From d956bb6668553694eb610ef89313e4a4b6bb0f72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Corgan Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 10:20:14 -0800 Subject: Added scripts and Debian configuration files for Ubuntu PPA --- host/cmake/debian/README.Debian | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+) create mode 100644 host/cmake/debian/README.Debian (limited to 'host/cmake/debian/README.Debian') diff --git a/host/cmake/debian/README.Debian b/host/cmake/debian/README.Debian new file mode 100644 index 000000000..692e43980 --- /dev/null +++ b/host/cmake/debian/README.Debian @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +UHD, the "Universal Software Radio Peripheral" hardware driver on Debian: +========================================================================= + +usrp group +---------- + +The Debian uhd-host package installs a usrp group. +This provides two main benefits: + - Access control: + The udev rules limit access to members of the group + (at least for USB attached USRPs). + - Real Time Priority privilege: + The pam limits setting allows UHD to boost the + thread scheduling priority for usrp group members. + +To avail yourself of these benefits, add your username +to the usrp group, perhaps by running, as root something like: + + adduser myusername usrp + +substituting your user name for myusername. +Settings will not take effect until the user has logged in and out. + + +Multiple packages +----------------- + +uhd-host: + The uhd-host package contains the uhd_find_devices and + uhd_usrp_probe commands for locating and examining USRP devices + available to the host system. + + Also, under /usr/lib/uhd/ are examples, tests and utils + directories. The utils include tools for managing the + flash memory or EEPROM configuration of various USRPs. + +libuhd003: + Small package just for the library itself. + +libuhd-dev: + Small package just for developing applications + using the library itself. + +UHD Firmware / FPGA images +-------------------------- + + The uhd-images package is not part of the main Debian distribution + because the FPGA firmware requires non-free vendor tools to compile + from source. + + For USRP devices with non-volatile configuration having the firmware + images on the host is optional. But some USRPs are volatile, and + the UHD library will fetch files from the /usr/share/uhd/images/ + directory at runtime. + + The uhd_images_downloader is a python script to download from + Ettus.com and install the files. + +More Information +---------------- + +Additional HTML documentation is installed. See +file:///usr/share/doc/uhd-host/doxygen/html/index.html + + -- A. Maitland Bottoms , Thu, 9 Oct 2014 23:14:19 -0400 -- cgit v1.2.3