Ankit Posted March 9, 2018 Posted March 9, 2018 (edited) Hey Friends, I want to make a board allwinner R40 chipset. So i want to know let assume if made a board then to work its with HDMI, DDR, ROM, USB Ports etc then any extra what kind of drivers needed. ITS my First plz help to collect some information regarding this. Thanx buddies. Edited March 9, 2018 by Ankit
guidol Posted March 9, 2018 Posted March 9, 2018 On 3/9/2018 at 4:29 PM, Ankit said: Hey Friends, I want to make a board allwinner R40 chipset. So i want to know let assume if made a board then to work its with HDMI, DDR, ROM, USB Ports etc then any extra what kind of drivers needed. ITS my First plz help to collect some information regarding this. Thanx buddies. Expand Why do you want to make a new board with this cpu? There is the Banana Pi M2 Berry / Ultra with the R40/V40 CPU - which hasnt armbian support (have one here on my table). Maybe you could learn something from this boards?
chwe Posted March 9, 2018 Posted March 9, 2018 On 3/9/2018 at 4:29 PM, Ankit said: ITS my First plz help to collect some information regarding this. Expand hmm a meaningful title could help to get more people reading it...
TonyMac32 Posted March 9, 2018 Posted March 9, 2018 Assuming you can handle BGA, on a first run use a processor we support like H3.Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk
OpenglMan Posted March 10, 2018 Posted March 10, 2018 If you want to design a custom board you should use the A20 Soc or the H3 soc. Check the following useful link: http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort
Ankit Posted March 12, 2018 Author Posted March 12, 2018 On 3/9/2018 at 8:00 PM, guidol said: Why do you want to make a new board with this cpu? There is the Banana Pi M2 Berry / Ultra with the R40/V40 CPU - which hasnt armbian support (have one here on my table). Maybe you could learn something from this boards? Expand i want to make board because am a designer and have to improve high speed design PCB with DDR, e-MMC , etc. i just only designs PCB using STMicrocontrollers chipset. i downloaded openCPU BeagleBone Black, Olinux, Bnana Pi reference design for this. and just one thing want to know there is any kernel requires for OS installation and for make workable with Linux. My Boss is says that there is no any kernel required for same.
Ankit Posted March 12, 2018 Author Posted March 12, 2018 On 3/10/2018 at 9:00 AM, OpenglMan said: If you want to design a custom board you should use the A20 Soc or the H3 soc. Check the following useful link: http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort Expand Thanx buddy. Its really usefull.
chwe Posted March 12, 2018 Posted March 12, 2018 On 3/12/2018 at 3:54 AM, Ankit said: i want to make board because am a designer and have to improve high speed design PCB with DDR, e-MMC , etc. i just only designs PCB using STMicrocontrollers chipset. Expand a first step could be from STMs' to something like the AW V3s with a eMMC big enough for a lightweight linux (no RAM, cause it's onboard)? Designed as a minimal consumption board. I'm sure such boards would get some attention cause the only one seems to be 'silent'. https://licheepizero.us Initial mainlining was done and stopped probably cause availability of boards with this SoC...
Ankit Posted March 12, 2018 Author Posted March 12, 2018 On 3/12/2018 at 5:28 AM, chwe said: a first step could be from STMs' to something like the AW V3s with a eMMC big enough for a lightweight linux (no RAM, cause it's onboard)? Designed as a minimal consumption board. I'm sure such boards would get some attention cause the only one seems to be 'silent'. https://licheepizero.us Initial mainlining was done and stopped probably cause availability of boards with this SoC... Expand hey bro, thanks. this is a nice one.
Tido Posted March 12, 2018 Posted March 12, 2018 On 3/12/2018 at 5:28 AM, chwe said: the only one seems to be 'silent'. https://licheepizero.us Initial mainlining was done and stopped Expand Holy cow, is there anything you cannot do with this LicheePi Zero ? https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/licheepi-zero-6-extensible-linux-module-on-finger-wifi-diy#/ With all the great design ideas, I do not like the second-row of GPIO solder points. Aug 28, 2017 Almost all order is sendout, Why is it no longer available ?
chwe Posted March 12, 2018 Posted March 12, 2018 On 3/12/2018 at 11:16 AM, Tido said: Holy cow, is there anything you cannot do with this LicheePi Zero ? Expand It's probably not powerful enough for a buildfarm... On 3/12/2018 at 11:16 AM, Tido said: With all the great design ideas, I do not like the second-row of GPIO solder points. Expand Actually.. It gives you access to more pins of the SoC.. There isn't a perfect solution if you want to keep the footprint als small as possible and access to as much as possible features of the SoC. On 3/12/2018 at 11:16 AM, Tido said: Why is it no longer available ? Expand Actually, I don't know the whole history.. From their own forum, it seems that the guy who offered the board 'diapered' and nobody knows exactly why.. A lot of his backers (I think he started it with a indiegogo crowd funding campaign), are a bit pissed that he didn't respond in their forum anymore... IMO the campaign was a bit an 'overkill' - having so many different possibilities to buy a board (with camera, with display, wifi etc.). Maybe @Icenowy knows more? She was involved in mainline support for the V3s. From the mailing list, this will be the first allwinner SoC with mainline CSI support (some dashcams/actioncams use it, and it's atm the easiest way to get this SoC soldered on a board). I would like to see a well designed board with an V3s and a small footprint not as 'performance wonder'. More as a 'bridge' between ESP8266/32 and H3. Their forum is still active and 'alternative' designs are shared in the community... http://bbs.ilichee.cc/c/lichee-pi-zero
TonyMac32 Posted March 12, 2018 Posted March 12, 2018 So, design-off, guys? First one to boot Armbian on their own V3s board wins? 2
Tido Posted March 12, 2018 Posted March 12, 2018 According to some words used for files this person speaks german, already had a prototype running - reading in a forum. The files are EAGLE's https://github.com/petit-miner/Blueberry-PI and the size of the board will be bigger: 20.02.2018: Redesign the whole board, moved away from the Raspberry Pi form factor
TonyMac32 Posted March 12, 2018 Posted March 12, 2018 Wirklich? It's a shame there are no German speakers here... How old is this project? Why bigger than a Pi? Sherlock "Tido" Holmes will find the answers.
Tido Posted March 13, 2018 Posted March 13, 2018 Why I mentioned the german dialect, because I was suprised that his nickname: petit_miner leads to a german speaking, I expected french. On 3/12/2018 at 10:35 PM, TonyMac32 said: How old is this project? Expand see on github, summer 2017 On 3/12/2018 at 10:35 PM, TonyMac32 said: Why bigger than a Pi? Expand A good question - I am not sure if it was him who's intention it was to make as many connector accessible as possible.
TonyMac32 Posted March 13, 2018 Posted March 13, 2018 On 3/13/2018 at 12:51 PM, Tido said: Why I mentioned the german dialect, because I was suprised that his nickname: petit_miner leads to a german speaking, I expected french. A good question - I am not sure if it was him who's intention it was to make as many connector accessible as possible.Well, perhaps Swiss? ;-)Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk
Xalius Posted March 13, 2018 Posted March 13, 2018 I have three of the V3s based LicheePi Zero's and they work ok, V3s mainline u-boot and 4.16.x Linux work out of the box... you can still buy those at the taobao shop page Zepan set up... 1
chwe Posted March 13, 2018 Posted March 13, 2018 On 3/13/2018 at 12:55 PM, TonyMac32 said: Well, perhaps Swiss? ;-) Expand Mais oui, les swiss française apprennent l'allemand à l'école... @martinayotte couldn't stop laughing when he would hear my accent. On 3/13/2018 at 2:20 PM, Xalius said: you can still buy those at the taobao shop page Zepan set up... Expand nice that here is an opportunity.. But for 'non chinese' a page only in chinese might be a bit hard. As far as I understand google translate right, there's a price for defective board (~4$) and a price for original (I guess they work? for ~8$). For 8$ and with acceptable taxes/shipping I would be interested but seems not as easy to bring them to switzerland.
martinayotte Posted March 14, 2018 Posted March 14, 2018 On 3/13/2018 at 5:02 PM, chwe said: couldn't stop laughing when he would hear my accent Expand
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