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Poky Hardware README
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-This file gives details about using Poky with different hardware reference
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-boards and consumer devices. A full list of target machines can be found by
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-looking in the meta/conf/machine/ directory. If in doubt about using Poky with
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-your hardware, consult the documentation for your board/device.
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+This file gives details about using Poky with the reference machines
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+supported out of the box. A full list of supported reference target machines
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+can be found by looking in the following directories:
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+
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+ meta/conf/machine/
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+ meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/
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+
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+If you are in doubt about using Poky/OpenEmbedded with your hardware, consult
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+the documentation for your board/device.
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Support for additional devices is normally added by creating BSP layers - for
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more information please see the Yocto Board Support Package (BSP) Developer's
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Guide - documentation source is in documentation/bspguide or download the PDF
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from:
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- http://yoctoproject.org/community/documentation
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+ http://yoctoproject.org/documentation
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-Support for machines other than QEMU may be moved out to separate BSP layers in
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-future versions.
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+Support for physical reference hardware has now been split out into a
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+meta-yocto-bsp layer which can be removed separately from other layers if not
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+needed.
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QEMU Emulation Targets
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-To simplify development Poky supports building images to work with the QEMU
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-emulator in system emulation mode. Several architectures are currently
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-supported:
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+To simplify development, the build system supports building images to
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+work with the QEMU emulator in system emulation mode. Several architectures
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+are currently supported:
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* ARM (qemuarm)
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* x86 (qemux86)
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* PowerPC (qemuppc)
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* MIPS (qemumips)
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-Use of the QEMU images is covered in the Poky Reference Manual. The Poky
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-MACHINE setting corresponding to the target is given in brackets.
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+Use of the QEMU images is covered in the Yocto Project Reference Manual.
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+The appropriate MACHINE variable value corresponding to the target is given
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+in brackets.
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Hardware Reference Boards
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-The following boards are supported by Poky's core layer:
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+The following boards are supported by the meta-yocto-bsp layer:
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* Texas Instruments Beagleboard (beagleboard)
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* Freescale MPC8315E-RDB (mpc8315e-rdb)
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* Ubiquiti Networks RouterStation Pro (routerstationpro)
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-For more information see the board's section below. The Poky MACHINE setting
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-corresponding to the board is given in brackets.
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+For more information see the board's section below. The appropriate MACHINE
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+variable value corresponding to the board is given in brackets.
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Consumer Devices
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-The following consumer devices are supported by Poky's core layer:
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+The following consumer devices are supported by the meta-yocto-bsp layer:
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* Intel Atom based PCs and devices (atom-pc)
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-For more information see the device's section below. The Poky MACHINE setting
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-corresponding to the device is given in brackets.
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+For more information see the device's section below. The appropriate MACHINE
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+variable value corresponding to the device is given in brackets.
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common PC input devices, busses, and so on.
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Depending on the device, it can boot from a traditional hard-disk, a USB device,
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-or over the network. Writing poky generated images to physical media is
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+or over the network. Writing generated images to physical media is
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straightforward with a caveat for USB devices. The following examples assume the
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target boot device is /dev/sdb, be sure to verify this and use the correct
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device as the following commands are run as root and are not reversable.
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device stops flashing, remove and reinsert the device to allow the
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kernel to detect the new partition layout.
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- c. Copy the contents of the poky image to the USB-ZIP mode device:
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+ c. Copy the contents of the image to the USB-ZIP mode device:
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# mkdir /tmp/image
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# mkdir /tmp/usbkey
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Load the kernel and dtb (device tree blob), and boot the system as follows:
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1. Get the kernel (uImage-mpc8315e-rdb.bin) and dtb (uImage-mpc8315e-rdb.dtb)
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- files from the Poky build tmp/deploy directory, and make them available on
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- your TFTP server.
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+ files from the tmp/deploy directory, and make them available on your TFTP
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+ server.
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2. Connect the board's first serial port to your workstation and then start up
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your favourite serial terminal so that you will be able to interact with
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