BPI-R2 new image :ubuntu-16.04-mate-desktop-docker-preview2-bpi-r2-sd-emmc.img-2017-08-01

Banana Pi Router design BPI-R2(MT7623N)
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2017-08-01-ubuntu-16.04-mate-desktop-docker-preview2-bpi-r2-sd-emmc.img.zip

  1. based on ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS Mate Desktop
  2. support BPI-R2 kernel 4.4.70
  3. username & password: pi/bananapi , root/bananapi
  4. support HDMI
  5. support GMAC * 5 (2 real GE ports, 1 is WAN port, another is connected to 4 LAN ports)
  6. support SATA * 2
  7. support eMMC (support boot from eMMC)
  8. support IR
  9. support OTG
  10. support PWM (PWM1/PWM2/PWM3, PWM4 and PWM5 are not supported)
  11. support USB 3.0 * 2
  12. support mPCIe
  13. support uEnv.txt to fatload uImage
  14. support bpi-bootsel
  15. support bpi-copy to write SD/eMMC with img.zip file
  16. support docker
  17. ref. https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-R2-bsp
  18. ref. https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-files

How to boot from eMMC:

  1. boot from SD
  2. sudo su
  3. echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk1boot0/force_ro #enable /dev/mmcblk1boot0 write mode
  4. bpi-bootsel BPI-R2-EMMC-boot0-0k.img.gz /dev/mmcblk1boot0 #write once
  5. bpi-copy /path_to_your_image/xxx.img.zip
  6. poweroff
  7. remove SD & power on

Known limitations:

  1. WIFI/BT isn’t supported
  2. MIPI interface doesn’t work

Google Drive:

baidu cloud:

http://pan.baidu.com/s/1bpElcf1

MD5: 021e2e5a627f9e60742c6bbb6b4e8dc8

FILESIZE: 1774241037 (~1692MB)

UNPACK: 7456MB (eMMC size)

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i have let Gary to test it ,

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I think the PCIe device is not found yet on R2 board, can you please confirm if the model supports PCIe?

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I’m using the 3160HMW (first one in the list).

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Does this device need extra power supply? As I know, some PCIe devices need that (e.g., Intel® 82575/82576 4 port ethernet card). Or, could you test other devices?

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It’s a half size mini PCIe card so no extra power supply is needed. According to the product brief ( https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-briefs/dual-band-wireless-ac-3160-bluetooth-brief.pdf ) it supports PCIe and USB. On the BPI-R2 schematic that is available currently, the USB lines on the mPCIe socket are not connected (so USB-only mPCIe cards are not supported like most of the 3G mPCIe as far as I know) but the 3160HMW should (?) be visible in the lspci output.

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More console log could be helpful. We need to know what happened when PCIe linkup.

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Can you please share us the linux kernel booting log while this card is installed?

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Has anyone actually tested this? I followed the instructions, and the board doesn’t boot from emmc.

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I need to build a new card in order to do so (I’ve overwritten the previous one), I hope I’ll find some time to do it soon.

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Can you please try the following steps: How to boot from eMMC:

  1. boot from SD

  2. sudo su

  3. echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk1boot0/force_ro #enable /dev/mmcblk1boot0 write mode

  4. To write preloader to EMMC by running command:

       bpi-bootsel BPI-R2-EMMC-boot0-DDR1600-0k-0905.img.gz /dev/mmcblk1boot0

  5. To copy ubuntu image to EMMC:

       unzip -p <XXX.img.zip> | pv | dd of=<device> bs=10M status=noxfer
   or 
   bpi-copy  <XXX.img.zip> <device>       
   where the XXX.img.zip is ubuntu image we can get it from http://www.banana-pi.org/r2-download.html, and where <device> should be /dev/mmcblk1.

  6. poweroff

  7. remove SD & power on

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@kanastas

I’ve got a Intel 3160 HMW mode, also see this problem, will debug it,

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Hello @ all,

i read the thread and follow the instruction:

boot from SD
sudo su
echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk1boot0/force_ro #enable /dev/mmcblk1boot0 write mode
bpi-bootsel BPI-R2-EMMC-boot0-0k.img.gz /dev/mmcblk1boot0 #write once
bpi-copy 2017-09-04-ubuntu-16.04-mate-desktop-bpi-r2-sd-emmc-v1.2.0.img.zip
poweroff
remove SD & power on

but does not work. After Power on, ther is Nothing to see in the Debug Console … what´s going wrong ?

Best regards, René

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Does any error come up while calling bpi-copy? Any ubuntu-image was bigger than emmc and fails there…then image must be resized first

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nope, but uboot does not known the command “emmc” …

“emmc ecsd” or “emmc pconf 0x48”

BPI-IoT> emmc ecsd
Unknown command 'emmc' - try 'help'
BPI-IoT> emmc pconf 0x48
Unknown command 'emmc' - try 'help'
BPI-IoT> version

U-Boot  (Aug 01 2017 - 09:59:52)
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) 5.4.0 20160609
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.26.1

Is there a Firmware update ?

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then you have to update uboot first to actual version…

you can use my compiled version: https://drive.google.com/open?id=11XQ4n6WYSj7gGPtMwug4SITtYn0GZxOb

and install like this http://www.fw-web.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:bpi-r2:uboot#update_uboot or using bpi-update

but last ubuntu should be have actual uboot, too… :thinking:

The emmc-command is integrated in uboot since September 29th 2017 (version: “U-Boot 2014.04-rc1 (Oct 16 2017 - 19:33:23)”)
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i’ll check you wiki.

But /dev/sdx ? do you mean /dev/mmcblk ?

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you must flash the image on host-pc to sd-card (where you boot first you bpi) not from the bpi itself…

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:slight_smile: i used the bpi-r2 … and it works :slight_smile:

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you’ve wrote image direct to emmc (which partition)? or to your sd-card?

ubuntu boots from emmc without sd-card?

@garywang: is it possible to load uboot from emmc, boot from SD if inserted and if not using emmc-boot?