Please Recommend Good Embedded Linux Book

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Please Recommend Good Embedded Linux Book which is more geared towards
Beagle XM and beaglebone.

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What exactly are you looking to learn about? There's a wide variety
of things one can do with a Beagle. Understanding what your goals are
will make it easier to provide good recommendations.

For example, do you want to:

build a Linux system from scratch?
build 3D apps?
do multimedia processing?
control external devices?
write web apps?
build a robot?

-Andrew

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I’m interested in building a system from scratch. Thank you for your thoughts.

Ed

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> Please Recommend Good Embedded Linux Book which is more geared towards
> Beagle XM and beaglebone.

My USB Embedded Hosts book has Linux example code for accessing USB devices from a BeagleBoard-xM. More info is here:

http://www.lvr.com/usb_embedded_hosts.htm

Jan

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Andrew

I am interested in build a robot and control external devices with Linux

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Hi

I am interested in writing web apps and controlling external devices with Linux. Thanks for your helps.

Rabia

2011/12/24 Rajan Sachdeva <sachdevasinc@hotmail.com>

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Ed,

You could check out the Cross Linux from Scratch project for learning
how to build Linux from scratch.
http://trac.cross-lfs.org/

Direct ARM embedded book:
http://cross-lfs.org/view/clfs-embedded/arm/

The embedded and sysroot books are a bit of a work in progress, and
you'll need to configure and build your own kernel and bootloaders
(instructions aren't easy to write for a variety of targets, you can
just use the provided bootloader that comes with a Beagle and the
defconfigs that come with kernel source).
The main CLFS book is very well developed but doesn't target ARM.

My BeagleBoard-xM booted an older CLFS embedded book build here:
https://gist.github.com/874183

-Andrew

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I’ve been using Embedded Linux Primer[1] 2nd Edition in my BeagleClass [2]. It isn’t Beagle specific, thought it isn’t hard to map its examples to the Beagle. It touches on a wide range of topics (booting, kernel modules, busybox, etc), each has (or could have) a whole book written on it. You get a nice big picture of what all is involved with embedding Linux.

–Mark

[1] http://books.google.com/books/about/Embedded_Linux_Primer.html?id=wT0_fkfLi7gC
[2] http://elinux.org/index.php?title=Category:ECE497

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i'll second the recommendation of the hallinan book, and not just
because i was one of its technical reviewers. :slight_smile:

  i'll add a recommendation of "essential linux device drivers", for
more specific driver examples: http://elinuxdd.com/~elinuxdd/

  finally, there's all the content over at free-electrons.com,
including an entire page on the beagle,

http://free-electrons.com/blog/beagle-labs/

which, for all i know, might borrow liberally from mark's material.

rday

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Thank you Andrew

Happy New Year,
Ed

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LDD3

2011/12/29 Ed Grassel <aslan.aslansoftware.com@gmail.com>

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while LDD3 is available online, http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/, it is
showing its age these days. so it's worth reading as long as you keep
in mind that there are newer features that aren't covered in it.

rday

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Perhaps someone might be interested in (commercial) Video training courses:
(embedded Linux ARM9).

http://gogotraining.com/training/courses/188/handsonembeddedlinux/

http://gogotraining.com/training/courses/46/linuxdevicedriversprogrammingatt
hekernellevel/

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