VIA Technologies ARTiGO A630 Development Manual

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Model: ARTiGO A630

Type: Development Manual

DEVELOPMENT GUIDE

ARTiGO A630

Linux EVK v1.0.1

1.00-08292017-093200

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ARTiGO-A630 Linux EVK v1.0.1 Quick Start Guide

Table of Content

1. Introducon ....................................................................................................................... 1

1.1 BSP Package Content ............................................................................................................................ 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 .................................................................................................................... 1

1.2 VersionInformaonandSupportedFeatures ...................................................................................... 2

2. BuildEnvironmentSetup .................................................................................................. 3

2.1 ConguringLinuxHostMachine .......................................................................................................... 3

3. Image Build ....................................................................................................................... 4

3.1 ExtracngtheARTIGOA630BSP .......................................................................................................... 4

3.2 BuildingtheU-BootBinary ................................................................................................................... 4

3.3 BuildingtheLinuxKernel ...................................................................................................................... 5

ARTiGO A630 Linux BSP v1.0.1 Development Guide

1. Introducon

ThisDevelopmentGuideexplainshowtobuildtheDebiansystemimagefortheARTIGOA630systeminorder

tobeginevaluangtheplaorm.

TheARTiGOA630LinuxBSPv1.0.1isdevelopedbasedonthedebian-8.6.0-lxde-player(Debian8.6)andit

enableshardwarefeaturesthataredenedontheARTiGOA630system.

1.1 BSP Package Content

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

1.1.1 Source Code Folder Contents

ARTiGO_A630_Linux_source_code.zip:AcompleteandstacDebianBSPincludingtheARTiGOA630meta-

lesandallthepre-downloadedrequiredsowarepackagestoenableacompleteoinebuild.

1.1.2 Firmware Folder Contents

ARTiGO_A630_Linux_EVK_v1.0.1.zip:containsinstallaonscriptlesandtheprecompiledU-bootandimage

forevaluangtheARTiGOA630system.

1.1.3 Document Folder Contents

ARTiGO_A630_Linux_BSP_v1.0.1_ Development_Guide_v1.00_20170829.pdf:TheQuickStartGuideprovides

anoverviewonhowtoboottheLinuxEVKsystemimageontheARTiGOA630andcongurethesupported

hardwarefunconsinthebuild.

ARTiGO_A630_Linux_EVK_v1.0.1_ Quick_Start_Guide_v1.00_20170829.pdf:ThisDevelopmentGuide

explainshowtobuildtheDebiansystemimageontheARTiGOA630systeminordertobeginevaluangthe

plaorm.

1.1.4 Tools Folder Contents

arm_201103_gcc4.5.2.tgz:isatoolchain,whichisasetofsowaredevelopmenttoolsforbuildingimagesfor

theARTiGOA630system.

Source code folder Descripon

ARTiGO_A630_Linux_source_code.zip KernelsourcecodeandU-Bootsourcecode

Firmware folder Descripon

ARTiGO_A630_Linux_EVK_v1.0.1.zip DebianEVKsystemimageandinstallaon

scriptles

Document folder Descripon

ARTiGO_A630_Linux_BSP_v1.0.1_Development_

Guide_v1.00_20170829.pdf

Developmentguide

ARTiGO_A630_Linux_EVK_v1.0.1_Quick_Start_

Guide_v1.00_20170829.pdf

Quick Start Guide

Tools folder Descripon

arm_201103_gcc4.5.2.tgz Toolchain

ARTiGO A630 Linux BSP v1.0.1 Development Guide

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

• U-Bootversion:1.1.4

• Kernel version: 3.4.5

• Evaluaonimage:Debian8.6

• DevelopmentbasedonWM8980

• SupportsSPIwitheMMCboot

• SupportsHDMIdisplay

• SupportsHDMIaudiooutput

• SupportsMicroUSB2.0OTGport

• SupportsDebugUARTconnector

• Supports10/100MbpsEthernet

• SupportsLine-outandMic-in

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

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

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

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

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

• SupportsGPIO,UARTandWatchdogmer

ARTiGO A630 Linux BSP v1.0.1 Development Guide

2. BuildEnvironmentSetup

Thisseconguidesyouthroughsengupthebuildenvironmentfordevelopmentonthehostmachine.All

instruconsarebasedonUbuntu14.04LTSx64.

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Linuxdevelopmentenvironment.Therequiredpackagescanbe

installedusingthecommandsbelow.

Extractthe arm_201103_gcc4.5.2.tgz leto/usr/local/arm/(Ifthisfolderdoesnotexistinthesystem,please

createitmanually).

Thecrosscompilerwillbefoundinthe/usr/local/arm/arm_201103_gcc4.5.2/directory.

Addthetoolchainpathin ~/.bashrcle.

Makesurethatthehostmachineisconnectedtothenetworkandrunthepackagesupdate.

Installtherequiredsowarepackagesforcross-compilaon.

$ sudo tar –xzvf arm_201103_gcc4.5.2.tar.gz -C /usr/local/arm/

$ vi ~/.bashrc

export PATH=/usr/local/arm/arm_201103_gcc4.5.2/mybin/:$PATH

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg ex bison gperf build-essential \

zip curl zlib1g-dev libc6-dev lib32ncurses5-dev lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 \

x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-dev g++-multilib mingw32 tofrodos \

python-markdown libxml2-utils u-boot-tools

ARTiGO A630 Linux BSP v1.0.1 Development Guide

3. Image Build

ThisseconexplainshowtobuildU-BootandKernelbinaryfortheARTiGOA630system.

3.1 ExtracngtheARTiGOA630BSP

TheARTiGO_A630_Linux_source_code.zipincludesu-boot-1.1.4.tar.gzandKernel_3.4.5.tar.gz.

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

3.2 BuildingtheU-BootBinary

ThissecondescribeshowtobuildtheU-Bootimagefromthesourcecode.

UsethefollowingcommandtoextracttheU-Bootsourcecode.

Inordertousethedefaultconguraonstypethefollowingcommand.

TobuildtheU-bootimagewiththeARMcrosscompiler.

Whentheprocessiscompleted,thezuboot.binlewillbestoredintheu-boot-1.1.4directory.

$ unzip ARTiGO_A630_Linux_source_code.zip

$ tar -xzvf u-boot-1.1.4.tar.gz

$ cd /u-boot-1.1.4

$ make wmt_cong

$ make -j8 zuboot

ARTiGO A630 Linux BSP v1.0.1 Development Guide

3.3 BuildingtheLinuxKernel

Thissecondescribeshowtobuildthekernelbinaryfromthesourcecode.

Tobegin,extractthekernelsourcecode.

Tousethedefaultconguraonandcompilethekerneltypethefollowingcommand:

Whenthecompilaonprocessiscompleted,theuzImage.binlewillbestoredintheKernel_3.4.5directory.

Aerthecompilaon,the/u-boot-1.1.4/and/Kernel_3.4.5/directorywillcontaintheresulngbinaryles,as

showninthetablebelow.

Binary les generated

InordertoinstalltheLinuxsystemontheARTiGOA630system,pleasefollowthecommandsbelowonhowto

copythebinarylesintotheARTiGO_A630_Linux_EVK_V1.0.1folder.

First,changetheselenamesfromzuboot.bintou-boot.bin.

Next,extractthepackagefromtheARTiGO_A630_Linux_EVK_V1.0.1.zip,andthencopyu-boot.binand

uzImage.binlesintotheARTiGO_A630_Linux_EVK_V1.0.1folder.

$ tar -xzvf Kernel_3.4.5.tar.gz

$ cd /Kernel_3.4.5

$ make vab630_linux_defcong

$ make clean

$ make -j8 ubin

Binary les Descripon

zuboot.bin U-Bootbootloader

uzImage.bin Kernel for ARTiGO A630

$ cd /u-boot-1.1.4

$ mv zuboot.bin u-boot.bin

$ cd /u-boot-1.1.4

$ cp –f u-boot.bin ARTiGO_A630_Linux_EVK_v1.0.1/bspinst/u-boot.bin

$ cd /Kernel_3.4.5

$ cp –f boot.img ARTiGO_A630_Linux_EVK_v1.0.1/bspinst/uzImage.bin

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