Embedded Linux Essentials
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Place: Online (1,5 days)
Enrol by: 10/10/2023
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Lena Bernhardsson – SE, NO
+46 (0) 40 59 22 09
lena.bernhardsson@nohau.se
Heidi Lehtomäki – Finland
phone: +358 40 196 0142
heidi.lehtomaki@nohau.fi
Flemming Jensen – Denmark
Phone: +45 44 52 16 60
fkj@nohau.dk
This is an intensive course for kick-starting development of embedded Linux systems. It is targeted to those that have little or no prior knowledge of embedded Linux.
The course is divided into three main categories:
- Introduction to embedded Linux
- Building embedded Linux systems
- Linux driver development
The first section covers topics like: Platform architecture (boot loader, kernel, root file system, services), system operation details (such as: startup procedure, busybox, C-libraries, file systems suited for embedding, flash disk considerations, …) and open source licenses.
The second part is an introduction to the Yocto Project including topics as: bitbake principles and operation, recipes, variables, operators, layers, SDK’s and how to build images for a specific target.
The final section is an introduction to Linux driver development including: kernel configuration and building, kernel architecture, driver classes, driver debugging, exchanging data with user space, file operations, memory management, blocking/non-blocking operation.
You will practice skills through the following exercises:
- Configure, setup and install the extensible SDK-environment from Yocto.
- Use the extensible SDK for building target images.
- Add package to the target image
- Cross-compile the kernel
- Build a simple driver
- Develop a a basic character device driver
- Implement blocking read/writeThe exercises will be executed in a cloud environment, but the course will provide all details on how to re-create an identical build machine on a computer of your own.