Embedded Linux development using Eclipse

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On a personal level, this book is dedicated to the two most important people in my life:

To Susan, my best friend, my soul mate. Thanks for sharing life’s journey with me.

To Brian, budding lighting designer, actor and musician, future pilot, and all-around great kid. Thanks for keeping me young at heart.

On a professional level, the book is dedicated to those who made it possible: open source programmers everywhere, especially that small band of open source pioneers whose radical notion of free software for the good of the community, and just for the fun of it, has indeed changed the world.

The world of embedded computing has always struggled to offer its developers a consistent user interface. In the early days of 8-bit processors, the tools required to program them were very specific to the processor architecture, and developers used incircuit emulators to debug their machine-code based applications. Then, as high level languages emerged, a consistency and portability of embedded code emerged. Sadly, the user interface to use and debug these high level applications was typically proprietary to the tools vendor providing them. The open-source community provided good compiler tools such as GNU GCC, but the debug interface for GNU GDB was basic, and had no concept of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The closest any embedded vendors got to a consistent user interface was to use Microsoft’s Visual Studio extendibility to produce an embedded IDE, which was both beholden to Microsoft and only available on a Windows platform.

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