Karim Yaghmour has announced a 5-day hands-on course on how to build embedded Linux systems using only open source and free software packages, to be held July 7-11 in Montreal, Canada. Yaghmour is the author of Building Embedded Linux Systems (published by O'Reilly), maintainer of the Linux Trace Toolkit, and an… active member of the open source and free software community.

“Students attending this course will leave with the knowledge of how to put together an embedded Linux system without having to purchase any prepackaged distribution, pay any per-unit royalties, or depend on any single supplier for their embedded Linux systems needs,” Yaghmour said.

During the course, students will get to build their own GNU toolchain, build a customized kernel, populate a root filesystem, set up a target's solid-state storage devices, and configure a bootloader for booting the customized kernel with its root filesystem from the solid-state storage device. Each topic covered by the course will be discussed in lecture form and exercised through instructor-led hands-on sessions.

Topic highlights:

• Open source and free software fundamentals
  
• Building the GNU toolchain
  
• Kernel internals
  
• Populating the root filesystem
  
• Bootloader setup
  
• Kernel debugging primer
  
• Programming for real-time Linux
  
• Networking services
  
• Application debugging

Example packages and software covered include: uClibc, BusyBox, U-Boot, OpenSSH, rsync, gdb, glibc, gcc, binutils, RTAI, Adeos, TinyLogin, MTD tools, CRAMFS, JFFS2, GRUB, Net-SNMP, LTT, gprof, Electric Fence, DHCP, NFS, TFTP.

Each student will be provided with an ARM or PPC target for the duration of the course. Attendees will receive a copy of Yaghmour's book, Building Embedded Linux Systems, and a copy of the slides and exercises used during the course.

Further information, including registration details, are available here

 
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