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<section begin=overview />If you have a brand new IGEP Processor Board you must know that '''it comes with a firmware''' provided and installed on it by ISEE.  
 
<section begin=overview />If you have a brand new IGEP Processor Board you must know that '''it comes with a firmware''' provided and installed on it by ISEE.  
  
By default, if you power up your board it will run the software on the flash. But '''you can prepare a MicroSD card and boot from it''' by inserting it to the MicroSD card reader of your IGEP Processor Board, as it has more priority than the flash.  
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By default, if you power up your board it will run the software on the flash. But '''you can prepare a MicroSD card and boot from it''' by inserting it to the MicroSD card reader of your IGEP Processor Board, as it has more priority than the flash. <section end=overview />
  
The pre-installed software consists of a minimal '''Linux-based distribution''' with a lite X Window System and GNOME Mobile based applications created with Yocto Platform Builder.<section end=overview />
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The pre-installed software consists of a minimal '''Linux-based distribution''' with a lite X Window System and GNOME Mobile based applications created with Yocto Platform Builder.
  
 
= About the pre-installed software  =
 
= About the pre-installed software  =

Revision as of 16:48, 13 August 2012

Overview

If you have a brand new IGEP Processor Board you must know that it comes with a firmware provided and installed on it by ISEE.

By default, if you power up your board it will run the software on the flash. But you can prepare a MicroSD card and boot from it by inserting it to the MicroSD card reader of your IGEP Processor Board, as it has more priority than the flash.

The pre-installed software consists of a minimal Linux-based distribution with a lite X Window System and GNOME Mobile based applications created with Yocto Platform Builder.

About the pre-installed software

The pre-installed software consists of:

  • IGEP X-loader: a bootloader compatible with all IGEP Processor Boards.
  • IGEP Kernel: a Linux Kernel maintained by ISEE.
  • IGEP firmware Yocto: the software distribution consists of a lite X Window System and GNOME Mobile based applications created with Yocto tools

For more information about these specific sotware, read the following articles:


Update the software image

Firmware update

You can update the pre-installed software of your IGEP Processor Board to a current release:


Create a customized MicroSD

You can also create a customized MicroSD with specific software distributions: