IOTG Yocto BSP

This README file contains information on building and booting Yocto Project*-based BSP on Intel IoT platforms. Please see the corresponding sections below for details.

Notes

This is a snapshot of the latest Yocto Project BSP on Intel IoT platforms that was last successfully validated. Older Intel platforms are supported but not fully validated. It is recommended to use newer snapshots if possible to resolve CVEs discovered in older snapshots. CVEs in Older snapshots are not retroactively fixed.

There are recent changes in the BSP:

a. Pre-generated keys for Secure Boot.
   Please contact your Intel representative on building the BSP with the pre-generated keys.

Table of Contents

I. Overview
II. Yocto Project Compatibility
III. Getting Started with BSP
     a. Yocto Project*-based Pre-requisite
     b. Obtain Repo Sources
     c. Build Steps
V. Booting Up BSP
     a. Create a Bootable Image
     b. Booting up Intel Platform

I. Overview

This is the location of Intel IoTG maintained Yocto Project*-based BSP. For details of the release note documentation from Intel Resource and Design Centre by searching its document number.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/resource-design-center.html

II. Yocto Project Compatibility

The BSPs contained in this layer are compatible with the Yocto Project as per the requirements listed here:

a. Kirkstone

Note: Yocto meta-* layer, kirkstone branch in not backward compatible with meta-* layer dunfell or hardknott branch. All tags starting from staging/release-99 onwards are based on Yocto Project Kirkstone release.

III. Getting Started with BSP

a. Yocto Project*-based Pre-Requisite

The following section consists of a one-time setup for host and its dependencies.

This is a one-time setup for user host dependencies. Please skip this steps if this was not your first time building a Yocto-Project*-based BSP. As a user you will need to install necessary toolchain to build the Yocto Project*-based BSP.

$ sudo apt-get install gawk wget diffstat unzip texinfo build-essential \
  chrpath socat cpio python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect xz-utils \
  debianutils iputils-ping python3-git python3-jinja2 libegl1-mesa \
  libsdl1.2-dev pylint3 xterm python3-subunit mesa-common-dev \
  screen git zstd liblz4-tool connect-proxy

b. Obtain Repo Sources

Create a bin/ directory in your home directory and included in your path.

$ mkdir ~/bin
$ PATH=~/bin:$PATH

Get repo source and make it executable.

$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

c. Build Steps

Make sure to have "repo" and the toolchain dependencies are set before proceed. All Yocto-Project*-based BSP is access contolled repositories. Please contact your Intel representatives for access.

Make a new directory.

$ mkdir <work_dir>
$ cd <work_dir>

Git clone the repo manifest. This manifest will help user to clone all the required repositories to create the base bsp.

$ repo init -u https://github.com/intel/iotg-yocto-ese-manifest.git -b refs/heads/master -g all

or depend on your release;

$ repo init -u https://github.com/intel/iotg-yocto-ese-manifest.git -b refs/tags/staging/release-150 -g all

Pull the repository meta-layers (-j4 for simultaneous downloads, increase for more).

$ repo sync -c -j8 --force-sync

Make a branch.

$ repo forall managed/* -c git branch -f BUILD HEAD

Start build process.

$ cd <work_dir>/build
$ . ../intel-embedded-system-enabling-pre/oe-init-build-env .

Run bitbake compilation.

a. To set LTS Kernel v6.6 as a default kernel

$ bitbake mc:x86-2023:core-image-sato-sdk

b. To set LTS RT v6.6 as a default kernel

$ bitbake mc:x86-rt-2023:core-image-sato-sdk

Additional notes.

a. To change provided kernel to your preferred kernel

$ cd <work_dir>/build/
$ vi conf/multiconfig/x86.conf

Substitute "linux-intel-mainline" with preferred kernel PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-intel-mainline"

IE: PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-vanilla"

Comment out this line. KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME_pn-linux-intel-mainline = "kernel"

Continue with steps 6.

IV. Booting Up BSP

Intel recommends using "bmaptool" to prepare a bootable image with the USB* flash drive.

a. Create a Bootable Image

Download the latest bmaptool release from https://github.com/yoctoproject/bmaptool into the Ubuntu* host system, where you build the Yocto Project based image.

$ sudo apt-get install bmap-tools

Insert the USB flash drive and ensure all partitions of the target device (the USB flash drive in this case) are unmounted.

Run the following command (assume the USB flash drive is using /dev/sdc) to generate a bootable USB flash drive.

$ sudo bmaptool copy --bmap <path>/core-image-sato-xxx-date>.wic.bmap <path>/core-image-sato-<date>.wic /dev/sdc

b. Booting Up Intel Platform

This is a general steps on booting your Intel platform. Please contact you Intel representative for more information.

Insert a USB* flash drive into the Intel supported platform and ensure the IFWI has been installed.

Boot up the Intel platform by pressing the power button. Press F2 if you need to enter the BIOS menu for configuration or to select the boot option.

At the log in screen, type “root” to log in. No password is required.

V. Maintainer

jonathan.yong@intel.com Kartikey.Rameshbhai.Parmar@intel.com preeti.sachan@intel.com