Top "Embedded-linux" questions

Embedded Linux is the use of Linux in embedded computer systems such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants, media players, set-top boxes, and other consumer electronics devices, networking equipment, machine control, industrial automation, navigation equipment and medical instruments.

Mouse and Keyboard not working in qemu emulator

I am trying to run Yocto Image in qemu on my Ubuntu laptop with the following command. qemu-system-arm -M overo …

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How to cross-compile for MIPS?

I have a DVB receiver (set-top box) similar like Dreambox and it has MIPS cpu It has embedded Linux and …

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Working of __asm__ __volatile__ ("" : : : "memory")

What basically __asm__ __volatile__ () does and what is significance of "memory" for ARM architecture?

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Embedded Developer, what skills are important

I want to make a list of things that need to learn that is valuable for my career. What skills …

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Write a bash shell script that consumes a constant amount of RAM for a user defined time

I am trying to write a bash shell script that consumes a high amount of RAM on an embedded device …

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Lock a mutex multiple times in the same thread

I'm developing an application on an embedded linux OS (uClinux) and I need to be able to lock the mutex …

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What is the difference between the firmware and the operating system?

In embedded devices such as printer, switches, I am confused what the difference between the firmware and the operating system …

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Duplicating identical BeagleBone Black setups

After having set-up and customized my "master" BeagleBone Black (BBB) with applications etc. on the on-board eMMC, I want to …

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Driving Beaglebone GPIO through /dev/mem

I'm trying to write a C program for blinking a LED on the Beaglebone. I know I can use the …

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Determining CPU utilization

Is there a command or any other way to get the current or average CPU utilization (for a multi-processor environment) …

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