Need guidance !!

May 27, 2005 2 Replies
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hi,



i am a new bee to embedded linux. and i have gone through "building embedded linux application" by Karim yaghmour. i have understood the theoretical concept from that book. but still i am unable to build any embedded application.



it'll be great, if any of you can suggest me any project based on embedded linux so that i can start working on that , but then i need the documentation also . i know that i am requesting for a very big thing , but my desire to work on linux forced me to take the help from you all.


sushant



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If you are looking to build an embedded system yourself from sources, possibly the simplest project you could do is to get yourself a PC for the target system (anything will do, e.g. old 486 etc), an IDE to compact flash adapter card, a compact flash card + writer.

Then get the sources for a Linux kernel + busy box + lilo and compile as per book. Copy compiled programs onto compact flash card, create device nodes + filesystem + some config files again as per book. Plug compact flash into target PC and you are away (easier said than done!).

It's useful if your target PC has an ethernet connection, as you can configure busybox to telnet into the target and also NFS mount part of your host development PC - all this makes it easier when writing/testing your code that will run on the target.

It can be time consuming the first time you do it, but you will learn a great deal.

HTH, Regards,

Paul.

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Hi

An easy solution and/or inspiration can be found on my website:

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Regards

Tue

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