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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.
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== References ==
Much of this How-To is extracted from different sources. If you would like to read some of the original articles or resources, please visit them and thank the authors:
*The Linaro website ( http://www.linaro.org )
== Linaro releases == At the end of each cycle linaro do an integrated build of software with this variants:
=== Linaro 10.11 ===
* https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011/Final
Install needed packages, on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install uboot-mkimage uuid-runtime realpath
Next create a working directory
mkdir linaro
cd linaro
Download latest linaro tools to a location in your PATH, e.g. $HOME/bin/:
wget http://downloads.igep.es/linaro/10.11/linaro-hwpack-create
wget http://downloads.igep.es/linaro/10.11/linaro-hwpack-install
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/linaro-m/netbook/final/linaro-m-netbook-efl-tar-20101108-1.tar.gz
wget http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/hwpacks/final/hwpack_linaro-igep_20101109-1_armel.tar.gz
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 (NOTE: be sure to delete all partitions on the SD Card before running linaro-media-create otherwise it will fail!)
linaro-media-create --rootfs ext3 --mmc /dev/mmcblk0 --dev igep \
== SGX Acceleration [EXPERIMENTAL!] ==
This worked for me, no idea if it works for anyone!
1. Install the linux kernel headers for the linaro version that is running on your board in my case
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.35-1008-linaro-omap
2. Get the openGL backend:
sudo apt-get install libegl1-sgx-omap3 libgles1-sgx-omap3 libgles2-sgx-omap3
Now you can run the demos that are mentioned in the Ubuntu guide. Have fun :).
== Videos ==IGEPv2 running Linaro Distribution. Desktop navigation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHx0jCJ1PRg
<br> --- That's all folks ---
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