About reference images

A reference image is a convenient way to install a complex system on a target board.

A reference image (which is stored as a .img file) contains the entire system from the Initial Program Loader (IPL) to the user applications. It also includes the BSP and the startup code for its targeted platform, and all the filesystems, libraries, resource managers, and other components, such as Camera Framework, vision algorithms, and examples.

You can transfer a reference image directly to a removable storage medium, such as an SD card or USB key, without having to modify partition information. Once the image is on the removable medium, you can simply insert the SD card or USB key into your target system, and boot.

To get started with a system built using the QNX Platform for ADAS, all you need to do is:

1. Download a platform-specific reference image to your host system.
2. Transfer the reference image to a removable storage medium.
3. Insert the removable medium with the target image into your target platform, and boot from this image.