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Depending on your desired set-up here you will find key-points on how the get and set the igep firmware

You should install kernel modules into each rootfs you download, don't miss  Linux Kernel Tutorial.

*!* General information about RootFS *!*

To log into each one of the RootFS and igep firmware presented below you use

UBUNTU / DEBIAN

• Username: root
• Password: letmein

YOCTO

• Username: root
• Password:

Ubuntu

Download latest firmware from downloads server

• Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (isee-v0.01) ARM Hard Float

Instructions needed to decompress in the SD

sudo tar -xvzf [your_compressed_rootfs] -C [target_location_rootfs]

For example, to uncompress the rootfs of the link into the rootfs partition of the MicroSD Card you can write:

sudo tar -xvzf /home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-xenial-armhf-igep-base-v0.01.tgz -C /media/user/rootfs

Debian

Download latest firmware from downloads server

• Debian Stretch ARM Hard Float

Instructions needed to decompress in the SD

sudo tar -xvzf [your_compressed_rootfs] -C [target_location_rootfs]

For example, to uncompress the rootfs of the link into the rootfs partition of the MicroSD Card you can write:

sudo tar -xvzf /home/user/Downloads/debian-stretch-armhf-igep-base-no-version.tgz -C /media/user/rootfs

Buildroot

Download latest firmware from downloads server

• Buildroot ARM Hard Float

Instructions needed to decompress in the SD

sudo tar -xvzf [your_compressed_rootfs] -C [target_location_rootfs]

For example, to uncompress the rootfs of the link into the rootfs partition of the MicroSD Card you can write:

sudo tar -xjzf /home/user/Downloads/igep-buildroot-skeltal-base-no-version.bz2 -C /media/user/rootfs

Yocto

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 devices  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.

If you need to custom more your Linux OS, for example: editing, adding or removing packages, please read this article

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)

Install

Download latest firmware from downloads server

• Yocto no-base ARM Hard Float repo

Instructions needed to decompress in the SD

sudo tar -xvzf [your_compressed_rootfs] -C [target_location_rootfs]

For example, to uncompress the rootfs of the link into the rootfs partition of the MicroSD Card you can write:

sudo tar -xjzf /home/user/Downloads/igep002hf-yocto-pyro-minimal-base-no-version.bz2 -C /media/user/rootf

IGEP-Tools

IGEP Tools are a set of binaries that should come with every firmware provided by ISEE. These tools will allow you to handle in a easy way the process of updating and creating new bootable media that will run on igep devices. A basic concept of each tools is described:

• igep-media-create:  Create a new bootable SD cards or HD images.
• igep-flash: Flash bootable images to the board's flash memory
• create-android-image: Create an Android image tarball from Android build
• e-functions: Required by other igep tools to function properly.

Create IGEP Firmware bootable SD-card

(from How to create a SD-card with the latest software image )

The first thing you'll do is download the latest firwmare according to your igep model

Once the file is downloaded you can create bootable SD-Card, under Linux, untar the IGEP

tar jxf igep_firmware-yocto-*.tar.bz2
cd igep_firmware-yocto-*

Insert a SD-Card media and use the igep-media-create script to copy the firmware to SD-Card media.

./igep-media-create -–mmc  --image  --machine 

where:
- is the SD-Card device of your computer.
- is the file that contains bootloader, kernel and rootfs image.
- is the IGEP Processor Board. Available options are:

• igep0020 - For IGEP v2 Processor Board
• igep0030 - For IGEP COM MODULE Processor Board
• igep0032 - For IGEP COM PROTON Processor Board
• igep0033 - For IGEP COM AQUILA Processor Board
• igep0046 - For IGEP iMX6 Processor Board

For example, assuming the SD-card device takes '/dev/sdf' and you have an IGEPv2 board ('igep0020'), type

./igep-media-create --mmc /dev/sdf --machine igep0020 --image demo-image-sato-igep00x0.tar.bz2

For example, assuming the SD-card device takes '/dev/sdb' and you have an IGEP COM MODULE ('igep0030'), type

./igep-media-create --mmc /dev/sdb --machine igep0030 --image demo-image-sato-igep00x0.tar.bz2

These methods should give you a bootable SD-card.