Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of newport/bsp

Timestamp:

07/02/2018 06:33:42 PM (6 years ago)

Author:

Ryan Erbstoesser

Comment:

clarify BSP and what it contains

newport/bsp

@@ -2 +2 @@
 
 = Newport Board Support Package (BSP) =
-Gateworks provides a Board Support Package for Newport which provides source code and an easy mechanism to build:
- * [wiki:#kernel Gateworks Newport Linux Kernel]
+Gateworks provides a Board Support Package for Newport which provides source code and an easy mechanism to build different images, including Ubuntu and OpenWrt.
+
+ * [#kernel Gateworks Newport Linux Kernel]
  * [wiki:newport/boot Gateworks Newport Boot Firmware]
- * [wiki:#openwrt Gateworks Newport OpenWrt]
 
 [=#source]
@@ -26 +26 @@
 Pre-built firmware images can be found on http://dev.gateworks.com/newport:
  * [http://dev.gateworks.com/newport/images/gsc_630x.txt GSC firmware image]
- * [http://dev.gateworks.com/newport/boot_firmware/firmware-newport.img firmware-newport.img] Boot Firmware (everything up to and including the bootloader stored on the embedded FLASH boot device) (see [wiki:newport/boot newport/boot] for details)
+ * [http://dev.gateworks.com/newport/boot_firmware/firmware-newport.img firmware-newport.img] - Boot Firmware (everything up to and including the bootloader stored on the embedded FLASH boot device) (see [wiki:newport/boot newport/boot] for details)
  * [http://dev.gateworks.com/newport/kernel/linux-newport.tar.xz linux-newport.tar.xz] - Compressed TAR archive of pre-built Linux kernel
  * [http://dev.gateworks.com/newport/images/xenial-newport.img.gz xenial-newport.img.gz] - Compressed Disk Image containing Firmware and Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
@@ -35 +35 @@
 [=#build]
 == Building BSP from source ==
-Below are instructions for building all of the bootloader components and Linux kernel. This does not include Ubuntu or any other operating systems. Pre-built images are available [#images above].
+Below are instructions for building all of the bootloader components and Linux kernel and Ubuntu or OpenWrt.  Pre-built images are available [#images above].
 
 The Gateworks Newport Board Support Package uses the Google {{{repo}}} tool to manage multiple code repositories.
@@ -67 +67 @@
 source newport/setup-environment
 }}}
- 1. Build desired targets and images. For example:
+ 1. Build desired software target as definied below. For example:
 {{{#!bash
 make -j8 openwrt-image # build openwrt-newport.img.gz
@@ -107 +107 @@
 
 == Building Ubuntu Operating System - rootfs ==
-This is not part of the Gateworks BSP described above. 
+
+You can build a Ubuntu image from the BSP, but you cannot build the isolated rootfs. 
+
+The rootfs is not part of the Gateworks BSP described above. 
 
 Information for building Ubuntu rootfs can be found here: [wiki:newport/ubuntu]