions as is found in other texts. This book will add to your knowledge... not just your script library. Two attributes of this text are notable: a) This is the only text on the market with an overview of the latest CONFIG_RT technology found in the Linux kernel. CONFIG_RT is a new way of reaching real time performance requirements that does not depend on sub-kernels or interrupt abstraction. b) The author remains true to making this a "primer". This is an ideal book to start with and lay the foundation for future learning