EGLiSA < Training2

---++ Agenda for Training course Embedded GNU/Linux Systems Architecture

This 5-day training class uses hands-on exercises combined with instruction to illustrate the concepts of embedded GNU/Linux. It is designed to bring you quickly up to speed. We describe the philosophy, concepts and commands necessary to make effective use of GNU/Linux through a combination of theory and on-the-job training. Don't reinvent the wheel, but learn from our experience and take home a working knowledge of GNU/Linux and the ability to use it effectively in your own embedded development project.

---++ Prerequisites
   * Basic familiarity with using a GNU/Linux system as an end user 
   * Basic familiarity with a command line shell 
   * Basic C programming knowledge 

---++ Who should attend?
Those who are interested in or tasked with developing embedded GNU/Linux like software engineers, field engineers, (project) managers.

---+ Course Outline

---++ Introduction
   * History of Unix/Linux
   * Free Software
   * Unix Philosophy

---++ Host Playground
---+++ Play with Linux
   * architecture
   * shell
   * permissions
   * FHS 
   * hard/soft links
   * real/effective uid/gid
   * scheduler
   * process/task/thread
   * IPC simple/advanced 
      * pipes
      * signals
      * message queues
      * semaphores
      * shared memory
      * sockets
      * select
      * poll
   * IPC techniques to avoid

---+++ Host Linux setup
   * ELDK 
      * cross/target tools
      * libraries
      * packages
   * Terminal Emulation
   * Servers 
      * DHCP
      * tftp
      * NFS

---++ Target Playground
---+++ files needed to run something on board
   * JTAG/BDI config
   * u-boot (checkout, config, build) 
   * kernel (checkout, config, build)
   * rootfs
   * flat device tree
   * run on board

---+++ various rootfs 
   * CRAMFS
   * ramdisk
   * MTD
   * JFFS2
   * roEXT2
   * comparison

---++ Debugging 
   * simple tools
   * local/remote
   * user/kernel
   * gdb
   * gdbserver
   * JTAG/BDI

---++ Profiling 
   * gprof
   * gcov
   * oprofile

---++ Real-Time
---+++ Prerequisites
   * interrupts
   * reentrant code

---+++ Real-time Linux
   * explicit/implicit preemption points
   * real-time preemption patch
   * fully preemptive kernel
   * hard real-time extensions

---+++ Adeos/Xenomai
   * adeos patch
   * xenomai
   * patch/config/build kernel
   * run it on board

---++ Software Release
   * administration
   * development
   * how to reproduce a SW release?

---++ Misc
   * getopt
   * endianess
   * cheat-sheets