Pre-Setup

Disclaimer

To follow this tutorial you have to have installed a Linux distribution, Debian 7.9 is the one used here, any Debian based distribution should work, the instructions provided for the Linux distributions supported for Yocto project are shown (and tested successfully) but not followed on this document.

We will assume your username in the Linux distribution is iotchampion, to know the name of your current user type the following command:

$ echo $USER
iotchampion

Substituting iotchampion with your current user will give you the directory we (you user and we IoT Learning Initiative) are working on.

Adjusting our Linux

This section provides required set up and packages for building an image with Real-Time kernel patch.

Debian and Debian based (supported) distributions

The following packages are needed by a Debian or Debian based distribution, to install them, update and install:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential git diffstat gawk chrpath texinfo libtool gcc-multilib dfu-util screen u-boot-tools

Fedora (supported) distributions

The following packages are needed by a Fedora distribution, to install them, update and install: For newer versions of Fedora where yum is deprecated, please us dnf instead of yum.

$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install gawk make wget tar bzip2 gzip python unzip perl patch    diffutils diffstat git cpp gcc gcc-c++ glibc-devel texinfo chrpath ccache perl-Data-Dumper perl-Text-ParseWords perl-Thread-Queue

OpenSUSE (supported) distributions

The following packages are needed by an OpenSUSE distribution, to install them, update and install:

$ sudo zypper update
$ sudo zypper install python gcc gcc-c++ git chrpath make wget python-xml diffstat texinfo python-curses patch

CentOS (supported) distributions

The following packages are needed by a CentOS distribution, to install them, update and install:

$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install make docbook-style-dsssl docbook-style-xsl docbook-dtds docbook-utils fop libxslt dblatex xmlto

Download Edison Image

To download the Edison image, go to the desired working directory and download it. In this case, our username is iotchampion, we move to our home directory, a new folder is created as a Workspace, and then we move to this new Workspace directory

$ cd
$ pwd
/home/iotchampion
$ mkdir Workspace
$ cd Workspace
$ pwd
/home/iotchampion/Workspace

In this Workspace directory the Edison image is downloaded, 2 versions available

$ wget downloadmirror.intel.com/24389/eng/edison-src-rel1-maint-rel1-ww42-14.tgz
$ wget http://downloadmirror.intel.com/25028/eng/edison-src-ww25.5-15.tgz