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Jan Kundrát ee156ad480 New board: SolidRun ClearFog Base 
My goal was to rely on upstreamed features as much as possible, which
means that some bits are only half-baked for now:

- Due to the DTS restructuring in upstream kernel, we require 4.11+. The
latest LTS or CIP kernels do not know about the -Base model.

- Linux has no generic support for SFP cages (yet). It seems that this
has hit the net-next tree in August 2017, but there's been no release
(it's probably targettting 4.14). Also, the merge only included the
required infrastructure; the mvneta driver conversion is not included.
Patches which finalize this exist in Russel King's tree and also in
random vendor trees.

- There's no access to the SPI flash in these versions of
uboot/linux/dts.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kundrát <jan.kundrat@cesnet.cz>
[Arnout:
 - rename to solidrun_clearfog_defconfig;
 - specify kernel headers version (default is now 4.15);
 - remove ext2 fs size override, the 4 extra MB are not needed;
 - U-Boot needs dtc and openssl;
 - add comments to defconfig;
 - update .gitlab-ci.yml;
 - mention in readme.txt that SFP support is missing;
 - add Jan to DEVELOPERS.
]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2018-04-01 12:52:27 +02:00
..
boot.scr.txt
genimage.cfg
linux.fragment
post-build.sh
readme.txt

readme.txt 

**********************
SolidRun Clearfog Base
**********************

This file documents Buildroot's support for the Clearfog Base by Solid Run.

Vendor's documentation:
https://wiki.solid-run.com/doku.php?id=products:a38x:documents

Warning for eMMC variant of the MicroSoM
========================================

If you bought a MicroSoM version that includes an on-board eMMC flash, the
built-in microSD card slot *WILL NOT WORK*. The Internet says that you have to
upload the first bootloader via UART. This manual does not cover these steps;
only MicroSoMs without the eMMC are supported.

Limitations
===========

There's no access to the SPI flash in this combination of kernel/uboot/dts.

There is no support for the SFP.

Build
=====

Start with the default Buildroot's configuration for Clearfog:

  make solidrun_clearfog_defconfig

Build all components:

  make

The results of the build are available in ./output/images.

Create a bootable SD card
=========================

To determine the device associated to the SD card have a look in the
/proc/partitions file:

  cat /proc/partitions

Buildroot prepares a bootable "sdcard.img" image in the output/images/
directory, ready to be dumped on a microSD card. Launch the following
command as root:

  dd if=./output/images/sdcard.img of=/dev/<your-microsd-device>

*** WARNING! The script will destroy all the card content. Use with care! ***

For details about the medium image layout, see the definition in
board/solidrun/clearfog/genimage.cfg.

Boot the Clearfog board
=======================

Here's how to boot the board:

- Set up the DIP switches for microSD boot. The correct values are:
  1: off, 2: off, 3: ON, 4: ON, 5: ON. In this scheme, switch #1" is closer to
  the ethernet ports and #5 is closer to the microSD card, "ON" means towards
  the SOM, and "off" means towards the SFP cage.
- Connect to the board's console over the microUSB port.
- Insert the SD card into the slot on the board (pins up).
- Power up the board.