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how to start with embedded Linux

alexvarghese

I am a starter in embedded system. I would like to start studying embedded Linux. How should I start with? Is it necessary to study any particular controller.

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    Me as well.  I am about halfway through 'Embedded Linux Primer' by Christopher Hallinan.  The going is good, but I will have to read all of the references to know what I am really doing.  Maybe you should start a blog delineating your progress.  Since Linux is a cluster of programs, I don't think there is a single eureka moment.

     

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    My kid, even though I warned him, rested his snowy/salted boot on the back of the book while it was on the floor of my truck when I had to stop suddenly for pedestrians at the cost killer.  Ran him in for little light sockets and knife switches for his nephew.  So the going will get a little crispy-crunchy toward then end.  Otherwise I am barrelling through at the rate of a chapter or two a day.

    Desktop Linux is different from embedded Linux, 'cause the resource expectation is less.  So I can't help you much, but we could document our progress together.

    Two Linux boards that I got working pretty readily were BananaPi and NVIDIA Jetson TK1.

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    I enrolled in an online class at edx.org called Embedded microprocessors, Shapping the World! offered by Austin, University of Texas. Happy after 2 weeks.

     

    Clem

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    I find this topic not to be really challenging at any given point, but I just get a sense of a whelming amount of material.  Maybe we should form some sort of support group on this topic.

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    I too would recommend the 'Embedded Linux Primer' by Christopher Hallinan book that Don referenced, as well as 'Building Embedded Linux Systems' by Yaghmour, Masters, Ben-Yossef and Gerum.   The version of Embedded Linux Primer I have uses the BeagleBone Black as a reference board for building an Embedded kernel and such.   The RaspiPi might be another board that would work as well and there are some AVR32 boards that support Embedded Linux so you might have a peak at those.

     

    I recently completed an Embedded Linux course via the UCI Extension program and learned quite a bit, but having one of the books mentioned and a board to go along with it might be good, as well as cheaper, way to go.

     

    Good Luck,

     

    Jon