If working with a non-kit SOM, there are additional steps required to build this release for your configuration. Please view the notes in the Building the BSP from Source and Built Images sections for the applicable differences. For each SOM configuration there may be a required change to the Linux dts, the yocto MACHINE value, and the output images. |
This Quickstart provides you with the tools and know-how to install and work with the Linux Board Support Package (BSP) for the phyCORE-AM57xx Rapid Development Kit (RDK). This Quickstart shows you how to do everything from installing the appropriate tools and source, to building custom kernels, to deploying the OS, to exercising the software and hardware. Please refer to the phyCORE-AM57xx Hardware Manual for specific information on board-level features such as jumper configuration, memory mapping and pin layout for the phyCORE-AM57xx System on Module (SOM) and baseboard. Additionally, gain access to the SOM and baseboard schematics for the phyCORE-AM57xx RDK by registering at the following: http://phytec.com/support/registration/.
The following system requirements are necessary to successfully complete this Quickstart. Deviations from these requirements may suffice, or may have other workarounds.
A modern GNU/Linux Operating host system either natively or via a virtual machine:
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS recommended, 64-bit required. Other distributions will likely work, please note that some setup information as well as OS-specific commands and paths may differ.
If using a virtual machine, VMWare Workstation, VMWare Player, and VirtualBox are all viable solutions.
Root access to your Linux Host PC. Some commands in the Quickstart will not work if you don’t have sudo access (ex. package installation, formatting SD card).
At least 210GB free on target build partition and at least 4GB of RAM available to the build host.
SD card reader operational under Linux.
If you do not have SD card access under Linux then formatting, copying the bootloader, and mounting the root file system on an SD card will not be possible.
Active Internet connection
AC adapter supplying 12VDC / min. 2A
See release notes for supported SOM and carrier board versions. |
Use the following as a reference for the connector interfaces on the phyCORE-AM57xx Rapid Development Kit that will be used in this Quickstart.
This section is designed to get the board up-and-running with pre-built images.
The section was designed to show you how to boot the phyCORE-AM57xx Rapid Development Kit with the pre-built demo images. Before starting the following steps, please Create a Bootable SD Card with the release images from PHYTEC's Artifactory, then configure the board to boot from SD/MMC with the help of the Boot Configuration how-to guide. If needed, you can flash your image to eMMC by following the Flashing Images to eMMC how-to guide.
Press the power button S2 on the carrier board. You will now see power LEDs VDD_3V3, VDD_5V0, and VDD_12V0 on the carrier board light up a solid green. You will also start to see console output on your terminal window. If everything was done correctly the board should boot completely into Linux, arriving at a am57xx-phycore-rdk prompt. The default login account is root with an empty password. Note that the first time the board is booted it will takes a little while for the SSH server to generate new keys. Subsequent boots should be faster.
Not seeing any output on the console?
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This section will show you how to configure your development host to build your own BSP images from source and how to start BSP image builds. Building BSP images from source is useful if you have made changes to the BSP sources and would like to deploy those changes in an easy and reproducible way.
Yocto development requires certain packages to be installed. Run the following commands to ensure you have the packages installed:
sudo apt-get install git build-essential python diffstat texinfo gawk chrpath dos2unix wget unzip socat doxygen libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libz1:i386 lib32stdc++6 lib32ncurses5 lib32z1 libc6-dev-i386 cpio gcc-multilib |
The above is the recommended package installation for development on a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Linux distribution. For a breakdown of the packages as well as a list of packages required for other Linux distributions, see the "Required Packages for the Host Development System" section in the Yocto Project Reference Manual: http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#required-packages-for-the-host-development-system |
Verify that the preferred shell for your Host PC is ''bash'' and not ''dash'':
sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash # Respond "No" to the prompt asking "Install dash as /bin/sh?" bash |
Download and install the repo tool. This tool is used to obtain Yocto source from Git.
cd /opt sudo mkdir bin # /opt/ directory has root permission, change the permissions so your user account can access this folder. In the following replace <user> with your specific username sudo chown -R <user>: bin cd bin curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ./repo # add directory that contains repo to your path chmod a+x repo |
Add the repo directory in your PATH, using export from the command line or permanently by including it in .bashrc:
export PATH=/opt/bin/:$PATH |
If you have not yet configured your Git environment on this machine, please execute the following commands to set your user name and email address. See here for more information on getting started with Git.
git config --global user.email "your@email.com" git config --global user.name "Your Name" git config --global http.sslcainfo /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt |
Create a directory which will house your BSP development. In this example the BSP directory is /opt/PHYTEC_BSPs/. This is not a requirement and if another location is preferred (ex. ~/PHYTEC_BSPs) feel free to modify. We recommend using /opt over your HOME directory to avoid errors attributed to ~ syntax as well as the sudo requirement for the root filesystem and automation package building. We also recommend creating a package download directory (yocto_dl) separate from the yocto tree (yocto_ti), as it makes resetting the build environment easier and subsequent build times much faster.
sudo mkdir /opt/PHYTEC_BSPs cd /opt/ # /opt/ directory has root permission, change the permissions so your user account can access this folder. In the following replace <user> with your specific username sudo chown -R <user>: PHYTEC_BSPs cd PHYTEC_BSPs mkdir yocto_ti mkdir yocto_dl cd yocto_ti export YOCTO_DIR=`pwd` |
At this point you will now be able to navigate to the Yocto directory using the $YOCTO_DIR environment variable.
Run the following commands to install the Linaro Toolchain:
wget http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/6.2-2016.11/arm-linux-gnueabihf/gcc-linaro-6.2.1-2016.11-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz tar -Jxvf gcc-linaro-6.2.1-2016.11-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz -C /opt/PHYTEC_BSPs rm gcc-linaro-6.2.1-2016.11-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz |
Download the manifest file for the AM57xx PD18.2.0 BSP:
cd $YOCTO_DIR repo init -u https://stash.phytec.com/scm/pub/manifests-phytec.git -b am57xx -m PD18.2.0.xml |
Download the Yocto meta layers specified in the manifest file:
repo sync |
| Replace MACHINE=am57xx-phycore-rdk in all of the build instructions with the appropriate MACHINE for the SOM configuration found in the Yocto Machine Configuration Table section of the latest AM57xx BSP release notes. |
Run the Yocto build directory setup script. The TEMPLATECONF variable is used to set the source of the local configuration files (conf/bblayers.conf and conf/local.conf), which are located in the meta-phytec layer:
cd $YOCTO_DIR TEMPLATECONF=$YOCTO_DIR/sources/meta-phytec/meta-phytec-ti/conf MACHINE=am57xx-phycore-rdk source sources/oe-core/oe-init-build-env build |
Open the build/conf/local.conf file using your favorite editor and modify the the download directory to:
DL_DIR ?= "/opt/PHYTEC_BSPs/yocto_dl" |
Maximize build efficiency by modifying the BB_NUMBER_THREADS variable to suit your host development system. This sets the maximum number of tasks that BitBake should run in parallel. Also set the variable PARALLEL_MAKE to specify the number of threads that make can run. By default, these are set to 4 in build/conf/local.conf:
# Parallelism options - based on cpu count BB_NUMBER_THREADS ?= "4" PARALLEL_MAKE ?= "-j 4" |
Be sure to save your changes to the local.conf file before closing.
The setup is complete and you now have everything ready to start a build. This BSP has been tested with the arago-core-tisdk-image and it is suggested that you start with this image before building other images. Alternate images are located in various meta layers at yocto_ti/sources/meta*/recipes*/images/*.bb. They can be found using the command bitbake-layers show-recipes "*-image*" in $YOCTO_DIR/build/.
The default build target is arago-core-tisdk-image, which includes all TISDK demos and support. In the interest of creating a smaller image that still supports all libraries and graphics features, but without many of the demos, we recommend using phytec-tisdk-image. PHYTEC offers phytec-tisdk-image images on Artifactory under the am5716-phycore-rdk, am5726-phycore-rdk, and am5728-phycore-rdk directories.
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The following will start a build from scratch including installation of the toolchain as well as bootloader, Linux kernel, and root filesystem images.
cd $YOCTO_DIR/build export PATH=/opt/PHYTEC_BSPs/gcc-linaro-6.2.1-2016.11-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin:$PATH MACHINE=am57xx-phycore-rdk bitbake arago-core-tisdk-image |
If working with a non-kit SOM, select it in the Yocto Machine Configuration Table and use the device tree files mentioned in the Kernel Device Tree File column. The device tree filename referenced in this section is am572x-phycore-rdk-41300111i as the phyCORE-AM57xx RDK comes standard with a PCM-057-41300111I SOM. |
All images generated by bitbake are deployed to $YOCTO_DIR/build/arago-tmp-external-linaro-toolchain/deploy/images/<machine>:
Source Locations:
The device tree file to modify within the linux kernel source is: am572x-phycore-rdk-41300111i.dts and its included dtsi files.
The build time will vary depending on the package selection and Host performance. Beyond the initial build, after making modifications to the BSP, a full build is not required. Use the following as a reference to take advantage of optimized build options and reduce the build time.
To rebuild U-Boot:
bitbake u-boot-phytec -f -c compile && bitbake u-boot-phytec |
To rebuild the Linux kernel:
bitbake linux-phytec-ti -f -c compile && bitbake linux-phytec-ti |
The Yocto project's Bitbake User Manual provides useful information regarding build options: http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html