Training materials

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PDF

• Slides: English, Italian
• Labs: English, Italian

OpenDocument Format

• Slides: English, Italian
• Labs: English, Italian

HTML

• Slides: English, Italian

Description

Introduction

The GNU / Linux system is the best environment to develop an embedded Linux system. A great number of tools are available. They are created, used and constantly improved by a large community of developers and users.
This guarantees to developers that most of their needs will be satisfied, and that they will find lots of documentation and support resources on the Internet.

Duration

1 day. 1/3 of theory and 2/3 of practical labs.

Language

English or French

Audience

Developers and integrators of devices using the Linux kernel. Device driver developers.

Benefits

Better productivity in developing and integrating embedded Linux systems.

Course objectives

Make the audience familiar with development tool capabilities, and show them Internet resources where they can find documentation and support resources.

Prerequisites

Knowledge and practise of Unix or GNU / Linux commands.

Needed equipment

Video projector, 1 PC computer on each desk (1 or 2 people). No operating system requirement.

Materials

Print and electronic copy of presentations and labs. Electronic copy of lab files.

Contents

GNU / Linux workstation

Choosing GNU/Linux distribution and packages
Dedicated commercial toolsets and distributions
Getting or compiling a cross-compiling toolchain
Automatic building of a custom system using OpenEmbedded
Emulators
Minicom: serial console and file transfer with the target device
How to find existing Free Software for a particular need

Target device

Choosing the C library
Busybox: very compact toolbox. Configuration and cross-compiling
Other lightweight tools for embedded devices
Precompiled packages, distributions
Text editors for embedded systems