From 31a3f080a98e8fd23364cd67d83a53e540e50239 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anmar Oueja Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:39:50 -0400 Subject: Edits as per andy's feedback --- FIRMWARE.textile | 4 ++-- HACKING.textile | 2 +- HOWTO_flashfirmware.txt | 4 ++-- HOWTO_getsourceandbuild.txt | 4 ++-- HOWTO_install.txt | 6 +++--- HOWTO_releasenotes.txt | 3 +-- HOWTO_rtsm.txt | 4 +++- INSTALL.textile | 14 ++++++-------- README.textile | 3 +-- RTSM.textile | 8 +++++--- 10 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/FIRMWARE.textile b/FIRMWARE.textile index f53518f..68e142c 100644 --- a/FIRMWARE.textile +++ b/FIRMWARE.textile @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -It is advised that you update your Versatile Express board firmware to the latest version. To update your VE board firmware, please follow the instructions below: +Ensure that you update your Versatile Express board firmware to the latest version. To update your VE board firmware, please follow the instructions below: * Install the Recovery firmware from the v4.0b VE CD/DVD that came with your Versatile Express * Connect and mount your Versatile Express motherboard USB mass storage device to your PC @@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ It is advised that you update your Versatile Express board firmware to the lates * Unmount the Versatile Express motherboard * Reboot the Versatile Express board -** If the board is configured for UEFI, you will need to configure it to boot from the image that you've created. See the "UEFI page":https://wiki.linaro.org/ARM/UEFI on the Linaro Wiki for more details on configuring UEFI. +** If the board is configured for UEFI, you will need to configure it to boot from the image that you've created. See the "UEFI page":https://wiki.linaro.org/ARM/UEFI#Configure_UEFI on the Linaro Wiki for more details on configuring UEFI. diff --git a/HACKING.textile b/HACKING.textile index 69eb0cb..4d41295 100644 --- a/HACKING.textile +++ b/HACKING.textile @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ bc. sudo apt-get install build-essential git gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi h2. Get the source -You can use GIT to obtain the source code: +You can use GIT to obtain the kernel source code for this release: bc. git clone git://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-tracking.git cd linux-linaro-tracking diff --git a/HOWTO_flashfirmware.txt b/HOWTO_flashfirmware.txt index f53518f..68e142c 100644 --- a/HOWTO_flashfirmware.txt +++ b/HOWTO_flashfirmware.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -It is advised that you update your Versatile Express board firmware to the latest version. To update your VE board firmware, please follow the instructions below: +Ensure that you update your Versatile Express board firmware to the latest version. To update your VE board firmware, please follow the instructions below: * Install the Recovery firmware from the v4.0b VE CD/DVD that came with your Versatile Express * Connect and mount your Versatile Express motherboard USB mass storage device to your PC @@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ It is advised that you update your Versatile Express board firmware to the lates * Unmount the Versatile Express motherboard * Reboot the Versatile Express board -** If the board is configured for UEFI, you will need to configure it to boot from the image that you've created. See the "UEFI page":https://wiki.linaro.org/ARM/UEFI on the Linaro Wiki for more details on configuring UEFI. +** If the board is configured for UEFI, you will need to configure it to boot from the image that you've created. See the "UEFI page":https://wiki.linaro.org/ARM/UEFI#Configure_UEFI on the Linaro Wiki for more details on configuring UEFI. diff --git a/HOWTO_getsourceandbuild.txt b/HOWTO_getsourceandbuild.txt index 7ae3c20..3fadc6b 100644 --- a/HOWTO_getsourceandbuild.txt +++ b/HOWTO_getsourceandbuild.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Run the "linaro_android_build_cmds.sh":http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/android/ The pinned and source manifests can be found here: -* "Pinned Manifest":http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/android/vexpress/pinned-manifest.xml +* "Pinned Manifest":http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/android/vexpress/pinned-manifest.xml ("?":https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/ReproduceABuildExactly) * "Source Manifest":http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/android/vexpress/source-manifest.xml h2. Kernel Source Code @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ sudo linaro-android-media-create --mmc /dev/sdX --dev vexpress --boot boot.tar.b * Insert the SD card into your Versatile Express board and reboot it -p. If UEFI is already configured to boot a Linaro Android image, it will boot from the SD card. If not, follow the instructions in the section: “Configure UEFI” found on the Linaro wiki "here":https://wiki.linaro.org/ARM/UEFI. +p. If UEFI is already configured to boot a Linaro Android image, it will boot from the SD card. If not, follow the instructions in the section: “Configure UEFI”:https://wiki.linaro.org/ARM/UEFI#Configure_UEFI found on the Linaro wiki. h2. Compiling and installing your Kernel diff --git a/HOWTO_install.txt b/HOWTO_install.txt index 698b805..e2797b6 100644 --- a/HOWTO_install.txt +++ b/HOWTO_install.txt @@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ h3. Installation Steps bc. dmesg SDCARD=/dev/sdX # sdcard found from dmesg above -sudo dd bs=64k if=vexpress.img of=$SDCARD +zcat vexpress.img.bz2 | sudo dd bs=64k of=$SDCARD -* Insert the SD card into the board +* After the media create tool has finished executing, remove the SD card from your PC and insert it into the Versatile Express board * Reboot the board ** Wait until you are presented with the “Cmd>" prompt before pressing the red button @@ -78,6 +78,6 @@ Or, if your machine uses @'/dev/mmcblkX'@, you may see a line line this: bc. linaro-android-media-create --mmc /dev/sdX --dev vexpress --boot boot.tar.bz2 --system system.tar.bz2 --userdata userdata.tar.bz2 -* Insert the SD card into the board +* After the media create tool has finished executing, remove the SD card from your PC and insert it into the Versatile Express board * Reboot the board ** Wait until you are presented with the “Cmd>" prompt before pressing the red button diff --git a/HOWTO_releasenotes.txt b/HOWTO_releasenotes.txt index deb1d9e..a14d646 100644 --- a/HOWTO_releasenotes.txt +++ b/HOWTO_releasenotes.txt @@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ Cluster and asymmetric system support Platform Support. In addition to the big.LITTLE MP work the TC2 platform support includes ** CPUidle & CPUfreq support -** hwmon driver allowing, amongst other things, TC2's power, current and -energy measurements to be read through standard sysfs interfaces +** hwmon driver allowing, amongst other things, TC2's power, current andepatnergy measurements to be read through standard sysfs interfaces ** Common clocks implementation ** Regulator driver ** Drivers for previously hard-coded configuration interfaces diff --git a/HOWTO_rtsm.txt b/HOWTO_rtsm.txt index 63ae8e5..77c1d7c 100644 --- a/HOWTO_rtsm.txt +++ b/HOWTO_rtsm.txt @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +This release was boot tested on RTSM A15x4 and A15x4-A7x4 models. No rigorous testing was carried out. This build is expected to run on other RTSM models. + h2. Prerequisites * Install the RTSM model(s) you wish to run. You must have a valid license and the environment set up to run models @@ -25,7 +27,7 @@ bc. wget http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/components/platform/linaro-image-tools h2. Create a 2GB image file -RTSM will only deal with file systems up to 2GB in size, however the pre-built image for Android requires a 4GB filesystem. Therefore, we will build our own image using the pre-built artifacts (displayed above) +RTSM will only deal with file systems up to 2GB in size, however the Linaro pre-built image for Android requires a 4GB filesystem. Therefore, we will build our own image using the pre-built artifacts (displayed above) The following command downloads all the Android OS components necessary to make up a complete Android image. diff --git a/INSTALL.textile b/INSTALL.textile index 3e58905..e6e8de9 100644 --- a/INSTALL.textile +++ b/INSTALL.textile @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ h2. Using pre-built image h3. Prerequisites -* Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit or newer on your desktop PC (www.ubuntu.com) +* Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit or newer on your desktop PC ("www.ubuntu.com":http://www.ubuntu.com) * 4GB SD card or larger * Latest firmware installed onto the Versatile Express. Please see "Firmware Update" tab * This release pre-built image (vexpress-precise_ubuntu-desktop_20121021-377.img.gz), which you can downloaded from the above list of artifacts or from "here":http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/ubuntu/vexpress/vexpress-precise_ubuntu-desktop_20121021-377.img.gz @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ bc. dmesg SDCARD=/dev/sdX # sdcard found from dmesg above zcat vexpress-precise_ubuntu-desktop_20121021-377.img.gz | sudo dd bs=64k of=$SDCARD -** Insert the SD card into the board +** After the media create tool has finished executing, remove the SD card from your PC and insert it into the Versatile Express board ** Reboot the board *** When prompsed with “Cmd>" prompt, press the red reboot button @@ -48,13 +48,11 @@ h3. Prerequisites * Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit or newer on your desktop PC ("www.ubuntu.com":http://www.ubuntu.com) * Download Artifacts from above or use the following command in your terminal -* Download artifacts from above or use the following command in your terminal - *Note:* The instructions above attempt to build an Ubuntu Desktop image. If you wish to create a small image, you can replace the ubuntu desktop tar ball with another root file system, which you can download from "here":http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/ubuntu/precise-images bc. wget http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/ubuntu/vexpress/hwpack_linaro-vexpress_20121021-377_armhf_supported.tar.gz wget http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/ubuntu/vexpress/linaro-precise-ubuntu-desktop-20121021-492.tar.gz -* Get "Linaro image tools":https://wiki.linaro.org/Linaro-Image-Tools. There are multiple ways you can get the latest Linaro Image Tools: +Get "Linaro image tools":https://wiki.linaro.org/Linaro-Image-Tools. There are multiple ways you can get the latest Linaro Image Tools: ** Method 1: Install them from the Linaro Image Tools "PPA":https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/tools @@ -62,9 +60,9 @@ bc. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linaro-maintainers/tools sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install linaro-image-tools -** Method 2: Building from source +** Method 2: Building from source -bc. wget http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/components/platform/linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tools-2012.10.tar.gz +bc. wget http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/components/platform/linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tools-2012.10.tar.gz@ * Insert SD card and note the assigned @'/dev/sdX'@ or @'/dev/mmcblk0'@ @@ -84,5 +82,5 @@ Or, if your machine uses '/dev/mmcblkX', you may see a line line this: bc. sudo linaro-media-create --mmc /dev/sdX --dev vexpress --hwpack hwpack_linaro-vexpress_20121021-377_armhf_supported.tar.gz --binary linaro-precise-ubuntu-desktop-20121021-492.tar.gz -** Insert the SD card into the board +** After the media create tool has finished executing, remove the SD card from your PC and insert it into the Versatile Express board ** Reboot the board. When presented with “Cmd>" prompt, press the red button diff --git a/README.textile b/README.textile index d9a5797..f4b51b1 100644 --- a/README.textile +++ b/README.textile @@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ Cluster and asymmetric system support Platform Support. In addition to the big.LITTLE MP work the TC2 platform support includes ** CPUidle & CPUfreq support -** hwmon driver allowing, amongst other things, TC2's power, current and -energy measurements to be read through standard sysfs interfaces +** hwmon driver allowing, amongst other things, TC2's power, current andenergy measurements to be read through standard sysfs interfaces ** Common clocks implementation ** Regulator driver ** Drivers for previously hard-coded configuration interfaces diff --git a/RTSM.textile b/RTSM.textile index 5179068..d5d1f7f 100644 --- a/RTSM.textile +++ b/RTSM.textile @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +This release was boot tested on RTSM A15x4 and A15x4-A7x4 models. No rigorous testing was carried out. This build is expected to run on other RTSM models. + h2. Prerequisites * Install the RTSM model(s) you wish to run. You must have a valid license and the environment set up to run models @@ -26,11 +28,11 @@ bc. wget http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/components/platform/linaro-image-tools h2. Create a 2GB image file -RTSM will only deal with file systems up to 2GB in size, however the pre-built image for Ubuntu requires a 4GB filesystem. Therefore we will build our own image using the pre-built artifacts, as obtained in the Binary Image Installation tab on this page. +RTSM will only deal with file systems up to 2GB in size, however the released pre-built image for Ubuntu Desktop requires a 4GB filesystem. Therefore we will build our own Nano image using the pre-built artifacts as listed below. -We use a "Nano":http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/ubuntu/precise-images RootFS for this example, however, you could use other RootFS types so long as you can install it to a 2GB file. Note, you will also need the @boot.tar.bz2@ file from the Android release. +We use a "Nano":http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/ubuntu/precise-images RootFS for this example, however, you could use other RootFS types such as ALIP or Developer so long as you can install it to a 2GB file (Ubuntu Desktop doesn't fit the 2GB limit). Note, you will also need the @boot.tar.bz2@ file from the Android release. -Using the following command, you will download the nano RootFS, the hardware back and the boot.tar.gz you need from the Android build. +Using the following command, you will download the nano RootFS, the hardware pack and the boot.tar.gz you need from the Android build. bc. wget http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/ubuntu/precise-images/nano/linaro-precise-nano-20121021-473.tar.gz wget http://releases.linaro.org/12.10/ubuntu/precise-hwpacks/hwpack_linaro-vexpress_20121021-377_armhf_supported.tar.gz -- cgit v1.2.3