A20-OLinuXino-LIME and A20-OLinuXino-MICRO
Intro
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These are open hardware boards, all based on the Allwinner A20 SoC.
for more details about the boards see the following pages:
- https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/open-source-hardware
- https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-MICRO/
- https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-LIME/
- https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-LIME2/
The following defconfigs are available:
- olimex_a20_olinuxino_micro_defconfig
for the A20-OLinuXino-MICRO board using mainline kernel
- olimex_a20_olinuxino_lime_defconfig
for the A20-OLinuXino-LIME board using mainline kernel
- olimex_a20_olinuxino_lime_mali_defconfig
for the A20-OLinuXino-LIME board using legacy linux-sunxi kernel
- olimex_a20_olinuxino_lime2_defconfig
for the A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 board using mainline kernel
The legacy linux-sunxi kernels are based on the vendor code drops.
They are only useful when accelerated 3D graphics and multimedia support
is strictly necessary.
The Mainline Kernel is already a much better choice for a headless server.
And also the mainline kernel works fine even for a basic Linux desktop
system running on top of a simple framebuffer, which may be good enough for
the users who do not need fancy 3D graphics or video playback acceleration.
(see http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_Kernel for more details)
How to build it
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Configure Buildroot:
$ make <board>_defconfig
Compile everything and build the rootfs image:
$ make
Result of the build
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After building, you should get a tree like this:
output/images/
+-- rootfs.ext2
+-- rootfs.ext4 -> rootfs.ext2
+-- script.bin (lime_mali)
+-- sdcard.img
+-- sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime.dtb (lime, mainline)
+-- sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2.dtb (lime2, mainline)
+-- sun7i-a20-olinuxino-micro.dtb (micro, mainline)
+-- u-boot.bin
+-- u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
`-- zImage
How to write the SD card
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The sdcard.img file is a complete bootable image ready to be written
on the boot medium. To install it, simply copy the image to a uSD
card:
# dd if=output/images/sdcard.img of=/dev/sdX
Where 'sdX' is the device node of the uSD.
Eject the SD card, insert it in the A20-OLinuXino board, and power it up.
