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*****
NOTE: This BSP layer is for the original MinnowBoard
      For the MinnowBoard MAX, please use the meta-intel intel-corei7-64 BSP
      See: http://www.elinux.org/Minnowboard:MinnowMaxYoctoProject
*****

This README file contains information on building the meta-minnow BSP
layer and booting the images contained in the /binary directory.  Please
see the corresponding sections below for details.

For more information on the Minnow board see:
http://www.minnowboard.org

The MinnowBoard is an Intel Atom E640T processor coupled with an Intel
EG20T Platform Controller Hub (Tunnel Creek + Topcliff = Queens Bay).
The E6xx CPU embeds on-chip graphics supported by the Intel Embedded
Media and Graphics Driver (EMGD). The board targets the small and
low-cost embedded market for the developer and maker community. Details
on the Queens Bay platform can be found here:

  http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/queens-bay/embedded-intel-atom-e6xx-series-with-intel-platform-controller-hub-eg20t.html

Information on all Intel embedded platforms can be found here:

  http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/embedded/hwsw/hardware


Compliance
==========

This BSP is compliant with the Yocto Project as per the requirements
listed here:

  http://www.yoctoproject.org/yocto-project-compatible-registration


Dependencies
============

This layer depends on:

  URI: git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake
  branch: master

  URI: git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
  layers: meta
  branch: master

  URI: git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-intel
  layers: meta-intel
  branch: master


Patches
=======

The MinnowBoard BSP is dependent on the meta-intel BSP, but maintained
separately in order to allot it the freedom necessary to meet the needs
of the growing community. Because of its close ties to the meta-intel
layer, development of the MinnowBoard BSP will be done alongside
meta-intel.

Please submit any patches against this BSP to the meta-intel mailing list:

  https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-intel

Please include a "minnowboard:" prefix in your email subject and be sure to Cc
the maintainer.

  Maintainer: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>


Table of Contents
=================

  I. Building the meta-minnow BSP layer
 II. Booting the images in /binary
III. EFI Boot Targets
 IV. Device Notes
     a. Serial Port
     b. HDMI
     c. GPIO
     d. Expansion Connector
 IV. Issue Tracking
  V. Additional Resources


I. Building the meta-minnow BSP layer
=====================================

To build an image with BSP support for a given release, you need to
download the corresponding BSP tarball from the 'Board Support Package
(BSP) Downloads' page of the Yocto Project website.  Alternatively, you
can work from the git repositories, ensuring you are using the same
branch, e.g. master, for each.

Then add the meta-intel and meta-minnow layers to your bblayers.conf:

BBLAYERS += "/path/to/meta-intel"
BBLAYERS += "/path/to/meta-minnow"

Update your local.conf to specify the MACHINE as "minnow" and allow for
building the emgd-driver-bin package by white-listing the EMGD license:

  MACHINE ?= "minnow"
  LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST = "license_emgd-driver-bin"

The 'minnow' machine will include support for hardware video
acceleration via gstreamer if and only if the "commercial" string is
added to the the LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST variable in your local.conf:

  LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST = "license_emgd-driver-bin commercial"

This is required to prevent the resulting image from including anything
that might violate the license terms of the packages used to implement
the video acceleration feature, such as gst-ffmpeg and ffmpeg. As
always, please consult the licenses included in the specific packages
for details if you use packages that require particular LICENSE_FLAGS.

Due to a bug in ISO generation when building for EFI-only machines, it
is necessary to include the following in your local.conf:

  NOISO = "1"

You can now configure your build directory and build an image:

  $ source oe-init-build-env
  $ bitbake core-image-sato

To build the Angstrom distribution, see the online documentation:

  http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom

The process can be summarized in the following steps:

  $ git clone git://github.com/Angstrom-distribution/setup-scripts.git
  $ cd setup-scripts
  $ MACHINE=minnow ./oebb.sh config minnow

  Edit conf/local.conf per the instructions provided above.

  $ MACHINE=minnow ./oebb.sh update
  $ MACHINE=minnow ./oebb.sh bitbake systemd-gnome-image

At the end of a successful build, you will have a live image that you
can boot from a USB flash drive (see instructions on how to do that
below, in the section 'Booting the images from /binary').


II. Booting the images in /binary
=================================

This BSP contains (or builds) live images which must be converted to a
partitioned image format in order to boot them on the MinnowBoard.

You can deploy the hddimg image to a USB, SD, or SATA device. You will
need to know the device name on your host as well as the device name on
the target. Be careful with this step as using the wrong host device can
result in overwriting data on your host machine.

Under Linux, USB and SATA devices typically appears as /dev/sdb,
/dev/sdc, etc., while SD devices may appear as one of those or as
/dev/mmcblk0, /dev/mmcblk1, etc. Watching your system messages as you
connect the device will tell you exactly which device name is assigned
to the device. On the MinnowBoard, assuming only one storage device is
attached at boot, a USB or SATA device will be /dev/sda and an SD device
will be /dev/mmcblk0.

After inserting the boot media into your host machine and determining
your host and target device, create the image using the mkefidisk.sh
script, provided with the BSP under scripts/. Note that root privileges
are required. For example, using an SD card which appears as /dev/sdc on
the host:

$ sudo mkefidisk.sh /dev/sdc core-image-sato-minnow.hddimg /dev/mmcblk0

Follow the prompts on the screen to confirm the action.

Insert the device into the MinnowBoard and power on. This should result
in a system booted to the Sato graphical desktop. If your system drops
into an EFI shell instead of booting the image, see the section 'EFI
Boot Targets'.

The root password is empty on the Poky reference distribution images.


III. EFI Boot Targets
=====================

The MinnowBoard EFI firmware supports FastBoot which optimizes the
device initialization for a specific boot path. Out of the box, the
board will boot from the default bootloader on the SD card. If you
modify this card or want to boot from a different device, you will need
to reestablish the automatic boot path.

Ensure the devices, and only the devices, you intend to boot from are
installed. Select the Shell from the EFI boot menu, or allow it to
timeout and start the shell automatically.  From within the shell,
initialize all the devices with:

> connect -r
> map -r

This will result in a listing of file-systems and block devices similar
to the following:

Mapping table
      FS0: Alias(s):HD21a0b:;BLK1:
          PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x8,0x3)/USB(0x0,0x0)/HD(1,MBR,0x00056299,0x800,0x9000)
     BLK0: Alias(s):
          PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x8,0x3)/USB(0x0,0x0)
     BLK2: Alias(s):
          PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x8,0x3)/USB(0x0,0x0)/HD(2,MBR,0x00056299,0x9800,0x70D000)
     BLK3: Alias(s):
          PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x8,0x3)/USB(0x0,0x0)/HD(3,MBR,0x00056299,0x716800,0x5F000)

Note that FS0: is a file-system on a USB device. To automatically boot
the bootia32.efi bootloader on this device, enter:

> bcfg boot add 0 fs0:\efi\boot\bootia32.efi "Default Boot"
> reset

From now on, so long as that device remains connected and at that path,
the firmware will boot it directly, skipping the boot menu and the EFI
shell.


IV. Device Notes
================================
a. Serial Port
--------------
UART0 from the EG20T is connected to an FTDI UART-to-USB device which
appears as a serial port on the host computer.

When you power on your MinnowBoard, your Linux host will discover a
serial device and name it /dev/ttyUSB0 (or similar). You can communicate
with this device at 115200 8N1 using your preferred terminal emulator.
For example:

  $ screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

b. Video
-------
The on-board HDMI port is technically a DVI signal driven by the sDVO
port. It supports resolutions up to 1920x1080. The LVDS lines are
available on the expansion connector.

c. GPIO
-------
The MinnowBoard provides a variety of GPIO, some with a dedicated
purpose. To get a listing, be sure the minnowboard-gpio and
minnowboard-keys drivers are loaded (they are by default). The purpose
of each line is available via debugfs:

$ mkdir /debug
$ mount none -t debugfs /debug
$ cat /debug/gpio
GPIOs 0-4, platform/sch_gpio.33158, sch_gpio_core:
 gpio-0   (minnow_btn0         ) in  hi
 gpio-1   (minnow_btn1         ) in  hi
 gpio-2   (minnow_btn2         ) in  hi
 gpio-3   (minnow_btn3         ) in  hi

GPIOs 5-13, platform/sch_gpio.33158, sch_gpio_resume:
 gpio-5   (minnow_gpio_aux0    ) in  hi
 gpio-6   (minnow_gpio_aux1    ) in  lo
 gpio-7   (minnow_gpio_aux2    ) in  lo
 gpio-8   (minnow_gpio_aux3    ) in  hi
 gpio-9   (minnow_gpio_aux4    ) in  hi
 gpio-10  (minnow_led0         ) out lo
 gpio-11  (minnow_led1         ) out lo
 gpio-13  (minnow_phy_reset    ) out hi

GPIOs 244-255, pci/0000:02:00.2, 0000:02:00.2:
 gpio-244 (minnow_gpio_pch0    ) in  hi
 gpio-245 (minnow_gpio_pch1    ) in  hi
 gpio-246 (minnow_gpio_pch2    ) in  hi
 gpio-247 (minnow_gpio_pch3    ) in  hi
 gpio-248 (minnow_gpio_pch4    ) in  hi
 gpio-249 (minnow_gpio_pch5    ) in  hi
 gpio-250 (minnow_gpio_pch6    ) in  hi
 gpio-251 (minnow_gpio_pch7    ) in  hi
 gpio-252 (minnow_gpio_hwid0   ) in  hi
 gpio-253 (minnow_gpio_hwid1   ) in  lo
 gpio-254 (minnow_gpio_hwid2   ) in  lo
 gpio-255 (minnow_lvds_detect  ) in  lo

The minnowboard-keys driver maps GPIO 0-3 to the arrow keys via the
gpio-keys-polled driver. These can be used as a four button keyboard.

The auxiliary GPIO lines (5-9) are only available if the LVDS_DETECT
line is low. For the time being, these lines should be considered LVDS
lines only and not used for another purpose. Future Linux kernel driver
updates should make these lines available as GPIO if LVDS is not in use.

WARNING: Forcing lines 5-9 to inputs and driving them externally may
         result in physical damage to the board.

GPIO 10 and 11 are mapped to the two user LEDs on the MinnowBoard. By
default LED0 uses the heartbeat LED trigger (it should blink by default)
and LED1 uses the mmc0 trigger and should blink indicating SD card
activity. These can be changed using the /sys/class/led interface.

GPIO 13 is dedicated to a physical reset of the Ethernet PHY and is used
by the minnowboard platform driver.

GPIO 244-251 are exported over the expansion connector and can be
configured as inputs or outputs. Experimenters can use the simple
/sys/class/gpio interface. To write your own Linux kernel driver using
these GPIOs, remove the minnowboard-gpio driver and the lines will be
available to request by your new driver. See the Linux kernel GPIO
documentation for more information on the GPIO subsystem.

GPIO 252-254 are a three-bit integer representing the hardware ID of the
board. This is displayed at boot from the minnowboard driver:

  MinnowBoard: Hardware ID: 1

Finally, GPIO 255 indicates if LVDS is being used on a daughter card
(lure). The line is available on the expansion connector. Lures
providing LVDS should assert this line to ensure GPIO 5-9 are reserved
for LVDS control signals. When asserted, GPIO 5-9 are not exported by
	the minnowboard-gpio driver. 

d. Expansion Connector
----------------------
For details and specifications of the expansion connector and the
creation of daughter cards (lures), please see the elinux wiki:

http://www.elinux.org/Minnowboard:Expansion_Interfaces

IV. Issue Tracking
==================
The MinnowBoard BSP uses the Yocto Project Bugzilla for issue tracking. Please
search the Bugzilla before opening new bugs. The following query lists all open
bugs:
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=38325&query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ACCEPTED&bug_status=IN%20PROGRESS%20DESIGN&bug_status=IN%20PROGRESS%20DESIGN%20COMPLETE&bug_status=IN%20PROGRESS%20IMPLEMENTATION&bug_status=IN%20PROGRESS%20REVIEW&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=WaitForUpstream&component=bsps-meta-minnow

To file a new bug, use this link:
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=BSPs&component=bsps-meta-minnow

V. Additional Resources
=======================
In addition to this README, please see the following URLs for details
and additional documentation:

http://www.minnowboard.org/
http://www.elinux.org/MinnowBoard