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Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787283282

Length 478 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

System Programming

Author (1):

Chris Simmonds

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Starting Out

2. Learning About Toolchains FREE CHAPTER

3. All About Bootloaders

4. Configuring and Building the Kernel

5. Building a Root Filesystem

6. Selecting a Build System

7. Creating a Storage Strategy

8. Updating Software in the Field

9. Interfacing with Device Drivers

10. Starting Up – The init Program

11. Managing Power

12. Learning About Processes and Threads

13. Managing Memory

14. Debugging with GDB

15. Profiling and Tracing

16. Real-Time Programming

Buildroot

The Buildroot project website is at http://buildroot.org.

The current versions of Buildroot are capable of building a toolchain, a bootloader, a kernel, and a root filesystem. It uses GNU make as the principal build tool. There is good online documentation at http://buildroot.org/docs.html, including The Buildroot user manual at https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html.

Background

Buildroot was one of the first build systems. It began as part of the uClinux and uClibc projects as a way of generating a small root filesystem for testing. It became a separate project in late 2001 and continued to evolve through to 2006, after which it went into a rather dormant phase. However, since 2009, when Peter Korsgaard took over stewardship, it has been developing rapidly, adding support for glibc based toolchains and a greatly increased number of packages and target boards.

As a matter of interest, Buildroot is also the ancestor of another popular build system, OpenWrt (http://wiki.openwrt...