Embedded Linux Journal

Embedded Linux Journal Contents -- May 2002

Feature
      WANDER: A Portable Linux Data-Collection System  by Steven K. Roberts and Ned Konz
The Microship's computer systems come ashore as a rugged, portable data-collection unit. Here's how an SBC-based system helps scientists in the field.
      Update on Linux Compatible Single Board Computers  by Rick Lehrbaum
Choices in the Linux SBC market aren't just growing--they're exploding, as boards add features and power.
Indepth
      VOCAL: Open Source VoIP Software for Linux  by David Bryan and David Kelly
Want to build an embedded Linux IP phone? Get the Vovida Open Communications Applications Library. Here's what happens behind the scenes of an SIP phone call.
      Writing Portable Device Drivers  by Greg Kroah-Hartman
Does the driver you need work on x86 but not on PowerPC? Save yourself some frustration and first make sure that it follows some simple portability rules. Device-driver wizard Greg Kroah-Hartman explains how.
      GAR: Automating Entire OS Builds  by Nick Moffitt
Besides your own code, your project uses free utilities, other software from the Net and maybe a fancy library or two. And you want to rebuild it all easily? Gmake Autobuild Runtime (GAR) to the rescue.
      BOEL, Part 2: Kernel Configuration and Booting  by Brian Elliott Finley
"Brian's Own Embedded Linux" is a small distribution that can boot from disk, CD-ROM or the Net. In the second article of a two-part series, Brian Finley covers the kernel configuration and boot process.
      Real Time and Linux, Part 3: Sub-Kernels and Benchmarks  by Kevin Dankwardt
In the last part of our real-time overview series, Kevin Dankwardt reviews the sub-kernel approach as used in RTLinux and RTAI and reports benchmark numbers.
Contests
      NIC Contest Winners  by Don Marti
In our second contest, winners took a humble desktop thin client and connected it to the wider world.
      Linux4.TV Contest Update  by Don Marti
Just because it's a TV-based device doesn't mean our finalists are catering to their inner couch potato.
Letters
      Letters  by Letters Editor
What? No more MontaVista Journeyman? What about GNU cross-compiler?
New Products
      New Products  by Heather Mead
Thin Client Medallion Mini Development Kit, Zendex ZXR-x86 Embedded Controller, FASTPATH for Linux, JumpStart for Communications with Lynx OS 4.0.
 
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