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Embedded Linux Design and Development

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X454.3 (2 semester units in EECS)

This course provides developers with hands-on experience with creating embedded Linux system images. You create a root file system from scratch and build the Linux kernel, directories, configuration files, shell, utilities, and other pieces. You also examine issues such as the details of cross development, issues with file systems, the kernel space versus user space divide, size constraints, flash memory characteristics, working with boot loaders, fundamentals of GCC and GDB, configuring and building BusyBox, library issues, working with loadable modules, and network configuration.

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