DEVELOPMENT GUIDE

ARTiGO A630

Linux EVK v1.0.1

1.00-08292017-093200

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Version Date Remarks

1.00 08/29/2017 Inial release.

1.2 VersionInformaonandSupportedFeatures ...................................................................................... 2

2. BuildEnvironmentSetup .................................................................................................. 3

2.1 ConguringLinuxHostMachine .......................................................................................................... 3

3. Image Build ....................................................................................................................... 4

3.1 ExtracngtheARTIGOA630BSP .......................................................................................................... 4

3.2 BuildingtheU-BootBinary ................................................................................................................... 4

3.3 BuildingtheLinuxKernel ...................................................................................................................... 5

enableshardwarefeaturesthataredenedontheARTiGOA630system.

Therearefourfoldersinthepackageaslistedbelow.

lesandallthepre-downloadedrequiredsowarepackagestoenableacompleteoinebuild.

forevaluangtheARTiGOA630system.

theARTiGOA630system.

ARTiGO_A630_Linux_source_code.zip KernelsourcecodeandU-Bootsourcecode

ARTiGO_A630_Linux_EVK_v1.0.1.zip DebianEVKsystemimageandinstallaon

ARTiGO_A630_Linux_BSP_v1.0.1_Development_

2. BuildEnvironmentSetup

Thisseconguidesyouthroughsengupthebuildenvironmentfordevelopmentonthehostmachine.All

instruconsarebasedonUbuntu14.04LTSx64.

Tomakesurethatthebuildprocesscompletessuccessfully,werecommendatleast120GBofdiskspaceand

15GBofcombinedmemoryandswapspaceonthehostmachine.

ThefollowingpackagesarerequiredfortheLinuxdevelopmentenvironment.Therequiredpackagescanbe

installedusingthecommandsbelow.

3. Image Build

ThisseconexplainshowtobuildU-BootandKernelbinaryfortheARTiGOA630system.

TobuildtheU-bootimagewiththeARMcrosscompiler.

Thissecondescribeshowtobuildthekernelbinaryfromthesourcecode.

Tobegin,extractthekernelsourcecode.

copythebinarylesintotheARTiGO_A630_Linux_EVK_V1.0.1folder.

First,changetheselenamesfromzuboot.bintou-boot.bin.

Next,extractthepackagefromtheARTiGO_A630_Linux_EVK_V1.0.1.zip,andthencopyu-boot.binand

uzImage.binlesintotheARTiGO_A630_Linux_EVK_V1.0.1folder.