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Beaglebone Essentials

You're reading from   Beaglebone Essentials Harness the power of the BeagleBone Black to manage external environments using C, Bash, and Python/PHP programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784393526
Length 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing the Developing System 2. Managing the System Console FREE CHAPTER 3. Compiling versus Cross-compiling 4. Quick Programming with Scripts 5. Device Drivers 6. Serial Ports and TTY Devices 7. Universal Serial Bus – USB 8. Inter-integrated Circuit – I2C 9. Serial Peripheral Interface – SPI 10. 1-Wire Bus – W1 11. Useful System Daemons Index

Chapter 2. Managing the System Console

In this chapter, you will learn how a serial console works, and how you can use it in order to control/monitor the system activities (for example, monitoring the kernel messages, managing the bootloader, and so on).

Then, a brief introduction of the basic system management commands will be presented. In this section, you will learn about some useful command-line tools to manipulate files, and how to manage the distribution's packages.

At the end of the chapter, a special section will introduce you to the bootloader commands so that you may feel more confident to manage this important component of the system.

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