Hi, I'm grabbing a copy of the 12.04 LTS image right now, but I was curious, what's the easiest way to set up an UDOO Quad w/ an ubuntu-minimal type install? I've used Robert Nelson's netinstall for building images for building custom images for my Wandboard and Beaglebones but creating a new config for the UDOO is a bit beyond me. (I'm not really familiar at all w/ uBoot). Is there documentation on how the UDOO images are built? I assume the main stuff is a custom uBoot and kernel? Is there a separate package for GPU drivers btw? I will probably be running some standalone X apps w/ nodm?
Ubuntu & minimal aren't words that go together. You'll want to grab the Debian Minimal and then add stuff to it as you wish -> viewtopic.php?f=19&t=251
You can use the binaries (U-Boot, kernel & File System 11.10 so far, no 12.04). Just download it at this link: http://www.udoo.org/downloads/#tab2. here for the guide: http://www.elinux.org/UDOO_creating_a_bootable_Micro_SD_card_from_precompiled_binaries
@delba - thanks for that guide link. I also found this, which was useful: http://feilipu.me/2013/11/09/udoo-ubuntu-12-04-guide/ I'm a bit unclear on the state of GPU/VPU acceleration. Is this the proper place to talk to UDOO devs about it or is there somewhere else? I'm catching up on reading on the latest developments of imx6 stuff (boundary devices, imx6-dongle, etc) but I'd rather avoid ratholing/duping effort if possible. My goals are primarily to get HW accelerated transforms for chromium-browser and secondarily to get VPU accelerated gstreamer encoding/decoding running. @Lifeboat_Jim - Sure they do. In fact, it can mean something pretty specific: http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/ubuntu-minimal The Ubuntu Core rootfs by is a 34MB tarball: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/r ... 4/release/ Whether this meets an arbitrary definition of minimal, it is objectively a lot frickin smaller than the UDOO desktop image (which clocks in a close to 1GB) Debian's great and all, but between Ubuntu's universe/multiverse repo's and the PPAs out there, Ubuntu has a significant advantage if one's goal is to get work done and not muck around compiling/maintaining packages.
@lhl - I think there is some community effort in the unofficial IRC channel #udoo to build a user-space Vivante driver but it hasn't borne fruit yet.
