Revision as of 16:40, 13 August 2012

Introduction

The IGEP Firmware could be built from scratch using a tool from the Yocto Project called Poky. The Poky build system allows developers to create their own complete Linux Distribution for their embedded systems.

The firmware that runs on every IGEP Technology device is created in the hope to introduce you quickly to the IGEP Technology. The IGEP Firmware provides a preconfigured Linux system allowing communicating and experiencing easily with IGEP devices.

The image is built using the GNOME Mobile software stack, providing a well defined user experience. The user interface environment used is SATO, it is designed to work well with screens at very high DPI and restricted size. It is coded with focus on efficiency and speed so that it works smoothly on hand- held and other embedded hardware.

Features

Software included:

GNU/Linux system:

• Linux kernel.
• Root filesystem (initscripts, X11-based, EXT3, JFFS2, UBIFS, VFAT, NTFS, NFS...)
• Drivers (USB,SPI,I2C,CAN,Ethernet,GPRS,...)
• Network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP/IP, ARP, ICMP, SNMP, TFTP, TELNET, DHCP,BOOTP, SSH-SSL, HTTP, HTTP-SSL, NAT, NTP, PPP,...)
• RPM package system.

GNOME Mobile software stack

• GTK toolkit for interface construction.
• GConf application configuration service which leverages XML for data persistence.
• GnomeVFS file access abstraction layer which provides support for network transparent file manipulation.
• GStreamer multimedia framework which supports dynamic media editing as well as playback.
• D-Bus interprocess communication system.
• BlueZ Bluetooth stack.
• Avahi service for Zeroconf service discovery.

Software public repositories (RPM-based)

Other useful information

Account information

• Username: root
• Password: <empty>

Network configuration (IP addresses)

• eth0 − 192.168.5.1
• eth0:0 − assigned via dhcp.
• wlan0 − 192.168.6.1 (with dhcp server)
• usb0 − 192.168.7.1 (with dhcp server)

Extending the IGEP Firmware

The IGEP Firmware is based on RPM packages. The RPM Package Manager is a package management system that automates the process of installing, upgrading and removing software packages. If you also need some software that is typically not found in the IGEP Firmware, you can search if this software it’s available in the ISEE repositories.

You can manage packages from the IGEP Firmware using "zypper". Zypper is the command line package manager installed on the IGEP Firmware for installing, removing, updating and querying software packages of local or remote repositories. Use following commands:

• To get the package list from the repository, use

zypper refresh

• To search a package

zypper search package_name

• To install a package from registered repositories, use

zypper install package_name

• To remove an installed package, use

zypper remove package_name

• A list of all new packages available can be obtained with the command

zypper list-updates -t package

• To update your system, just run the

zypper update

• Other useful zypper commands :

zypper help
zypper help command