When the driver turns off the ignition in a vehicle, display computers like terminals in harvesters or infotainment systems in cars should be notified. The display computers should save important data and shut down orderly. When the display computer runs on Linux, it learns the status of the ignition by monitoring the GPIO for...
Category: Embedded Linux
CAN Standard Helps Attackers to Switch Off Brakes, Steering and Engine
Security researchers from TrendMicro and the Technical University of Milano explain in a blog post “The Crisis of Connected Cars: When Vulnerabilities Affect the CAN Standard” and a video how to switch off any electronic control unit (ECU) attached to the CAN bus. An attacker could switch off the brakes, engine or steering of...
CMake Cross-Compilation Based on Yocto SDK
We have succeeded in building embedded Linux with Yocto for a quad-core NXP i.MX6 (ARM Cortex-A9). Next, we want to cross-compile our own Qt application. As we use CMake for building our Qt application, we must create a CMake toolchain file. I am going to give a line-line by line explanation of the CMake...