Toolbox

This page has information about developing Embedded Linux, including links to toolchains, debuggers and other development tools. Also, it has links to pages with debugging tips.

Development Tools

Toolchains

• see Toolchains

Debuggers

• Open On-Chip Debugger
• gdb - The GNU debugger
• DDD - Data Display Debugger
• kgdb - kernel source level debugger

Integrated Development Environments

• Eclipse - Powerfull IDE written in JAVA.
• jEdit - Editor written in JAVA which can be expanded to a full IDE with plug-ins.
• KDevelop - Standard IDE for KDE.

• FIXTHIS - need more links for IDEs

Tracers and Profilers

• see Kernel Trace Systems

Benchmarks

• see Benchmark Programs

Source Management Tools

There are a number of tools for managing patches, which are useful for different tasks. There's now a whole page devoted to this. See Source Management Tools

For some simple tools for managing patches, see Diff And Patch Tricks

Test Systems

• See Test Systems

Developer Resources

Kernel mailing lists, web sites, etc.

• See Linux Kernel Resources

Documentation

Online

• Linux Device Drivers, 3rd edition - http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
• Papers from the Ottawa Linux Symposium - broken out - see http://kernel.org/doc/ols/
• Embedded Linux kernel and driver development - http://free-electrons.com/training/drivers
• Free Software tools for embedded systems - http://free-electrons.com/training/devtools
• Real time in embedded Linux systems - http://free-electrons.com/articles/realtime/
• Embedded Linux optimizations - http://free-electrons.com/articles/optimizations
• Audio in embedded Linux systems - http://free-electrons.com/training/audio
• Multimedia in embedded Linux systems - http://free-electrons.com/training/multimedia
• Embedded Linux From Scratch... in 40 minutes! - http://free-electrons.com/articles/elfs/

Books

• Embedded Linux System Design and Development - by P. Raghavan, Amol Lad, and Sriram Neelakandan (Hardcover - Dec 21, 2005)
  • This one looks quite good.
• Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach - by Christopher Hallinan
  • So does this one.
• Building Embedded Linux Systems - by Karim Yaghmour
  • This book is a bit dated (the edition I have is from 2003, but it is still a great resource.

Code Style Tips

• This section is for good Code Styling Tips

Debugging Tips

• See the Kernel Debugging Tips page
• See also Debugging Makefiles

GCC Tips and Tricks

• This section of GCC Tips is a collection of tips and tricks helpful for embedded developers

Embedded Linux Distributions

• see Embedded Linux Distributions