You need a tool from allwinner called livesuite, download livesuite. I think that i have correctly mapped the io pins that i am using through the schematic and fex file to find the corrisponding gpio number for debian. Allwinner a10 is a brand of chip which is installed in china tablets. The socs incorporate the arm cortexa8 as their main processor 4 and the mali 400 as the gpu. Download the image file download for the a10 here 2. Ill show how you can create your own debian or ubuntu image based on this image for any size of sd card using debian 6. A10 you should be able to use it after updating uboot and script. There is also a page containing allwinner a10 images of prebuilt filesystems, a page on building debian from source code for mele and a page about scripts to build source code and generate a bootable sd card. Ongoing efforts to include allwinner support in the mainline linux kernel. Many of the listed commands assume binbash as the default shell. Desktop linux ubuntu running on allwinner a10 devices. It is pincompatible with allwinner s dualcore a23 processor. While the uboot installation step can be done either with the user interface on a hdmi monitor or via the uart serial console, the debian. Instructions and required files for preparing the a10 lime debian.
Extract and write the downloaded image to an sd card a 2gb sd card or larger is required. The best idea is to download the latest debian or android image from the wiki and to pay. The uboot written directly to the sd card, see here a10 boot process for how a partition containing a10 magic and the uimage. Also there is a page describing the a10 boot process and a10 mmc boot, including a link to the tool for packing a bootloader application.
The a10 olinuxino lime is an opensource hardware development board implementing the allwinner a10 soc. If you intend to use the graphics portion of the allwinner chip, you will need to replace the kernel with a desktop or video variant the debian system on it uses a fairly recent kernel, which in addition to the a10 builtin nic supports most or all of the usb ethernet dongles. Raspberry pi releases 1st sd card image debian howto use it in qemu. A10 firmware images and instructions top notch tablets. Its also a good idea to sign up with the linuxarm mailing list. Developer christian troy has ported an early build of cyanogenmod 10 to run on devices with allwinner a10 processors, bringing android 4. This package contains various tools for working with devices based around the allwinner sunxi processors a10 aa20a31 etc. Minimal debian server image for the allwinner a10 and a20 devices. This page describes bootstrapping debian jessie with its default. Apr 28, 2012 ubuntu on allwinner a10 based mele a settop box. Allwinner a10aa20a31 firmware collection allwinner a. Every allwinner a10 device around should work with their builds, outputting video over hdmiout by default.
Running a recent supported release of debian, fedora or ubuntu on a x86 64bit based pc. Blog post by marco ditri on installing debian on a cubieboard. The list is archived at the debian arm list archives. Cubieboard allwinner a10 debian stretch to jessie theme. Currently the family consists of the a10, 1 a, 2 a10s 3 and a12.
Factory firmware download sites for tablet a10 firmware. Hi slatedroiders, the guys over at miniand tech have managed to get ubuntu working on the allwinner a10based mk802 thumbdrivesized computer. Jul 19, 2012 desktop linux ubuntu running on allwinner a10 devices posted in allwinner a10 cpu devices. Scripts to automatically create a debian rootfs image andor a complete, bootable sdcard. Allwinner a20 is a dual core cortex a7 processor with a dual core mali400 gpu. A10olinuxinolime open source hardware board olimex. It is just the official debian installer, with the old 3.
Here you define what the output of the scripts will look like. Download and extract the latest official debian jessie image from the wiki article for your board. Ampen78 download firmware download software phoenix card v3. Allwinner a10 cortex a8 based hackable android stb. Download starts with an sd card, if there is no bootloader there.
The allwinner a33 is an extremely efficient quadcore mobile application processor designed to bring impressive performance to your leadingedge mobile device with low power consumption. But recently, i found out some progress had been made using existing libs, and saw the pengpod tablet video showing xbmc running in linux fairly smoothly. The a33 features quad cortextma7 cpu cores to enable the best balance between high. When the image you download is made for a different type of device eg.
Rom a721 all allwinner a10 chips are supported custom. Minimal debian server image for the marsboard allwinner a10. This page describe how to hack a a10 powered tablet and let a custom kernel to run on the tablet. Last jb works great with lyf1, but the seby rom based on the last official jb version for this device works better. The allwinner a1x is a family of singlecore soc devices designed by allwinner technology from zhuhai, china. Minimal debian server image for the allwinner a10 and.
Running linux on a tablet with the allwinner a10 soc on board. Minimal debian server image for the allwinner a10 and a20. The work was done on an ainol novo 7 advanced tablet. There will be no display output after booting this image, you are supposed to access the system over ssh only. To enter your account, enter your username and password below and click on login. Cubieboard allwinner a10 debian stretch to jessie other. Note that currently only the debian jessie images for the a20 boards contain such a nand installation option. As you can see linuxbimage is our kernel, and linuxi is a config. How to create your own debian ubuntu image for mele a. Basically it only runs ssh and allows you to install the tools you need to build.
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