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
• valgrind - memory, cache and other debuggers and profilers

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.
• Emacs - Powerful IDE, extensible in LISP, ships with modes to integrates with SCM (GIT, SVN, CVS...), build systems, debugger and even fancy multi-window with ECB.
• VIm - Powerful IDE, extensible with scripting, can use various modules for completion and more.
• KScope - Cscope based source editing environment with KDE.
• FIXTHIS - need more links for IDEs

Emulators

• Qemu - hardware emulator
• Skyeye

Tracers and Profilers

• see Kernel Trace Systems
• see Profilers

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
  • Be sure to get the second edition (from 2008). The first edition (from 2003) is outdated.

• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by the late W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago
  • Not embedded specific, but THE reference for Linux/Unix programming
• Linux System Programming - by Robert Love
  • Good introduction to Linux system programming

See also Category:Books

Podcasts

• http://www.timesys.com/resources/podcast - a series of podcasts from timesys (on linux of course)

Code Style Tips

• This section is for good Code Styling Tips
• Extern_Vs_Static_Inline Here is a short explanation on the proper use of "inline" keyword.

Debugging Tips

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

GCC Tips and Tricks

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

Network Setup

• Settings up a Bluetooth Network

Embedded Linux Distributions

• see Embedded Linux Distributions