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Starterkit Quicksteps

This Page gives an overview how to take the first steps after unpacking the TQ Starterkit.

Setup Host Computer

The starter kit is delivered with a bootable SD card which contains the latest BSP revision at the time of delivery. Therefore only a terminal emulation program installed on your development host is required for the first steps.

The following emulation programms are recommended:

Linux

Windows

TeraTerm

TeraTerm is an open source terminal emulator for windows. it can be downloaded here.

Configure TeraTerm

  1. Download and install TeraTerm
  2. Start TeraTerm and open the Serial Port Settings
  3. select your serial port and configure it with the values defined in the chapter Serial Configuration
  4. after passing the values click on the button new Setting

Now TeraTerm should be ready for use with our starter kits.

Serial Configuration

The serial port must be configured for connection to the starter kit as follows:

Bautrate: 115200
Data bits: 8
Parity: none
Stop bits: 1
Handshake : XON/XOFF

Connecting the Starterkit to the development host

Please follow the quick start guide delivered with the kit, or open it from the following link: Quick start guide

BSP Login credentials

As soon as you log in for the first time, the question about the login credential comes up.
By default no password is set up for user root.

user password
root no password is set for default user root

SSH Login

SSH is set up with password authentification, therefore a password has to be set for default user root.

Testing and using Interfaces

Build the BSP for <label>STK_NAME</label> Build the SDK for <label>STK_NAME</label> Setup Eclipse IDE on Development Host

How To customize Yocto BSP

Change Devicetree in U-Boot

The U-Boot enviroment variable fdt_file determines which device tree is loaded when the kernel is started. The device tree blobs are stored in the firmware partition of the BSP image. The PArtition is formated with the FAT file system and can be read in U-Boot.

The fdt_file variable can be set by the following command.

Please keep in mind that changes to the U-Boot environment are volatile unless the environment has been saved by the saveenv command.

Link zur Data page

Setup Starterkit for different boot sources

The Starterkit can be setup to boot from different sources please see the following how to set the dip switches

Perpare Boot sources

Deployment