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Beaglebone Essentials

By : Rodolfo Giometti

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Beaglebone Essentials

5 (2)

By: Rodolfo Giometti

Overview of this book

If you are a developer with some hardware or electrical engineering experience who wants to learn how to use embedded machine-learning capabilities and get access to a GNU/Linux device driver to collect data from a peripheral or to control a device, this is the book for you.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Installing the Developing System

1. Installing the Developing System

Embedded world terms

A system overview

Checking out the preloaded tools

Setting up a developing system

(Re)Installing Debian

Summary

2. Managing the System Console

2. Managing the System Console

Getting access to the serial console

Basic system management

A quick tour of the bootloader

Summary

3. Compiling versus Cross-compiling

3. Compiling versus Cross-compiling

Native compilation versus cross-compilation

Compiling a user-space software package

Compiling the kernel

Summary

4. Quick Programming with Scripts

4. Quick Programming with Scripts

The GPIO subsystem

Managing an LED in PHP

Managing an LED in Python

Managing an LED in Bash

Summary

5. Device Drivers

5. Device Drivers

What is a device driver?

The modutils

Writing our own device driver

Summary

6. Serial Ports and TTY Devices

6. Serial Ports and TTY Devices

What is a serial port?

Implementation of serial ports

The serial ports in Linux

The communication parameters

A simple serial echo

Managing a real device

Summary

7. Universal Serial Bus – USB

7. Universal Serial Bus – USB

What is the Universal Serial Bus?

The electrical lines

The USB bus in Linux

Accessing the raw bus

Summary

8. Inter-integrated Circuit – I2C

8. Inter-integrated Circuit – I2C

What is the I2C bus?

The electrical lines

The I2C bus in Linux

Getting access to I2C devices

Accessing the bus directly

Summary

9. Serial Peripheral Interface – SPI

9. Serial Peripheral Interface – SPI

What is the SPI bus?

The electrical lines

Getting access to the SPI devices

Accessing the raw bus

Summary

10. 1-Wire Bus – W1

10. 1-Wire Bus – W1

What is the 1-Wire bus?

The electrical lines

The 1-Wire bus in Linux

Getting access to 1-Wire devices

Summary

11. Useful System Daemons

11. Useful System Daemons

What is a daemon?

Useful and ready-to-use daemons

Writing a custom daemon

Summary

Index

Index

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What is a daemon?

As already stated, a daemon is a computer program that runs as a background process. In particular, for an Unix system, the Unix Bible, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Addison-Wesley, by Richard Stevens says:

Daemons are processes that live for a long time. They are often started when the system is bootstrapped and terminate only when the system is shutdown. We say they run in background, because they don't have a controlling terminal.

This behavior is so important that a special function has been implemented in the glibc library that permits the developer to easily create a daemon process. The function is (obviously) named daemon().

You can see its documentation using the following command on every GNU/Linux system:

$ man daemon

Just to fix this concept, let's take a look at a possible implementation of the daemon() function in order to show you which steps a process should perform to turn itself into a daemon:

int daemon(void)
{
   int fd;

   /*...

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