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Moving from VxWorks to Wind River Linux

Wind River has taken a thorough approach in providing a complete development environment for Linux. For a developer familiar with Wind River's VxWorks on Windows, there's a familiarisation exercise to go through, and hopefully this blog can reduce the gradient along that curve. It’s not designed to be a replacement for the documentation that comes with Wind River Linux (WRL), instead offers words of advice, and a guide to getting WRL running on a target.

 
How to Create a Diskless Linux Target


When developing for an Embedded Linux target it is always desirable to shorten your development cycle. The following article explains about how to use an x86 machine (AMD Duron) as a diskless embedded target and use a virtual machine running Linux to setup this development environment. The virtual machine running Linux listens on TFTP and NFS servers to provide a bootable kernel image and a mounted root file system respectively for the diskless client. The development time is reduced as we need not reinstall the kernel and/or root file system every time on the target. We develop device drivers and kernel code on the host and simply reboot the target to load and test.

 


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