GUF-Yocto-34.0-r5756-0
VINCELL
User Manual
2.4
The partition layout
As already stated in chapter
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, the different components of the embedded Linux system are stored
in different partitons of the backing-storage. The backing-storage type of VINCELL is NAND Flash. In addition
to the partitions for the basic Linux components there may be some more partitions depending on the system
configuration.
The partition layout for the VINCELL platform is:
RedBoot
bootloader binary image
FIS directory
XML configuration parameters
Redundant FIS
mirrored XML configuration parameters
logo.png
boot logo in PNG format
kernel
kernel binary image
rootfs
root file system
RedBoot can start the following Linux kernel image types:
zImage
:
compressed image
Image
:
uncompressed image
2.5
Further information
For readers who are not familar with Linux in general, the following link may be helpful:
http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html
Information regarding embedded Linux systems can be found in the following book:
"Building Embedded Linux systems 2nd Edition", Karim Yaghmour, John Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Philippe
Gerum, O’Reilly, 2008, ISBN: 978-0-596-52968-0
Information regarding Linux infrastructure issues in general can be found at:
http://tldp.org/LDP/Pocket-Linux-Guide/html
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
Information about Qt/Embedded can be found at:
Information about the X window system can be found at:
Information about Qt/Embedded can be found at:
Information about Nano-X / Microwindows can be found at:
Information about GTK+ can be found at:
Information about U-Boot can be found at:
http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
Information about the RedBoot can be found at:
http://ecos.sourceware.org/docs-latest/redboot/redboot-guide.html
Information about the Yocto Project can be found at:
Documentation of the Yocto Project can be found at:
https://www.yoctoproject.org/documentation/current
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