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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. | ||
| - | These can be found under the ''build-tools''. These tools are composed as follows: | + | These can be found under the ''build-tools''. |
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| + | ==== Needed Packages ==== | ||
| + | On Debian/Ubuntu: ''sudo apt-get install git qemu-system-arm'' | ||
| ===== Emulation ===== | ===== Emulation ===== | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
| + | ''download_raspbian.sh'' can be run to get the latest release of Raspbian. | ||
| + | ===== Kernel ===== | ||
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| + | This contains the scripts for building the kernel for use with QEMU, cd into the ''kernel'' directory and run ''./setup.sh build'', it will download the toolchain, kernel source, and build the kernel. | ||
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