I am linux enthusiast but was restricted upto application software..But after attending the workshop on embedded systems -Beagle Board workshop, I have started thinking to move forward in this direction because I think that it will be the major market in the next 5 years or so..
So, any one please shed some light on how to start development for any embedded system or emb. system running Linux.... What and where to study and which embedded system tech. to take up....like beagle board or mobile devices etc etc.....
I know googling is one of the way to find out things...But to take advice of experts and professionals is always a best option..
Please help me with it...
Regards,
PRATIK ANAND
Pratik,
Best way forward is to get hold one of the MIPS / ARM board and download debians cross compilation kit ( as far as I know on Debian the kernel has been Ported on all possible processor platforms) once you head this path you shall have lot of discoveries which shall help you find the right path moving forward.
This offcorse is the free / OpenSource style of software development, other path is offcourse the proprietor development tool kit from various vendors (this shall reduce your pain on the path but well offcorse at a cost of buying their cross compiling tool chain)
I would suggest moving on to the android based hardware platform, let me know I you r interested on it.
Thanks & Regards, Mitul Limbani, Founder & CEO, Enterux Solutions Pvt. Ltd., The Enterprise Linux Company (r), http://www.enterux.com http://www.entVoice.com
On 26-Sep-2009, at 3:50 PM, Pratik Anand pratik.preet@gmail.com wrote:
Best way forward is to get hold one of the MIPS / ARM board and download debians cross compilation kit ( as far as I know on Debian
The low cost option is to buy a DSL502 broadband router of Dlink for about Rs. 1800, open it, you will find a nice MIPS CPU with lots of memory, and silently running linux. Google and you will find, source, compiler, etc. for this router. ENJOY!!
Warm Regards, Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd, 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Mukund Deshmukh mukund.deshmukh@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
We are having multiple options
BeagleBoard (Open Source Project)
BeagleBoard features powerful graphics capabilities thanks to the use of the Texas Instruments OMAPTM 3530 application BeagleBoard has many features processor containing an an integrated SGX hardware graphics supporting powerful embedded accelerator. The SGX hardware is available to programmers graphics thanks to the OMAPTM 3 through the standard OpenGL® ES 1.1 or 2.0 for 3D graphics architecture. Also they are maintaining nice docs about how to build debian,ubuntu etc for beagle board. Refer :-http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardDebian
Compulab It's Israel Based company who's providing COM and Base board (with Marvel's PXA Processor) Refer :-http://www.compulab.co.il/index.htm
As per my experience performance wise TI's OPMAP processors giving better output than any other processors.Also TI is providing excellent support on anything related to OMAP processors.
You can also refer Gumstix, who's providing COM's with OMAP processors
Hi,
--- On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Pratik Anand pratik.preet@gmail.com wrote: | I am linux enthusiast but was restricted upto application software..But | after attending the workshop on embedded systems -Beagle Board workshop, I | have started thinking to move forward in this direction because I think that | it will be the major market in the next 5 years or so.. --
Why do you think it isn't now?
--- | So, any one please shed some light on how to start development for any | embedded system or emb. system running Linux.... --
To begin with:
1. Read:
Karim Yaghmour. 2003. Building Embedded Linux Systems. O'Reilly. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596002220
2. If you have a spare x86 system, build and test LFS: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
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