· Linux overview

· Real time and embedded

· The kernel and its role

· Linux supported architectures

· Project overview

· Getting buildroot

· Quick start

· Configuration interfaces

· Using a predefined configuration

· The need for cross tool chains

· Tools naming convention

· Getting and installing a tools chain

· Cross building software

· Cross debugging

· uClibc

· Getting the sources

· The structure of source tree

· Configuring and building the kernel

· Compiling the kernel

· Kernel modules

· Configuring buildroot

· Integrating Additional packages into buildroot

· Overlays

· Working without device trees

· What is a device tree

· DTS and DTB

· Device tree integration into driver code.

· root-fs

· The syntax of DTS files

· Embedded Linux boot process

· Kernel boot parameters

· Bootloaders, U-Boot

· Buildroot configuring system components

· root-fs

· How does NFS aid the embedded development process

· Preparing NFS

· Mounting an NFS volume

· NFS daemons

· Exports file

· root-fs over NFS

· tftp

· DHCP

· librt overview

· Scheduling policies and priorities.

· CPU affinity

· Memory

· RT signals

· Asynchronous I/O

· POSIX IPC

· POSIX timers.

· Tips for improving user space RT performance.

· Command line tools for manipulating scheduling policy / priority, and CPU affinity

· RTOS memory issues and Linux.

· Linux hardware interaction

· Latency (kernel, interrupt, scheduler)

· Kernel preemption

· Linux hard real time extensions

· Applying the RT patch

· Threaded IRQ’s

· Voluntarily giving up CPU – cond_resched

· Controlling kernel preemption

· spinlocks and raw spinlocks.

· Priority inheritance

· Priority inversion

· Don’t do’s

· Project overview

· The Yocto project development environment

· Setting up a Yocto project

· Supported build hosts

· Build host packages

· Getting Yocto

· Example – Building an image and testing it on an emulator

· Development models

· Image development

· Receipes

· Summary

· Q&A

· Evaluation