Embedded FreeBSD Cookbook (Embedded Technology)

✍ Scribed by Paul Cevoli Paul Cevoli is an embedded systems engineer and programmer with over 15 years of experience with various embedded operating systems.

• Publisher: Newnes
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Series: Embedded Technology
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A complete waste of time and money. This book is misrepresented in what it claims to be about. It contains very little information specific to embedded FreeBSD.

The author should have written much more about minimizing the kernel, limiting memory usage, device driver development, and flash storage issues - because these are the topics that are the most relevent to an embedded system. The discussion about using Tomcat, JSP, and JNI to provide web access to an embedded device - while important - is severely lacking.

A good book about an embedded operating system will explore the problems and trade-offs that a systems developer will have to make. It would also discuss getting the OS to run on a single board computer - such as one of the devboards listed in the FreeBSD ARM project. This book does neither.

✦ Table of Contents

Prerequisites and Other Resour ces......Page 13
Embedded Systems......Page 17
Internet Appliances......Page 18
The DIO Server Appliance......Page 20
Process......Page 25
Daemons......Page 37
Library Functions and System Calls......Page 43
Creating a System Call......Page 48
Driver Environment......Page 65
Driver Structure......Page 67
The DIO24 Device Driver......Page 75
Shared Libraries......Page 93
Accessing the Device Driver......Page 95
PCI-DIO24 Hardware Registers......Page 98
The DIO24 Application Inter face Library......Page 103
Introduction to TCP/IP......Page 119
Socket System Calls......Page 123
The DIO Daemon......Page 131
Using Secure Shell (SSH)......Page 139
The DIOShell......Page 146
The JDK......Page 159
Creating the JNI Layer......Page 161
Tomcat......Page 173
JSP Overview......Page 176
The DIO JSP Page......Page 178
10 Building the Kernel......Page 183
Building the DIO Kernel......Page 193
Building the FreeBSD Kernel......Page 196
Disk Geometry......Page 199
Master Boot Record......Page 201
PC BIOS......Page 205
FreeBSD Boot Loader......Page 206
Starting DIO Components......Page 210
Solid-state Devices......Page 213
Installing the T ARC CompactFlash Adapter......Page 214
Configuring the CompactFlash Device......Page 215
Startup Configuration......Page 217
A The FreeBSD License......Page 223
B PCI Configuration......Page 225
Kernel Loadable Modules......Page 231
System Calls......Page 235
Device Drivers......Page 237
Commands......Page 242

✦ Subjects

Библиотека;Компьютерная литература;Linux / Unix;FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD;