Everything about Linux on embedded systems

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Linux on embedded systemsA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Performance Evaluation of Embedded Multi-core Mixed-criticality System Based on PREEMPT_RT LinuxInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Modern Operating SystemsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Embedded linux implementation on a commercial digital TV systemCited 21 times
5. Go sideways: Embedded operating systemA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: LinaroA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Embedded linux implementation on a commercial digital TV system

  Sang-Pil Moon, Joo-Won Kim, Kuk-Ho Bae · 2003 · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics · 21 citations

• Standard Linux for embedded real-time robotics and manufacturing control systems

  G. Bruzzone, M. Caccia, G. Ravera · 2009 · Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 20 citations

• Use of Low-Cost Acquisition Systems with an Embedded Linux Device for Volcanic Monitoring

  David Moure, Pedro Torres, Benito Casas · 2015 · Sensors · 20 citations

• On benchmarking embedded Linux flash file systems

  Pierre Olivier, Jalil Boukhobza, Eric Senn · 2012 · ACM SIGBED Review · 14 citations

• Hard Real-Time Performances in Multiprocessor-Embedded Systems Using ASMP-Linux

  Emiliano Betti, Daniel Pierre Bovet, Marco Cesati · 2008 · EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems · 6 citations

• Exploring storage bottlenecks in Linux-based embedded systems

  Russell Joyce, Neil Audsley · 2016 · ACM SIGBED Review · 5 citations

• A Tracing Toolset for Embedded Linux Flash File Systems

  Pierre Olivier, Jalil Boukhobza, Eric Senn · 2015 · EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things · 5 citations

• Embedded Linux platform for data acquisition systems

  Jigneshkumar J. Patel, Nagaraj Reddy, Praveena Kumari · 2014 · Fusion Engineering and Design · 4 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Performance Evaluation of Embedded Multi-core Mixed-criticality System Based on PREEMPT_RT Linux

  Yixiao Li, Yutaka Matsubara, Hiroaki Takada · 2023 · Journal of Information Processing · 5 citations

• Methods for Improving Performance when Working with Graphic Data in Embedded Linux-Based Systems

  Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of the National Research Center «Kurchatov Insitute», K. V. Pugin, A. M. Giatsintov · 2025 · LETI Transactions on Electrical Engineering & Computer Science · 0 citations

• A Multi-Core Benchmark Framework for Linux-Based Embedded Systems Using Synthetic Task-Set Generation

  Yixiao Xing, Yixiao Li, Hiroaki Takada · 2025 · Electronics · 0 citations

• Fabrication and Development of the Embedded Linux Based on the ARM System

  Ruoyu Wang, Lulu Chen, Chenyu Zhang · 2024 · International Journal of Advanced Network, Monitoring and Controls · 0 citations

• METHODOLOGY FOR STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT OF EMBEDDED LINUX SYSTEM READINESS IN A VIRTUAL TEST LOOP

  Anatoly Belykh · 2026 · Universum:Technical sciences · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Modern Operating SystemsAndrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos · 1992
• Apache CookbookKen Coar, Rich Bowen · 2003
• Pro GitScott Chacon, Ben Straub · 2009
• Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScriptRobin Nixon · 2009
• Digital planetGeorge Beekman, Ben Beekman · 2011
• Embedded AndroidKarim Yaghmour · 2012
• TCP/IP IllustratedW. Richard Stevens, Kevin R. Fall · 1993
• Intelligent Technologies and Engineering SystemsJengnan Juang · 2013

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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