Can someone tell me where I can find documents or a site on how to build a "userland" for an embedded system? I cant seem to find out what this should entail.
- Adam
Building a User-Land
Oct 08, 2003
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For the only meaning of "user-land" I'm aware of: you don't. The very existence of user-land processes means the system almost certainly doesn't deserve to be called "embedded" any longer.
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
Userland is where low-priority, untrusted processes are multiplexed. It the OS does not provide for that, then you can't "build" it.
If, however, you have a unix-like OS, take a look at BusyBox. It's dozens of commands in one.
That's a pretty big call! My understanding of "userland" is any non-kernel process, so any embedded system running linux or a linux variant will perform a majority of its work with so called "userland" applications.
Cheers,
John
Dr John Williams, Research Fellow,
Reconfigurable Computing, School of ITEE
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Ph : (07) 3365 8305
Thank you I have researched Busybox and I think I will go in that direction.
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