GETTING STARTED

If you're new using IGEPv2 boards you have come to the right place. 

Here you will find the answer of how start working with your new IGEPv2 board.

But first of all, you should read:

• IGEPv2 Hardware user Manual
• IGEPv2 Software user Manual
• Download IGEPv2 SDK virtual Machine

AN OVERVIEW

Take a look on Quick installation guide.

WHY SDK IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE?

We use a virtual machine to easy IGEP SDK install and operating system independent, and machine independent. It is based on VMware Player (http://www.vmware.com/products/player/). It is not open source but it is freeware.

VMware Player runs virtual machines on your Windows or Linux PC. This free desktop virtualization software application makes it easy to operate any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Server or VMware ESX, as well as Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines or Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machines. You can also use Player to evaluate one of the many virtual appliances available from the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace.

• Run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC
• Experience the benefits of preconfigured products without any installation or configuration hassles
• Share data between host computer and virtual machine

Get more information on IGEPv2 Software user Manual.

FIRST STEPS WITH IGEPV2 SDK VIRTUAL MACHINE

Virtual Machine emphasizes "simple" and does not require you to spend few hours trying to set up a development environment.

During development, the target system can NFS-mount its root filesystem from your file server to provide a complete diskless Linux system. The target system will attempt to mount its root filesystem from the server as /srv/nfs/<distro>/<project>/<machine>, where

• <distro> is poky
• <project> is sato-demo
• <machine> is igep0020

The target also can get its kernel image from your tftp server. Similar to the NFS root filesystem, the target system will attempt to get its kernel image from the server as /srv/tftp/<distro>/<project>/<machine> 

IGEPv2 SDK Virtual Machine provides a demo root filesystem located into /srv/nfs/poky/sato-demo/igep0020b which can be mounted via NFS. 

USEFUL LINKS

ISEE IGEP platform web site: http://www.igep.es

ISEE IGEP wiki: http://labs.igep.es

ISEE shop: http://shop.igep.es

ISEE Software Download: http://downloads.igep.es

ISEE Software Repositories: http://git.igep.es

HOW TOs

How to cross compile X-loader: This How-To is meant to be a starting point for people to learn build the x-loader software for IGEP v2 devices as quickly and easily as possible.

How to cross compile U-Boot:This How-To is meant to be a starting point for people to learn build the u-boot software for IGEP v2 devices as quickly and easily as possible.

How to cross compile the linux kernel: This How-To is meant to be a starting point for people to learn build a kernel image for IGEP v2 devices as quickly and easily as possible.

This HOW-TOs works with the Ubuntu 8.04 IGEP v2.0 SDK Virtual Machine but most of the contents are valid also for other GNU/Linux distributions. We do not issue any guarantee that this will work on other distributions.