It is no secret that Linux has won the race in the embedded device marketplace. Tremendous advantages in Linux have broken almost every barrier to entry for using Linux on embedded systems across a ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

To load a program into memory, you mustfirst load a program into memory. The bootupprocess, often a complex multistep sequenceinvolving numerous substeps, solvesthis problem. Any boot-up process, ...

Real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux each bring their own advantages for embedded-systems designers. With an RTOS, designers can build deterministic multi-threaded applications with low memory ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking for a way to fast boot a Raspberry Pi mini PC may be interested in a new project available via Github that is capable of fast booting a Raspberry Pi 32 Linux in under ...

With the emergence of STMicroelectronics' powerful STM32F42X/43X microcontrollers (MCUs), the topic of running Linux, in its uClinux form, on the STM32 devices is as hot as ever. In the MCU world, ...

I'm going to start this post by saying something that a lot of people will find surprising. There are a lot of things that I like about UEFI firmware and the UEFI boot process. I think it is an ...