BPI-M2+ new image：Ubuntu mate-16.04_Xenial mpv 1080p-bpi-m2p_preview 2016-05-05

Banana Pi SBCs design BPI-M2+/BPI-M2 Zero/BPI-P2 Zero(H3)
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2016-05-06-ubuntu-mate-16.04_Xenial_mpv_1080p-bpi-m2p_preview-sd-emmc.img.zip

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  1. BPI-M2P kernel 3.4
  2. username & password: pi/bananapi , root/bananapi
  3. support HDMI 1080P & 720P(default)
  4. support GMAC
  5. support WIFI
  6. support bpi-bootsel cmd can switch to (bpi-m3 & bpi-m2 & bpi-m2p)
  7. support uEnv.txt to fatload script.bin & uImage
  8. support uEnv.txt to set video 1080P & 720P & 480P …
  9. support BT
  10. support ov5640 camera
  11. fix rootmydevice issue

issue: gpu not ready

Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_YnvHgh2rwjUHhRMl8zLWIwaDA/view?usp=sharing

MD5: 31a8e24abc76c2ba21a02ce399315b25

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Most important thing is not ready :smile:

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main function is working fine , so you can test it at first.:slight_smile:

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Hi ! :slight_smile: Can we install it on eMMC ?

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yes , SD card and eMMC all support

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After unzip, the img size is 14.8Go ! The eMMC is 7.3Go, where I wrong ?

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But the contained partitions are smaller: http://irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi/2016-06-03#16646755; (so it seems they just made an image from a large 16GB SD card without erasing the unused space – professional as usual).

These guys here simply don’t get it and don’t test their stuff. BTW: This image seems to be the usual horribly outdated kernel ‘Team BPi’ uses combined with the Ubuntu Mate rootfs for Raspberry Pi 2 (so therefore ‘no GPU’).

At Armbian we improved thermal/throttling settings a lot and also included an in-kernel core-keeper (with @sinovoip default settings the horribly overheating BPi M2+ drops CPU cores even after slight load peaks and they never come back until the next reboot). When this issue is resolved I will let our build system create a fresh Xenial build. Will be announced at Armbian forums (not here).

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Ah ok I see. Indeed, It should be better to send some 7Go img size ! I will try to reduce it then… Thanks tkaiser

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Not necessary. Simply burn the image to SD card or eMMC. You’ll get an error message that is save to ignore since the 2nd large ext4 partition fortunately is small enough to fit into eMMC. But please keep in mind that you end up with a rootfs that is already filled with 94%

So this image can NOT be used with eMMC since you’re immediately running out of space. No idea what they did wrong this time. Our Armbian desktop images (with GPU acceleration on H3 boards like BPi M2+) aren’t that large. Maybe @sinovoip ships with the usual insane amount of junk on their images.

To test DRAM reliability I just let a 16.04 LTS image for BPi M2+ create (fully automated) so in case you want to try out something more reliable wait half an hour and look then into this thread: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1322-testers-wanted-testing-dram-reliability-on-bpi-m2/?view=getlastpost

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Ok, install succeed. But no more space to upgrade ! (need 487Mb) Too much pre-installed packages !!

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This is the Armbian build (also 16.04 LTS) I just finished (see thread above). Full desktop environment using 2.0 GB space (I’m running off an old crappy 4 GB SD card since this is only a test build to check DRAM settings of the slowest H3 board available):

  ____                                  ____  _   __  __ ____       
 | __ )  __ _ _ __   __ _ _ __   __ _  |  _ \(_) |  \/  |___ \  _   
 |  _ \ / _` | '_ \ / _` | '_ \ / _` | | |_) | | | |\/| | __) || |_ 
 | |_) | (_| | | | | (_| | | | | (_| | |  __/| | | |  | |/ __/_   _|
 |____/ \__,_|_| |_|\__,_|_| |_|\__,_| |_|   |_| |_|  |_|_____||_|  
                                                                    
 
 Welcome to ARMBIAN Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 3.4.112-sun8i 
 
 System load:   1.48             Up time:       3 min
 IP:            192.168.83.156
 CPU temp:      59?°C           
 Usage of /:    59% of 3.5G   
 
 root@bananapim2plus:~# df -h
 Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 udev            371M     0  371M   0% /dev
 tmpfs           101M  2.0M   99M   2% /run
 /dev/mmcblk0p1  3.5G  2.0G  1.5G  59% /
 tmpfs           501M     0  501M   0% /dev/shm
 tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
 tmpfs           501M     0  501M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
 tmpfs           501M   28K  501M   1% /tmp
 tmpfs           101M     0  101M   0% /run/user/1000
 tmpfs           101M     0  101M   0% /run/user/0
 root@bananapim2plus:~# uname -a
 Linux bananapim2plus 3.4.112-sun8i #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jun 3 15:37:56 CEST 2016 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
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Cool ! I will test it too :slight_smile: