Frontier NVG4x8 Files

Basic instructions for Ubuntu 20.04

  All of these commands must be run as root.

  Install toolchains if not done so already

    % ./install_toolchain

  Make sure that /bin/sh points to /bin/bash.
  Under /bin folder,
      rm sh
      ln -s bash sh

  Install any host tools needed
	- make, gcc, etc.  (build-essential)
	- automake
	- gcc-multilib
	- libc6:i386
	- libncurses5:i386
	- libstdc++6:i386
	- libelf1:i386
	- liblzo2-dev
	- uuid-dev
	- quilt
	- gawk
	- flex
	- xutils-dev
	- bison
	- byacc
	- pkg-config
	- python
        - cmake
        - cpio
        - gettext wget
        - mtd-utils
        - zlib1g-dev
        - libtool
        - bc

  Perl must be version 5.14.2.  
	- sudo apt-get install perlbrew
	- perlbrew init
	- perlbrew install perl-5.14.2
          if you encounter an error that perlbrew installation failed, try to install with --notest option
                perlbrew --notest install perl-5.14.2
	- vi ~/.bash_profile and add
		source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc
	- perlbrew switch perl-5.14.2
	- cpan -i Convert::Binary::C
	- cpan -i Digest::CRC

  Add the following line to /etc/environment
	LANG=en_US.UTF-8 


  Run the build (not as root) with one of these choices: NVG448, NVG448Q, NVG468MQ

    % ./build NVG448Q

On successful build, binaries will be available in axis/broadcom/targets/NVG448Q
Ex: bcmNVG448Q_nand_cferom_fs_image_128_squbi.w or bcmNVG448Q_nand_fs_image_128_squbi.w

Similarly, for NVG448 and NVG468MQ, binaries will be available in axis/broadcom/targets/NVG448 and axis/broadcom/targets/NVG468MQ directories respectively.