[FE training-materials-updates] labs/buildroot-advanced: add a "Going further" step
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Oct 17 13:46:35 CEST 2017
Repository : git://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials.git
On branch : master
Link : http://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials/commit/?id=feb2d6e7fc161706815304ea6ef2d158b60a972f
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commit feb2d6e7fc161706815304ea6ef2d158b60a972f
Author: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
Date: Tue Oct 17 13:45:15 2017 +0200
labs/buildroot-advanced: add a "Going further" step
For participants ahead of schedule, add a going further step in which
we switch from MMC to TFTP/NFS booting.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
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feb2d6e7fc161706815304ea6ef2d158b60a972f
labs/buildroot-rootfs/buildroot-rootfs.tex | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
diff --git a/labs/buildroot-rootfs/buildroot-rootfs.tex b/labs/buildroot-rootfs/buildroot-rootfs.tex
index ff4bdd2..78ddb5a 100644
--- a/labs/buildroot-rootfs/buildroot-rootfs.tex
+++ b/labs/buildroot-rootfs/buildroot-rootfs.tex
@@ -448,3 +448,35 @@ log:
make 2>&1 | tee build.log
\end{verbatim}
+\section{Going further}
+
+If you have some time left, let's improve our setup to use TFTP and
+NFS, in order to avoid having to reflash the SD card for every
+test. What you need to do is:
+
+\begin{enumerate}
+
+\item Install a TFTP server (package \code{tftpd-hpa}) and a NFS
+ server (package \code{nfs-kernel-server}) on your system. Configure
+ the NFS server, in \code{/etc/exports} to export
+ \code{/home/<user>/nfsroot} over NFS.
+
+\item Copy the Linux kernel image and Device Tree to
+ \code{/var/lib/tftpboot} so that they are made available by the TFTP
+ server.
+
+\item Extract (as root) \code{rootfs.tar} to
+ \code{/home/<user>/nfsroot}.
+
+\item Change the U-Boot \code{bootcmd} to load the kernel image and
+ the Device Tree over TFTP.
+
+\item Change the U-Boot \code{bootargs} variable to tell the Linux
+ kernel that the root filesystem should be mounted over NFS:
+ \code{root=/dev/nfs ip=<IP of board> nfsroot=<IP of
+ PC>:/home/<user>/nfsroot}.
+
+\end{enumerate}
+
+See the training materials of our {\em Embedded Linux system
+ development} course for details!
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