GUF-Yocto-jethro-9.0-r7707-0
i.MX6
User Manual
2.4
The partition layout
As already stated in chapter
[
I
, the different components of the embedded Linux system are stored in
different partitons of the backing-storage. The backing-storage type of i.MX6 is eMMC. In addition to the partitions
for the basic Linux components there may be some more partitions depending on the system configuration.
The partition layout for the i.MX6 platform is:
Partition
File System
Contents
mmcblk0boot0
none
bootloader image
mmcblk0boot1
FAT32
XML configuration parametes (config.xml) and touchscreen configuration
(ts.conf)
mmcblk0p1
FAT32
Linux kernel image file (linuximage), bootloader command file
(boot-alt.cfg) and Flash-N-Go ramdisk file (root.cpio.gz)
mmcblk0p2
FAT32
Linux kernel image file (linuximage), the devicetree file (*.dtb) and the
bootloader command file (boot.cfg) for the Garz & Fricke Linux system
mmcblk0p3
ext3
root file system
Flash-N-Go Boot can start the following Linux kernel image types:
zImage
compressed image
uImage
compressed image with u-boot header
Image
uncompressed image
2.5
Further information
For readers who are not familar with Linux in general, the following link may be helpful:
http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html
Information regarding embedded Linux systems can be found in the following book:
"Building Embedded Linux systems 2nd Edition", Karim Yaghmour, John Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Philippe
Gerum, O’Reilly, 2008, ISBN: 978-0-596-52968-0
Information regarding Linux infrastructure issues in general can be found at:
http://tldp.org/LDP/Pocket-Linux-Guide/html
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
Information about Qt/Embedded can be found at:
Information about the X window system can be found at:
Information about Qt/Embedded can be found at:
Information about Nano-X / Microwindows can be found at:
Information about GTK+ can be found at:
Information about U-Boot can be found at:
http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
Information about the RedBoot can be found at:
8