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Currently only for Intel SoC / FPGA with external DDR
The Yocto Project is a set of tools that helps to create customized Linux systems. This is a short description of how to prepare the host computer and how to create a project with yocto.
Used source files
The following description was tested with the source files listed in this table:
Component | Source | Version/Git branch | Commit ID |
---|---|---|---|
Oracle VM VirtualBox | https://www.virtualbox.org/ | 6.1.26 | --- |
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04/ | 20.04.3 LTS | --- |
Yocto | https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/ | dunfell | b47125666fe44e491ce9a4ecadd1875bec9891db |
meta-altera | https://github.com/kraj/meta-altera.git | dunfell | 237cd5ecd28491dbcff16d8d64662d3b56ac30df |
linux -socfpga | https://github.com/altera-opensource/linux-socfpga.git | socfpga-5.4.124-lts | cdb318393975f4bf9a392fb15af74aad45c57245 |
u-boot-socfpga | https://github.com/altera-opensource/u-boot-socfpga.git | socfpga_v2021.04 | bdc9a4409de9cef4408eebd81196fd63887ac78f |
Build Host
Yocto Project is supported in many Linux Distributions, this descriptions refers to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Information and requirements for other distributions can be found in the Yocto Project Reference Manual.
General requirements
This requirements are generally needed for Yocto Project in Ubuntu 20.04:
- free disk space: at least 50 GB
required packages:
sudo apt install gawk wget git diffstat unzip texinfo gcc build-essential chrpath socat cpio \ python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect xz-utils debianutils iputils-ping python3-git python3-jinja2 \ libegl1-mesa libsdl1.2-dev pylint3 xterm python3-subunit mesa-common-dev
(optional) VM with supported Linux OS
If you do not have installed Linux OS on your host computer, you can optionally run a VM with a supported Linux OS:
e.g. with OracleVM:
VM Setup:
RAM: >= 8 GB
CPU: >= 4
HDD: 200 GB dynamically
ubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64.iso
install vm guest additions
Network: network bridge
optional: add shared folder, enable drag and drop
- Note the general requirements
Install Yocto Project
Create and navigate to the yocto directory:
mkdir yocto && cd yocto
Clone the Yocto Project sources:
git clone -b dunfell https://git.yoctoproject.org/git/poky
Create a project for an Intel FPGA device
The following steps are required to create an image for the Intel FPGA devices:
For Intel FPGA devices you need the meta-layer 'meta-altera'. Run following command to clone this meta-layer from github into the 'poky' folder:
cd poky git clone -b dunfell https://github.com/kraj/meta-altera.git
Run the oe-init-build-env script to initialize the environment:
source oe-init-build-env
Add meta-altera layer to path/to/yocto/poky/build/conf/bblayers.conf:
bitbake-layers add-layer ../meta-altera
- Modify the path/to//yocto/poky/build/conf/local.conf file:
Remove default configuration of the MACHINE variable and set it to a supported machine (see meta-altera/conf/machine for more information) of meta-altera layer e.g 'cyclone5':
sed -i '/^MACHINE/s/MACHINE/#MACHINE/g' conf/local.conf echo -e '\nMACHINE = "cyclone5"' >> conf/local.conf
Set the preferred linux kernel version (see meta-altera/recipes-kernel/linux for other linux kernel versions):
echo -e '\nPREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-altera-lts"' >> conf/local.conf echo -e 'PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-altera-lts = "5.4%"' >> conf/local.conf
Set the preferred u-boot version (see meta-altera/recipes-bsp/u-boot for other u-boot versions):
echo -e '\nPREFERRED_VERSION_u-boot-socfpga = "v2021.04%"' >> conf/local.conf
Build the image:
bitbake core-image-minimal
The first run of this command can take several hours.
The generated files such as the u-boot file, kernel file or the complete Image are stored in /yocto/poky/build/tmp/deploy/images.- Follow the steps described in Reference Designs with Yocto - Intel SoC FPGAs#Copy image to SD card to copy the image to the SD card.
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