The instructions on this page have been tested on HOST_OS_NAME HOST_OS_VERSION (HOST_OS_BITS) in a VMWare virtual machine.

The meta-tq layer extends the Yocto Project's reference system Poky to provide support for a selection of TQ Embedded CPU Modules, including the MOD_NAME.

It uses the same codebase as the PTXdist based TQ Linux BSPs and therefore provides the same versions of U-Boot and Linux kernel, but doesn't define a specific root filesystem configuration.

Please use ci-meta-tq instead of meta-tq to build this release of the BSP.

The instructions on this page refer to the BSP and ancillary tools listed in the following table:


It's strongly recommended to use git for downloading both the Yocto Project / Poky Release as well as ci-meta-tq (instead of downloading archives and extracting them).

The goal of these wiki pages is to get you started using ci-meta-tq with the STK_NAME, so instead of reinventing the wheel we will adhere to the very compact Yocto Project Quick Start and supply details specific to the STK_NAME where necessary.

For further details regarding Yocto Project YOCTO_REL_VER_MAJOR.YOCTO_REL_VER_MINOR - YOCTO_REL_NAME please refer to its official documentation.

Yocto Project / Poky requires a Linux build host, so first of all you need a development workstation (or a virtual machine2)) with a (preferably) recent Linux distribution installed.

Please refer to section Compatible Linux Distribution of the Yocto Project Quick Start for supported linux distributions and section Build Host Packages for required build host packages for those distributions.

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

The Yocto Project Quick Start document explains how to set up Yocto Project / Poky and how to build images using the meta-intel layer. Using this as a guideline, the following table describes how to use the ci-meta-tq layer for the STK_NAME.

Section Remarks / Instructions for ci-meta-tq & STK_NAME
Welcome! Introduction and basic information about the Yocto Project
Setting Up to Use the Yocto Project Description of basic requirements for using the Yocto Project (also cf. Prerequisites above)
Building Your Images

This section provides step-by-step instructions for STK_NAME.

1. Create a local copy of MTQ_REPOS

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/tq-systems/ci-meta-tq.git

2. Checkout BSP release on new local branch.

$ cd ci-meta-tq
$ git checkout <label yocto_rel_branch>YOCTO_REL_BRANCH</label>.<label yocto_rel_branch_module>YOCTO_REL_BRANCH_MODULE</label>.BSP.SW.<label yocto_rel_branch_rev>YOCTO_REL_BRANCH_REV</label> -b <label yocto_local_branch_name>YOCTO_LOCAL_BRANCH_NAME</label>

3. Update git submodules:

$ git submodule update --init
$ git submodule sync

4. Setup local branch to track the remote branch.

git branch -u origin/<label yocto_local_branch_name>YOCTO_LOCAL_BRANCH_NAME</label>

5. Configure the Build3):

$ source fsl-setup-release.sh -b <label mod_name_code>MOD_NAME_CODE</label>_build -e wayland
$ echo 'MACHINE = "<label mtq_machine_default>MTQ_MACHINE_DEFAULT</label>"' >> conf/local.conf

6. Build an Image for STK_NAME:

$ bitbake <label mtq_image>MTQ_IMAGE</label>

The resulting image is tmp/deploy/images/MTQ_MACHINE_DEFAULT4)/MTQ_IMAGE-MTQ_MACHINE_DEFAULT5).wic
7. Write the Image6)7)

$ sudo dd if=tmp/deploy/images/<label mtq_machine_default>MTQ_MACHINE_DEFAULT</label>/<label mtq_image>MTQ_IMAGE</label>-<label mtq_machine_default>MTQ_MACHINE_DEFAULT</label>.wic of=TARGET_DEVICE

8. Boot the STK_NAME from SD card (cf. <label mb_name>MB_NAME</label> DIP switch settings)


1)
i.e. value for MACHINE variable
2)
for testing purposes Yocto Project provides a ready to use virtual machine called Build Appliance
3) , 4) , 5) , 6)
valid machines are
MTQ_MACHINES
7)
TARGET_DEVICE has to be an SD card
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