FriendlyARM Nanopi A64

This tutorial will show the details of Nanopi A64 board mainline support and other needed details, for more information about hardware and linux-sunxi

Hardware Access

Hardware Access Serial debug: 4Pin, 2.54mm pitch pin-header

Power cable: DC 5V/2A USB

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BSP Build

Manual Build

Image building need host to ready with all necessary tools ready, refer here

Below are the details of Image build for Nanopi A64 board.

ATF

git clone https://github.com/apritzel/arm-trusted-firmware.git
cd arm-trusted-firmware
make PLAT=sun50iw1p1 bl31
export BL31=/path/to/arm-trusted-firmware/build/sun50iw1p1/release/bl31.bin

U-Boot

git clone git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git
cd u-boot
make nanopi_a64_defconfig
make

Linux

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
cd linux-next
make mrproper
ARCH=arm64 make defconfig
ARCH=arm64 make -j 4 Image dtbs

Buildroot

It’s easy to build entire system using buildroot and mainline supported nanopi-a64 already. See read this readme.txt for more info.

git clone git://git.busybox.net/buildroot
cd buildroot
make friendlyarm_nanopi_a64_defconfig
make

Booting

SD Boot

Partition the SD card in host with Single Falcon partitionc

git clone https://github.com/openedev/rootfs-sun64
cp -rf rootfs-sun64/* /media/jagan/rootfs/
cp /to/linux-next/arch/arm64/boot/Image /media/jagan/rootfs/boot
cp /to/linux-next/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-nanopi-a64.dtb /media/jagan/rootfs/boot
[Update boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf]
cd /to/u-boot
cat spl/sunxi-spl.bin u-boot.itb > u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=8k seek=1;
sync

Insert the SD card and power-on the board. See the Linux boot start from SPL

Linux

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