meta-variscite image build

Required packages on Ubuntu

This section provides required packages on an Ubuntu Linux distribution:

Essentials

Packages needed to build an image for a headless system:

$ sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib \
    build-essential chrpath socat cpio python python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect \
    xz-utils debianutils iputils-ping python-git repo bmap-tools

Download meta-variscite project manifest

To easily manage different git repositories layers, meta-variscite project is using Android repo tool,

First initialize repo specifying the project manifest and the corresponding branch:

$ repo init -u https://github.com/linumiz/meta-variscite.git -m conf/samples/variscite.xml -b master 

then checkout the project source tree:

$ repo sync -j10

Configuring the project

meta-variscite offers pre-configured machine templates, tested and ready to use.

• variscite

$ cd variscite/
$ TEMPLATECONF=meta-variscite/conf/samples/ source oe-init-build-env

Build the project

SD image

$ bitbake variscite-image-base-sd

eMMC image

$ bitbake variscite-image-base-emmc

Flashing the Image

SD image

After successfull compilation you will find the image in below name, which can be directly flashed into SD card

dd if=./variscite-image-base-sd.wic of=/dev/sdX bs=10M 

eMMC image

Pre-requiste SD image flashed and sucessfull linux booting. Copy below two images to SD card

dd if=./variscite-image-base-emmc.wic of=/dev/mmcblkX bs=10M