Banana pi BPI-M2 Ultra/BPI-M2 Berry new image : 2017-05-25-raspbian-jessie-preview3-bpi-m2u-sd-emmc.img

Banana Pi BPI-M2 Ultra / BPI-M2 Berry Image
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2017-05-25-raspbian-jessie-preview3-bpi-m2u-sd-emmc.img.zip

  1. based on RASPBIAN JESSIE 2017-04-10 (support rpi3 rpi2 rpi1)
  2. support BPI-M2 Ultra & BPI-M2 Berry kernel 3.10.65
  3. username & password: pi/bananapi , root/bananapi
  4. support LCD 7"
  5. support LCD 5"
  6. support HDMI 1080P & 480P & 720P (default)
  7. support GMAC
  8. support WIFI
  9. support BT (with bluetoothctl can setup)
  10. support SATA
  11. support eMMC (support boot from eMMC, BPI-M2 Ultra only)
  12. support Battery (BPI-M2 Ultra only)
  13. support IR (getevent can test, BPI-M2 Ultra only)
  14. support touch screen (getevent to test) 14 support power key (getevent can test)
  15. support OTG & adbd (default off)
  16. support CAMERA ov5640 (guvcview / cap / ffmpeg-3.2.1 support video H.264 hw encode)
  17. support uEnv.txt to fatload uImage
  18. support bpi-bootsel to set LCD7" / LCD5" / HDMI (720P & 1080P & 480P)
  19. support bpi-copy to write SD/eMMC with img.zip file
  20. support video play 1080p with vdpau (vlc)
  21. support wiringpi 2.44 (https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/WiringPi, thanks to http://wiringpi.com/ & https://github.com/WiringPi/WiringPi)
  22. support rpi.gpio 0.6.3 for python (https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/RPi.GPIO, thanks to https://sourceforge.net/projects/raspberry-gpio-python/)
  23. Thanks for linux-sunxi community (http://linux-sunxi.org/)
  24. Special thanks for Alex support with camera functions (https://github.com/avafinger)
  25. thanks for raspberry.orgā€™s work(https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian)
  26. support node-red with raspberrypiā€™s node to control gpio

Google Drive:

baidu cloud:

https://pan.baidu.com/s/1civq4e

MD5: 60e19ea9138d6841fa6852ece4727b0a

FILESIZE: 1946658225(~1856MB) UNPACK: 7456MB (eMMC size)

support Node-RED

test OV5640 camera module

test 5`0 touch screen

test 7`0 touch screen

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Hello @sinovoip

I have installed this image and it is working but I have 2 questions:

  1. why are you using such an old kernel - 3.10.65? Will kernel be updated in your next img?

  2. I have an issue with sunxi-bt. It is logging to syslog every 5 seconds ā€œsunxi-bt bt: block state already is 0ā€. Can you confirm this is an issue with the img? Any idea how to resolve it?

thank you.

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OK Thanks. Iā€™m really not sure what to do with this board now. I think the only option for me (very limited skills!) is to wait for a better and more robust image.

Are there any other debian images that I can try or do i need to wait for another release here?

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Thanks for the info. Silly to purchase this M2U without proper research first. On the positive, i have it running as a NAS. Itā€™s been running for the last 5 days without too many issues. Just want to get rid of the 17,280 sunxi-bt error messages that are being logged every day!

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haha. I hope so. I have googled this issue and I canā€™t find anything helpful.

I canā€™t even work out how to disable BT and/or wifi at the CLI. Iā€™m not using either so happy to disable to see if this will clear the issue.

Thanks for answering my posts. I donā€™t feel so lonely on this forum any more.

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@sinovoip This version of debian also has stability issue. It often reboots occasionally.

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Most probably this is not related to debian but maybe memory is overclocked: http://www.cnx-software.com/2017/05/29/banana-pi-bpi-m2-berry-allwinner-v40-development-board-allwinner-business-units-sdksoftware-management/#comment-542610

You might ask these guys how to fix this (since @sinovoip ignores user requests, questions and the need for support): BPI-M2U UART on gpio pins

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@charles Thanks for your information. I change frequency of memory to 576MHz in sys_config.fex, managed to compile the kernel and update my m2u with that kernel. I will see if the instability issue is solved. If solved, I will write a detailed post.

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any update? now ur pi running smooth? if then can you share the files?

thanks

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Yes, My m2u has ran for 7 days. I should have written a post, but I was easy on workdays. I will write one at weekend.

You can pull my fork and see what I have modified. facat/BPI-M2U-bsp

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thank you for you hard work to support our project .

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can u provide me any tutorial link from where i can learn how to fork and use your modified bsp?

thanks.

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You may see this an-unofficial-method-to-solve-instability-problem

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lol,good luck with thatā€¦ iā€™m still waiting for good images for m2.

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I have got my m2u working quite well now thanks to a number of people on this community. In summary:

  1. use the latest debian image available from download page (may 2017)
  2. follow instructions above to update kernel and u-boot etc

You end up with debian kernel 3.10.107 and it seems to be stable so far.

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is there any way to add the module dvb_usb_v2 to this image

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I am newbie, trying to install qt4 dev. tools on bananapi. During installation half of the way, i for this error message: ā€œdpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -aā€™to correct the problem.ā€ I tried this too then i get the error: [dpkg: error: failed to open package info file /var/lib/dpkg/updates/0049 for reading: Input/output error]

Tried to remove the ā€˜0049ā€™ from the updates, but couldnā€™t.

uname -a give me this; Linux bpi-iot-ros-ai 3.10.65-BPI-M2U-Kernel #1 SMP Thu May 25 11:46:04 CST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux

please help. thanks in advance.