Embedded module TQMP2020 - Linux BSP documentation

ELDK 5.2.1

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ELDK 4.2

The ftp download server for the iso image of the ELDK CD is: http://ftp.denx.de/pub/eldk/4.2/ppc-linux-x86/iso/ppc-2008-04-01.iso

Before running the installation you have to create a direcotry for the installation. After that you can run the install skript.

tq@ubuntu:/media/ppc-2008-04-01$ sudo mkdir /opt/eldk
tq@ubuntu:/media/ppc-2008-04-01$ sudo chown tq:tq /opt/eldk
tq@ubuntu:/media/ppc-2008-04-01$ ./install -d /opt/eldk <label arch>ppc_85xxDP</label>

After a successful run of the install skript you need to make the ELDK rootfs able to boot. Run the two skripts with sudo enabled.

tq@ubuntu:/media/ppc-2008-04-01$ sudo ./ELDK_MAKEDEV -d /opt/eldk/
tq@ubuntu:/media/ppc-2008-04-01$ sudo ./ELDK_FIXOWNER -d /opt/eldk/

The configuration of the environment variables $PATH and $CROSS_COMPILE should be written in the file /opt/eldk/setup_eldk.

tq@ubuntu:/opt/eldk$ echo 'PATH=$PATH:/opt/eldk/usr/bin:/opt/eldk/bin
export CROSS_COMPILE="<label arch>ppc_85xxDP</label>-"
export ARCH=powerpc' > setup_eldk & chmod u+x setup_eldk

To use the ELDK toolchain for cross compiling you can simply source the created configuration file.

tq@ubuntu:~$ source /opt/eldk/setup_eldk

If you are using just this version of ELDK with only one architecture you can write the settings permanent in the file ~/.bashrc. Open your favourite texteditor and and append the following line.

source /opt/eldk/setup_eldk

Alternatively you can do it with a small command:

tq@ubuntu:~$ echo 'source /opt/eldk/setup_eldk' >> ~/.bashrc

Download the archive with the patches and unpack it (e.g. to ~/src/BSP/UBoot/patches). Download the basic version with git.

user@ubuntu:~/src$ git clone http://git.denx.de/u-boot.git
user@ubuntu:~/src$ cd u-boot/
user@ubuntu:~/src/u-boot$ git checkout -b P2020 v2011.03
user@ubuntu:~/src/u-boot$ stg init
user@ubuntu:~/src/u-boot$ stg import -t -s ~/src/BSP/UBoot/patches/series

The environment variables ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE were set according to section Configuring the ELDK Cross Compiler.

The following commands have to be executed: to configure and compile with make:

user@ubuntu:/.../src/u-boot$ make distclean
user@ubuntu:/.../src/u-boot$ make TQMP2020_config
user@ubuntu:/.../src/u-boot$ make all
Sources
  • Ubuntu 10.04 i386 (VMware Virtual Machine)
  • ELDK 4.2

Install the git source code management system.

user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install git-core stgit uboot-mkimage

Create a directory for the Linux source code:

tq@ubuntu:~$ mkdir ~/src
tq@ubuntu:~$ cd ~/src

Get source code

The current BSP (October 2011) is based on the 2.6.39 kernel of Denx software engineering. The base version of this source code you get from the Git server http://git.denx.de.

tq@ubuntu:~/src$ git clone http://git.denx.de/linux-denx.git
tq@ubuntu:~/src$ cd linux-denx

Create local branch named p2020 with the source code of version DENX-v2.6.39:

tq@ubuntu:~/src/linux-denx$ git checkout -b p2020 DENX-v2.6.39

Patch sources

Unpack the archive with the patches into a local folder e.g. to ~/src/BSP/Linux/patches.

You can find the patches on the TQ product page.

The patches are now applied to the kernel sources:

tq@ubuntu:~/src/linux-denx$ stg init
tq@ubuntu:~/src/linux-denx$ stg import -t -s ~/src/BSP/Linux/patches/series

If the ELDK has been configured according to the instructions the cross compilation toolchain is ready to compile the kernel.

Configure and build:

tq@ubuntu:~/src/linux-denx$ make 85xx/tqmp2020_defconfig
tq@ubuntu:~/src/linux-denx$ make uImage

If the following error occurs when configuring the kernel source code:

*** Can't find default configuration "arch/x86/configs/85xx/tqmp2020_defconfig"!

then the environment is not configured correctly. For more information see section Installation of the ELDK Toolchain.

Download kernel via TFTP

To load the kernel uImage in the directory arch/powerpc/boot, it has to be copied to the TFTP root directory. Depending on the configuration of the TFTP server it is e.g. /tftpboot. Starting from the source directory the uImage is copied to the /tftpboot directory with the following command.

tq@ubuntu:~/src/linux-denx$ cp arch/powerpc/boot/uImage /tftpboot
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