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Some of the reference designs from Trenz Electronics include a preconfigured yocto bsp layer that can be used to generate a Linux image and a prebuilt yocto linux image, that can be copied directly to sd card.

Yocto BSP layer. This is a short description of how to use the BSP layer to create a Linux image with the Yocto project for the Board.

Prepare Yocto Project

The yocto bsp Yocto BSP layer will be generated with the quartus project in the <project name>/os/yocto/meta-<module> folder. The generated layers depends on the meta-altera layer (for more information see: Yocto KICKstart#Used source files).

1. Download a reference design that includes yocto bsp a Yocto BSP layer
2. Generate the quartus Quartus project as described in the wiki description of the downloaded reference design or in Project Delivery - Intel devices#Quick Start
3. Copy the generated meta-<module> folder from <project name>/os/yocto/meta-<module> to the path/to/yocto/poky/ directory
4. Follow the steps from Yocto KICKstart#Create a project for an Intel FPGA device without running the 'bitbake' command

5. Add the generated bsp BSP layer meta-<machine> to /yocto/poky/build/conf/bblayers.conf with:

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   bitbake-layers add-layer ../meta-<module>

   
   

Generate linux image

There are two options to generate an image with the provided Yocto BSP layer:

1. Generate an image with a minimal RAM-based root filesystem, which is bundled inside the kernel image.
2. Generate an image with a root filesystem on sd card with its own partition.

For the reference design, the generation of an image with an init RAM filesystem is preferred.

Image with initial RAM filesystem

1. Redefine the variable MACHINE with '<module>-<Board-Part-Short-Name>' in path/to//yocto/poky/build/conf/local.conf 
   1. A list with the correct MACHINE names can be found in the wiki description of the reference design: Overview→Requirements→Hardware

      • e.g. for the board TEI0022-03 see TEI0022 Test Board#Hardware → here the MACHINE name is tei0022-a5-c8-2gb.

   2. run following commands to redefine 'MACHINE':

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      sed -i '/^MACHINE/s/MACHINE/#MACHINE/g' conf/local.conf echo -e '\nMACHINE = "<module>-<Board-Part-Short-Name>"' >> conf/local.conf

      
      

2. Define the variables INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE and INITRAMFS_IMAGE to create an image with initial RAM filesystem

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   echo -e '\nINITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE = "1"' >> conf/local.conf echo -e 'INITRAMFS_IMAGE = "te-initramfs"' >> conf/local.conf

   
   

3. Build the image with following command (the image recipes are located in meta-<module>/recipes-core/images/):

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   bitbake te-image-minimal

   
   

Image with root filesystem on SD card

1. Redefine the variable MACHINE with '<module>-<Board-Part-Short-Name>' in path/to/yocto/poky/build/conf/local.conf 
   1. A list with the correct MACHINE names can be found in the wiki description of the reference design: Overview→Requirements→Hardware

      • e.g. for the board TEI0022-03 see TEI0022 Test Board#Hardware → here the MACHINE name is tei0022-a5-c8-2gb.

   2. run following commands to redefine 'MACHINE':

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      sed -i '/^MACHINE/s/MACHINE/#MACHINE/g' conf/local.conf echo -e '\nMACHINE = "<module>-<Board-Part-Short-Name>"' >> conf/local.conf

      
      

2. Build the image with following command (the image recipes are located in meta-<module>/recipes-core/images/):

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   bitbake <module>te-image-minimal

   
   

Copy

.wic file to SD card

Yocto generates a full sd card image with .wic file which contains all needed files like u-boot, zImage , rootfs etc. included.The generated image and so on. This file is stored in path/to/yocto/poky/build/tmp/deploy/images/<machine>/<image_name>.wic. If you downloaded a reference design with prebuilt files, you can find a generated yocto linux image in <project name>/prebuilt/Board_Part_Short_Name/os/yocto/images/generate the linux yocto project yourself, using the .wic file is a very simple way to prepare the SD card for booting linux.

Do following steps to copy the image .wic file to the SD card:

1. Insert the sd SD card into a sd SD card reader connected to the computer

2. Run following command to get the device name of the SD card  (e.g. /dev/sdx):

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   lsblk

   
   

3. Copy the generated *.wic image to the sd SD card (replace 'sdx' in 'of=/dev/sdx' with the correct sd card device name:

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   sudo dd if=path/to/yocto_image/poky/build/tmp/deploy/images/<machine>/<image_name>.wic of=/dev/sdx bs=1M seek=0

   
   

4. Insert the SD card into your board, set boot mode to sd card (if the setting is available) and boot it.

Serial Console

1. Open Serial Console (e.g. PuTTY)

   1. select COM Port

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      Win OS: see device manager Linux OS: see  dmesg | grep tty  (UART is *USB1)

      
      

   2. Speed: 115200
2. Press reset button on the board
3. Linux Console:

   1. Login data:

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      Note: Wait until Linux boot finished

      
      

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      Username: root Password: root

      
      

   2. You can use Linux shell now.

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      i2cdetect -y -r 1 (check I2C 1 Bus, if available) dmesg | grep rtc (RTC check, if available) udhcpc (ETH0 check, if available) lsusb (USB check, if available)