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Introduction of Yocto meta layer for Nezha D1
Published at May 12, 2022 · Cezary Sobczak · 5 min read
Presentation of current progress status with the support of the Nezha board in Yocto Project...
First impression on Nezha RISC-V SBC
Published at November 19, 2021 · Cezary Sobczak · 9 min read
Nezha is a AIoT development board customized by AWOL based on Allwinner's D1 chip. It is the world's first mass-produced development board that supports 64bit RISC-V instruction set and Linux system....
HummingBoard Pulse with Yocto and Buildroot
Published at April 24, 2020 · Cezary Sobczak · 29 min read
In this article, I will show you how to build and run the image from Yocto Project and SolidRun at HummingBoard Pulse. Furthermore, you can find here examples of which tools and configurations were used....
Categories: miscellaneous os-dev
Published at August 19, 2019 · Artur Raglis · Łukasz Wcisło · 2 min read
Thrilled about what we are doing to change the world right now? Interested in the fancy stuff we make? Check out our plan for August 2019, find out more about our recent projects and stay tuned with the most sophisticated tech-team in the neighborhood....
Categories: miscellaneous
Hummingboard Pulse - first impression
Published at June 12, 2019 · Tomasz Żyjewski · 5 min read
In this post, we will take a look at one of the SolidRun product - the HummingBoard Pulse. After power up the board we will try to boot operating system on it....
Categories: firmware
Flashing eMMC on Hummingboard Edge using fastboot? part 2
Published at March 8, 2019 · Maciej Pijanowski · 11 min read
Second part of the HummingBoard Edge flashing guide with the help of fastboot tool. In this post we will get acquainted with U-Boot configuration and fastboot client and try to boot our platform from DRAM, SD card and finally EMMC....
Flashing eMMC on Hummingboard Edge using fastboot? part 1
Published at March 20, 2018 · Maciej Pijanowski · 9 min read
Introduction Flashing an eMMC of produced board is one of the crucial manufacturing procedures. This post series presents how one can take advantage of i.MX6 features and open source tools to prepare themselves with quite robust and easy to use process. Target reference platform is Hummingboard Edge. General concept The general concept is inspired by this great bootlin (former FreeElectrons) post: I’ve run into some issues while trying to do something similar on Hummingbard Edge, so decided to share my experience....
0x3: Embedded board bootloader
Published at June 7, 2013 · Piotr Król · 3 min read
What is bootloader ? It is a program written to bring up more complex code (eg. kernel). On very simple system it can even not exist. Bootloader should prepare all required hardware that kernel or different operating software will need at its start point. It is hard to create cross platform bootloader because of variety of system requirements. Why we need bootloader ? The true is that we don’t :) because we can simply pass kernel and initramfs as parameters to QEMU, but it is not common practice for real development environment....
Categories: firmware