Yocto BSP meta layer for AAEON Community boards

This README file contains information on building the meta-aaeonc BSP layer. Please see the corresponding sections below for details.

For more information on these boards, see: http://www.aaeon.com/en/c/pico-itx-boards

Table of Contents

1. Prerequisites
2. Building the meta-aaeonc BSP layer
3. Booting the live USB image
4. Additional Resources

Prerequisites

Supported Yocto versions

• Yocto 2.5 (Sumo)

Supported Hardware

• AAEON PICO-APL1
• AAEON PICO-APL3

Building the meta-aaeonc BSP layer

Download the latest Sumo release and enter the poky directory:

git clone -b sumo git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git
cd poky

Download the latest Intel BSP layer version for Sumo:

git clone -b sumo git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-intel.git

Download the latest collection of layers for OE-core universe for Sumo:

git clone -b sumo git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded

Download this AAEON Community BSP layer for Sumo:

git clone -b sumo https://github.com/emutex/meta-aaeonc

From the poky directory, you can build an image as such:

TEMPLATECONF=meta-aaeonc/conf source oe-init-build-env
bitbake aaeonc-image-sato

At the end of a successful build, you should have a live image that you can boot from a USB flash drive (see instructions on how to do that below).

Booting the live USB image

This BSP creates bootable live images, which can be used to directly boot Yocto off of a USB flash drive. Upon completion of a successful build, described in the previous section, the images are created in a sub-folder named ./tmp/deploy/images/aaeonc/.

Under Linux, insert a USB flash drive. Assuming the USB flash drive takes device /dev/sdf, use dd to copy the live image to it:

dd if=core-image-sato-aaeonc.hddimg of=/dev/sdf
sync
eject /dev/sdf

This should give you a bootable USB flash device. Insert the device into a bootable USB socket on the target, and power on. At the initial BIOS splash screen, press F7 to display a menu of boot options and select the USB device. This should result in a system booted to the Sato graphical desktop.

If you want a terminal, use the arrows at the top of the UI to move to different pages of available applications, one of which is named 'Terminal'. Clicking that should give you a root terminal.

If you want to ssh into the system, you can use the root terminal to ifconfig the IP address and use that to ssh in. The root password is empty, so to log in type 'root' for the user name and hit 'Enter' at the Password prompt: and you should be in.

If you find you're getting corrupt images on the USB (it doesn't show the syslinux boot: prompt, or the boot: prompt contains strange characters), try doing this first:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdf bs=1M count=512

Additional Resources

Please submit any patches against this BSP to the maintainer: Maintainer: ubilinux team ubilinux@emutex.com