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                          Poky Hardware README
                          ====================

This file gives details about using Poky with the reference machines
supported out of the box. A full list of supported reference target machines
can be found by looking in the following directories:

   meta/conf/machine/
   meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/

If you are in doubt about using Poky/OpenEmbedded with your hardware, consult
the documentation for your board/device.

Support for additional devices is normally added by creating BSP layers - for
more information please see the Yocto Board Support Package (BSP) Developer's
Guide - documentation source is in documentation/bspguide or download the PDF
from:

   http://yoctoproject.org/documentation

Support for physical reference hardware has now been split out into a
meta-yocto-bsp layer which can be removed separately from other layers if not
needed.


QEMU Emulation Targets
======================

To simplify development, the build system supports building images to
work with the QEMU emulator in system emulation mode. Several architectures
are currently supported:

  * ARM (qemuarm)
  * x86 (qemux86)
  * x86-64 (qemux86-64)
  * PowerPC (qemuppc)
  * MIPS (qemumips)

Use of the QEMU images is covered in the Yocto Project Reference Manual.
The appropriate MACHINE variable value corresponding to the target is given
in brackets.


Hardware Reference Boards
=========================

The following boards are supported by the meta-yocto-bsp layer:

  * Texas Instruments Beaglebone (beaglebone)
  * Freescale MPC8315E-RDB (mpc8315e-rdb)

For more information see the board's section below. The appropriate MACHINE
variable value corresponding to the board is given in brackets.

Reference Board Maintenance
===========================

Send pull requests, patches, comments or questions about meta-yocto-bsps to poky@yoctoproject.org

Maintainers: Kevin Hao <kexin.hao@windriver.com>
             Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>

Consumer Devices
================

The following consumer devices are supported by the meta-yocto-bsp layer:

  * Intel x86 based PCs and devices (genericx86)
  * Ubiquiti Networks EdgeRouter Lite (edgerouter)

For more information see the device's section below. The appropriate MACHINE
variable value corresponding to the device is given in brackets.



                      Specific Hardware Documentation
                      ===============================


Intel x86 based PCs and devices (genericx86)
==========================================

The genericx86 MACHINE is tested on the following platforms:

Intel Xeon/Core i-Series:
  + Intel Romley Server: Sandy Bridge Xeon processor, C600 PCH (Patsburg), (Canoe Pass CRB)
  + Intel Romley Server: Ivy Bridge Xeon processor, C600 PCH (Patsburg), (Intel SDP S2R3)
  + Intel Crystal Forest Server: Sandy Bridge Xeon processor, DH89xx PCH (Cave Creek), (Stargo CRB)
  + Intel Chief River Mobile: Ivy Bridge Mobile processor, QM77 PCH (Panther Point-M), (Emerald Lake II CRB, Sabino Canyon CRB)
  + Intel Huron River Mobile: Sandy Bridge processor, QM67 PCH (Cougar Point), (Emerald Lake CRB, EVOC EC7-1817LNAR board)
  + Intel Calpella Platform: Core i7 processor, QM57 PCH (Ibex Peak-M), (Red Fort CRB, Emerson MATXM CORE-411-B)
  + Intel Nehalem/Westmere-EP Server: Xeon 56xx/55xx processors, 5520 chipset, ICH10R IOH (82801), (Hanlan Creek CRB)
  + Intel Nehalem Workstation: Xeon 56xx/55xx processors, System SC5650SCWS (Greencity CRB)
  + Intel Picket Post Server: Xeon 56xx/55xx processors (Jasper Forest), 3420 chipset (Ibex Peak), (Osage CRB)
  + Intel Storage Platform: Sandy Bridge Xeon processor, C600 PCH (Patsburg), (Oak Creek Canyon CRB)
  + Intel Shark Bay Client Platform: Haswell processor, LynxPoint PCH, (Walnut Canyon CRB, Lava Canyon CRB, Basking Ridge CRB, Flathead Creek CRB)
  + Intel Shark Bay Ultrabook Platform: Haswell ULT processor, Lynx Point-LP PCH, (WhiteTip Mountain 1 CRB)

Intel Atom platforms:
  + Intel embedded Menlow: Intel Atom Z510/530 CPU, System Controller Hub US15W (Portwell NANO-8044)
  + Intel Luna Pier: Intel Atom N4xx/D5xx series CPU (aka: Pineview-D & -M), 82801HM I/O Hub (ICH8M), (Advantech AIMB-212, Moon Creek CRB)
  + Intel Queens Bay platform: Intel Atom E6xx CPU (aka: Tunnel Creek), Topcliff EG20T I/O Hub (Emerson NITX-315, Crown Bay CRB, Minnow Board)
  + Intel Fish River Island platform: Intel Atom E6xx CPU (aka: Tunnel Creek), Topcliff EG20T I/O Hub (Kontron KM2M806)
  + Intel Cedar Trail platform: Intel Atom N2000 & D2000 series CPU (aka: Cedarview), NM10 Express Chipset (Norco kit BIS-6630, Cedar Rock CRB)

and is likely to work on many unlisted Atom/Core/Xeon based devices. The MACHINE
type supports ethernet, wifi, sound, and Intel/vesa graphics by default in
addition to common PC input devices, busses, and so on.  Note that it does not
included the binary-only graphic drivers used on some Atom platforms, for
accelerated graphics on these machines please refer to meta-intel.

Depending on the device, it can boot from a traditional hard-disk, a USB device,
or over the network. Writing generated images to physical media is
straightforward with a caveat for USB devices. The following examples assume the
target boot device is /dev/sdb, be sure to verify this and use the correct
device as the following commands are run as root and are not reversable.

USB Device:
  1. Build a live image. This image type consists of a simple filesystem
     without a partition table, which is suitable for USB keys, and with the
     default setup for the genericx86 machine, this image type is built
     automatically for any image you build. For example:

     $ bitbake core-image-minimal

  2. Use the "dd" utility to write the image to the raw block device. For
     example:

     # dd if=core-image-minimal-genericx86.hddimg of=/dev/sdb

  If the device fails to boot with "Boot error" displayed, or apparently
  stops just after the SYSLINUX version banner, it is likely the BIOS cannot
  understand the physical layout of the disk (or rather it expects a
  particular layout and cannot handle anything else). There are two possible
  solutions to this problem:

  1. Change the BIOS USB Device setting to HDD mode. The label will vary by
     device, but the idea is to force BIOS to read the Cylinder/Head/Sector
     geometry from the device.

  2. Without such an option, the BIOS generally boots the device in USB-ZIP
     mode. To write an image to a USB device that will be bootable in
     USB-ZIP mode, carry out the following actions:

     a. Determine the geometry of your USB device using fdisk:

     # fdisk /dev/sdb
     Command (m for help): p

     Disk /dev/sdb: 4011 MB, 4011491328 bytes
     124 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders, total 7834944 sectors
     ...

     Command (m for help): q

     b. Configure the USB device for USB-ZIP mode:
     
     # mkdiskimage -4 /dev/sdb 1019 124 62

     Where 1019, 124 and 62 are the cylinder, head and sectors/track counts
     as reported by fdisk (substitute the values reported for your device).
     When the operation has finished and the access LED (if any) on the
     device stops flashing, remove and reinsert the device to allow the
     kernel to detect the new partition layout.

     c. Copy the contents of the image to the USB-ZIP mode device:

     # mkdir /tmp/image
     # mkdir /tmp/usbkey
     # mount -o loop core-image-minimal-genericx86.hddimg  /tmp/image
     # mount /dev/sdb4 /tmp/usbkey
     # cp -rf /tmp/image/* /tmp/usbkey

     d. Install the syslinux boot loader:

     # syslinux /dev/sdb4

     e. Unmount everything:

     # umount /tmp/image
     # umount /tmp/usbkey

  Install the boot device in the target board and configure the BIOS to boot
  from it.

  For more details on the USB-ZIP scenario, see the syslinux documentation:
  http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/usbkey.txt;hb=HEAD


Texas Instruments Beaglebone (beaglebone)
=========================================

The Beaglebone is an ARM Cortex-A8 development board with USB, Ethernet, 2D/3D
accelerated graphics, audio, serial, JTAG, and SD/MMC. The Black adds a faster
CPU, more RAM, eMMC flash and a micro HDMI port. The beaglebone MACHINE is
tested on the following platforms:

  o Beaglebone Black A6
  o Beaglebone A6 (the original "White" model)

The Beaglebone Black has eMMC, while the White does not. Pressing the USER/BOOT
button when powering on will temporarily change the boot order. But for the sake
of simplicity, these instructions assume you have erased the eMMC on the Black,
so its boot behavior matches that of the White and boots off of SD card. To do
this, issue the following commands from the u-boot prompt:

    # mmc dev 1
    # mmc erase 0 512

To further tailor these instructions for your board, please refer to the
documentation at http://www.beagleboard.org/bone and http://www.beagleboard.org/black

From a Linux system with access to the image files perform the following steps
as root, replacing mmcblk0* with the SD card device on your machine (such as sdc
if used via a usb card reader):

  1. Partition and format an SD card:
     # fdisk -lu /dev/mmcblk0

     Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 3951 MB, 3951034368 bytes
     255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 480 cylinders, total 7716864 sectors
     Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

             Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
     /dev/mmcblk0p1   *          63      144584       72261   c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
     /dev/mmcblk0p2          144585      465884      160650  83 Linux

     # mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n "boot" /dev/mmcblk0p1
     # mke2fs -j -L "root" /dev/mmcblk0p2

  The following assumes the SD card partitions 1 and 2 are mounted at
  /media/boot and /media/root respectively. Removing the card and reinserting
  it will do just that on most modern Linux desktop environments.

  The files referenced below are made available after the build in
  build/tmp/deploy/images.

  2. Install the boot loaders
     # cp MLO-beaglebone /media/boot/MLO
     # cp u-boot-beaglebone.img /media/boot/u-boot.img

  3. Install the root filesystem
     # tar x -C /media/root -f core-image-$IMAGE_TYPE-beaglebone.tar.bz2

  4. If using core-image-base or core-image-sato images, the SD card is ready
     and rootfs already contains the kernel, modules and device tree (DTB)
     files necessary to be booted with U-boot's default configuration, so
     skip directly to step 8.
     For core-image-minimal, proceed through next steps.

  5. If using core-image-minimal rootfs, install the modules
     # tar x -C /media/root -f modules-beaglebone.tgz

  6. If using core-image-minimal rootfs, install the kernel uImage into /boot
     directory of rootfs
     # cp uImage-beaglebone.bin /media/root/boot/uImage

  7. If using core-image-minimal rootfs, also install device tree (DTB) files
     into /boot directory of rootfs
     # cp uImage-am335x-bone.dtb /media/root/boot/am335x-bone.dtb
     # cp uImage-am335x-boneblack.dtb /media/root/boot/am335x-boneblack.dtb

  8. Unmount the SD partitions, insert the SD card into the Beaglebone, and
     boot the Beaglebone


Freescale MPC8315E-RDB (mpc8315e-rdb)
=====================================

The MPC8315 PowerPC reference platform (MPC8315E-RDB) is aimed at hardware and
software development of network attached storage (NAS) and digital media server
applications. The MPC8315E-RDB features the PowerQUICC II Pro processor, which
includes a built-in security accelerator.

(Note: you may find it easier to order MPC8315E-RDBA; this appears to be the
same board in an enclosure with accessories. In any case it is fully
compatible with the instructions given here.)

Setup instructions
------------------

You will need the following:
* NFS root setup on your workstation
* TFTP server installed on your workstation
* Straight-thru 9-conductor serial cable (DB9, M/F) connected from your 
  PC to UART1
* Ethernet connected to the first ethernet port on the board

--- Preparation ---

Note: if you have altered your board's ethernet MAC address(es) from the
defaults, or you need to do so because you want multiple boards on the same
network, then you will need to change the values in the dts file (patch
linux/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8315erdb.dts within the kernel source). If
you have left them at the factory default then you shouldn't need to do
anything here.

--- Booting from NFS root ---

Load the kernel and dtb (device tree blob), and boot the system as follows:

 1. Get the kernel (uImage-mpc8315e-rdb.bin) and dtb (uImage-mpc8315e-rdb.dtb)
    files from the tmp/deploy directory, and make them available on your TFTP
    server.

 2. Connect the board's first serial port to your workstation and then start up
    your favourite serial terminal so that you will be able to interact with
    the serial console. If you don't have a favourite, picocom is suggested:

  $ picocom /dev/ttyUSB0 -b 115200

 3. Power up or reset the board and press a key on the terminal when prompted
    to get to the U-Boot command line

 4. Set up the environment in U-Boot:

 => setenv ipaddr <board ip>
 => setenv serverip <tftp server ip>
 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=<nfsroot ip>:<rootfs path> ip=<board ip>:<server ip>:<gateway ip>:255.255.255.0:mpc8315e:eth0:off console=ttyS0,115200

 5. Download the kernel and dtb, and boot:

 => tftp 1000000 uImage-mpc8315e-rdb.bin
 => tftp 2000000 uImage-mpc8315e-rdb.dtb
 => bootm 1000000 - 2000000


Ubiquiti Networks EdgeRouter Lite (edgerouter)
==============================================

The EdgeRouter Lite is part of the EdgeMax series. It is a MIPS64 router
(based on the Cavium Octeon processor) with 512MB of RAM, which uses an
internal USB pendrive for storage.

Setup instructions
------------------

You will need the following:
* NFS root setup on your workstation
* TFTP server installed on your workstation
* RJ45 -> serial ("rollover") cable connected from your PC to the CONSOLE
  port on the board
* Ethernet connected to the first ethernet port on the board

--- Preparation ---

Build an image (e.g. core-image-minimal) using "edgerouter" as the MACHINE.
In the following instruction it is based on core-image-minimal. Another target
may be similiar with it.

--- Booting from NFS root ---

Load the kernel, and boot the system as follows:

 1. Get the kernel (vmlinux) file from the tmp/deploy/images/edgerouter
    directory, and make them available on your TFTP server.

 2. Connect the board's first serial port to your workstation and then start up
    your favourite serial terminal so that you will be able to interact with
    the serial console. If you don't have a favourite, picocom is suggested:

  $ picocom /dev/ttyS0 -b 115200

 3. Power up or reset the board and press a key on the terminal when prompted
    to get to the U-Boot command line

 4. Set up the environment in U-Boot:

 => setenv ipaddr <board ip>
 => setenv serverip <tftp server ip>

 5. Download the kernel and boot:

 => tftp tftp $loadaddr vmlinux
 => bootoctlinux $loadaddr coremask=0x3 root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=<nfsroot ip>:<rootfs path> ip=<board ip>:<server ip>:<gateway ip>:<netmask>:edgerouter:eth0:off mtdparts=phys_mapped_flash:512k(boot0),512k(boot1),64k@3072k(eeprom)

--- Booting from USB root ---

To boot from the USB disk, you either need to remove it from the edgerouter
box and populate it from another computer, or use a previously booted NFS
image and populate from the edgerouter itself.

Type 1: Mounted USB disk
------------------------

To boot from the USB disk there are two available partitions on the factory
USB storage. The rest of this guide assumes that these partitions are left
intact. If you change the partition scheme, you must update your boot method
appropriately.

The standard partitions are:

  - 1: vfat partition containing factory kernels
  - 2: ext3 partition for the root filesystem.

You can place the kernel on either partition 1, or partition 2, but the roofs
must go on partition 2 (due to its size).

Note: If you place the kernel on the ext3 partition, you must re-create the
      ext3 filesystem, since the factory u-boot can only handle 128 byte inodes and
      cannot read the partition otherwise.

Steps:

 1. Remove the USB disk from the edgerouter and insert it into a computer
    that has access to your build artifacts.

 2. Copy the kernel image to the USB storage (assuming discovered as 'sdb' on
    the development machine):

    2a) if booting from vfat
 
        # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
        # cp tmp/deploy/images/edgerouter/vmlinux /mnt
        # umount /mnt

    2b) if booting from ext3

        # mkfs.ext3 -I 128 /dev/sdb2
        # mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt
        # mkdir /mnt/boot
        # cp tmp/deploy/images/edgerouter/vmlinux /mnt/boot
        # umount /mnt

 3. Extract the rootfs to the USB storage ext3 partition

        # mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt
        # tar -xvjpf core-image-minimal-XXX.tar.bz2 -C /mnt
        # umount /mnt

 4. Reboot the board and press a key on the terminal when prompted to get to the U-Boot
    command line:

 5. Load the kernel and boot:

    5a) vfat boot

         => fatload usb 0:1 $loadaddr vmlinux

    5b) ext3 boot

         => ext2load usb 0:2 $loadaddr boot/vmlinux
 
    => bootoctlinux $loadaddr coremask=0x3 root=/dev/sda2 rw rootwait mtdparts=phys_mapped_flash:512k(boot0),512k(boot1),64k@3072k(eeprom)
 

Type 2: NFS
-----------

Note: If you place the kernel on the ext3 partition, you must re-create the
      ext3 filesystem, since the factory u-boot can only handle 128 byte inodes and
      cannot read the partition otherwise.

      These boot instructions assume that you have recreated the ext3 filesystem with
      128 byte inodes, you have an updated uboot or you are running and image capable
      of making the filesystem on the board itself.


 1. Boot from NFS root

 2. Mount the USB disk partition 2 and then extract the contents of
    tmp/deploy/core-image-XXXX.tar.bz2 into it.

    Before starting, copy core-image-minimal-xxx.tar.bz2 and vmlinux into
    rootfs path on your workstation.

    and then,
  
      # mount /dev/sda2 /media/sda2
      # tar -xvjpf core-image-minimal-XXX.tar.bz2 -C /media/sda2
      # cp vmlinux /media/sda2/boot/vmlinux
      # umount /media/sda2
      # reboot

 3. Reboot the board and press a key on the terminal when prompted to get to the U-Boot
    command line:

    # reboot

 4. Load the kernel and boot:

      => ext2load usb 0:2 $loadaddr boot/vmlinux
      => bootoctlinux $loadaddr coremask=0x3 root=/dev/sda2 rw rootwait mtdparts=phys_mapped_flash:512k(boot0),512k(boot1),64k@3072k(eeprom)