Overview
The Overo motherboard packs a lot of computing power in a tiny package.
Read more...Getting started
Now that you've unpacked your Overo system, it's time to connect a few cables and power it up!
Read more...Cabling and Compatible USB devices
We enabled quite a few USB drivers in the kernel config. The following list of devices is known to work, but it is by no means complete. Please let us know if you are successful with other devices and we will add them to the list.
Read more...Installing additional sw packages
While your Overo comes with an extensive set of demo software, it is likely that you will want to add additional software to suit your interests. Overo includes a package management system with access to hundreds of additional popular software packages.
Read more...Downloading pre-built images
In addition to the software packages available via the opkg package manager, we also make available pre-built images.
Read more...Source code
Overo software is 100% open source. You can download the source code for all system components. We also make available the complete build system used to generate our release images and package repository.
Read more...Setting up a build environment
Gumstix uses the
OpenEmbedded (OE) build system to build everything included in the release. Much like Gentoo Ebuilds on x86, OE is a software framework to create Linux distributions. OE downloads source code and cross compiles it for you as needed. It builds everything from scratch including the cross compilation toolchain. This section will show you how to set up an OE environment on your Linux development system.
Read more...Creating a bootable microSD card
The Overo will boot directly from a properly prepared microSD card. This section will outline how to partition and format a bootable microSD card.
Read more...Writing images to onboard nand
Preliminary instructions on writing u-boot, the linux kernel, and the root file system to the 256MB of onboard NAND Flash
Read more...Component documentation
The specifications for most of the components used on the Overo are available from the manufacturers.
Read more...Useful software links
User manuals for build system tools and other useful software.
Read more...Important Notice re Beta
For Beta customers only, take note of this FCC warning from Gumstix.
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