GM’s GM8180 MDC1 hardware environment is a highly efficient RISC-based platform for the purpose of verifying and evaluating AMBA-based designs in the early development stage. The complete set of MDC1 GM8180 platform consists of a main board (MB120) equipped with GM8180 chip and an embedded GM FA626 CPU. This document contains the Linux programming guide for GM GM8180 MDC1 platform.