Editor's Note: Embedded Linux has consistently ranked among the top operating systems used in embedded systems design. With the rapid growth in interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the ability of ...

In previous articles, we looked at how to configure the kernel as well as the key components of an embedded operating system (OS). This new article focuses on the hardware components of embedded Linux ...

Here are the benefits and some caveats to running data-path applications in the user space. Discussed is Linux's UIO framework. Traditionally, packet-processing or data-path applications in Linux have ...

A new interface for implementing device drivers outside the kernel has one project saving about 5,000 lines of code. The concept of supporting user-space drivers has appeared on LWN a few times before ...