Designing and Porting Boot Loader and uClinux with Its Implementation Based on LPC2478

Author

Xiong, Kai ; Gao, Yangfan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Polietcnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

As various applications have been developped for different intention in Embedded System the combination of bootloader and uClinux which is as the base of those plays a more and more important role. uClinux,a linux distribution designed for processors without a Memory Management Unit (MMU), is the operating system that assorts with the device drivers, the platform for applications and the core of Embedded System. Additionally, the boot loader is a program that loads the main operating system. Transparently, boot loader which initializes necessary environment should execute before uClinux. Therefore, those two are feasible on LPC2478, a processor without MMU from NXP semiconductors. This paper introduces the configuration of boot loader and uClinux and represents a whole process of porting boot loader and uClinux on LPC2478.

Keywords

driver circuits; electronic engineering computing; embedded systems; microcontrollers; storage management chips; LPC2478 microcontroller; MMU; NXP semiconductors; embedded system; linux distribution; memory management unit; porting boot loader; uClinux; Hardware; Kernel; Linux; Loading; SDRAM; Universal Serial Bus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2011 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2161-9646

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6250-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/wicom.2011.6040337

Filename

6040337