Free training materials and conference presentations from Free Electrons, covering real-time, embedded Linux system and device driver development.
License
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Linux kernel
- Introduction to the Linux kernel
- Embedded Linux kernel usage
- Embedded Linux kernel and driver development
- New features in Linux 2.6 (since 2.6.10)
- Kernel initialization
- Power management in Linux
- Kernel architecture for device drivers
- Linux PCI drivers
- Block device drivers
- Network device drivers
- Serial device drivers
- USB drivers
- DMA
- Kernel advice and resources
- Porting the Linux kernel to a new ARM board.
- Introduction to Git
Architecture specific documents
Embedded Linux system development
- Introduction to embedded Linux
- Embedded Linux system development
- Cross-compiling toolchains
- BusyBox
- Real time in embedded Linux systems
- POSIX API – Threads, real-time and IPC
- Block filesystems
- Flash filesystems
- Embedded Linux application development
- Linux bootloaders
- The U-boot bootloader
- Porting U-boot to new hardware
- The GRUB bootloader
- The blob bootloader
- Hotplugging with udev
- Introduction to uClinux
- Java in embedded Linux
- Embedded Linux optimizations
- Audio in embedded Linux systems
- Multimedia in embedded Linux systems
- Embedded Linux From Scratch… in 40 minutes!
- Building embedded Linux systems with Buildroot
- Developing embedded distributions with OpenEmbedded
- The Scratchbox development environment
Miscellaneous
- Introduction to the Unix command line
- SSH
- Linux virtualization solutions (with an embedded perspective)
- Advantages of Free Software and Open Source in embedded systems
- Introduction to GNU/Linux and Free Software
- Linux and ecology
Legacy documents
Not actively maintained any more. Can contain obsolete parts.