Installation Notes

About installing a BSP

Here's the process to install the BSP and run it on your board:

1. Download the BSP, set up your environment, and extract the BSP. For more information, see Download and set up the BSP.
2. Connect your target board. After you connect the hardware, it may be necessary set DIP switches on your board to further configure it. For more information about how to connect to your board, see Working with the hardware.
3. Create and transfer an image to a bootable USB device. If this is the first time you're bringing up the BSP, you can transfer the provided QNX IFS image to a USB device to boot your board. You can either transfer a bootable USB disk image (offline method) or create a bootable USB device using VMware.

   Depending on the method you use to prepare a bootable USB device, follow the instructions in either Create a bootable USB device (interactive method using VMware) or Create and transfer a bootable disk image (offline method). The two methods differ in how the bootable USB device is created, and how the IFS image is transferred to the USB device.

4. After the USB device has a bootable partition and QNX IFS image, you can insert it into a USB port on the x86_64 target, and use it to boot the target to run the QNX OS. For more information about booting your board, see Boot the target.

After your board boots, you can use that image to understand how it works. Depending on the other devices you've connected to the board, you may need to modify configuration settings on the image.

At some point, you may want to customize the image, rebuild it, and then put the image onto a bootable USB device. For information about how to create a bootable USB device and how to customize the image, see the Building Embedded Systems guide, which is available in the QNX SDP 8.0 documentation. For specific information about building the image for this BSP, see the Build the BSP chapter in this guide.