AM64x Buildroot

Introduction

The following guide will give you a technical overview about the SOM and by the end of it you should be able to build a Buildroot image from sources.

• For more detailed information about AM64x family, please refer to TI SITARA AM64X FAMILY .

• GitHub sources :https://github.com/SolidRun/ti_am64x_build .

Image Download

• For downloading the image, please refer to SolidRun Images - AM64x.

Writing the Image to an SD card

Use the following commands for writing the image to the SD card:

umount /media/<relevant directory>
unxz microsd-<commit-hash>.img.xz 
sudo dd if=microsd-<commit-hash>.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4M conv=fsync

• For more information, please visit Flashing an SD Card .

Build From Sources

To build from sources, please follow these steps:

Clone the sources and build the image

1. Please run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/SolidRun/ti_am64x_build.git
cd ti_am64x_build

2. Please run the following command in order to check for required tools, clone and build the image

./runme.sh

• It will alert if any required package is missing and places results in output/ directory. For more information, please refer to https://github.com/SolidRun/ti_am64x_build .