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-rw-r--r--BUILD.md10
-rw-r--r--CUSTOMIZE.md17
-rw-r--r--DEPLOY.md7
-rw-r--r--DOCUMENTATION.md2
-rw-r--r--FEATURES.md204
-rw-r--r--SETUP.md9
-rw-r--r--meta-amd-bsp/README.md7
7 files changed, 130 insertions, 126 deletions
diff --git a/BUILD.md b/BUILD.md
index cbc2bade..709691a9 100644
--- a/BUILD.md
+++ b/BUILD.md
@@ -3,18 +3,18 @@
After setting up the build system ([SETUP.md](SETUP.md)), we can build
images or recipes for a target machine (or BSP).
Running the commands in the instructions below will setup a build for
-a selected AMD BSP, and will start a build:
+a selected AMD machine, and will start a build:
-### 2.1. Select a BSP
+### 2.1. Select a target machine
-Set the environment variable `MACHINE` to the `amdx86` bsp that you want
+Set the environment variable `MACHINE` to one of the supported AMD machines (i.e `e3000` or `rome`) that you want
to build an image for (change the `<machine-name>` in the following example
accordingly):
```sh
MACHINE="<machine-name>"
```
-### 2.2. Setup the build environment for selected BSP
+### 2.2. Setup the build environment for selected machine
Source the *oe-init-build-env* script:
```sh
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Build one of the supported image recipes:
bitbake <image-name> -k
```
-###### where `<image-name>` is to be replaced with one of the supported images for the selected AMD BSP. See *supported features* section for a list all supported images for your machine.
+###### where `<image-name>` is to be replaced with one of the supported images for the selected AMD machine. See *supported features* section for a list all supported images for your machine.
###### (e.g. `core-image-sato` or `core-image-base`)
---
diff --git a/CUSTOMIZE.md b/CUSTOMIZE.md
index a81639a9..36a91687 100644
--- a/CUSTOMIZE.md
+++ b/CUSTOMIZE.md
@@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ target.
---
-#### Supported Features
+#### Supported software features
-| Feature | Configuration variable | Configuration values | Default value | Supported Platforms |
-|:----------------------|:----------------------------|:---------------------|:--------------|:--------------------|
-| ON-TARGET DEVELOPMENT | EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES_append | tools-sdk | | E3000 |
-| ON-TARGET DEBUGGING | EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES_append | tools-debug | | E3000 |
-| ON-TARGET PROFILING | EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES_append | tools-profile | | E3000 |
-| RT KERNEL | RT_KERNEL_AMD | yes, no | no | E3000 |
+| Software feature | Configuration variable | Configuration values | Default value | Supported machines |
+|:----------------------|:----------------------------|:---------------------|:--------------|:-------------------|
+| ON-TARGET DEVELOPMENT | EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES_append | tools-sdk | | e3000, rome |
+| ON-TARGET DEBUGGING | EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES_append | tools-debug | | e3000, rome |
+| ON-TARGET PROFILING | EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES_append | tools-profile | | e3000, rome |
+| RT KERNEL | RT_KERNEL_AMD | yes, no | no | e3000, rome |
#### Example configuration in local.conf
```sh
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES_append = " tools-sdk"
EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES_append = " tools-debug"
EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES_append = " tools-profile"
-# Please run 'bitbake -c clean virtual/kernel' before configuring RT_KERNEL_AMD
+# Please run 'bitbake -c clean virtual/kernel' everytime before
+# configuring the RT_KERNEL_AMD variable
RT_KERNEL_AMD = "yes"
```
diff --git a/DEPLOY.md b/DEPLOY.md
index 7fc48159..1e147ab3 100644
--- a/DEPLOY.md
+++ b/DEPLOY.md
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
# 3. Deploying an image to the target
After building an image ([BUILD.md](BUILD.md)), we can deploy it to the
-target using a USB Flash Drive or a CD/DVD. The built images can be
+target machine using a USB Flash Drive or a CD/DVD. The built images can be
found in the `<build-dir>/tmp/deploy/images/<machine-name>` directory to
which we will refer to as the **"Image Deploy Directory"** in this doc.
---
##### Note
Change the `<machine-name>` and `<image-name>` placeholders in the
-following instructions according to the selected BSP and the image
+following instructions according to the selected machine and the image
built in "Section 2 - Setting up and starting a build" ([BUILD.md](BUILD.md)).
---
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ sudo bmaptool copy <image-name>-<machine-name>.wic /dev/<dev-node>
##### Using dd
```sh
-sudo dd if=<image-name>-<machine-name>.wic of=/dev/<dev-node> status=progress
+sudo dd if=<image-name>-<machine-name>.wic of=/dev/<dev-node> \
+conv=fdatasync status=progress
```
###### where `<dev-node>` is to be replaced with the device node of the USB Flash Drive.
diff --git a/DOCUMENTATION.md b/DOCUMENTATION.md
index 622bca37..2720026c 100644
--- a/DOCUMENTATION.md
+++ b/DOCUMENTATION.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
# Documentation
This section lists the links to official documentation of various
-features and a general guide to Yocto Project and it's build system.
+features, and user guide to Yocto Project and it's build system.
| Feature | Documentation | Comments |
|:---------------------------------------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:---------|
diff --git a/FEATURES.md b/FEATURES.md
index 6b1cb7d3..d76f3254 100644
--- a/FEATURES.md
+++ b/FEATURES.md
@@ -1,105 +1,105 @@
# Features
-This section lists the features supported for the AMD BSPs. In each
-BSP column, a 'Y' represents that the feature in this row is supported
-for this BSP.
+This section lists the features supported on the AMD machines. In each
+machine column, a 'Y' represents that the feature in this row is supported
+on this machine.
-| Category | Feature | E3000 |
-|:--------------------------------|:----------------------------------------|:-----:|
-| Images | | |
-| | core-image-sato | |
-| | core-image-base | Y |
-| Images Types | | |
-| | WIC | Y |
-| | ISO | Y |
-| Board Devices | | |
-| | USB 2.0 Host | Y |
-| | USB 3.0 Host (MSC) | Y |
-| | USB 3.1 Host | |
-| | M.2 SATA | |
-| | I2C | Y |
-| | UART | Y |
-| | eMMC | Y |
-| | SMP | Y |
-| | SPI | Y |
-| I/O | | |
-| | USB Host | Y |
-| | USB Mass Storage | Y |
-| | Audio | |
-| | UART | Y |
-| | Bluetooth | |
-| | USB Wi-Fi | Y |
-| | HDD/SATA | Y |
-| | SD/MMC | Y |
-| Networking | | |
-| | Ethernet | Y |
-| | SGMII | Y |
-| | RGMII | Y |
-| General Purpose Kernel Features | | |
-| | Control Groups | Y |
-| | CPU Hot Plugging | Y |
-| | High Resolution Timers (HRT) | Y |
-| | POSIX Message Queues & Semaphores | Y |
-| | Prioritized OOM Killer | Y |
-| | Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) | Y |
-| | Native POSIX Thread Library | Y |
-| Kernel Preemption | | |
-| | Preemptive Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop) | Y |
-| | Fully Preemptible Kernel (RT) | Y |
-| Filesystems | | |
-| | Devtmpfs | Y |
-| | EXT2 | Y |
-| | EXT3 | Y |
-| | EXT4 | Y |
-| | FAT | Y |
-| | NFSv3 | Y |
-| | ProcFS | Y |
-| | RamFS | Y |
-| | SysFS | Y |
-| | tmpfs | Y |
-| HID (Input Devices) | | |
-| | Input Core (CONFIG_INPUT) | Y |
-| | Mouse Interface | |
-| | Keyboards | Y |
-| | Touchscreen | |
-| Display Device Support | | |
-| | DP | |
-| | HDMI | |
-| Network Protocols | | |
-| | IPv4 | Y |
-| | IPv6 | Y |
-| Kernel Debug/Trace | | |
-| | KGDB | Y |
-| | LTTng - Kernel Tracing | Y |
-| | LTTng - Userspace Tracing | Y |
-| USB Protocols | | |
-| | USB 2.0 | Y |
-| | USB 3.0 | Y |
-| | USB 3.1 | |
-| | USB HS | Y |
-| Sound Support | | |
-| | ALSA | |
-| Multimedia Support | | |
-| | Accelerated gstreamer | |
-| | Unaccelerated gstreamer | |
-| | OMX | |
-| | VDPAU | |
-| | VAAPI | |
-| | mesa (accelerated graphics) | |
-| | unaccelerated graphics | |
-| | Vulkan | |
-| | multi-display | |
-| | CodeXL | |
-| | RGP | |
-| | MP4 | |
-| | MPEG2 | |
-| | MPEG4 | |
-| | VC-1 | |
-| | H.264 | |
-| | H.265 | |
-| | ROCm-OpenCL | |
-| Network Security | | |
-| | IPSEC (strongswan) | Y |
-| | DPDK | Y |
-| Kernel Virtualization | | |
-| | KVM | Y |
+| Category | Feature | E3000 | ROME |
+|:--------------------------------|:----------------------------------------|:-----:|:----:|
+| Images | | | |
+| | core-image-sato | | |
+| | core-image-base | Y | Y |
+| Images Types | | | |
+| | WIC | Y | Y |
+| | ISO | Y | Y |
+| Board Devices | | | |
+| | USB 2.0 Host | Y | Y |
+| | USB 3.0 Host (MSC) | Y | Y |
+| | USB 3.1 Host | | |
+| | NVMe | | Y |
+| | M.2 SATA | | |
+| | I2C | Y | Y |
+| | UART | Y | Y |
+| | eMMC | Y | |
+| | SMP | Y | Y |
+| | SPI | Y | Y |
+| I/O | | | |
+| | USB Host | Y | Y |
+| | USB Mass Storage | Y | Y |
+| | Audio | | |
+| | UART | Y | Y |
+| | Bluetooth | | |
+| | USB Wi-Fi | Y | |
+| | HDD/SATA | Y | Y |
+| | SD/MMC | Y | |
+| Networking | | | |
+| | Ethernet | Y | |
+| | SGMII | Y | |
+| | RGMII | Y | |
+| Network Protocols | | | |
+| | IPv4 | Y | Y |
+| | IPv6 | Y | Y |
+| General Purpose Kernel Features | | | |
+| | Control Groups | Y | Y |
+| | CPU Hot Plugging | Y | Y |
+| | High Resolution Timers (HRT) | Y | Y |
+| | POSIX Message Queues & Semaphores | Y | Y |
+| | Prioritized OOM Killer | Y | Y |
+| | Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) | Y | Y |
+| | Native POSIX Thread Library | Y | Y |
+| Kernel Preemption | | | |
+| | Preemptive Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop) | Y | Y |
+| | Fully Preemptible Kernel (RT) | Y | Y |
+| Filesystems | | | |
+| | Devtmpfs | Y | Y |
+| | EXT2 | Y | Y |
+| | EXT3 | Y | Y |
+| | EXT4 | Y | Y |
+| | FAT | Y | Y |
+| | NFSv3 | Y | Y |
+| | ProcFS | Y | Y |
+| | RamFS | Y | Y |
+| | SysFS | Y | Y |
+| | tmpfs | Y | Y |
+| HID (Input Devices) | | | |
+| | Input Core (CONFIG_INPUT) | Y | Y |
+| | Mouse Interface | | |
+| | Keyboards | Y | Y |
+| | Touchscreen | | |
+| Display Device Support | | | |
+| | DP | | |
+| | HDMI | | |
+| Kernel Debug/Trace | | | |
+| | KGDB | Y | Y |
+| | LTTng - Kernel Tracing | Y | Y |
+| | LTTng - Userspace Tracing | Y | Y |
+| USB Protocols | | | |
+| | USB 2.0 | Y | Y |
+| | USB 3.0 | Y | Y |
+| | USB 3.1 | | |
+| Sound Support | | | |
+| | ALSA | | |
+| Multimedia Support | | | |
+| | Accelerated gstreamer | | |
+| | Unaccelerated gstreamer | | |
+| | OMX | | |
+| | VDPAU | | |
+| | VAAPI | | |
+| | mesa (accelerated graphics) | | |
+| | unaccelerated graphics | | |
+| | Vulkan | | |
+| | multi-display | | |
+| | CodeXL | | |
+| | RGP | | |
+| | MP4 | | |
+| | MPEG2 | | |
+| | MPEG4 | | |
+| | VC-1 | | |
+| | H.264 | | |
+| | H.265 | | |
+| | ROCm-OpenCL | | |
+| Network Security | | | |
+| | IPSEC (strongswan) | Y | |
+| | DPDK | Y | |
+| Kernel Virtualization | | | |
+| | KVM | Y | Y |
diff --git a/SETUP.md b/SETUP.md
index 7fe8a767..8b40d17f 100644
--- a/SETUP.md
+++ b/SETUP.md
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
# 1. Setting up the build system
-Building images for AMD BSPs requires setting up the Yocto Project
+Building images for AMD machines requires setting up the Yocto Project
Build System. Please follow the guidelines on
[Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual](https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/3.1.4/overview-manual/overview-manual.html)
and [Yocto Project Quick Build Guide](https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/3.1.4/brief-yoctoprojectqs/brief-yoctoprojectqs.html)
if you are not familiar with the Yocto Project and it's Build System.
Running the following commands will setup the build system and will
-enable us to build recipes & images for the `amdx86` bsp.
+enable us to build recipes & images for any of the supported AMD machines (i.e `e3000` or `rome`).
### 1.1 Prerequisites
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ Install the build system's dependencies:
sudo apt install -y gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo \
gcc-multilib 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-git python3-jinja2 libegl1-mesa libsdl1.2-dev pylint3 \
+ xterm
```
### 1.2 Download the build system and the meta-data layers
@@ -56,4 +57,4 @@ cd ..
Continue to "Section 2 - Setting up and starting a build"
([BUILD.md](BUILD.md)) for instructions on how to setup and start a
-build for a particular AMD BSP.
+build for a particular AMD machine.
diff --git a/meta-amd-bsp/README.md b/meta-amd-bsp/README.md
index 57f90e58..ef94f72e 100644
--- a/meta-amd-bsp/README.md
+++ b/meta-amd-bsp/README.md
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
# meta-amd/meta-amd-bsp
This layer contains metadata that is appropriate for all the supported
-AMD-based platforms under `amdx86` BSP.
+AMD-based platforms.
Settings in this layer should use appropriate variable suffixes
to ensure they only apply to expected boards.
## Machines
-The supported AMD machines/platforms under the `amdx86` BSP are:
+The supported AMD machines/platforms are:
-* AMD EPYC™ Embedded 3000 Series (a.k.a. E3000)
+* rome - AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series (a.k.a. ROME)
+* e3000 - AMD EPYC™ Embedded 3000 Series (a.k.a. E3000)
Please see the README file contained in the root meta-amd directory
for general information and usage details.