This page refers to the BSP and ancillary tools listed in the following table:

BSP Revision @bsp_version@
PTXdist @ptx_version@
OSELAS Toolchain @oselas_version@.@oselas_patchlevel@
Platform @mb_name_code@
U-Boot @uboot_version@
Linux Kernel @linux_kernel@

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The BSP is available as a project ready to use with the PTXdist1) build system. As PTXdist runs on linux, first of all you need a development workstation (or a virtual machine) with a (preferably) recent Linux distribution installed. The distribution of your choice, however, may not have installed all required packages by default. Commonly missing packages (package names taken from Debian based systems) include:

  • autoconf
  • bc
  • bison
  • build-essential
  • dialog
  • flex
  • g++
  • gawk
  • gettext
  • git
  • libncurses5-dev
  • libxml-parser-perl
  • python-dev
  • quilt
  • texinfo
  • zip
  • socat
  • pkg-config

Although not required by PTXdist, we also recommend to configure and run a tftp server (for image download / update) and an nfs server (for network mounted rootfs) on your development host.

Make sure the development host meets the prerequisites and download the required PTXdist tarball(s) (see Downloads page for URLs).

Extract the tarball ptxdist-@ptx_version@.tar.bz2 and install as follows:

$ tar xvf ptxdist-@ptx_version@.tar.bz2
$ cd ptxdist-@ptx_version@
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

This will install PTXdist to /usr/local/lib by default. Afterwards please configure PTXdist with:

$ ptxdist setup 
 .config - PTXdist @ptx_version@
 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  ┌─────────────────────────── PTXdist @ptx_version@ ───────────────────────────┐
  │  Arrow keys navigate the menu.  <Enter> selects submenus --->.          │  
  │  Highlighted letters are hotkeys.  Pressing <Y> includes, <N> excludes, │  
  │  <M> modularizes features.  Press <Esc><Esc> to exit, <?> for Help, </> │  
  │  for Search.  Legend: [*] built-in  [ ] excluded  <M> module  < >       │  
  │ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │  
  │ │    --- PTXDIST Setup Menu                                           │ │  
  │ │        User                --->                                     │ │  
  │ │        Proxies             --->                                     │ │  
  │ │        Project Searchpath  --->                                     │ │  
  │ │        Source Directories  --->                                     │ │  
  │ │        Source Download     --->                                     │ │  
  │ │        IPKG Repository     --->                                     │ │  
  │ │        Java SDK            --->                                     │ │  
  │ │        Developer Options   --->                                     │ │  
  │ │                                                                     │ │  
  │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │  
  ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤  
  │        <Select>    < Exit >    < Help >    < Save >    < Load >         │  
  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘  

To personalise your PTXdist installation, please fill out:

  • User (username and mail address)

Depending on your environment, the most important settings are:

  • Proxies (ftp / http / hhtps proxies)
  • Source Directories (path for archive of downloaded source packages (aka local package pool))

For further details on setup options, please see the PTXdist manual.

See download page for links to toolchain download. If using precompiled toolchain install to /opt. Otherwise carefully follow the documentation for building toolchains found here or in the download section.
By default the toolchain will get installed to /opt/OSELAS.Toolchain-<version>.

Follow chapter “Building a toolchain” in the PTXdist manual and keep in mind:

  • When you are asked to run the command
    $ ptxdist select ptxconfigs/...

    select this ptxconfig: ptxconfigs/@ptxconfig_arch@_gcc-<version>_glibc-<version>_binutils-<version>_kernel-<version>-sanitized.ptxconfig (for @mod_name@)

  • To build the toolchain project you should install the corresponding PTXdist version for the Toolchain (as told in the documentation).

The Toolchain normally is already setup in the BSP project. So you can move on to the next step.

Please see the README in the zip package for a detailed description of the zip contents

Extract the package @bsp_name_archive@@bsp_version@.zip to any directory (e.g. /home/projects/).

 unzip TQ-TQMa6ULx-BSP-REV.0100.zip -d ~/projects/

After decompressing the BSP archive following archives are located in the destination folder:

  • @bsp_archive_bin@.@bsp_version@.tgz → prebuild binaries for
  • @bsp_archive_src@.@bsp_version@tar.gz → Board Support Package sources

Next step is to decompress the BSP source archive:

$ cd ~/projects
$ tar -xvf @bsp_archive_src@.@bsp_version_src@.tar.gz
$ cd @bsp_archive_src@.@bsp_version@

Disclaimer
TQ-Systems GmbH provides the Board Support Packages (BSP) free of charge. The software included in the shipment has been configured individually for the starter kits. The software is only intended to evaluate the module. The use of the Board Support Packages (BSP) is only allowed within the scope of functionality described by TQ-Systems GmbH. TQ-Systems GmbH does not accept any liability for all further changes of the Board Support Package and for any damage resulting from its use.