TanoWrt Linux Distribution

This repository contains OpenEmbedded layers of TanoWrt Linux distribution by Tano Systems.

Prerequisites

Install Required Packages

Install the required packages by executing the following commands depending on your distribution:

• Ubuntu or Debian

  sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib \
       build-essential chrpath socat cpio python python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect \
       xz-utils debianutils iputils-ping

• Fedora

  sudo dnf install gawk make wget tar bzip2 gzip python3 unzip perl patch \
       diffutils diffstat git cpp gcc gcc-c++ glibc-devel texinfo chrpath \
       ccache perl-Data-Dumper perl-Text-ParseWords perl-Thread-Queue perl-bignum \
       socat python3-pexpect findutils which file cpio python python3-pip xz

• openSUSE

  sudo zypper install python gcc gcc-c++ git chrpath make wget python-xml \
       diffstat makeinfo python-curses patch socat python3 python3-curses tar \
       python3-pip python3-pexpect xz which

• CentOS

  sudo yum install -y epel-release
  sudo yum makecache
  sudo yum install gawk make wget tar bzip2 gzip python unzip perl patch \
       diffutils diffstat git cpp gcc gcc-c++ glibc-devel texinfo chrpath socat \
       perl-Data-Dumper perl-Text-ParseWords perl-Thread-Queue python34-pip xz \
       which SDL-devel xterm

Configure Default System Shell

Only for Ubuntu

You need to configure the default system shell command interpreter for shell scripts to bash. You can do it with the command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

Select No when it asks you to install dash as /bin/sh.

Install Repo Tool

mkdir -p ~/bin
PATH=~/bin:$PATH
curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

More detailed information about installing repo tool can be founded here.

Supported Hardware

TanoWrt Linux distribution core layer, located in meta-tanowrt subdirectory of this repository, supports only machines designed to run in QEMU.

Support for real hardware is provided by additional hardware support layers (HSL) located in the meta-tanowrt-hsl-* subdirectories of this repository.

Detailed instructions on how to use each layer to build the TanoWrt Distribution images can be found in the documentation of the appropriate layers:

Layer	Hardware
meta-tanowrt	QEMU for x86 (32-bit and 64-bit) and ARMv5
meta-tanowrt-hsl-nxp	NXP (Freescale) boards
meta-tanowrt-hsl-rpi	Raspberry Pi boards

Access

The following credentials are used by default to access the operating system (terminal) and the LuCI web-configuration interface:

• User name: root
• Password: root

Limitations

Works with OE Release 2.7 (Warrior).

License

All metadata is MIT licensed unless otherwise stated. Source code included in tree for individual recipes is under the LICENSE stated in each recipe (.bb file) unless otherwise stated.

Maintainers

Anton Kikin a.kikin@tano-systems.com