kumquat-buildroot/board/technologic/ts4900/readme.txt
Mathieu Audat 3138ab3fee configs: add defconfig for TS-4900
The TS-4900 uses a custom Linux 4.X from Technologic Systems:
https://github.com/embeddedarm/linux-3.10.17-imx6/tree/imx_4.1.15_1.0.0_ga
Indeed, it is not supported by mainline Linux but this work is ongoing.

This patch is inspired by a previous work for the TS-4800.
A post image script is provided to generate an image that can be
directly written to an SD card. It also adds an fpga wifi module.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Audat <mathieu.audat@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-09-18 17:09:59 +02:00

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Technologic Systems TS-4900
===========================
This document explains how to set up a basic Buildroot system for the
Technologic Systems TS-4900 System on Module.
The TS-4900 is a TS-SOCKET macrocontroller board based on the
Freescale i.MX6 Single or Quad Core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU clocked at
1GHz. The TS-4900 features Gigabit Ethernet, SATA II Port, PCI Express
Bus, high speed USB host and device (OTG), and microSD card.
More details on the board here:
http://wiki.embeddedarm.com/wiki/TS-4900
The TS-4900 is not currently supported by mainline Linux, so a
Technologic Systems Linux is used based on Linux 4.1.
The default U-boot configuration flashed scans the SD card to find the
0x83 partition type, corresponding to the rootfs. Then it will load
both uImage and dts from the /boot directory.
To build the default configuration you only have to:
$ make ts4900_defconfig
$ make
The output looks like:
output/images/
├── imx6q-ts4900.dtb
├── rootfs.ext2
├── rootfs.tar
├── sdcard.img
└── uImage
Since both the uImage and the dts are contained in the /boot
directory, the provided post-image script generates an image file
containing only one partition for the rootfs:
$ fdisk output/images/sdcard.img
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
output/images/sdcard.img1 1 524288 262144 83 Linux
This image can be directly written to an SD card.
$ sudo dd if=output/images/sdcard.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
In order to test the image on TS-4900 board, a TS baseboard, such as
the TS-9xxx series, is needed to provide power, console header, RJ45
connector etc.
The bootloader comes pre-flashed on the board on an SPI flash. Since
updating the bootloader is risky and not trivial, it is not included
in the Buildroot defconfig. Refer to
http://wiki.embeddedarm.com/wiki/TS-4900#U-Boot for details on which
U-Boot config to use and how to flash it.