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Reviving RIoT Board

gsgill112
gsgill112 over 3 years ago

Hi, 

So, Like me many of us might have old SBC or powerful computers available at our disposal, but doe to the ever speeding pace of software development, often many of these kits die down due to lack of software support. An example is the RIoT Board, originally debuted around 2012-13 ( don't quote me on that) and post takeover of Freescale by NXP, died a peaceful death by around 2015-16. :( ; 

let's keep silence for 1 min .......

Well now that's out of the way, So, 

The board https://uk.farnell.com/freescale-riotboard/ , https://slowbootkernelhacks.blogspot.com/2017/01/riot-board-based-on-freescale-imx-6solo.html?m=0, https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors-Knowledge-Base/Task-2-First-build/ta-p/1112763, /products/devtools/single-board-computers/riotboard/#pifragment-3624=3, http://freescale.github.io/#

is not bad at all, I mean it is at par with Beagle Bone Black Rev C and Raspberry Pi 3 B, even better in some regards, 

It features, 

  • NXP i.MX6Solo ARM Cortex-A9 processor @ 1Ghz
  • 1Gbps Ethernet 
  • 1GByte of 32-bit wide DDR3 @ 800MHz
  • 4GByte EMMC Flash, Full size SD and Micro SD card support 
  • Supports Android and GNU/Linux
  • EMC Compliance - Class B certified
  • 4 USB 2.0 Ports 
  • Raspberry Pi Compatible headers 
  • On board Serial port for debugging 
  • On board JTAG interface 
  • NXP Power Management Integrated Chip (PMIC MMPF0100) fully programmable, and unto 5V/ 3A Input power support  
  • OpenGL® ES 2.0 3D graphics accelerator with a shader

    So, Not at all shabby. IN FACT, absolutely perfect for a 2 TB RAID 0 NAS using old laptop 1 TB hard disks (0.6A)  

    BUT, IT IS NOT SUPPORTED ANYMORE !!!!! and I could even speak to the Ubuntu repos of on board 11.10 builds.  

    I tried the blogs already present and compiled 10 different roots, u-Boot and Linux kernel, etc and have just given UP.  to update to a slightly recent linux version but to be true that is not my area of expertise. 

    So Need help of your brilliant minds to help me revive this kit and maybe give HOPE to old SBC's :) 

    side NOTE, could learn a ton of things :) 

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  • belush
    belush over 2 years ago +3
    Hi, after being forgotten in a box for years, I took out my RIoT board during the lockdown in managed to get Debian 10 running on it (after Centos and Fedora, which also worked but not 100%). Not using…
  • belush
    belush over 2 years ago

    Hi, after being forgotten in a box for years, I took out my RIoT board during the lockdown in managed to get Debian 10 running on it (after Centos and Fedora, which also worked but not 100%).

    Not using it for anything in particular at the moment, but it was just fun to get it working.

    If still interested I can post some tips when I have some time...

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  • szempy
    szempy over 2 years ago in reply to belush

    I would like to bring back to life my riotboard with some new linux as well.

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  • espozuno
    espozuno over 1 year ago in reply to belush

    I got a few of these RiotBoards and I can not seem to load any of the MfgTool files into the eMMC. I constantly get this error when formatting

    UTP: executing "mkfs.msdos -F 32 /dev/mmcblk0p1"
    mkfs.msdos: /dev/mmcblk0p1: No such file or directory
    UTP: sending Non-success to kernel for command $ mkfs.msdos -F 32 /dev/mmcblk0p1.
    utp_poll: exit with status 256

    If I look at the /dev/mmcblk0p1 directory It gives me End 0+, MiB 15-, #blocks 16-, Id 16064+, c, System W95 FAT32 (LBA)

    does anyone know why this happens? Thanks

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  • gsgill112
    gsgill112 over 1 year ago in reply to belush

    Interested can you please help with adding support to this board

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  • vinicius.vbf
    vinicius.vbf 26 days ago

    I just updated my RIoTboard to run Debian 12 with the images from this GitHub repository:
    https://github.com/yjdwbj/imx6-riotboard

    Worked like a charm!!
    Now I'm off to bring the OpenSDA interface back to life on Win 11...

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