Booting the Brightstar Engineering MediaEngine
Before you can boot the MediaEngine, you need to compile the kernel for it. The buildtoolchain script in Chapter 3 configured the kernel and the kernel headers but didn't compile the kernel. This section describes how to compile the 2.4.2 kernel for the MediaEngine, generate a RAM disk, download the kernel and RAM disk using TFTP, and then boot the MediaEngine. Booting the MediaEngine differs from booting the RPX-CLLF in that the kernel and RAM files are downloaded separately.
Here are the steps for booting the MediaEngine:
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Change directory to the ARM kernel source:
root@tbdev1[553]: cd /usr/src/arm-linux
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2. | The MediaEngine and Brightstar Engineering's nanoEngine share the same default configuration ... |
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