VIA Technologies VAB-820 Development Manual

DEVELOPMENT GUIDE

VIA VAB-820

Android BSP v5.0.9

1.00-12202018-135700

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VIA VAB-820 Android BSP v5.0.9 Development Guide

Version Date Remarks

1.00 12/20/2018 Inial release

Revision History

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Table of Contents

1. Introducon �� 1

1�1 BSP Package Contents �� 1

1�1�1 Source Code Folder Contents �� 1

1�1�2 Firmware Folder Contents �� 1

1�1�3 Document Folder Contents �� 1

1�1�4 Tools Folder Contents �� 2

1.2 VersionInformaonandSupportedFeatures �� 3

2. BuildEnvironmentSetup �� 4

2.1 ConguringLinuxHostMachine �� 4

3� Image Build �� 5

3.1 ExtracngtheVIAVAB-820BSP �� 5

3.2 DownloadingtheSourceCodeofAndroid6.0.1 �� 5

3.3 InstallingtheSourceCodePatch �� 5

3.4 BuildinganAndroidImage �� 5

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1� Introducon

ThisDevelopmentGuideexplainshowtosetupthenecessarybuildenvironmentinorderforuserstocustomize

theAndroidsourcecodeandcreatetheirownsystemimagefortheVIAVAB-820board.

TheVIAVAB-820AndroidBSPv5.0.9isdevelopedbasedontheNXPandroid_M6.0.1_1.0.0-ga(Android6.0

Marshmallow)andenableshardwarefeaturesthataredenedontheVIAVAB-820board.

1�1 BSP Package Contents

Therearefourfoldersinthepackageaslistedbelow.

VIA VAB-820 Android BSP contents

1�1�1 Source Code Folder Contents

VAB-820_Android_ source_code_patch.zip: IncludesAndroid6.0.1sourcecodedownloadscriptles,NXP

Androidpatchleandroid_M6.0.1_1.0.0-ga_core_source.tar.gz,theVIAVAB-820Androidsourcecodepatch

leandImagebuildingscriptles.

Smart_ETK_v1.0_SourceCode.zip:istheSmartETKdemoprogramsourcecode.

1�1�2 Firmware Folder Contents

Images_autoinstall_sd.zip:TheAndroidEVKsystemimageandinstallaonscriptles.

1�1�3 Document Folder Contents

VAB-820_Android_EVK_v5.0.9_Quick_Start_Guide _v1.00_20181220.pdf: TheQuickStartGuideprovides

anoverviewofhowtoboottheAndroidEVKsystemimageontheVIAVAB-820boardandcongurethe

supportedhardwarefunconsinthebuild.

VAB-820_Android_BSP_v5.0.9_Development_Guide _v1.00_20181220pdf: TheDevelopmentGuideexplains

howtosetupthenecessarybuildenvironmentinorderforuserstocustomizetheAndroidsourcecodeand

createtheirownsystemimagefortheVIAVAB-820board.

Source code folder Descripon

VAB-820_Android_source_code_patch.zip AndroidsourcecodepatchlesandImage

buildingscriptles

Smart_ETK_v1.0_SourceCode.zip SmartETKdemoprogramsourcecode

Firmware folder Descripon

Images_autoinstall_sd.zip AndroidEVKsystemimageandinstallaon

scriptles

Document folder Descripon

VAB-820_Android_EVK_v5.0.9_Quick_Start_

Guide_v1.00_20181220.pdf

QuickStartGuide

VAB-820_Android_BSP_v5.0.9_Development_

Guide_v1.00_20181220.pdf

DevelopmentGuide

Smart_ETK_SDK_Programming_Guide_v1.00_

20170811

SmartETKSDKProgrammingGuide

Tools folder Descripon

VAB-820_Smart_ETK_Demo_v1.0.apk SmartETKdemoprogram

BluetoothSPPTest.apk BluetoothSPPtesngprogram

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Smart_ETK_SDK_Programming_Guide_v1 .00_20170811.pdf: TheProgrammingGuideexplainshowtobuild

theSmartETKprogramandintroducesafullyfunconalsetofAPIforthedierentVIAboardsorsystems.

1�1�4 Tools Folder Contents

VAB-820_Smart_ETK_Demo_v1.0.apk: istheSmartETKdemoprogram.

BluetoothSPPTest.apk:istheBluetoothSPPproletestprogram.

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1�2 VersionInformaonandSupportedFeatures

• U-Bootversion:2015.04

• Kernelversion:3.14.52

• Evaluaonimage:AndroidMarshmallow6.0

• DevelopmentbasedonNXPandroid_M6.0.1_1.0.0-ga(Android6.0Marshmallow)

• SupportsSPIwitheMMCboot

• SupportsHDMIdisplay

• SupportsHDMIaudiooutput

• SupportsAUOLVDScapacivetouchpanels(throughUSBinterface)

º AUO10.4″G104XVN01.0(1024×768)

º AUO7″G070VW01(800×480)

• SupportsDualDisplay(CloneMode)

• SupportsCVBS&S-Video

• SupportsCOM1DTEmode,COM2TX/RXonly

• SupportstwoFlexCANTX/RX

• SupportsGigabitEthernet

• SupportsLine-in,Line-out,andMic-in

• SupportsVIAVNT9271USBWi-Fidongle

• SupportsVIAEMIO-1533USBWi-Fimodule

• SupportsVIAEMIO-1541miniPCIeWi-Fimodule

• SupportsVIAEMIO-2531miniPCIeWi-Fi&Bluetoothmodule

º SupportsBluetoothA2DPandSPPprole

• SupportsVIAEMIO-5531USBWi-Fi&Bluetoothmodule

º SupportsBluetoothA2DPandSPPprole

• SupportsVIAEMIO-2550miniPCIeMobileBroadbandmodule

• SupportsSmartETKv1.0:Watchdogmer,GPIO,UART,andFlexCAN

• SupportsOTA(Over-The-Airtechnology)

• SupportsshutdownoponinQuickSengs

• SupportsEthernetconguraoninSengs

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2� BuildEnvironmentSetup

Thisseconguidesyouthroughsengupthebuildenvironmentfordevelopment.Allinstruconsarebased

onusingUbuntu14.04LTS(64-bit).

Tomakesurethatthebuildprocesscompletessuccessfully,werecommendatleast120GBofdiskspaceand

15GBofcombinedmemoryandswapspaceonthehostmachine.

2�1 ConguringLinuxHostMachine

ThefollowingpackagesarerequiredfortheAndroiddevelopmentenvironment.Therequiredpackagescanbe

installedusingthecommandsbelow.Togetmoreinformaon,pleasevisittheAndroidwebsiteat

hps://source.android.com/setup/build/inializing�

TheOpenJDK7isnotincludedintheUbuntu14.04defaultinstallaon.Therststepistoaddanewserver

manuallybyusingthefollowingcommands:

ToinstalltheOpenJDK7,usethefollowingcommands:

ThefollowingpackagesarerequiredfortheAndroiddevelopmentenvironment.Toinstalltherequired

packagesontheUbuntu14.04,usethefollowingcommand:

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

$ sudo apt-get install git gnupg ex bison gperf build-essential zip curl zlib1g-dev libc6-

dev libncurses5-dev x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev:i386 libreadline6-dev:i386 libgl1-mesa-

glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-dev g++-multilib mingw32 tofrodos python-markdown libxml2-utils xsltproc

zlib1g-dev:i386 uuid-dev liblzo2-dev libz-dev libc6-dev-i386 lib32z1 gcc g++ lzop u-boot-tools

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

$ sudo apt-get update

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3� Image Build

TheseconexplainshowtobuildtheU-BootbinaryandAndroidlesystemfortheVIAVAB-820board.

3�1 ExtracngtheVIAVAB-820BSP

UsethefollowingcommandtoextractthecontentsoftheBSP.

3�2 DownloadingtheSourceCodeofAndroid6.0.1

DownloadingtheAndroid6.0.1sourcecodetotheBSP/srcfoldercantakeseveralhoursdependingonyour

internetconnecon.

*Note: YouneedtosetupaGitaccountbeforedownloadingthesourcecode.

UsethefollowingcommandstodownloadthesourcecodeofAndroid6.0.1:

3�3 InstallingtheSourceCodePatch

UsethefollowingcommandtoinstalltheNXPandVIAVAB-820sourcecodepatch.

3�4 BuildinganAndroidImage

UsethefollowingcommandstobuildtheAndroidimage,thecompilingprocesswilltakeseveralhours.

Aerthecompilaon,the src/out/target/product/vab820/directorywillcontaintheresulngbinaries,as

showninthetablebelow.

Binary les generated

$ unzip VAB-820_Android_source_code_patch.zip

$ ./patch_fsl_via.sh

Binary Descripon

u-boot.imx U-BootbootloaderforiMX6Q

bspinst-vab820.img BSPautoinstallimageforiMX6Q

bspinst-vab820-6qp.img BSPautoinstallimageforiMX6QP

boot-vab820.img KernelforiMX6Q

boot-vab820-6qp.img KernelforiMX6QP

system�img Androidsystemimage

recovery-vab820.img RecoveryimageforiMX6Q

recovery-vab820-6qp.img RecoveryimageforiMX6QP

$ git cong –-global user.email [email protected]

$ git cong –-global user.name “Your Name”

$ cd Script

$ ./download_source_Android6.0.sh

$ cd ../src

$ source build/envsetup.sh

$ lunch vab820-userdebug

$ make –j8

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