IGEPv5 Ubuntu 12.04.4 release 20140314

Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS (Hard Float) is the default IGEPv5 base distribution (it's included in IGEPv5 Full and Lite).

Release 20140314

Overview

This documentation is the software manual for IGEPv5 Ubuntu distribution release 20140314.

Where is the software?

This release can be downloaded from our main repository located here.

What I need before starting?

• IGEPv5 (Full Version or Lite)
• Serial Cable Debug (db9)
• MicroSD Card.

Install the Image

Please follow the instructions from this document about installation procedure. After Install the image is recommended update and upgrade to get the latest software releases using these command:

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

What is Included in this Release?

Components

• U-boot v2014.01-0-omap5 (SPL).
  • Boot from MicroSD, eMMC, SATA, Ethernet.
  • 2 GiB Support
• Kernel 3.8.13.
  • LPAE
  • 4 GiB Support
  • FS Media: SD card, eMMC, NFS, SATA
  • USB Host: Isochronous A/V, HID, MSC
  • UART, I2C, SPI, Ethernet, SATA
  • DSS (HDMI)
  • ABE (Audio)
  • Wifi b/g/n + BT 4.0 (WLAN)
  • MPU DVFS, AVS Class 0
  • MPU Thermal Mgmt (via CPU freq)
  • Thermal Sensors
  • OMAP DRM
• Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS Hard float Core (See changelog).

Changelog

• Install nano editor 2.2.6-1
• Edit /etc/apt/sources.list
  • Added universe and multiverse repositories and ISEE repositories
• Edit /etc/hosts
  • Added localhost
  • Added localhost.localdomain
  • Added localhost ipv6
• Install net-tools 1.60-24.1ubuntu2
• Install netbase 4.47ubuntu1
• Install iputils-ping 3:20101006-1ubuntu1
• Install dhcpcd 1:3.2.3-9ubuntu1
• Edit /etc/network/interfaces
  • Added auto eth0
  • Added iface eth0 init dhcp
• Install sudo 1.8.3p1-1ubuntu3.4
• Install dialog 1.1-20111020-1
• Set password letmein to root user
• added user igep, igep added to groups: adm, sudo, dialout, audio
• Install linux kernel linux-image-3.8.13-0-omap5
• Install (abe firmware) abefw-omap4plus
• Install (abe asoc firmware pkg) asocfw-omap4plus
• Install serial console package igepv5-serial-console
• Install wl1271 firmware wl1271-igepv5
• Install iw 3.2-1
• Install (AESS alsa configuration script) igepv5-setup-audio
• Install cpufrequtils (007-2)

TODO

Packages:

• bzip2
• wget
• bc
• rsyslog
• dosfstools
• alsa-tools, alsa-base, alsa-utils

Modules:

• Multimedia
  • H.264 (encoder & decoder), MPEG2 (decoder), MPEG4 (encoder & decoder) & VC1 decoders
  • Gstreamer plugin for video decode acceleration
  • Gstreamer plugin for KMS display sink
  • Gstreamer plugin for Wayland sink
  • Gstreamer plugin for X11 sink (DRI2video)
  • AAC audio codec (ARM based, open-source)
• Graphics
  • 2D graphics acceleration (BLTsville)
  • 3D graphics acceleration (OpenGL ES 2.0)
  • Wayland , with Weston compositor
  • X11 stack (without Window Manager)
• Frameworks
  • BIOS (IPU, SMP-only)
  • DCE (IPU)
  • IPC 3.x
  • OMAPdrm libaries