Cubieboard anyone?

[ezyclie]

Hi,

Is there plan to support Cubieboard ( http://cubieboard.org/ ) ?

Btw, anyone getting Cubieboard? It looks promising cheap ARM board with SATA.

[WarheadsSE]

It's a direct relative, and thus it should be supported. We (developers) don't have any though.

[madr]

I owe one of the 512 MB prototypes. Following the guide for Mele A100 (another allwinner chip) gives a bootable SD card which can be used right away.

http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/mele-a100

pacman -Syyu:ing as I write this

[madr]

FWIW everything basic is working, except HDMI output which is blank.

[WarheadsSE]

You would need to make sure the fex is setup right for the device, and we do NOT auto-configure fbconsole on that rootfs. (that is actually newer than the kernel in that image)

[andre]

I just found out about the Cubieboard today (in a comment on OSNews on "Raspberry Pi Spawns Competitors") and I have already ordered one.

[MFserver]

An interesting little device indeed, makes me think twice about getting the Mele A1000 as this one will have more RAM, and may be even better suited as a media center, as soon as the video acceleration gets avlible for the Mali GPU. Will get me one!

[Jade]

Should work with the Melee A1000 image on archlinuxarm.org. I tested it myself on cubieboard, hackberry and a few other A10 boards and it works fine. You might need the right script.bin for your device though, but cubieboard provides them on their wiki.

[andre]

According to the information on indiegogo, the rich package should arrive before christmas, so I should have mine by then.

@Jade: can you point me where you've found the cubieboard-specific script.bin file? I assume with "their wiki" you refer to http://http://linux-sunxi.org ? I have found the sources at https://github.com/linux-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi/ and instructions at https://github.com/linux-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi/wiki so I am able to built it myself, but if you've found a precompiled file it would be more convenient.

Other interesting news: https://olimex.wordpress.com/2012/11/30 ... ssembling/ which also seems an interesting board. An A10 with 2 GB of RAM

[andre]

I have not been able to find a script.bin
however I believe I have found out how to generate it.

The board configuration exists as a fex file
https://raw.github.com/linux-sunxi/sunx ... eboard.fex
And there is a tool fex2bin which is in the AUR repository (sunxi-tools-git)

So, I believe the output of
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'fex2bin cubieboard.fex script.bin')
will generate the required file.

I still have not received by Cubieboard yet, so I cannot tell this will work.

edit: for 512 MB version : https://raw.github.com/linux-sunxi/sunx ... rd_512.fex