Embedded Linux Session 3

Points covered:

1. Boot Loaders
   1. Boot loaders on x86
   2. Booting on embedded CPUs
   3. Generic boot laoders on embedded CPUs
   4. (Postponed) The U-Boot Boot Loader
2. Linux kernel introduction
   1. Linux kernel in the system
   2. History
   3. Linux licence
   4. Linux kernel key features
   5. Supported hardware architecture
   6. System calls
   7. Virtual file systems
   8. Embedded Linux usage
3. Embedded Linux kernel usage
   1. Location of kernel sources
   2. Linux Kernel size
   3. Getting Linux Sources
   4. Patch

Present:

• Mohamed Nour El-Din.
• Islam Hassan.
• Ahmed Mamdouh.
• Youssef Usama.

Assignments:

• Build a tool chain for arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi

See also:

Session 1: 2011-07-08-EmbeddedLinuxSessions
Session 2: 2011-07-23-EmbeddedLinuxSessions
Session 4: 2011-08-06-EmbeddedLinuxSessions
Session 5: 2011-08-20-EMbeddedLinuxSessions