“Normal” programmers can get away with the assumption that their C programs start executing from the main() function. But embedded developers need to know what happens before that. Lesson 13 explores ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

Legacy BIOS (basic input/output systems) held sway for 30 years before OEMs and consumers began to question the efficacy and cost of these systems. Essentially, the major BIOS vendors, such as ...