Wind River Linux 7 CLI Essentials
Acquire the skills necessary to configure and utilize components of Wind River Linux 7, using command-line techniques exclusively.
Course Description
The Wind River® Linux 7 CLI Essentials course provides engineers with a fast, cost-effective way to acquire the skills necessary to configure and utilize components of Wind River Linux 7, using command-line techniques exclusively.
Course Results
After this course, participants will be able to perform the following:
- Configure, build, and validate a Wind River Linux kernel and file system
- Use layers and templates effectively
- Install and build run-time and kernel packages
- Design, develop, debug, build, and test applications in a target-host development environment with Linux
Products Supported
- Wind River Linux 7
- The following targets are available:
- QEMU simulated target (Intel® x86-64)
Who Should Attend
- Developers getting started with Wind River Linux
- New project members on teams already using Wind River Linux
- Managers who want to get a quick understanding of Wind River Linux components
- Senior engineers or managers who want to evaluate Wind River Linux technology
Course Format
- This three-day expert-led course consists of lectures and lab sessions.
- Attendees use Wind River Linux 7 to gain experience with the topics presented, using command-line interface techniques.
- Participants examine and exercise simulated and real hardware targets in hands-on labs.
- Participants receive individual guidance from an expert engineer who has extensive experience with Wind River technologies.
Syllabus
Day 1
Introduction to Embedded Linux
- Overview of Linux
- Linux boot process
- Linux user space
- Cross development
- Open source software licenses
- LAB: Getting started with the Wind River Linux lab environment
Introduction to Wind River Linux
- Overview
- Wind River Linux platform
- Creating a build environment
- Build environment structure
- Building target images
- Optimizing builds
- LAB: Managing a build environment from the command line
Target Management
- Hardware targets
- Cross development workflow
- Deploying to hardware targets
- Simulating a target with QEMU
- LAB: Managing simulated targets from the command line
Application Development
- Application development workflow
- Migrating to the build environment
- Application debugging
Day 2
Application Development (cont’d)
- LAB: Building applications from the command line
- LAB: Debugging applications with gdb
- LAB: Debugging a program crash with gdb
System Profiling and Analysis
- LAB: Profiling CPU usage
- LAB: Profiling memory usage
- LAB: Analyzing code coverage
Kernel Development
- Configuring the kernel
- Building the kernel
- Kernel modules
- Kernel debugging
- LAB: Developing the kernel
- LAB: Configuring and patching the kernel
- LAB: Managing kernel modules
- LAB: Developing kernel modules
- LAB: Configuring KGDB
- LAB: Debugging the kernel with gdb
Day 3
Software Management
- Overview
- Build lifecycle
- Managing packages
- Integrating new software
- Recipes
- LAB: Managing packages
- LAB: Patching packages
- LAB: Writing a recipe
- LAB: Integrating new applications
Layers and Templates
- Overview
- Anatomy of a layer
- Templates
- Layer and template processing
- LAB: Creating layers
- LAB: Managing layers and templates
Prerequisites
Prerequisite Courses
Prerequisite Skills
- Basic understanding of operating systems and debugging techniques
- Understanding of makefiles
- Functional knowledge of Linux
- One year of C or C++ programming experience on Linux/UNIX
COURSE DETAILS SUMMARY
- Duration: 3 Days
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- Format: Lectures and Labs
- Type: Instructor-led
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