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Course Outline
Introduction
- History of Unix/Linux
- Free Software
- Unix Philosophy
HOST PLAYGROUND
- Hands-on with GNU/Linux
- architecture
- shell
- permissions
- FHS (file hierarchy standard)
- hard/soft links
- real/effective uid/gid
- scheduler
- process/task/thread
- IPC (Inter-Process Communication): simple and advanced
- pipes
- signals
- message queues
- semaphores
- shared memory
- sockets
- select/poll
- IPC techniques to avoid
- Host Linux setup
- Yocto/ELDK (cross/target tools, libraries, packages)
- Terminal Emulation
- Servers (DHCP, tftp, NFS)
TARGET PLAYGROUND
- Files required to run on the board
- JTAG/BDI config
- u-boot (checkout, config, build)
- kernel (checkout, config, build)
- rootfs
- flat device tree
- Build and execute applicable components on the target board
- Various rootfs options
- CRAMFS
- ramdisk
- MTD
- JFFS2
- roEXT2
- ubi
- Build and execute applicable root file systems on the target board
- Comparison of root file systems
- Debugging
- simple tools
- local/remote
- user/kernel
- gdb
- gdbserver
- JTAG/BDI (optional)
- Profiling
- gprof
- gcov
- oprofile
REAL-TIME
- Prerequisites
- interrupts
- reentrant code
- Real-time Linux
- explicit/implicit preemption points
- real-time preemption patch
- fully preemptive kernel
- hard real-time extensions
- Adeos/Xenomai
- adeos patch
- xenomai
- patch/config/build kernel
- Run on board
SW RELEASE
- administration
- development
- How to reproduce a software release?
MISC
- getopt
- endianess
- cheat-sheets
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Requirements
- Basic familiarity with using a GNU/Linux system (e.g., Ubuntu) as an end-user in user space
- Basic familiarity with a command-line shell
- Basic knowledge of user space/application development with GNU/Linux
- Basic knowledge regarding embedded processors and development boards
- Basic C programming knowledge
- ...or alternatively, the willingness and fearlessness to learn the above
35 Hours
Testimonials (3)
The trainer's presentation and way of communicating.
Gianpiero Arico - Urmet Spa
Course - Embedded Linux Systems Architecture
I enjoyed having done full days of courses
Gianluca - Urmet Spa
Course - Embedded Linux Systems Architecture
Maybe more exercises could be better for lerning but the time was to little