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author | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-03-28 18:07:01 +0000 |
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committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-03-31 23:04:36 +0100 |
commit | 7254dfb642cb0262c7e14ef2a4c8a7a42afada60 (patch) | |
tree | c44528e8dd5afcd6c9ac623243650129a5c08a68 /README.hardware | |
parent | af1e58a6107290e8d1dadb4617cb29eed17dd5d3 (diff) | |
download | openembedded-core-contrib-7254dfb642cb0262c7e14ef2a4c8a7a42afada60.tar.gz |
Drop beagleboard, replaced by beaglebone
(From meta-yocto rev: b125761e5e31fc506f7b5b87308850cd573ab1b6)
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/README.hardware b/README.hardware index eccc7d3e6e7..85f033057e1 100644 --- a/README.hardware +++ b/README.hardware @@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ Hardware Reference Boards The following boards are supported by the meta-yocto-bsp layer: - * Texas Instruments Beagleboard (beagleboard) * Freescale MPC8315E-RDB (mpc8315e-rdb) * Ubiquiti Networks RouterStation Pro (routerstationpro) @@ -180,96 +179,6 @@ USB Device: http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/usbkey.txt;hb=HEAD -Texas Instruments Beagleboard (beagleboard) -=========================================== - -The Beagleboard is an ARM Cortex-A8 development board with USB, DVI-D, S-Video, -2D/3D accelerated graphics, audio, serial, JTAG, and SD/MMC. The xM adds a -faster CPU, more RAM, an ethernet port, more USB ports, microSD, and removes -the NAND flash. The beagleboard MACHINE is tested on the following platforms: - - o Beagleboard C4 - o Beagleboard xM rev A & B - -The Beagleboard C4 has NAND, while the xM does not. For the sake of simplicity, -these instructions assume you have erased the NAND on the C4 so its boot -behavior matches that of the xM. To do this, issue the following commands from -the u-boot prompt (note that the unlock may be unecessary depending on the -version of u-boot installed on your board and only one of the erase commands -will succeed): - - # nand unlock - # nand erase - # nand erase.chip - -To further tailor these instructions for your board, please refer to the -documentation at http://www.beagleboard.org. - -From a Linux system with access to the image files perform the following steps -as root, replacing mmcblk0* with the SD card device on your machine (such as sdc -if used via a usb card reader): - - 1. Partition and format an SD card: - # fdisk -lu /dev/mmcblk0 - - Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 3951 MB, 3951034368 bytes - 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 480 cylinders, total 7716864 sectors - Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes - - Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System - /dev/mmcblk0p1 * 63 144584 72261 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) - /dev/mmcblk0p2 144585 465884 160650 83 Linux - - # mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n "boot" /dev/mmcblk0p1 - # mke2fs -j -L "root" /dev/mmcblk0p2 - - The following assumes the SD card partition 1 and 2 are mounted at - /media/boot and /media/root respectively. Removing the card and reinserting - it will do just that on most modern Linux desktop environments. - - The files referenced below are made available after the build in - build/tmp/deploy/images. - - 2. Install the boot loaders - # cp MLO-beagleboard /media/boot/MLO - # cp u-boot-beagleboard.bin /media/boot/u-boot.bin - - 3. Install the root filesystem - # tar x -C /media/root -f core-image-$IMAGE_TYPE-beagleboard.tar.bz2 - # tar x -C /media/root -f modules-$KERNEL_VERSION-beagleboard.tgz - - 4. Install the kernel uImage - # cp uImage-beagleboard.bin /media/boot/uImage - - 5. Prepare a u-boot script to simplify the boot process - The Beagleboard can be made to boot at this point from the u-boot command - shell. To automate this process, generate a user.scr script as follows. - - Install uboot-mkimage (from uboot-mkimage on Ubuntu or uboot-tools on Fedora). - - Prepare a script config: - - # (cat << EOF - setenv bootcmd 'mmc init; fatload mmc 0:1 0x80300000 uImage; bootm 0x80300000' - setenv bootargs 'console=tty0 console=ttyO2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait rootfstype=ext3 ro' - boot - EOF - ) > serial-boot.cmd - # mkimage -A arm -O linux -T script -C none -a 0 -e 0 -n "Core Minimal" -d ./serial-boot.cmd ./boot.scr - # cp boot.scr /media/boot - - 6. Unmount the SD partitions, insert the SD card into the Beagleboard, and - boot the Beagleboard - -Note: As of the 2.6.37 linux-yocto kernel recipe, the Beagleboard uses the - OMAP_SERIAL device (ttyO2). If you are using an older kernel, such as the - 2.6.34 linux-yocto-stable, be sure to replace ttyO2 with ttyS2 above. You - should also override the machine SERIAL_CONSOLE in your local.conf in - order to setup the getty on the serial line: - - SERIAL_CONSOLE_beagleboard = "115200 ttyS2" - - Freescale MPC8315E-RDB (mpc8315e-rdb) ===================================== |