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== About Linaro ==

[[Image:Linaro.jpg|left]][http://www.linaro.org Linaro™] is a Not For Profit (NFP) organization that aims to make embedded open source development easier and faster. Linaro will create a common software foundation for software stacks and distributions to land on and provide the best open source tools for developers to develop on. The focus is on low level software around the Linux kernel that touches the silicon, key pieces of middleware that enable new markets and tools that help the developer write and debug code. Linaro aims to maximize the potential of the latest features of ARM-based processors, helping provide optimized performance in a lower power envelope. Linaro is both a community and a supported project with engineering teams spread globally.

== Overview of How-To ==This How-To is meant to be a starting point for people to learn install a Linaro image for OMAP3-based IGEP platforms as quickly and easily as possible.

Unless otherwise noted, this This How-To works with the '''Ubuntu 10.10''' but most of the contents are valid also is meant to be a starting point for people to learn install a Linaro image for other GNU/Linux distributions. We do not issue any guarantee that this will work on other distributionsOMAP3-based IGEP platforms as quickly and easily as possible.<br>

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== Linaro releases == At the end of each cycle linaro do an integrated build of software with this variants:  *Headless (no graphical UI) *Netbook (Netbook style UI) *ARM Linux Internet Platform (ALIP) *Handset (A KDE/Plasma based user interface) You can download the linaro rootfs releases from here:  {| width="800" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"|-| Type | Release | File|-| Nano | 12.04 | http://downloads.isee.biz/pub/distros/linaro/linaro-nano-12.04-0.tar.gz|-| Nano | 11.09 | http://downloads.isee.biz/pub/distros/linaro/linaro-11.09-nano-n-tar-20110929-0.tar.gz|-| Netbook | 12.01 | http://downloads.isee.biz/pub/distros/linaro/linaro-12.01.tar.gz|-| Headless | 10.xx | http://downloads.isee.biz/pub/distros/linaro/linaro-m-headless-tar-20101108-2.tar.gz|} Or directly from the linaro website. 

* https wget http://wikidownloads.linaroisee.orgbiz/pub/Releasesdistros/1011linaro/Finallinaro-nano-12.04-0.tar.gz

Install needed packagesOnce the file is downloaded you can create bootable SD-Card, on Ubuntu sudo apt-get install uboot-mkimage uuid-runtime realpathunder Linux, untar the package

Next create a working directory mkdir tar xzf linaro-nano-12.04-0.tar.gz cd linaro-nano-12.04-0

Download latest linaroInsert a SD-Card media and use the igep-media-create script to create a location in your PATH, ebootable SD-Card.g. $HOME/bin/: bzr branch lp:linaro-image-tools cp linaro-image-tools/linaro-media-create $HOME/bin cp linaro-image-tools/linaro-hwpack-* $HOME/bin

Now it's time to download the software image and the hardware pack for our target. We've download the Netbook style UI image, but you can download another (http://releases.linaro.org) wget http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaroigep-m/netbook/final/linaromedia-mcreate -netbook–mmc &lt;mmc&gt; -efl-tarimage &lt;image file&gt; -20101108-1.tar.gz wget http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/hwpacks/final/hwpack_linaro-igep_20101109-1_armel.tar.gzmachine &lt;machine&gt;

Installing the build onto a media that your hardware can recognise is done using the linaro-media-create script. #Insert your SD card into the host machine (the machine you downloaded the image and hwpack to).#Ensure you know the device node for your sd card reader. In the following example we assume /dev/mmcblk0. If you are unsure of the device node of your SD card, remove and reinsert the card and type dmesg on the command line. The last few lines should give you the device node of the card you just inserted.#In the directory where you downloaded the image and hwpack run linaro-media-create:

linaro-media-create --rootfs ext3 --&lt;mmc /dev/mmcblk0 &gt; -is the SD-dev igep \Card device of your computer. &lt;image file&gt; --binary linaro-m-netbook-efl-tar-20101108-1.taris the file that contains bootloader, kernel and rootfs image.gz \ &lt;machine&gt; --hwpack hwpack_linaro-igep_20101109-1_armel.taris the IGEP Processor Board.gzAvailable options are:

Finally*igep0020 - For IGEP v2 Processor Board *igep0030 - For IGEP COM MODULE Processor Board *igep0032 - For IGEP COM PROTON Processor Board For example, plug assuming the SD -card in your device takes '/dev/sdf' and you have an IGEPv2 board ('igep0020'), type  ./igep-media-create --mmc /dev/sdf --machine igep0020 --image linaro-nano-12.04-0.tar.bz2 For example, assuming the SD-card device takes '/dev/sdb' and bootyou have an IGEP COM&nbsp;MODULE ('igep0030'), type  ./igep-media-create --mmc /dev/sdb --machine igep0030 --image linaro-nano-12.04-0.tar.bz2 These methods should give you a bootable SD-card. Insert the bootable SD-card media into the micro-SD card socket of IGEP device and power on it. This should result in a running system with a Linaro nano image. == Install Other Linaro Distributions == Please follow the next [http://labs.isee.biz/index.php/How_to_boot_from_MicroSD_Card howto].<br>

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