Building Embedded Linux Systems offers depth, hard-core-guide to develop embedded systems based on Linux. The book also looks at the strengths and weaknesses of using Linux in an embedded system, plus a discussion about licensing issues, and an introduction to real-time, with a discussion of real-time options for Linux. This book is very much needed and previously mysterious features of the procedure is not documented to: Building your own GNU development toolchain Using an efficient embedded development framework Selecting, configuring, building, and installing a special target kernel Creating a complete target root filesystem Setting, manipulate, and use solid-state storage device installation and configuration of the bootloader to kill target Cross-compiling utilities Debugging embedded systems and the package you are using a large number of tools and techniques Using the uClibc, BusyBox, U-Boot, OpenSSH, thttpd, tftp, strace, and gdb packages By showing how to build the operating system components from pristine sources and how to find more documentation or help, Building Embedded Linux Systems greatly simplifies the task of maintaining full control over your embedded operating system.