Customer Reviews
Very usefull, but not definitive. - By: scruffy bob, 04 Jun 2008 
Although most embedded projects are based on fairly old versions of the kernel, there are still developments & applications that will eventually render this book outdated, hopefully these will be addressedin the new edition due this autumn.
That said, this book can be thought of as a well researched digest of the hits that you would find on google. All facets of embedded system development are discussed, as are potential target platforms. The reader is even encouraged (and shown how!) to "home brew" & embedded system.
This make book makes a good reference & "cook book" for different approaches, & will be a wonderful aid to anyone starting to develop embedded Linux systems.
I feel that embedded engineers who are new to Linux will find more kernel-specific works to be a better starting point, but once they have that familiarity they will find this book to be invaluable.
quite useful - By: , 26 Jul 2004 
The book is interesting & fairly usefulin that it confirms that what I have been doing to create cross compilers, embedded versions of Linux etc, is more or less correct. However, I was disappointed that quite a lot of the build proceduresin the book simply don't work so I had to resort to hacking as normal!
Excellent embedded linux starting point - By: , 20 Nov 2003 
The book is an excellent embedded GNU/Linux starting point: Karim drives you through almost all aspects of embedded Linux system configuration & installation giving a lot of 'pointers' to software & documentation, saving many hours of 'googling'. At the end of the book I found myself with a perfectly configured & specifically taylored GNU/Linux embedded system cross/development framework & a running target board.
Congratulation Karim !
Brilliant - By: , 22 Oct 2003 If you want to know everything about embedding Linux this is it!
I have been involvedin Embedded Linux for the past three years, & often spent countless hours on the net, reading through vast amount of documents, done by the kind folks of the Linux commmunity.
Karim has done a splendid job, pulling together everything you need to know, to embed Linux on a varaiety of architectures, & walks you throughin simple, easy to understand manner.
This book is a "must have" for anyone deploying Linux on embedded systems. Besides its a cracking read anyway, if you like to broaden your knowledge on Linux internals.
Superb - By: , 22 May 2003 The Linux operating system is fantastic, documentation & training aids on the subject are poor. This book is a great introduction to linux when usedin an embedded context.
It covers the basics like how to setup terminal emulators on the host, & provides information on the host/target environment most suitable for your project. It demonstrates how to configure the tool chain & how to configure the kernel. It also deals with some deployment issues such as storage & the root file system & has a great section on bootloaders as well. The section on using performance analysis tools & measuring interrupt latency is very valuable as well.
If you know linux well this book will probably teach you very little, but if like me you know embedded systems but are new to linux you'll love it.
Complements Linux Device Drivers by Rubini & Corbet very well. I wish I'd had this book a year ago, I'd have more hair today.
