| .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ |
| .. Copyright (C) 2020 Amit Singh Tomar <amittomer25@gmail.com> |
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| CUBIEBOARD7 |
| =========== |
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| About this |
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| This document describes build and flash steps for Actions S700 SoC based Cubieboard7 |
| board. |
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| Cubieboard7 initial configuration |
| --------------------------------- |
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| Default Cubieboard7 comes with pre-installed Android where U-Boot is configured with |
| a bootdelay of 0, entering a prompt by pressing keys does not seem to work. |
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| Though, one can enter ADFU mode and flash debian image(from host machine) where |
| getting into u-boot prompt is easy. |
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| Enter ADFU Mode |
| ---------------- |
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| Before write the firmware, let the development board entering the ADFU mode: insert |
| one end of the USB cable to the PC, press and hold the ADFU button, and then connect |
| the other end of the USB cable to the Mini USB port of the development board, release |
| the ADFU button, after connecting it will enter the ADFU mode. |
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| Check whether entered ADFU Mode |
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| The user needs to run the following command on the PC side to check if the ADFU |
| device is detected. ID realted to "Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd" means that |
| the PC side has been correctly detected ADFU device, the development board |
| also enter into the ADFU mode. |
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| $ lsusb |
| Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04f2:b2eb Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd |
| Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a5c:21e6 Broadcom Corp. BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0 [ThinkPad] |
| Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c534 Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver |
| Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub |
| Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub |
| Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub |
| Bus 003 Device 013: ID 10d6:10d6 Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd |
| Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub |
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| Flashing debian image |
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| .. code-block:: none |
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| $ sudo ./ActionsFWU.py --fw=debian-stretch-desktop-cb7-emmc-v2.0.fw |
| ActionsFWU.py : 1.0.150828.0830 |
| libScript.so : 2.3.150825.0951 |
| libFileSystem.so: 2.3.150825.0952 |
| libProduction.so: 2.3.150915.1527 |
| =====burn all partition==== |
| FW_VER: 3.10.37.180608 |
| 3% DOWNLOAD ADFUDEC ... |
| 5% DOWNLOAD BOOT PARA ... |
| 7% SWITCH ADFUDEC ... |
| 12% DOWNLOAD BL31 ... |
| 13% DOWNLOAD BL32 ... |
| 15% DOWNLOAD VMLINUX ... |
| 20% DOWNLOAD INITRD ... |
| 24% DOWNLOAD FDT ... |
| 27% DOWNLOAD ADFUS ... |
| 30% SWITCH ADFUS ... |
| 32% DOWNLOAD MBR ... |
| 35% DOWNLOAD PARTITIONS ... |
| WRITE_MBRC_PARTITION |
| 35% write p0 size = 2048 : ok |
| WRITE_BOOT_PARTITION |
| 35% write p1 size = 2048 : ok |
| WRITE_MISC_PARTITION |
| 36% write p2 size = 98304 : ok |
| WRITE_SYSTEM_PARTITION |
| 94% write p3 size = 4608000 : ok |
| FORMAT_SWAP_PARTITION |
| 94% write p4 size = 20480 : ok |
| 95% TRANSFER OVER ... |
| Firmware upgrade successfully! |
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| Debian image can be downloaded from here[1]. |
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| Once debian image is flashed, one can get into u-boot prompt by pressing any key and from |
| there run ums command(make sure, usb cable is connected between host and target): |
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| .. code-block:: none |
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| owl> ums 0 mmc 1 |
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| Above command would mount debian image partition on host machine. |
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| Building U-BOOT proper image |
| ---------------------------- |
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| .. code-block:: none |
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| $ make clean |
| $ export CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- |
| $ make ARCH=arm cubieboard7_defconfig |
| $ make u-boot-dtb.img -j16 |
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| u-boot-dtb.img can now be flashed to debian image partition mounted on host machine. |
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| .. code-block:: none |
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| $ sudo dd if=u-boot-dtb.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 seek=3072 |
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| [1]: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1uawPr0Jao2HgWFLZCLzHAg#list/path=%2FCubieBoard_Download%2FBoard%2FCubieBoard7%2F%E6%96%B9%E7%B3%96%E6%96%B9%E6%A1%88%E5%BC%80%E5%8F%91%E8%B5%84%E6%96%99%2FImage%2FDebian%2FV2.1-test&parentPath=%2F |