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Introduction Embedded Linux is rapidly becoming the OS of choice in embedded space, displacing other commercial OS like VxWorks, pSOS, etc. This trend is going to continue and it is felt that it will be the dominant player in the embedded OS market. The process of porting Linux to an embedded device is no different to porting commercial OS to new hardware. This site will detail the steps required to port open source Linux to an embedded device. It starts by identifying the development system, tools required and finally the code changes required to getting the Linux up and running on the target hardware. Development System The development system required to port the linux is simple : we have a ARM development board with Samsung ARM processor as target connected to a PC over a serial connection. The host PC will have cross compiler required to build an image and using an utility (like hyperterminal), download the image to target. 
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