Changes between Version 16 and Version 17 of newport

Timestamp:

12/15/2017 09:49:19 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

Tim Harvey

Comment:

update firmware image locations

newport

@@ -116 +116 @@
 = Pre-built Firmware Images =
 The [https://github.com/Gateworks/uboot-newport images-newport] !GitHub repository hosts various pre-built firmware images used for Newport:
- * [https://github.com/Gateworks/images-newport/raw/master/gsc_630x_v49.txt GSC firmware image]
+ * [https://github.com/Gateworks/images-newport/raw/master/gsc_630x.txt GSC firmware image]
  * [https://github.com/Gateworks/images-newport/raw/master/firmware-newport.img firmware image] (everything up to and including the bootloader stored on the embedded FLASH boot device) (see [#firmware below] for details)
- * [https://github.com/Gateworks/images-newport/raw/master/linux-newport.tar.bz2 linux-newport.tar.bz2] - Compressed TAR archive of pre-built Linux kernel
- * [https://github.com/Gateworks/images-newport/raw/master/xenial-newport.img.gz xenial-newport.img.gz] - Compressed Disk Image containing Firmware and Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial 
- * [https://github.com/Gateworks/images-newport/blob/master/xenial-newport.tar.bz2 xenial-newport.tar.bz2] - Compressed TAR archive of Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial arm64 root filesystem
+ * Download linux-newport.tar.xz from [https://github.com/Gateworks/linux-newport/releases/latest latest Newport kernel release] - Compressed TAR archive of pre-built Linux kernel
+ * Download xenial-newport.img.gz from [https://github.com/Gateworks/images-newport/releases/latest latest Newport firmware release] - Compressed Disk Image containing Firmware and Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial 
+ * [http://dev.gateworks.com/newport/ubuntu/xenial/latest/xenial-newport.tar.xz xenial-newport.tar.xz] - Compressed TAR archive of Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial arm64 root filesystem
 
 
@@ -133 +133 @@
 Model   : GW6304-B
 ...
-NOTICE:  Booting Trusted Firmware
 NOTICE:  BL1: v1.3(release):OCTEONTX_SDK_6_2_0_build_26
 NOTICE:  BL1: Built : 15:30:07, Dec  4 2017
-NOTICE:  CHIP UniqueID not set
 ...
 U-Boot 2017.09-rc1-00023-g1fd1415 (Dec 12 2017 - 15:42:30 -0800) for Cavium OcteonTX CN81XX ARM V8 Core
 ...
-}}}
- - The above shows the version of the BDK used as the Secondary Program Loader (SPL) is 'ea21abc' built on Tue Dec 12 23:42:48 2017. The git sha of 'ea21abc'.
- - The above shows the version of the ATF (ARM Trusted Firmware) is v1.3 built on Dec 4 2017.
- - The above shows the version of U-Boot is '2017.09-rc1-00023-g1fd1415' built on Dec 12 2017.
+[    0.000000] Linux version 4.14.4-00005-g9e5958b (tharvey@tharvey) (gcc version 5.3.0 (Cavium Inc. Version 0.99 build 440)) #141 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 15 10:18:19 PST 2017
+...
+Ubuntu 16.04 LTS xenial-newport ttyAMA0
+...
+}}}
+ - The above output shows you:
+  * GSC v49 0x832c
+  * Secondary Program Loader (SPL) is 'ea21abc' built on Tue Dec 12 23:42:48 2017. The git sha of 'ea21abc'.
+  * ATF (ARM Trusted Firmware) is v1.3 built on Dec 4 2017.
+  * U-Boot is '2017.09-rc1-00023-g1fd1415' built on Dec 12 2017.
+  * Linux version 4.14.4-00005-g9e5958b built on Fri Dec 15 10:18:19 PST 2017
+  * Ubuntu 16.04 (aka xenial) OS (use {{{dpkg -l | grep "^ii"}}} to see what packages and versions are installed
 
 
@@ -177 +183 @@
 }}}
 
-To update the 'firmware' as well as the root filesystem ([https://github.com/Gateworks/images-newport/raw/master/xenial-newport.img.gz xenial-newport.img.gz]):
+To update the 'firmware' as well as the root filesystem download the latest xenial-newport.img.gz from [https://github.com/Gateworks/images-newport/releases/latest the latest release] and flash with:
 {{{#!bash
 mmc list # see which device is emmc vs sd
@@ -209 +215 @@
 DEVICE=/dev/sdc # set to the microSD on your host
 zcat xenial-newport.img.gz | sudo dd of=$DEVICE
-# re-partition with a 3.5MB DOS partition (required by BDK) and a Linux partition at 16MB
+# re-partition with a 2.5MB DOS partition (required by BDK) and a Linux partition at 16MB
 printf "3072,8191,1,,\n32768,,L,,\n" | sudo sfdisk -uS $DEVICE
 }}}