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ARM Platform Build System

Prerequisites

The build system is intended to run under Debian based distributions. It is tested on Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04. Root access is required for compiling the SDK.

Steps to checkout and build the SDK

1. Download the third party source package to smartnic_soc_sdk.
2. Rename the third party source package as preseed.tgz.
3. Generate a default configuration using following command
   • make defconfig
4. Install the missing build dependencies using following command
   • make deps
5. Copy the Debian packages which needs to be included in RootFS to imports/debian folder
   • cp *.deb imports/debian/
6. Packages which needs to be pre-installed shall be mentioned in file imports/debian/install.list.
7. Use preseed file to avoid downloading third party source code again.
   • make import-downloads
8. Start compilation, This will take ~2 hrs for builds from a fresh checkout.
   • make
   • make boot
9. Once successfully compiled, Images shall be available in build/lx2162a/boot/ directory.
10. Refer to SN1000 installation and user guide to install SoC images.