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Mastering Embedded Linux Programming

You're reading from   Mastering Embedded Linux Programming Unleash the full potential of Embedded Linux with Linux 4.9 and Yocto Project 2.2 (Morty) Updates

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787283282
Length 478 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Starting Out FREE CHAPTER 2. Learning About Toolchains 3. All About Bootloaders 4. Configuring and Building the Kernel 5. Building a Root Filesystem 6. Selecting a Build System 7. Creating a Storage Strategy 8. Updating Software in the Field 9. Interfacing with Device Drivers 10. Starting Up – The init Program 11. Managing Power 12. Learning About Processes and Threads 13. Managing Memory 14. Debugging with GDB 15. Profiling and Tracing 16. Real-Time Programming

Using Mender for OTA updates

The next stage is to see how OTA updates work in practice. Once again we will be using the Mender client on the device, but this time operating it in managed mode, and in addition we will be configuring a server to deploy the update, so that no local interaction is needed. Mender provide an open source server for this.

The installation requires Docker Engine version 17.0.3 or later to be installed. Refer to the Docker website at https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation. It also requires Docker Compose version 1.6, as described here: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/. Once they are installed, you can install Mender integration environment:

$ curl -L \
https://github.com/mendersoftware/integration/archive/1.0.1.tar.gz | tar xz
$ cd integration-1.0.1
$ ./up

Once you run the up script you will see that it downloads several hundreds of megabytes...

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