Linux training and laptop specialist LinuxCertified will offer a three-day class in embedded and real-time Linux development. As with all LinuxCertified courses, participants will receive the use of a Linux laptop that they then have the option to purchase.

In addition to offering Linux training, LinuxCertified sells laptops pre-installed with Linux. It currently offers four or five models, based on laptops from Lenovo, Dell, and others.

Set for Sept. 12-14 in Sunnyvale, Calif., LinuxCertified's embedded Linux course promises to examine, “why Linux, how to embed Linux, and how to measure and obtain real-time performance,” the vendor said. Its published syllabus reads as follows:

Introduction

• What is Open Source and why do you care?
• Linux features and characteristics
• Protected memory
• Processes
• Foreground vs. background
• Users and Groups
• Root user
• Graphical desktop environment — KDE
• Filesystems
• Root filesystem
• Privileges
• Links
• "Mounting" filesystems
• Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
• Special places
• Development Environment
• Install software
• Configure the host
• Configure the target
• Flash filesystems
• Network Filesystem (NFS)
• Our first program
• Eclipse
• Creating and building C projects
• Debugging with Eclipse

Embedded Application Programming

• Accessing hardware from User Space
• Data acquisition example
• A simple simulation environment
• Thermostat example
• Multi-processing vs. multi-threading–Pthreads
• Threads
• Mutexes
• Adding settable parameters to thermostat
• Network programming
• Sockets
• Client/server paradigm
• Networked thermostat
• Multiple monitor threads
• Embedded web server
• Configuring and building the kernel
• Booting via TFTP
• Root filesystem over NFS
• Busybox
• Bootloader

Linux and Real-time

• Why isn't Linux real-time?
• How bad is it?
• Possible solutions
• Pre-emption improvement
• Interrupt abstraction
• Introducing RTLinux
• Kernel modules
• Inter-task communication
• FIFOs
• Shared memory
• RTLinux in Kernel Space

LinuxCertified first began offering embedded and real-time classes in 2004. The company holds classes regularly at its Sunnyvale, Calif. facility, and also on request at customer locations.

 
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