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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

2. Power On and Bootloader

Author: Changyi Gu

Publisher: Apress

Published in: Building Embedded Systems

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Abstract

Curiosity is human nature. In a grand scheme of things, people might wonder how the universe got started, to which those folks who discovered the gravity wave know better than to ask. But on a much smaller scale, if you are just curious to understand how the embedded systems got started, this chapter can help.

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Depending on the processor type and compiler version, the actual output might be slightly different from what is demonstrated here.

genromfs package needs to be installed if it is not readily available.

It could also be mkfs.cramfs on some Linux systems.

squash-tools needs to be installed.

The mtd-utils package needs to be installed to make the make.jffs2 command available.

This command needs to be built from source code if it is not readily available.

Kernel source code and mtd-utils source code are needed to build the ubifs utilities.

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Title

Power On and Bootloader

Book

Building Embedded Systems

Print ISBN: 978-1-4842-1918-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4842-1919-5

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1919-5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1919-5_2

Author:

Changyi Gu

Publisher

Apress

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