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Enchanted Objects: Let's work together to tame the ATMEL SMART SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra kit

Jan Cumps
Jan Cumps over 10 years ago

Pinging my fellow enchanted_objects participants

Workshopshed, Jan Cumps, kidiccurus, RParkerE, amgalbu, tanah, christiann22, JokerZ, nikil511, Robert Peter Oakes, iayanpahwa, coolbox, crjeder, doca, dwinhold

to work together on getting us to the point where we can build and run code for the The specified item was not found. SMART SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra .

 

This board is rather tough to crack. It would be great if we could all share the small steps that work here.

If you get one step further than anyone else, let's document our progress here.

It would be great to document it in reproducible steps.

 

I tried to create a Document, but that's not available in this section of the element14 website. So it's a Discussion.

 

Loading images, binaries and Pre-compiled Demos

Robert Peter Oakes has created a step by step guide to load binaries to the board using SAM-BA.

The embedded video is easy to following along step-by-step.

SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra - Tips and Tricks #1 - Getting Displays up and Running

SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra - Tips and Tricks #2 - Using the built in IO and external devices

 

JokerZ compiled an Ubuntu 14.x; including the toolchain and a mesage queue service loaded to the board.

The image he created is available from his blog post:

SAMA5D4 and my Ubuntu experience. Blog Post #2 - A place in the cloud

 

Jan Cumps documentation on getting TCP/IP, SSH and SCP running using Robert Peter Oakes' technique:

Review 5: Atmel SMART SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra - TCP/IP running

Review 6: Atmel SMART SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra - LINUX Distro with SSH support

 

Jan Cumps documentation on transfering files to the linux distro over the USB port (for those cases where your board isn't connected to the network):

Sending Files to SAMA5D4 over USB


 

 

Tool Chain

JokerZ compiled an Ubuntu 14.x; and loaded the toolchain on the board itself using apt-get.

SAMA5D4 and my Ubuntu experience. Blog Post #2 - A place in the cloud

 

Jan Cumps installed a tool chain that compiles the bare metal libraries from SAMA5D4 Software Package.

Review 2: Atmel SMART SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra - Building the Libraries from Source

 

Jan Cumps cross-compiled a C++ program from source and executed it on linux:

Run my own C++ Program on the SAMA5D4



 

TODO
  • Build, Load and Run any example  from source
  • Build, Load and Run an OS from source
  • Make an example that talks to the peripherals (IO, ADC, protocols)
  • Install a software package
  • Debug your application
  • Whatever we come up with during the challenge
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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps +6
    I am not sure that distro with HDMI opens up the display as much as we'd like it to. I was able to print random garbage to the HDMI screen today, but my attempts at loading graphics of any type weren't…
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago +5
    Just a really quick note here as it is after 2:30am I finally managed to get the SAMA5D4 to boot with an ubuntu kernel :-) Version is 14.04 This includes a base ubuntu root file structure and I am currently…
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps +3
    Thanks for the updates to the thread Jan. I really want to get around to making a youtube video showing the boot process. It's cool to see it all happen, hopefully I'll get it done tomorrow or over the…
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  • crjeder
    crjeder over 10 years ago

    noglitch and clem57:

    Do you know if dynamic device tree overlays are possible with the sam4linux kernel (like with the BeagleBone Black)?

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  • crjeder
    crjeder over 10 years ago

    noglitch and clem57:

    Do you know if dynamic device tree overlays are possible with the sam4linux kernel (like with the BeagleBone Black)?

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  • clem57
    clem57 over 10 years ago in reply to crjeder

    http://elinux.org/images/8/82/Antoniou--transactional_device_tree_and_overlays.pdf

    This seems to imply that any linux kernel 3.17 with patches should be able to overlay the device tree. But the tools are not in normal SAMA5D4 Yocto. But I have Ubuntu and may try later.

    Clem

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  • noglitch
    noglitch over 10 years ago in reply to clem57

    Hi clem57,

     

    I've never tried to use DT overlays. We were planning to do so with our 3.18-based kernel but maybe some patches are still missing in this one: the sysfs interface which might be handy...

     

    I'm looking forward following your progress on this topic as I have big expectations concerning the use of overlays to simplify the "mutiple cpu modules/mother boards/screens"  situation...

     

    Bye,

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