Re: Recommended buildroot config for OMAP3 boards?

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Hi,
Why don't you shift to OpenEmbedded. It has all the required recipes for 3430, EVM, Beagleboard, etc.

Here is a technote to help you get started in case you are interested.

Best regards,

Elvis


Technote Overo-024: How to setup a development environment for the Overo platform using a Fedora-10 VMware image


Overview

This document describes how to setup a development environment for the Overo platform using a Fedora-10 VMware image.

Procedure

Step 01.00: Install Fedora 10 into a VMware image.

Ensure that you install the following packages
	- development-libraries
	- development-tools

Create a new user group called ‘developers’.

Change the primary group for all developers to the ‘developers’ group, e.g. for user ‘elvis’, change the primary group to ‘developers’.

Step 02.00: Enable root login.

Step 02.01: Login as a regular user

$ su
# vi /etc/pam.d/gdm

Click ‘A’ and remove user!=root from the following line

auth required pam_succeed_if.so user!=root quiet

Click Esc and then type the following command :wq

Step 02.03: Modify /etc/sysctl.conf to make vm.mmap_min_addr = 0.

# vi /etc/sysctl.conf

Add the following line to the sysctl.conf file
vm.mmap_min_addr = 0

Step 02.03: Relogin as root


Step 03.00: Install the vmware tools

$ su
# cd Downloads/vmware-tools-distrib
# ./vmware-install.pl


Step 04.00: Install Sun JDK 1.6

$ su
# cd Downloads/jdk-6u12-linux-i586
# ./jdk-6u12-linux-i586-rpm.bin


Step 05.00: Install Psyco JIT compiler

Step 05.01: Download Psyco JIT compiler sources from svn

$ svn co http://codespeak.net/svn/psyco/dist/ psyco-dist

Step 05.02: Run the python installation script as a super user

$ su python setup.py install


Step 06.00: Download, build and install kermit

$ cd /tool
$ mkdir kermit
$ cd kermit
$ wget ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives/cku211.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf cku211.tar.gz
$ make linux
$ su
# make install

Set the permissions for /dev/ttyUSB0, so that a developer can access the Overo USB console.

$ su
# chgrp developers /dev/ttyUSB0


Step 07.00: Setup the Overo build environment

Step 07.01: Check out the OpenEmbedded build system.

$ cd /tool
$ mkdir overo-oe
$ cd overo-oe
$ git clone git://gitorious.org/gumstix-oe/mainline.git org.openembedded.dev
$ cd org.openembedded.dev
$ git checkout --track -b overo origin/overo

Step 07.02: Install BitBake.

$ cd /tool/overo-oe
$ svn co svn://svn.berlios.de/bitbake/branches/bitbake-1.8/ bitbake


Step 07.03: Creating the OE configuration files and profile.

We now will create a profile script and the configuration files required to tailor OE to our needs.

To make this a somewhat easier task, there is a template for the required files in the openembedded installation we just did.

Copy these files to your overo-oe directory:

$ cp -r org.openembedded.dev/contrib/gumstix/build .

If you have followed the example installation and placed the build system in overo-oe in your home directory, you are now ready to proceed to the next step. If you have installed the build system in a different location you will need to edit overo-oe/build/profile and change the definition of OVEROTOP as appropriate.


Step 07.04: Setup source code caching.

As part of the build process OpenEmbedded downloads source code tarballs for the linux kernel, compiler, and other software packages.

By default this source code cache will be placed in overo-oe/sources. If you would like this cache to be located elsewhere, now is the time to edit build/conf/site.conf and set DL_DIR as appropriate.

For example, if you would like to cache the sources in /usr/share/ sources, perform the following steps:

Add new group for cache management and add operating user to this group.

$ sudo groupadd oe
$ sudo usermod -a -G oe {your_username}

Next make source code storing directory and set owner and permission appropriately.

$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/sources
$ sudo chgrp oe /usr/share/sources
$ sudo chmod 0775 /usr/share/sources
$ sudo chmod ug+s /usr/share/sources

Edit the buid/conf/site.conf and set DL_DIR to /usr/share/sources as follows:

DL_DIR = "/usr/share/sources"


Step 07.05: Modify your .bashrc file.

# .bashrc

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
	. /etc/bashrc
fi

# User specific aliases and functions

#
# Environment setup for java
#

export JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_12"
export PATH="${JAVA_HOME}/bin:$PATH"

#
# end java setup
#


#
# Environment setup for oe
#

export BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE="MACHINE DISTRO ANGSTROM_MODE OVEROTOP OEBRANCH USERBRANCH"

export OVEROTOP="/tool/overo-oe"
export OEBRANCH="${OVEROTOP}/org.openembedded.dev"
export USERBRANCH="${OVEROTOP}/user.collection"

export CROSSCOMPILER="armv7a"
export PATH="${OVEROTOP}/bitbake/bin:${OVEROTOP}/tmp/cross/$ {CROSSCOMPILER}/bin:$PATH"
export BBPATH="${OVEROTOP}/build:${USERBRANCH}:${OEBRANCH}"

umask 0002

#
# end oe setup
#

#
# Environment setup for android
#

export REPOTOP="/tool/repo"
export ANDROID_JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME
export ANDROID_TOP="/tool/android"
export ANDROID_HOST="linux-x86"
export ANDROID_HOST_TOOLS="${ANDROID_TOP}/out/host/${ANDROID_HOST}/bin"
export PATH="${REPOTOP}:${ANDROID_HOST_TOOLS}:/tool/script:$PATH"

#
# end android setup
#


Step 08.00: Install additional packages required by BitBake.

$ su
# yum install help2man
# yum install texi2html


Step 09.00: Build a basic kernel and a non-gui root file system image in one step using the following command

$ bitbake omap3-console-image
$ bitbake x-load
$ bitbake u-boot-omap3

Additional bitbake recipies can be found in org.openembedded.dev/ packages/image

$ bitbake omap3-desktop-image
$ bitbake omap3-udesktop-image

If BitBake complains about the mmap_min_addr not being set to 0, type the following :

$ su
# echo “0” > /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr

Step 10.00: Update the org.openembedded.dev sources at regular intervals by typing the following command

$ cd org.openembedded.dev
$ git pull


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