Embedded Operating Systems: A Practical Approach

✍ Scribed by Alan Holt,Chi-Yu Huang (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 244
• Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This easy-to- follow textbook/reference guides the reader through the creation of a fully functional embedded operating system, from its source code, in order to develop a deeper understanding of each component and how they work together. The text describes in detail the procedure for building the bootloader, kernel, filesystem, shared libraries, start-up scripts, configuration files and system utilities, to produce a GNU/Linux operating system. This fully updated second edition also includes new material on virtual machine technologies such as VirtualBox, Vagrant and the Linux container system Docker.

Topics and features: presents an overview of the GNU/Linux system, introducing the components of the system, and covering aspects of process management, input/output and environment; discusses containers and the underlying kernel technology upon which they are based; provides a detailed examination of the GNU/Linux filesystem; explains how to build an embedded system under a virtual machine, and how to build an embedded system to run natively on an actual processor;introduces the concept of the compiler toolchain, and reviews the platforms BeagleBone and Raspberry Pi; describes how to build firmware images for devices running the Openwrt operating system.

The hands-on nature and clearly structured approach of this textbook will appeal strongly to practically minded undergraduate and graduate level students, as well as to industry professionals involved in this area.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Introduction (Alan Holt, Chi-Yu Huang)....Pages 1-10
Overview of GNU/Linux (Alan Holt, Chi-Yu Huang)....Pages 11-40
Containers (Alan Holt, Chi-Yu Huang)....Pages 41-67
The Filesystem in Detail (Alan Holt, Chi-Yu Huang)....Pages 69-100
Building an Embedded System (First Pass) (Alan Holt, Chi-Yu Huang)....Pages 101-113
Building an Embedded System (Second Pass) (Alan Holt, Chi-Yu Huang)....Pages 115-149
Compiler Toolchains (Alan Holt, Chi-Yu Huang)....Pages 151-169
Embedded ARM Devices (Alan Holt, Chi-Yu Huang)....Pages 171-194
Openwrt (Alan Holt, Chi-Yu Huang)....Pages 195-217
Back Matter ....Pages 219-234

✦ Subjects

Operating Systems