aaeon-kunyi / bbb-yocto

Attempt to create one generic Open Source BeagleBone Black armv7 A8 platform reference for testing YOCTO repository, with addition of automotive meta-socketcan layer.

This repository is written to support BBB initramfs testing

Attempt to create one generic Open Source BeagleBone Black armv7 A8 platform reference and testing repository. The YOCTO BeagleBobe Black YOCTO repo used is described @ the following net pointer:

https://jumpnowtek.com/beaglebone/BeagleBone-Systems-with-Yocto.html

The bash script, customized for the owner's projects purposes (substitutions for the KAS tool)

https://github.com/ZoranStojsavljevic/bbb-yocto/blob/master/yocto-setup.sh

Step [1]: Look into the script and customize it for your own project;
Step [2]: Make the script yocto-setup.sh executable (permissions 755), and execute it: ./yocto-setup.sh ;
Step [3]: Run bitbake -k core-image-minimal ## or whatever core-image-? you need

KAS tool (by example: execute kas warrior script)

Step [1]: Go to bbb-releases/bbb-warrior/ directory and copy kas-bbb-warrior.yml to designated directory for build;
Step [2]: Execute kas script as: kas build kas-bbb-warrior.yml ## KAS tool should be installed (go to kas/ for documentation).

The test initramfs BBB image description

Part of the config-initramfs, outlining important part of defconfig (the booting is done solely from initramfs)!

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_RD_GZIP=y
CONFIG_RD_BZIP2=y
CONFIG_RD_LZMA=y
CONFIG_RD_XZ=y
CONFIG_RD_LZ4=y
CONFIG_RD_LZO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=16
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=16384

[WARNING] Only two last official YOCTO Releases' scripts ARE actively maintained/supported!

https://github.com/ZoranStojsavljevic/bbb-yocto/tree/master/bbb-releases/bbb-zeus

https://github.com/ZoranStojsavljevic/bbb-yocto/tree/master/bbb-releases/bbb-dunfell

Referent YOCTO Poky BeagleBone distro is also supported:

git clone https://git.yoctoproject.org/git/poky.git