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| - | To build the software into an image that's usable on the hardware, a collection of scripts and other software is used to try and make the process as automated as possible. | + | To build the software into an image that's usable on the hardware, a collection of scripts and other software is used to try and make the process as automated as possible. |
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| + | These can be found under the ''build-tools''. These tools are composed as follows: | ||
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| + | ===== Emulation ===== | ||
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| + | To remove the dependency on having a hardware Pi setup, QEMU is used to provide an emulated system. | ||
| + | ''qemu-system-arm'' must be installed on the system. | ||
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| + | The script ''start.sh'' takes the filename of the Raspberry Pi image to boot off. However, since there is no Raspberry Pi emulation available for QEMU, it relies on a kernel being specifically compiled for QEMU to use instead of the Raspberry Pi image kernel. | ||
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