Aspeed AST2600 EVB
Introduction
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The AST2600 EVB is an evaluation board for the AST2600 SoC, most
commonly used as a Server Management Processor. It includes a
Dual-core ARM Cortex A7 processor with DDR4 SDRAM (up to 2GB), SPI
flash memory devices for BMC and host firmwares and numerous
controllers to drive the server board.
https://www.aspeedtech.com/server_ast2600/
How to build it
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Configure buildroot:
$ make aspeed_ast2600evb_defconfig
Compile everything and build the rootfs image:
$ make
Result of the build
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After building, the output/images directory contains:
output/images/
├── aspeed-ast2600-evb.dtb
├── flash.img
├── image.itb
├── rootfs.cpio
├── rootfs.cpio.xz
├── rootfs.tar
├── u-boot.bin
└── zImage
Flashing the image
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To update the contents of the first flash device, copy flash.img :
$ flashcp flash.img /dev/mtd0
or simply the boot loader:
$ flashcp u-boot.bin /dev/mtd1
Preparing the board
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* Connect a serial line to the board
* Power-up the board
Booting the board
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The AST2600 EVB boots from the SPI flash device directly and loads a
first bootloader (usually U-Boot). U-Boot will attempt to load a Linux
kernel from the same flash device by default but other storage could
be used.
* from U-Boot
The FIT image image.itb can be used to boot the board from U-Boot
using tftp
* with QEMU
$ qemu-system-arm -M ast2600-evb \
-drive file=output/images/flash.img,format=raw,if=mtd \
-nographic
$ qemu-system-arm -M ast2600-evb \
-kernel output/images/zImage \
-initrd output/images/rootfs.cpio \
-dtb output/images/aspeed-ast2600-evb.dtb \
-nographic
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