| Summary: | The use of Linux in embedded systems is steadily growing in popularity. The UC3A is a series of high performance, low power 32-bit microcontrollers aimed at several industrial and commercial applications including PLC, instrumentation, phones, vending machines and more. The main goal of this project was to complete the adaptation of the Linux kernel, compiler and loader software, in order to enable the Linux kernel to load and run applications on this device. In addition, a set of useful applications should be picked, compiled and tested on the target platform to indicate a complete software solution. This master's thesis is a continuation, by the same three students, of the work of a student project during the fall of 2008. In this report we present in detail the findings, challenges, choices and and solutions involved in the working process. During the course of this project, we have successfully adapted the Linux kernel, and a toolchain for generating binaries loadable by Linux. A set of test applications have been compiled and tested on the resulting platform. This project has resulted in the submission of a revised patch series for the U-Boot boot loader, one patch series for Linux, and one for the toolchain. Requirements have been created, and tests for the requirements have been carried out.
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