Introduction - GARZ&FRICKE GUF-Yocto-34.0-r5756-0-VINCELL User Manual

1 Introduction

Garz & Fricke systems based on
free open-source operating system. The Linux kernel as provided by Garz & Fricke is based on extensions by
Freescale that currently have not been contributed back into the mainline kernel. Furthermore, Garz & Fricke has
made several modifications and extensions to the kernel which are currently not contributed back to the mainline
kernel as well. Nevertheless, the full source code is available as a board support package (BSP) from Garz &
Fricke.
A Garz & Fricke device normally comes with a pre-installed Garz & Fricke Linux operating system. However, since
Linux is an open source system, the user is able to build the complete BSP from source, modify it according to
his needs and replace the pre-installed Linux system with a custom one.
This manual contains information about the usage of the Garz & Fricke Linux operating system for VINCELL, as
well as the build process of the Garz & Fricke Linux BSP and the integration of custom software components.
The BSP can be downloaded from the Garz & Fricke support server:
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http://support.garz-fricke.com/projects/Vincell/Linux-Yocto/Releases/
It does not include the complete source code to all packages. Instead, several external packages are downloaded
from third party online sources and from the Garz & Fricke packages mirror during the build process: If third party
souces are not available anymore at the former location there should be a backup available at:
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http://support.garz-fricke.com/mirror
Modifications to these packages are provided as source code patches, which are part of the BSP.
Please note that Linux development at Garz & Fricke is always in progress. Thus, there are new releases of the
BSP at irregular intervals. Due to differences between the various Linux BSP platforms and versions, a separate
manual is available for every platform/version. To avoid confusion, the version number of the manual exactly
matches the BSP version number.
In addition to this manual, please also refer to the dedicated hardware manuals which can be found on the Garz
& Fricke website as well.
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Freescale i.MX53 can be used with an adapted version of Linux, a royalty-
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