Espressobin

Supported

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Armbian Stretch
mainline kernel 4.14.y

Stable

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Armbian Xenial
mainline kernel 4.14.y

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manual flashing to latest u-boot is mandatory! Download the right boot flash for your board: 512,1G,2G, number of RAM chips (if your board is older than a few months it has two RAM chips – one on each side of the PCB opposite to each other. Recent 1GB models have only one chip at the bottom) and appropriate memory speeds. You can obtain numbers from the current boot prompt. Copy this flash-image-MEM-RAM_CHIPS-CPU_DDR_boot_sd_and_usb.bin to your FAT formatted USB key, plug it into USB3.0 port and execute from u-boot prompt:
```
bubt flash-image-MEM-RAM_CHIPS-CPU_DDR_boot_sd_and_usb.bin spi usb
```
After updating your SPI flash with most recent “sd_and_usb” u-boot, you can boot from USB or SD card the exact same way.

in case you came from stock bootloader or your boot environment was erased somehow, this is what you need to put into u-boot:

setenv initrd_addr 0x1100000
setenv image_name boot/Image
setenv load_script 'if test -e mmc 0:1 boot/boot.scr; then echo \"... booting from SD\";setenv boot_interface mmc;else echo \"... booting from USB/SATA\";usb start;setenv boot_interface usb;fi;if test -e \$boot_interface 0:1 boot/boot.scr;then ext4load \$boot_interface 0:1 0x00800000 boot/boot.scr; source; fi'
setenv bootcmd 'run get_images; run set_bootargs; run load_script;booti \$kernel_addr \$ramfs_addr \$fdt_addr'
saveenv

If you manage to crash your SPI, proceed with SATA boot recovery.
booting directly from SATA is currently broken.
if you need USB2 port on your mPCI slot (for Bluetooth or 4G/LTE modems) you need to move both jumpers near to the USB2 port. Position for this function is: away from the port.

Specifications

1000tx 2 core 2GB 64bit docker eMMC i2c mpci sata spi spi flash switch usb3 Marvell A3700

* Specifications differ from hardware revision, model and software support level

FAQs

WHICH IMAGE SHOULD I DOWNLOAD?

HOW TO START?

Preparation Make sure you have a good & reliable SD card and a proper power supply. Archives can be uncompressed with 7-Zip on Windows, Keka on OS X and 7z on Linux (apt-get install p7zip-full). RAW images can be written with Etcher (all OS). Boot Insert the SD card into the slot, connect a cable to your network if possible or a display and power your board. (First) boot (with DHCP) takes up to 35 seconds with a class 10 SD Card. Login Log in as: root Password: 1234. Then you are prompted to change this password (US-Keyboard setting). When done, you are asked to create a normal user-account for your everyday tasks.

WHERE TO GET SUPPORT?

SUPPORTED devices are tested and they work apart from known issues and missing features. Support is provided as far as possible (in general there is no support for 3rd party hardware like DVB tuners and software like Kodi). Please check the documentation and existing forum posts before posting a question. SUITABLE FOR TESTING (WIP) are devices which we’re currently working on but they are not ready! These images are suitable for developers and experienced users. They are not very well tested but they might work without any problems. Your help to improve this situation is greatly appreciated. SUPPORT ENDED (EOS) status are devices which used to be supported in the past. Reasons for moving to this section:

no active software development (mainline u-boot and kernel)
no support from the vendor (hardware samples, documentation, software packages)
never was sold, only samples in small quantities were available
hardware design flaws don’t allow using these devices without stability issues

Support status:

images are stable but we don’t test updating,
images are provided with no support,
most images have frozen kernel and u-boot packages to prevent their upgrades.

NO OFFICIAL SUPPORT (CSC) are devices which are supported by the 3rd party. We usually don't have hardware samples nor conduct any tests but they might work. There is no support whatsoever.