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Startup Guide for the MC13224v on Ubuntu and Debian using OpenEmbedded

by George Lu of goodXense.

Python 2.6 is required. Ubuntu 9.10 already has Python 2.6, which is convenient. However, you could install python-psyco which works fine in Ubuntu 8.04. This instruction also has been used on a Debian Lenny.

On Debian-Lenny on AMD64, python-psyco does not work. Follow this instruction to compile and install Python 2.6.

Setting up OpenEmbedded

apt-get'able Openembedded (Reference)

System-Admin-Software Sources: "Other Software" tab, add "deb http://oss.leggewie.org/oe/deb ./"

# sudo aptitude update# sudo aptitude install openembedded-minimal

Install Psyco Python JIT compiler. Psyco works on 32-bit x86 platforms only.

$ sudo aptitude install python-psyco

On Ubuntu, check that /bin/sh (ls -l /bin/sh) is not symbolically linked to dash. "dash" is a POSIX compliant shell that is much smaller than "bash" however some broken shell scripts still make use of bash extensions while calling into /bin/sh. To work around this issue call "sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash" and select No when it asks you to install dash as /bin/sh.

$ sudo /sbin/sysctl vm.mmap_min_addr=0

Add this following line to /etc/sysctl.conf to make this permanent:
vm.mmap_min_addr = 0

You need a /usr/share/sources directory with write permission by you. If it does not exist:

sudo mkdir /usr/share/sourcessudo chmod 777 /usr/share/sources

Install MC1322x-OE Overlay

The instructions here are from http://mc1322x.devl.org/

The part about getting code is (do this while at the home directory of user, or /home/user):

$ git clone git://git.devl.org/git/malvira/mc1322x-oe.git

After executing the line, cd into mc1322x-oe and follow the instruction in README:

Then run setup.sh to get the bitbake and openembedded submodules.Then source the profile to get going:  $ . profileThen build the tests:  $ bitbake mc1322x-tests

This bitbake command is a package building process, consisting of 278 tasks. It will fetch source code packages from Internet, patch/configure/compile/install them. It took about 5 hours on my Dell Notebook.

Adding the tool chain to your path

I added the tool chain by creating symbolic links in /usr/local/bin:

cd /usr/local/binsudo ln -s /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm* .

To verify:

ls -l /usr/local/bintotal 28lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 62 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-addr2line -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-addr2linelrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-ar -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-ar

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-as -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-aslrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-c++ -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-c++

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-c++filt -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-c++filtlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-cpp -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-cpp

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-g++ -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-g++lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 2010-01-30 23:09 arm-linux-gcc -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-gcc

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 62 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-gcc-4.3.2 -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-gcc-4.3.2lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 59 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-gccbug -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-gccbug

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-gcov -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-gcovlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-gprof -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-gprof

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-ld -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-ldlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-nm -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-nm

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-objcopy -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-objcopylrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-objdump -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-objdump

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 59 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-ranlib -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-ranliblrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-readelf -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-readelf

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-size -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-sizelrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-strings -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-strings

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 2010-01-30 23:10 arm-linux-strip -> /home/user/mc1322x-oe/tmp/cross/armv4t/bin/arm-linux-strip

Install Device-SerialPort for Perl

Use System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager to search and install libdevice-serialport-perl (should be 1.04). This is needed by mc1322x-load.pl to program the mote.

On Debian Lenny you also need to install TermReadKey:

# apt-get install libterm-readline-perl-perl

libmc1322x

See instruction on http://mc1322x.devl.org/libmc1322x.html
Make soft link for mc1322x-load.pl in /usr/local/bin

$ cd /usr/local/bin$ sudo ln -s ~/libmc1322x/tools/mc1322x-load.pl .

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