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This guide briefly describes the steps that need to be taken in order to create an [http://www.openembedded.org/ OpenEmbedded] (OE) based image for the [[BeagleBoard]].
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[[Category:Development Boards]]
It was created while performing an install on ubuntu804jeos (a minimal console only vmware appliance). This guide differs in that the official GettingStarted uses monotone while we will be using git. The second difference is that this guide only focuses on running on Ubuntu and developing for beagle.
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[[Category: BeagleBoard]]
  
The first step is to get a working Open Embedded installation. This can seam a daunting task at first but the rewards are great so here we go. This guide tries to be self containing. We therefore will not push you to use Google or read the other manuals.
 
  
=== Prerequisites ===
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== NOTE: ==
Disk Space
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These instructions are unofficial and their correctness can not be guaranteed. The '''only''' site that has up-to-date official instructions is [http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom]. Before making any support requests be sure that you have followed those instructions precisely.
  
Although OpenEmbedded images for the devices are usually quite small, the development system needs significant space. Take this into account, especially when using OE within a virtual machine.
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== Build instructions ==
  
* Minimum requirement: 12 GB (e.g. omap3-console-image for Gumstix Overo and BeagleBoard)
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Please refer to  [http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom], putting instructions into this wiki only brings confusion and bugs. If you find the angstrom instructions to be lacking in some way, please that that up with angstrom people instead of putting stuff in here.
* Standard requirement: 30 GB (e.g. omap3-desktop-image)
 
* Maximum requirement: 35 GB (for full OE build, bitbake world)
 
 
 
So the minimum free disk space is about 15 GB (no desktop images), standard would be 35 GB and a safe size is 45 GB.
 
 
 
OE tries to be as self supporting as possible. OE will both compile the cross compiler and the tools needed to compile a whole system. Still some dependencies are to be met using the "host" system.  During the install we will be able to run almost all the commands as normal user but right now we will install the basic set of packages that are required to make OE to be happy.
 
 
 
Host tools to install:
 
sudo apt-get update
 
 
 
sudo apt-get upgrade
 
 
 
sudo apt-get install ccache sed wget cvs subversion git-core coreutils unzip texi2html texinfo libsdl1.2-dev \
 
docbook-utils gawk help2man diffstat gtk-doc-tools file g++ python-psyco minicom build-essential \
 
libncurses5-dev python-dev python-pysqlite2
 
 
 
OE and many tools and scripts that are used contain bashisms. We therefore want to change the default  "/bin/sh" to point to bash.
 
sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash
 
#and select no
 
 
 
 
 
Ubuntu 8.04 (and ealier)
 
An other change need need to perform as root is to change some default settings of the kernel.
 
sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf
 
vm.vdso_enabled = 0
 
vm.mmap_min_addr = 0
 
 
 
Run
 
sudo sysctl  -p
 
 
 
Ubuntu 8.10 (and later)
 
Add settings to config directory (Prefix 60-* ensures that it overrides all other settings).
 
sudo -s
 
  echo -e "vm.vdso_enabled = 0\nvm.mmap_min_addr = 0" > /etc/sysctl.d/60-oe-settings.conf
 
exit
 
 
 
And then run
 
sudo invoke-rc.d procps start
 
 
 
== The effective install ==
 
We are going install the OpenEmbedded system under the user's home directory in a directory called "oe". We will need about 10 gig of free disk space. Under that we will be putting the different components of the OE system. Those components are [http://bitbake.berlios.de/manual/ Bitbake], the OpenEmbedded meta-data and the beagle configuration. The Bitbake task executor will be put under "opt".  The OpenEmbedded meta-data ( Bitbake recipes ), classes ( Bitbake extentions) and configuration (machine and arch setup) will be located under the "openembedded" directory. The BeagleBoard configuration will be placed under "beagleboard" directory.
 
 
 
=== OpenEmbedded and Bitbake install ===
 
This part really is not that difficult after all.
 
 
 
Set the dir where everything will be done
 
export OE_HOME=$HOME/oe
 
 
 
Install Bitbake
 
 
 
mkdir -p $OE_HOME/opt
 
cd  $OE_HOME/opt
 
svn co svn://svn.berlios.de/bitbake/branches/bitbake-1.8/ bitbake
 
#or if your are behind a firewall
 
svn co <nowiki>http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/bitbake/branches/bitbake-1.8</nowiki> bitbake
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Install the OpenEmbedded meta-data using git
 
cd $OE_HOME
 
git clone git://git.openembedded.net/openembedded
 
#or if you are behind a firewall
 
git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/openembedded.git
 
 
 
=== Creating the BeagleBoard configuration and profile ===
 
We now need to tweak OpenEmbedded to fit our Beagle needs. We create a profile script that we can run whenever we feel like playing with beagle. This script will perform a few tasks. It will add bitbake to our PATH so we can run the bitbake command from anywhere. It will then export the BBPATH and BBFILES. This tells bitbake where to find it's meta-data. BBPATH will both point to our own beagleboard files and openembedded.
 
 
 
But first we create a local.conf containing the most important choices we need to make. Change at least the MACHINE to beagleboard. Select angstrom-2008.1 as distro.
 
 
 
mkdir -p $OE_HOME/beagleboard/beagleboard/conf
 
cat > $OE_HOME/beagleboard/beagleboard/conf/local.conf <<_EOF
 
DISTRO = "angstrom-2008.1"
 
BBFILES = "$OE_HOME/openembedded/recipes/*/*.bb"
 
TMPDIR = "$OE_HOME/tmp"
 
MACHINE = "beagleboard"
 
ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION = "0"
 
_EOF
 
 
 
If you have a multicore machine, you can also add these two variables to speed up things (a value of 2 is safe in most cases), see [http://dev.openbossa.org/trac/mamona/wiki/SpeedUp here]:
 
 
 
BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "2" # Depends on your machine
 
PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 2"  # Depends on your cluster
 
 
 
Now we create our profile.  There are TWO CHOICES here.
 
 
 
'''NOTE''': In the recented version BitBake, it will remove all of the environment variables, unless they are trustly declared in BitBake whitelist(BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE), therefore, you should list the env vars you need in the BitBake whitelist and export it. This is already done when creating the profile bellow using the BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE environment variable.
 
 
 
CHOICE 1)  If you are going to operate directly connected to the internet (i.e. NO Proxy Firewall), then do:
 
 
 
cd $OE_HOME
 
cat > $OE_HOME/beagleboard/beagleboard/profile.sh <<_EOF
 
export OE_HOME=\$HOME/oe
 
export MY_OE_CONF="beagleboard"
 
export BBPATH=\$OE_HOME/beagleboard/:\$OE_HOME/beagleboard/\$MY_OE_CONF:\$OE_HOME/openembedded
 
export BBFILES="\$OE_HOME/openembedded/recipes/*/*.bb"
 
export BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE="MACHINE DISTRO ANGSTROM_MODE ANGSTROMLIBC OE_HOME"
 
export PATH=\$OE_HOME/opt/bitbake/bin:\$PATH
 
if [ "\$PS1" ]; then
 
  if [ "\$BASH" ]; then
 
    export PS1="\[\033[01;32m\]OE:\$MY_OE_CONF\[\033[00m\] \${PS1}"
 
  fi
 
fi
 
_EOF
 
 
 
CHOICE 2) If you will be operating from behind a Proxy Firewall, then do:
 
 
 
cd $OE_HOME
 
cat > $OE_HOME/beagleboard/beagleboard/profile.sh <<_EOF
 
export OE_HOME=\$HOME/oe
 
export MY_OE_CONF="beagleboard"
 
export BBPATH=\$OE_HOME/beagleboard/:\$OE_HOME/beagleboard/\$MY_OE_CONF:\$OE_HOME/openembedded
 
export BBFILES="\$OE_HOME/openembedded/packages/*/*.bb"
 
export BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE="MACHINE DISTRO ANGSTROM_MODE ANGSTROMLIBC OE_HOME"
 
export PATH=\$OE_HOME/opt/bitbake/bin:\$PATH
 
export CVS_TARBALL_STASH="http://oesources.org/sources/current/"
 
if [ "\$PS1" ]; then
 
  if [ "\$BASH" ]; then
 
    export PS1="\[\033[01;32m\]OE:\$MY_OE_CONF\[\033[00m\] \${PS1}"
 
  fi
 
fi
 
_EOF
 
 
 
Now make the profile executable:
 
 
 
chmod +x  $OE_HOME/beagleboard/beagleboard/profile.sh
 
 
 
== Running ==
 
We now have finished the installation. If everything goes well we can now create images for the BeagleBoard
 
 
 
  source $OE_HOME/beagleboard/beagleboard/profile.sh
 
 
 
Pull down any changes in the git tree.
 
 
 
  cd $OE_HOME/openembedded
 
  git pull
 
  git checkout
 
 
 
Now build the console image.
 
 
 
  cd $OE_HOME
 
  bitbake console-image
 
 
 
 
 
If this goes well your computer will be compiling for a long time.  A long time can be several hours. Once this works try using the x11-image target (bitbake x11-image) this will give you a more complete distribution
 
 
 
If you receive an error of the form "ERROR: Unable to open conf/bitbake.conf" check that your profile.sh created earlier has the correct BBPATH setting (copy/pasting from this page may cause a line-break between the export command and the BBPATH var).
 
  
 
== Preparing the system for booting ==
 
== Preparing the system for booting ==
The output of the bitbake command will ultimately be found under the $OE_HOME/tmp/deploy/glibc/images/beagleboard. In there you can find at least 3 interesting files:
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The output of the bitbake command will ultimately be found under the $OE_HOME/angstrom-dev/deploy/glibc/images/beagleboard. In there you can find at least two interesting files:
* console-image-beagleboard.tar
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* console-image-beagleboard.tar.bz2
* console-image-beagleboard.jffs2 and
 
 
* uImage-beagleboard.bin
 
* uImage-beagleboard.bin
  
The console images are representations of a full and self containing file system *including* a kernel. The uImage is a linux kernel image that is suitable to be loaded by the U-boot bootloader. The difference between the tar file and the jffs2 image is that the later is better suited to directly put on a raw partition.  
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The console image represents of a full and self-contained file system, *including* a kernel. The uImage is a Linux kernel image suitable for loading by the U-boot bootloader.  
  
 
We are going to use the U-boot that is already provided in the NAND flash of the beagleboard as that one already support the MMC can load kernel images from a fat file system.
 
We are going to use the U-boot that is already provided in the NAND flash of the beagleboard as that one already support the MMC can load kernel images from a fat file system.
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Mount the ext2 file system and unpack the archive. Do not forget the -C option.
 
Mount the ext2 file system and unpack the archive. Do not forget the -C option.
 
   mount /dev/mmcblk0p2  /mnt
 
   mount /dev/mmcblk0p2  /mnt
   tar xvf system/angstrom/deploy/glibc/images/beagleboard/console-image-beagleboard.tar -C /mnt
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   tar xvjpf $OE_HOME/angstrom-dev/deploy/glibc/images/beagleboard/console-image-beagleboard.tar.bz2 -C /mnt
 
   umount /mnt
 
   umount /mnt
  
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  coninfo
 
  coninfo
  mmcinit
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  mmc init
  setenv bootargs console=ttyS2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootdelay=1
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  setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootdelay=1'
  fatload mmc 0:1 0x80000000 uImage
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  fatload mmc 0:1 0x80300000 uImage
  bootm
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  saveenv
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  bootm 0x80300000
  
 
===One very important note:===   
 
===One very important note:===   

Latest revision as of 16:29, 10 December 2009


NOTE:

These instructions are unofficial and their correctness can not be guaranteed. The only site that has up-to-date official instructions is http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom. Before making any support requests be sure that you have followed those instructions precisely.

Build instructions

Please refer to http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom, putting instructions into this wiki only brings confusion and bugs. If you find the angstrom instructions to be lacking in some way, please that that up with angstrom people instead of putting stuff in here.

Preparing the system for booting

The output of the bitbake command will ultimately be found under the $OE_HOME/angstrom-dev/deploy/glibc/images/beagleboard. In there you can find at least two interesting files:

  • console-image-beagleboard.tar.bz2
  • uImage-beagleboard.bin

The console image represents of a full and self-contained file system, *including* a kernel. The uImage is a Linux kernel image suitable for loading by the U-boot bootloader.

We are going to use the U-boot that is already provided in the NAND flash of the beagleboard as that one already support the MMC can load kernel images from a fat file system. What we will do is to format a SD-card to hold both a fat and an ext2 file system. We will put the kernel in the fat file system as U-boot failed to load the image from a ext2 file system. We will unpack the console-image under the ext2 file system.

Create partitions and format the SD-card

We usually create two partitions, the first one has a FAT partition type and the second one a Linux file system type . We then format them and put content on them. We are not going the describe the formating other then briefly because it just if to easy to format the wrong partition. There are a few reasons for having a first partition as FAT but his is not the scope of this document ( Think of U-boot, windows , mass-storage ). Instruction for formatting the SD-card correctly can be found at: Boot Disk Format

Here is the output of the fdisk -l command after creating the new partitions.

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 2032 MB, 2032664576 bytes
1 heads, 16 sectors/track, 248128 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16 * 512 = 8192 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2f3dffc4
        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mmcblk0p1               2       12209       97664    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/mmcblk0p2           12210      248128     1887352   83  Linux

We now format the file systems ext2 file system under /mnt. Some system will perform a automount of the newly created file system. Try to disable this automount feature if possible (it is not easy) or use gparted

mkfs.vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1
mkfs.ext2 /dev/mmcblk0p2

Mount the ext2 file system and unpack the archive. Do not forget the -C option.

 mount /dev/mmcblk0p2  /mnt
 tar xvjpf $OE_HOME/angstrom-dev/deploy/glibc/images/beagleboard/console-image-beagleboard.tar.bz2 -C /mnt
 umount /mnt

Mount the fat file system and copy the kernel image to there.

 mount /dev/mmcblk0p1  /mnt
 cp system/angstrom/deploy/glibc/images/beagleboard/uImage-beagleboard.bin /mnt/uImage
 umount /mnt

Booting

We can put the SD-card in the beagleboard and wait for the U-boot prompt. The kernel we compiled only gave serial output if we first ran the coninfo command we therefore type coninfo and ask U-Boot to initialise the mmc stack. After that we set the kernel command line telling what the console is and where our root file system is located. We then load the image from the fat file system into memory and boot the kernel

coninfo
mmc init
setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootdelay=1'
fatload mmc 0:1 0x80300000 uImage
saveenv
bootm 0x80300000

One very important note:

It's important to have an X-Loader on your Beagleboard that uses the uBoot on the SD Card that goes with the Angstrom uImage. The B5 Beagleboards do not appear to come with such an X-Loader / U-Boot combination (i.e. the B5 standard uBoot will lead to problems with the sound driver and other things, but will not tell you that it's creating a problem).

The fix is to load a new X-Loader which will in turn automatically load the uBoot from the SD card, which again in turn will load the uImage properly.

So you likely will have to upgrade the X-Loader. Here's what to do:

 * Make an SD Card with the Angstrom Demo files.  See the Beagleboard Wiki Page for more info on making the SD Card.
 * Put the SD Card in the Beagle, and boot up to the U-Boot Prompt.
 * Do the first six instructions in the Flashing Commands with U-Boot section.  
 * Reboot the Beagle to see that the new X-Loader is properly loaded.

This will update the X-Loader to a newer version that will automatically load uBoot from the SD card, and then load uImage from the SD card, rather than always using the uBoot in the Beagleboard NAND.

Setting the video resolution:

The Angstrom kernels since 2.6.27 have used "DSS2", which is a candidate for replacing the OMAP framebuffer driver in the mainline Linux kernel. It provides greater flexibility for support of the S-Video port on the BeagleBoard and more monitor resolutions than previous mainline kernels. Documentation for the driver is in the kernel source at [Documentation/arm/OMAP/DSS http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/msg/4c64b2c614622053].

Below is one example:

setenv bootargs console=ttyS2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootwait omap-dss.def_disp=lcd omapfb.video_mode=640x480MR-16@60

Using the OpenEmbedded Environment

If you have not used bitbake / OpenEmbedded before, a helpful example for creating packages that can be installed on a beagle linux install (such as the one created above) can be found at Hello World Tutorial for Gumstix.

See also Open Embedded User's Manual (these links point to nightly builds of the documentation and so should always be up to date):

and bitbake User's Manual:

OpenEmbedded development

See OpenEmbedded development guide for one way how to modify and build packages contained within OpenEmbedded (OE) for the BeagleBoard.