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Embedded Linux Essentials Handbook

Embedded Linux Essentials Handbook

By : Mohammed Billoo
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Embedded Linux Essentials Handbook

Embedded Linux Essentials Handbook

By: Mohammed Billoo

Overview of this book

Embedded Linux now powers everything from IoT devices to industrial systems, making it essential for embedded software engineers to be skilled at customizing, deploying, and developing for these platforms. This hands-on guide walks you through the core concepts of Embedded Linux using practical, real-world examples on Raspberry Pi 4 and 5. For those without access to hardware, it also demonstrates how to simulate embedded Linux systems using QEMU. This book contains code samples that you can follow along and build three real-world projects: a Python web-based dashboard that retrieves and displays data from a temperature sensor and two GUI applications demonstrating how to use the Qt framework on Embedded Linux using two different development paradigms. You’ll also step into advanced territory with Linux kernel debugging techniques and discover how to harness eBPF, building the experience employers want and the confidence to tackle complex embedded challenges. By the end of this book, you'll have a solid grasp of Embedded Linux development and the skills to build and deploy production-ready, modern embedded applications.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Preface
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Part I: Getting Started with Embedded Linux
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Part II: Building an Embedded Linux Image
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Part III: Developing Applications
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Part IV: Advanced Topics, Implementing CI/CD, Best Practices, and Looking Ahead
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Looking to the Future
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Unlock Your Exclusive Benefits
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

Learning About U-Boot

As we learned in the previous chapter, the bootloader is one of the first pieces of software to be executed when an embedded Linux system is powered. We also discovered that U-Boot is one of the most popular bootloaders used in embedded Linux systems. In this chapter, we are going to learn about U-Boot in detail. First, we will review U-Boot’s source code to understand its flow on a Raspberry Pi 5. Then, we will learn about other interesting directories in the source code and their purpose. For example, we will discover how U-Boot interacts with different hardware peripherals via device drivers.

Additionally, we will explore how U-Boot allows a user to set and save relevant information in persistent storage. Afterward, we will build U-Boot and run it on a Raspberry Pi 5 inside QEMU. However, before that, we will take a slight detour and build on our understanding of the cross-compilation process. Specifically, we will learn how to retrieve an appropriate...

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