NetModule OEM Linux

The purpose of this repository is to provide a base or a template for customers to build their own distribution based on the NetModule OEM Linux distribution.

The submodules and source revisions are frozen to match the latest release.

Initial steps

Before building anything, it is required to get all the submodules. This is done with the following commands:

git submodule init
git submodule update

Selecting hardware target

The hardware target can be selected by sourcing the machine_select script:

source machine_select
8  # Selecting NG800

Building an image

This distribution provides three images:

1. The minimal image
2. The "release" image
3. The development image

The minimal image

It is a initramfs image which can be loaded from the bootloader. It gives access to basic linux functionalities and allows to flash other images.

It can be built with the following commands:

source env.image-minimal
bitbake virtual/netmodule-image

The "release" image

This is the default image providing all functionalities of the system.

It can be build with the following commands:

source env.image-ostree
bitbake netmodule-linux-image

The development image

This is the default image extended with development and debugging tools.

It can be build with the following commands:

source env.image-ostree
bitbake netmodule-linux-image-dev