Software Development

The entire development lifecycle is done in-house with transparent project management and customer involvement. We have proven experience in a wide range of industries, including industrial automation and custom solutions for consumer electronics. This section helps you step by step initiating the software development process:

2. How do you install the toolchain?

2.1 byteENGINE STM32MP1x

Download the Toolchain and install it

./poky-bytesatwork-glibc-x86_64-bytesatwork-minimal-image-cortexa7t2hf-neon-vfpv4-bytedevkit-toolchain-3.0.2.sh

2.2 byteENGINE AM335x

Download the Toolchain and install it

./poky-bytesatwork-glibc-x86_64-bytesatwork-minimal-image-armv7at2hf-neon-bytepanel-emmc-toolchain-3.0.2.sh

Hint

If you encounter problems when trying to install the toolchain, make sure the downloaded toolchain is executable. Run chmod +x /<path>/<toolchain-file>.sh to make it executable.

3. How do you use the toolchain?

3.1 byteENGINE STM32MP1x

Source the installed Toolchain:

source /opt/poky-bytesatwork/3.0.2/environment-setup-cortexa7t2hf-neon-vfpv4-poky-linux-gnueabi

Check if Cross-compiler is available in environment:

echo $CC

You should see the following output:

arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc -mthumb -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -mcpu=cortex-a7 -fstack-protector-strong -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Wformat-security -Werror=format-security --sysroot=/opt/poky-bytesatwork/3.0.2/sysroots/cortexa7t2hf-neon-vfpv4-poky-linux-gnueabi

Crosscompile the source code, e.g. by:

$CC helloworld.c -o helloworld

Check generated binary:

file helloworld

The output that is shown in prompt afterwards:

helloworld: ELF 32-bit LSB pie executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1

3.2 byteENGINE AM335x

Source the Toolchain

source /opt/poky-bytesatwork/3.0.2/environment-setup-armv7at2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi

Check if Cross-compiler is available in environment:

echo $CC

You should see the following output:

arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc -march=armv7-a -mthumb -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=hard --sysroot=/opt/poky-bytesatwork/3.0.2/sysroots/armv7at2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi

Cross-compile the source code, e.g. by:

$CC helloworld.c -o helloworld

Check generated binary:

file helloworld

The output that is shown in prompt afterwards:

helloworld: ELF 32-bit LSB pie executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1

4. How to bring your binary to the target?

  1. Connect the embedded device’s ethernet to your LAN
  2. determine the embedded target ip address by ip addr show
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  1. scp your binary, e.g. hello world to the target by scp helloworld root@<ip address of target>:/tmp
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  1. run chmod +x on the target to make your binary executable: chmod +x /<path>/<binary name>
  2. run your binary on the target: /<path>/<binary name>

6. How do you flash the Image?

Attention

  • You need is a micro-SD card with minimal 8GB capacity.
  • All existing data on the micro-SD card will be lost.
  • Do not format the micro-SD card before flashing.

6.1 byteDEVKIT

  • Yocto 3.0

    WINDOWS

    Unzip the <file.wic.gz> (e.g. with 7-zip)
Write the resulting <file.wic> to the uSD-card with a tool like Roadkils Disk Image: https://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=12

    LINUX

    gunzip -c <file.wic.gz> | dd of=/dev/mmcblk<X> bs=8M conv=fdatasync status=progress

Hint

To improve write performance, you could use bmap-tools under Linux:

bmaptool copy <file.wic.gz> /dev/mmcblk<X>

  • Yocto 2.7

    WINDOWS

    Unzip the <file.raw.gz> (e.g. with 7-zip)
Write the resulting <file.raw> to the uSD-card with a tool like Roadkils Disk Image: https://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=12

    LINUX

    gunzip -c <file.raw.gz> | dd of=/dev/mmcblk<X> bs=8M conv=fdatasync status=progress

6.2 bytePANEL

  • Yocto 3.0

    WINDOWS

    Unzip the <file.wic.gz> (e.g. with 7-zip)
Write the resulting <file.wic> to the uSD-card with a tool like Roadkils Disk Image: https://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=12

    LINUX

    gunzip -c <file.wic.gz> | dd of=/dev/mmcblk<X> bs=8M conv=fdatasync status=progress

Hint

To improve write performance, you could use bmap-tools under Linux:

bmaptool copy <file.wic.gz> /dev/mmcblk<X>

  • Yocto 2.7

    WINDOWS

    Unzip the <file.sdimg.gz> (e.g. with 7-zip)
Write the resulting <file.sdimg> to the uSD-card with a tool like Roadkils Disk Image[https://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=12]

    LINUX

    gunzip -c <file.sdimg.gz> | dd of=/dev/mmcblk<X> bs=8M conv=fdatasync status=progress

7. How do you build an image?

7.1 byteDEVKIT

  • Yocto 3.0

    Use repo to download all necessary repositories:

    repo init -u https://github.com/bytesatwork/bsp-platform-st.git -b zeus
repo sync

    If those commands are completed successfully, the following command will setup a Yocto Project environment for byteDEVKIT:

    MACHINE=bytedevkit DISTRO=poky-bytesatwork EULA=1 . setup-environment build

    The final command builds the development image:

    bitbake bytesatwork-minimal-image

    The output is found in:

    tmp/deploy/images/bytedevkit

Hint

For additional information about yocto images and howto build them, please visit: https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/3.0/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#brief-building-your-image

  • Yocto 2.7

    Use repo to download all necessary repositories:

    repo init -u https://github.com/bytesatwork/bsp-platform-st.git -b warrior
repo sync

    If those commands are completed successfully, the following command will setup a Yocto Project environment for byteDEVKIT:

    MACHINE=bytedevkit DISTRO=poky-bytesatwork EULA=1 . setup-environment build

    The final command builds the development image:

    bitbake devbase-image-bytesatwork

    The output is found in:

    tmp/deploy/images/bytedevkit

7.2 bytePANEL

  • Yocto 3.0

    Use repo to download all necessary repositories:

    repo init -u https://github.com/bytesatwork/bsp-platform-ti.git -b zeus
repo sync

    If those commands are completed successfully, the following command will setup a Yocto Project environment for bytePANEL:

    MACHINE=bytepanel DISTRO=poky-bytesatwork EULA=1 . setup-environment build

    the final command builds the development image:

    bitbake bytesatwork-minimal-image

    The output is found in:

    tmp/deploy/images/bytepanel

Hint

For additional information about yocto images and howto build them, please visit: https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/3.0/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#brief-building-your-image

  • Yocto 2.7

    Use repo to download all necessary repositories:

    repo init -u https://github.com/bytesatwork/bsp-platform.git -b warrior
repo sync

    If those commands are completed successfully, the following command will setup a Yocto Project environment for bytePANEL:

    MACHINE=bytepanel DISTRO=poky-bytesatwork EULA=1 . setup-environment build

    the final command builds the development image:

    bitbake devbase-image-bytesatwork

    The output is found in:

    tmp/deploy/images/bytepanel

7.3 How to modify the image

  • bytesatwork delivers tips for customizing an image

The image recipes can be found in sources/meta-bytesatwork/recipes-core/images

This is relative to where you started you repo command to check out all the sources.

Edit the minimal-image recipe bytesatwork-minimal-image.bb

Add the desired software-package to IMAGE_INSTALL variable, for example add net-tools to bytesatwork-minimal-image.bb

Rebuild the image by:

bitbake bytesatwork-minimal-image

7.4 How to rename the image

  • If you want to rename or copy an image, simple rename or copy the image recipe by:

    cp bytesatwork-minimal-image.bb customer-example-image.bb

7.5 Troubleshooting

  • Image size is to small

    If you encounter that your image size is to small to install additional software, please have a look at the IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE variable under meta-bytesatwork/recipes-core/images/bytesatwork-minimal-image.bb. Increase the size if necessary.

8. How do you build a toolchain?

8.1 byteDEVKIT

  • Yocto 3.0

    repo init -u https://github.com/bytesatwork/bsp-platform-st.git -b zeus
repo sync

    If those commands are completed successfully, the following command will setup a Yocto Project environment for byteDEVKIT:

    MACHINE=bytedevkit DISTRO=poky-bytesatwork EULA=1 . setup-environment build

    The final command builds an installable toolchain:

    bitbake bytesatwork-minimal-image -c populate_sdk

  • Yocto 2.7

    repo init -u https://github.com/bytesatwork/bsp-platform-st.git -b warrior
repo sync

    If those commands are completed successfully, the following command will setup a Yocto Project environment for byteDEVKIT:

    MACHINE=bytedevkit DISTRO=poky-bytesatwork EULA=1 . setup-environment build

    The final command builds an installable toolchain:

    bitbake devbase-image-bytesatwork -c populate_sdk

8.2 bytePANEL

  • Yocto 3.0

    repo init -u https://github.com/bytesatwork/bsp-platform-ti.git -b zeus
repo sync

    If those commands are completed successfully, the following command will setup a Yocto Project environment for bytePANEL:

    MACHINE=bytepanel DISTRO=poky-bytesatwork EULA=1 . setup-environment build

    The final command builds an installable toolchain:

    bitbake bytesatwork-minimal-image -c populate_sdk

  • Yocto 2.7

    repo init -u https://github.com/bytesatwork/bsp-platform.git -b warrior
repo sync

    If those commands are completed successfully, the following command will setup a Yocto Project environment for bytePANEL:

    MACHINE=bytepanel DISTRO=poky-bytesatwork EULA=1 . setup-environment build

    The final command builds an installable toolchain:

    bitbake devbase-image-bytesatwork -c populate_sdk

8.3 How to modify your toolchain

Currently the bytesatwork toolchain is generated out of the bytesatwork-minimal-image recipe. If you want to add additional libraries and development headers to customize the toolchain, you need to modify the bytesatwork-minimal-image recipe. It can be found under sources/meta-bytesatwork/recipes-core/images

For example if you want to develop your own ftp client and you need libftp and the corresponding header files, edit the recipe bytesatwork-minimal-image.bb and add ftplib to the IMAGE_INSTALL variable.

This will provide the ftplib libraries and development headers in the toolchain. After adding additional software components, the toolchain needs to be rebuilt by:

bitbake bytesatwork-minimal-image -c populate_sdk

The newely generated toolchain will be available under:

tmp/deploy/sdk

For additional information, please visit: https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/3.0.2/overview-manual/overview-manual.html#cross-development-toolchain-generation

8.4 Troubleshooting

ERROR: bytesatwork-minimal-image-1.0-r0 do_populate_sdk: Unable to install packages. Command '/home/daniel/workspace/bytesatwork/yocto/ti-m2-zeus/build/tmp/work/bytepanel_emmc-poky-linux-gnueabi/bytesatwork-minimal-image/1.0-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/apt-get  install --force-yes --allow-unauthenticated openssh-ssh openssh-sshd apt dpkg coreutils base-passwd dhcp-client target-sdk-provides-dummy shadow openssh-scp packagegroup-core-standalone-sdk-target packagegroup-core-boot vim openssh-sftp-server run-postinsts' returned 100:
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 target-sdk-provides-dummy : Conflicts: coreutils
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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