From ea897ce72602c7b8f1f11aafe8baf6cbe5887c4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Zanussi Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:38:17 -0500 Subject: meta-fri2: new layer for Fish River Island II (E6XX/EG20T) systems This layer provides support for E6XX + EG20T Intel systems. Currently it supports only vesa graphics, which will be upgraded shortly. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi --- meta-fri2/README | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+) create mode 100644 meta-fri2/README (limited to 'meta-fri2/README') diff --git a/meta-fri2/README b/meta-fri2/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7957a7fe --- /dev/null +++ b/meta-fri2/README @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +This README file contains information on building the meta-fri2 BSP +layer, and booting the images contained in the /binary directory. +Please see the corresponding sections below for details. + + +Table of Contents +================= + + I. Special notes on the meta-fri2 BSP layer + II. Building the meta-fri2 BSP layer +III. Booting the images in /binary + + +II. Building the meta-fri2 BSP layer +========================================= + +In order to build an image with BSP support for a given release, you +need to download the corresponding BSP tarball from the 'Board Support +Package (BSP) Downloads' page of the Yocto Project website. + +Having done that, and assuming you extracted the BSP tarball contents +at the top-level of your yocto build tree, you can build a fri2 image +by adding the location of the meta-fri2 layer to bblayers.conf e.g.: + + yocto/meta-intel/meta-fri2 \ + +To enable the fri2 layer, add the fri2 MACHINE to local.conf: + + MACHINE ?= "fri2" + +You should then be able to build a fri2 image as such: + + $ source poky-init-build-env + $ bitbake poky-image-sato-live + +At the end of a successful build, you should have a live image that +you can boot from a USB flash drive (see instructions on how to do +that below, in the section 'Booting the images from /binary'). + +As an alternative to downloading the BSP tarball, you can also work +directly from the meta-intel git repository. For each BSP in the +'meta-intel' repository, there are multiple branches, one +corresponding to each major release starting with 'laverne' (0.90), in +addition to the latest code which tracks the current master. Instead +of extracting a BSP tarball at the top level of your yocto build tree, +you can equivalently check out the appropriate branch from the +meta-intel repository at the same location. + + +III. Booting the images in /binary +================================== + +This BSP contains bootable live images, which can be used to directly +boot Yocto off of a USB flash drive. + +Under Linux, insert a USB flash drive. Assuming the USB flash drive +takes device /dev/sdf, use dd to copy the live image to it. For +example: + +# dd if=poky-image-sato-live-fri2-20101207053738.hddimg of=/dev/sdf +# sync +# eject /dev/sdf + +This should give you a bootable USB flash device. Insert the device +into a bootable USB socket on the target, and power on. This should +result in a system booted to the Sato graphical desktop. + +If you want a terminal, use the arrows at the top of the UI to move to +different pages of available applications, one of which is named +'Terminal'. Clicking that should give you a root terminal. + +If you want to ssh into the system, you can use the root terminal to +ifconfig the IP address and use that to ssh in. The root password is +empty, so to log in type 'root' for the user name and hit 'Enter' at +the Password prompt: and you should be in. + +---- + +If you find you're getting corrupt images on the USB (it doesn't show +the syslinux boot: prompt, or the boot: prompt contains strange +characters), try doing this first: + +# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdf bs=1M count=512 -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf