Front Cover -- Linux for Embedded and Real-Time Applications -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Audience and Prerequisites -- Personal Biases -- Organization -- 1: Introduction and Getting Started -- 1: The Embedded and Real-Time Space -- What Is Embedded? -- What Is Real-Time? -- How and Why Does Linux Fit In? -- Open Source -- Portable and Scalable -- Where Is Linux Embedded? -- Open Source Licensing -- Legal Issues -- Resources -- 2: Installing Linux -- Distributions -- Debian GNU/Linux -- Fedora -- Red Hat Enterprise Linux -- SUSE -- Ubuntu -- Hardware Requirements -- Installation Scenarios -- Stand-Alone -- Dual-Booting -- Virtualization -- DVD or Live CD? -- Installation Process -- Disk Partitioning -- Package Selection -- Resources -- Specific Distribution Sites -- Other Resources -- 3: Introducing Linux -- Running Linux-KDE -- File Manager -- Shell Window -- Linux Features -- Protected Mode Architecture -- Real Mode -- Protected Mode -- "Flat" vs. Segmented Memory Models -- Paging -- The Linux Process Model -- The fork() Function -- The execve() Function -- The Linux File System -- File Permissions -- The "root" User -- The /proc File System -- The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard -- The /usr Hierarchy -- "Mounting" File Systems -- System Configuration -- The Shell -- Getting Help -- Resources -- 4: The Host Development Environment -- Cross-Development Tools-The GNU Tool Chain -- GCC -- Make -- GDB -- Install Software -- What's on the DVD? -- Install Cross-Tool Chain -- Install Root File System -- The Terminal Emulator, minicom -- Networking -- Network Address -- What About Wireless? -- Network File System -- Trivial File Transfer Protocol -- Resources -- 5: The Hardware -- Embedded Hardware -- ARM Single Board Computer -- Specifications -- What About Other Boards? -- BeagleBoard -- Specifications (Rev. C4) -- Gumstix.

Specifications -- Raspberry Pi -- Specifications -- Setting Up the Mini2440 -- Flash Memory and File Systems -- Flash Memory-NAND and NOR -- Root File System in Flash -- Preparing the Board -- Sample Code -- factory_images -- The Script Files -- mini_boot -- set-mini_boot -- *.sh -- The Procedure -- Final Steps -- What Can Go Wrong? -- The Boot Loader -- Resources -- Sites for Alternate Boards -- 6: Eclipse Integrated Development Environment -- Overview -- Plug-ins -- Workbench -- Installation -- Using Eclipse -- The C Development Environment-CDT -- Creating a New Project -- Adding Source Code to the Project -- Content Assist -- Code Templates -- Automatic Closing -- The Program -- Building the Project -- Debugging with CDT -- The Debug View -- Variables View -- Breakpoints View -- Memory View -- Finish Debugging -- Summary -- Resources -- 2: Application Programming in a Cross-Development Environment -- 7: Accessing Hardware from User Space -- Review -- ARM I/O Architecture -- LEDs and Pushbuttons -- Accessing I/O from Linux-Our First Program -- Creating a Project -- The Target Execution Environment -- The led Program -- The Makefile -- A Data Acquisition Example -- Resources -- 8: Debugging Embedded Software -- Remote Debugging with Eclipse -- Remote Debug Launch Configuration -- A Thermostat -- Host Workstation as Debug Environment -- Advanced Breakpoint Features -- Debugger Services Framework -- Installing SSH -- Add a Password for Root -- Configuring RSE -- Debugging with RSE -- Resources -- 9: Posix Threads -- Threads -- Thread Attributes -- Synchronization-Mutexes -- Mutex Attributes -- Problems with Solving the Resource Sharing Problem-Priority Inversion -- Communication-Condition Variables -- Condition Variable Attributes -- Thread Termination and Cancellation -- Cleanup Handlers -- Pthreads Implementations -- Upgrading the Thermostat.

Linux Device Drivers -- The Low Level I/O API -- Changes Required in thermostat.c -- Debugging Multithreaded Programs -- Resources -- 10: Embedded Networking -- Sockets -- The Server Process -- The Client Process -- Socket Attributes -- A Simple Example -- The Server -- The Client -- A Remote Thermostat -- Multiple Monitor Threads -- Embedded Web Servers -- Background on HTTP -- A Web-Enabled Thermostat -- Dynamic Web Content -- Forms and the POST Method -- Build and Try it -- A "Real" Web Server-Boa -- Embedded E-mail -- Other Application-Level Protocols -- Resources -- 11: Configuring and Building the Kernel -- Getting Started -- Kernel Version Numbering -- The Kernel Source Tree -- Kernel Makefile -- Patching the Kernel -- Configuring the Kernel-make config, menuconfig, xconfig -- xconfig Options -- .config File -- Behind the Scenes-What's Really Happening -- Building the Kernel -- Workstation Digression -- Booting the New Kernel -- Resources -- 12: Kernel Modules and Device Drivers -- Kernel Modules -- A Module Example -- "Tainting" the Kernel -- Kernel Modules and the GPL -- Building Kernel Modules -- The Role of a Module -- What's a Device Driver Anyway? -- Linux Device Drivers -- The /dev Directory -- The Low-Level User Space I/O APIs -- Internal Driver Structure -- Driver Data Structures -- init() and exit() -- open() and release() -- read() and write() -- Building and Running the Driver -- Debugging Kernel Code -- printk -- /proc Files -- Handling Interrupts -- Registering an Interrupt Handler -- Probing for the Interrupt -- Deferred Processing-the "Bottom Half" -- Building Your Driver into the Kernel -- Resources -- 3: Components and Tools -- 13: BusyBox and Linux Initialization -- Introducing BusyBox -- Configuring and Installing BusyBox -- BusyBox Settings -- Applets -- Building and Installing -- Using BusyBox -- A Thermostat Display.

ANSI Terminal Escape Sequences -- Thermostat Display -- ncurses Library -- User Space Initialization -- Stage 1 Boot Loader -- U-Boot -- Linux Kernel -- Init Process -- Resources -- 14: U-Boot Boot Loader and Getting Ready to Ship -- U-Boot -- Background -- Installing and Configuring U-Boot -- Testing a New U-Boot -- "JTAGing" the NOR -- Creating a Flash File System -- More Thoughts on Flash Partitions -- The Flat Device Tree -- Resources -- 15: Source Code Control-GIT -- Background -- Introducing Git -- File States and Life Cycle -- Branching and Merging -- Configuring Git -- Graphical Git -- Creating a New Repository -- Resources -- 16: Build Tools -- Buildroot -- OpenEmbedded -- Getting Started -- Personal Observations -- Android -- Application Development -- Platform Development -- Wrap Up -- Resources -- Appendix A: U-Boot Commands -- Information Commands -- Memory Commands -- NOR Flash Memory Commands -- NAND Flash Memory Commands -- Execution Control Commands -- Download Commands -- Environment Variable Commands -- Environment Variables -- Appendix B: Why Software Should Not Have Owners -- Index.