Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach

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SA Forum (Service Availability Forum)

sample BDI-2000 configuration file

sbin directory

SCC (Serial Communication Controller)

scheduling, real time and

scheduling policies

SCHED_FIFO scheduling policy

SCHED_OTHER scheduling policy

SCHED_RR scheduling policy

SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory)

     clocking

     controller setup

     operational overview

     refresh cycles

Second Extended File System [See ext2 file system (Second Extended File System).]

selecting bootloaders

Serial Communication Controller (SCC)

serial debug output

Serial Management Controller (SMC)

serial ports, debugging applications

Service Availability Forum (SA Forum)

__setup macro

shared libraries, debugging

shared library events in GDB

shutdown process

SiByte processors

single-stepping through code

SMC (Serial Management Controller)

SMP kernel, real time and

SOC (system on chip) [See integrated processors.]

soft lockup detection

soft real time

SoftIRQ threading

software breakpoints, hardware breakpoints versus

source code organization, porting Linux

source command

source repositories for Linux kernel

southbridge chips

spin_lock( ) function

spinlocks, converting to mutexes

stack frames, moving around in GDB

stand-alone processors

     chipsets

     Freescale MPC7448

     IBM 970FX

     Intel Pentium M

standards

     Linux Standard Base (LSB)

     Open Source Development Labs (OSDL)

starting remote GDB session

startup scripts, web server startup script example

static kernel command line

storage in embedded systems

     address space

     execution contexts

     Flash file systems

     Flash memory

     NAND Flash memory

     process virtual memory

     requirements for embedded root file systems

storage subsystems, U-Boot and

strace 2nd

strings

strip

stripping target applications

structures

subdirectories

     in kernel

     of top-level source directory

subsystems, initialization

superscalar architecture

swapping

symbolic information, debugging loadable modules

symbolic links in runlevel directories

symlink

sync utility

Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory [See SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory).]

syscall

sysfs file system

     browsing

     top-level directory

system initialization

     init process

         inittab

         runlevels

         startup script example

     initramfs

     initrd

         booting

         building image of

         linuxrc file and

         mounting root file system

     kernel init process

     root file system

         building

         defined

         distribution engineering

         FHS (File System Hierarchy Standard)

         minimal file system

         top-level directories

system on chip (SOC) [See integrated processors.]

System V Init

systems, host system requirements

systool utility