The firmware that gets downloaded for BeagleBoard and PandaBoard are both flavors of Ubuntu 11.10. While assembling these Linux images, we installed a number of Linux packages for MathWorks tools to work properly. You can in theory be able to do the same. Following packages / utilities are needed:
1. SSH server 2. GCC / MAKE native build tools 3. ALSA development libraries and ALSA utilities (required for audio blocks) 4. SDL 1.2 development library (required for video display block) 5. V4L2 module
Here is the Linux command line for BeagleBoard installation of these packages (on top of Ubuntu 11.10 console image from http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu)
# sudo apt-get install xfce4 gdm xubuntu-artwork xserver-xorg-video-omap3
network-manager openssh-server openssh-client sshpass ntpdate kwrite libsdl1.2-dev konsole mplayer espeak build-essential
Note however that some features such as speak IP address (i.e. BeagleBoard / PandaBoard speaks its IP address when you press a GPIO button) will not work (this is a simple daemon that was developed in house). We also modified some settings in the Linux image. The most notable of these are:
1. Turn off reverse DNS lookup in SSH (add "UseDNS no" to /etc/ssh/sshd_config)
2. Turn off console logging in PandaBoard image
