http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ 2026-04-07T12:23:14+03:00 http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/lib/tpl/arctic/images/favicon.ico text/html 2025-08-03T10:09:23+03:00 http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ass/labs-2024/01?rev=1754204963&do=diff 01 - Firmware & Bootloaders Objectives * Learn about Exception Levels & the boot process for ARMv8 * Generate a Firmware Image Package (FIP) with U-boot & Trusted Firmware-A * Load the FIP onto an i.MX8M board via the Serial Download Protocol tasks index text/html 2025-08-03T10:09:30+03:00 http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ass/labs-2024/02?rev=1754204970&do=diff 02 - Bootstrapping Linux Objectives * Distinguish a Linux OS's various components (kernel, rootfs, initramfs) * Use Buildroot to make a Linux root filesystem from scratch * Configure & manually compile a Linux Kernel * Build everything as a single disk image tasks index text/html 2025-08-03T10:12:05+03:00 http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ass/labs-2024/03?rev=1754205125&do=diff 03 - Trusted Execution Objectives * Modern software complexity -> cyber security issues; * Trusted Execution Environments and their application; * ARM's trusted boot process & the TrustZone architecture; * Install OP-TEE trusted operating system within ARM CPU's secure domain; * Build & run trusted applications; tasks index text/html 2025-08-03T10:12:27+03:00 http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ass/labs-2024/04?rev=1754205147&do=diff 04 - Kernel development Objectives * Learn Linux kernel development basics; * Build your own Linux kernel module; * Understand userspace device types; * Use MMIO to communicate with the IMX UART peripheral! Contents tasks index Lecture Before beginning the tasks, please check out the lecture slides & notes here. text/html 2025-08-03T10:08:01+03:00 http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ass/labs-2024/start?rev=1754204881&do=diff We used a TechNexion PICO-PI-IMX8M featuring a NXP i.MX8M Quad ARM Cortex-A53 + M4 SoC with 2GB DRAM. Here is a list of our old 2023-2024 labs: labs-2024 index