Errata

Building Embedded Linux Systems

Errata for Building Embedded Linux Systems

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page 5
5th paragraph, line 2

"...MB or ROM..."
should be:
"...MB of ROM..."

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 7
In the subsection titled "User interaction"

There shouldn't be a comma in the sentence starting with "Some other systems..."

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 8
First paragraph of subsection "Accelerator control"

"for instances" should be "for instance"

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 35
Line 3.

"an a"
should be
"a"

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 42
-1

In those case
->
In those cases

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 Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
Printed
Page 51
Paragraph 3, line 4.

"a the"

NOW READS:
"a"

 Anonymous    Dec 01, 2003
Printed
Page 81
Last line.

"remote-logging"

NOW READS:
"remote login"

 Anonymous    Dec 01, 2003
Printed
Page 84
First line.

"use usually"

NOW READS:
"usually".

 Anonymous    Dec 01, 2003
Printed
Page 118
Paragraph 3, line 2

"one"

NOW READS:
"one of"

 Anonymous    Dec 01, 2003
Printed
Page 142
footnote

...one the licenses...
->
...one of the licenses...

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 Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
Printed
Page 166
last paragraph, lines 1-2

"uncompressed" NOW READS "compressed"
"compressed" NOW READS "uncompressed"

 Anonymous    May 01, 2005
Printed
Page 168
First paragraph of section In the Field

There is a grammatical error. "The algorithms and underlying source code is" should
be "The algorithms and underlying source code are".

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 178
glibc; (3rd code block on page)

In the example command to copy some miscellaneous libraries:

cp libSegFault.so libmemusage.so libpcprocfile.so ${PRJROOT}/rootfs/lib

NOW READS:
cp libSegFault.so libmemusage.so libpcprofile.so ${PRJROOT}/rootfs/lib

 Anonymous    Dec 01, 2003
Printed
Page 199
Table 7-1

For the mtdrN /dev entry, the Accessible MTD user module s NOW READS "char device (read-only)"

 Anonymous    May 01, 2005
Printed
Page 234
-1

initird
->
initrd

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 Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
Printed
Page 238
paragraph 1, line 7

"along" NOW READS "along with".

 Anonymous    May 01, 2005
Printed
Page 258
paragraph 3, line 1

"this" NOW READS "these".

 Anonymous    May 01, 2005
Printed
Page 275
last paragraph, line 2

"there" NOW READS "there are".

 Anonymous    May 01, 2005
Printed
Page 280
paragraph 1, line 1

30 MB NOW READS 28 MB.

 Anonymous    May 01, 2005
Printed
Page 293
paragraph 1, line 1

"log in" NOW READS "log in to".

 Anonymous    May 01, 2005
Printed
Page 313
paragraph 2, line 1

"are you are" NOW READS "you are".

 Anonymous    May 01, 2005