Porting EDK II to an old Allwinner A13 tablet
Published at January 18, 2022 · Artur Kowalski · 7 min read
Most ARM SoC's run U-Boot or some custom bootloader. That was the case with Allwinner SoC's, until I started porting EDK II to my A13 tablet. In this post, I will tell you about the current UEFI support status on Allwinner SoC's, my future plans, and how to test UEFI on a compatible device...
Categories: firmware manufacturing
Building Android 4.2 LiveSuit image for Cubietruck (Allwinner A20)
Published at September 16, 2015 · Piotr Król · 7 min read
Treating A20 boards like outdated piece of HW by vendors makes building Android for Cubietruck not trivial task. Finding documentation, mailing list or blog post that clearly describe steps is almost impossible. Most of links to SDK are broken and instructions outdated. Because of that I decided to leave couple notes for me and all of you lost in this madness. Hopefully below steps can build foundation for future development and improvements....
Categories: os-dev
Setup for Linux kernel development on Cubietruck
Published at September 1, 2015 · Piotr Król · 8 min read
During last couple of months I see quite big interest in building products on A20 SoC. This chip can be bought for 6USD in quantity. Most important features are: Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A7 (ARMv7) Mali-400 MP2 HDMI, VGA and LCD MMC and NAND OTG and 2 Host ports Tracking media related to low-end mobile market IMHO the hottest SoCs are Allwinner A20 and Rockchip RK3288. A20 ship with dozen development boards like Cubieboard or pcDuino series, Banana Pi, MarsBoard or Hummingbird....
Categories: os-dev
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