Power Developer :: Debian/armhf Bootable SD card image for EfikaMX!

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EGL and OpenGL ES don't appear to be working. I'm using Debian ARMHF + GNOME

And it won't be working unless we can get armhf binary drivers from Freescale, 3D drivers on ARM is a complicated story.

Freescale is working with us to get the get the binary parts of the GPU drivers re-compiled for ARMhf. It's not a complex task, but their team is relatively small and is pre-occupied with the mx6 debug. Btw, the mx6 silicon is looking good and the initial benchmarks are very exciting. :)

Will the upcoming EfikaMX models take advantage of the dual and quad core processor power of the iMX6?

found it - user: demo password: demo :D

Hello everybody!
I'm new in the web page because i just get a efika MX smarttop. I've tried to install the image of the first post but it does not work!

I'm not sure what I've to do, I did the "dd" of the image to and SD card, and when I tried to boot the efika it starts normally with ubuntu.

is it works in smarttop as well?

Thanks!

Hello,

I've just tried to boot it but it does not work.

Should i do anything else before efika starts to boot? Some kind of bios?

Thanks!!!

Hi,

It does nothing :? I mean, when i boot efika nothing happend. It starts ubunut like there was not any SD card installed. My question was,

Is there any bios in efika where i can tell to boot from sd card?

Sorry if my english is not totally correct :oops:

Thanks

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I get the same problem on the Efika MX Smart Book. The system hangs when it boots up with the armhf+3d SD card.

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I get the same problem on the Efika MX Smart Book. The system hangs when it boots up with the armhf+3d SD card.

Ok, I forgot to mention that the image expands to a 4GB SD card image, have you used a smaller one?

Author:	jpa256 [ Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:28 am ]
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Quote: Quote: Quote: EGL and OpenGL ES don't appear to be working. I'm using Debian ARMHF + GNOME And it won't be working unless we can get armhf binary drivers from Freescale, 3D drivers on ARM is a complicated story. Freescale is working with us to get the get the binary parts of the GPU drivers re-compiled for ARMhf. It's not a complex task, but their team is relatively small and is pre-occupied with the mx6 debug. Btw, the mx6 silicon is looking good and the initial benchmarks are very exciting. :) Will the upcoming EfikaMX models take advantage of the dual and quad core processor power of the iMX6?

Author:	Neko [ Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:54 am ]
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Quote: Will the upcoming EfikaMX models take advantage of the dual and quad core processor power of the iMX6? The MX6 ones will but this chip is a little far away from being released.

Author:	markos [ Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:02 am ]
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Ok, after some delays and some package fiddling, here is the first SD card image with the 3D binary drivers from Freescale, rebuilt for hardfloat: http://www.powerdeveloper.org/asset/by-id/126 Just dd it on an SD card and boot. I don't really have any serious 3D apps there to show, only simple_draw and es11ex. Simple_draw gives ~190FPS vs 154FPS on softfp, which is an expected 23% gain from using hardfloat. Some comments: 1. The kernel used is the latest git kernel from gitorius, so should be pretty much the same as in the maverick image. 2. KDE4 is incomplete in the image, only gnome works properly right now, I should have removed it completely but I decided to leave it for users that would like to install it. 3. mplayer+vlc are not available for video playback, there are failing build-dependencies in Debian that forbid this (libbluray/libgii resp). The first is java-related (missing link, already reported), the latter is thumb2-related, for which I already have a fix. So no movie playback for now, sorry, but ffplay works. 4. I will upload the armhf debs on the armhf repo which we will setup soon on some Genesi server. Enjoy!

Author:	malcolm [ Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:26 pm ]
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Markos, Any clues to the username/password, the previous armhf/demo does not work.

Author:	malcolm [ Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:42 pm ]
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found it - user: demo password: demo :D

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Author:	markos [ Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:49 pm ]
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Quote: found it - user: demo password: demo :D oops! sorry, and I thought I forgot to mention something :) Also, root password is 'armhf'. :)

Author:	malcolm [ Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:06 pm ]
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Markos, root password is 'efika' :) Armhf is looking good. is the 2.6.39-2 kernel in /boot a usable?

Author:	magiza83 [ Tue Sep 27, 2011 5:07 am ]
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Hello everybody! I'm new in the web page because i just get a efika MX smarttop. I've tried to install the image of the first post but it does not work! I'm not sure what I've to do, I did the "dd" of the image to and SD card, and when I tried to boot the efika it starts normally with ubuntu. is it works in smarttop as well? Thanks!

Author:	markos [ Tue Sep 27, 2011 5:16 am ]
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Quote: Hello everybody! I'm new in the web page because i just get a efika MX smarttop. I've tried to install the image of the first post but it does not work! I'm not sure what I've to do, I did the "dd" of the image to and SD card, and when I tried to boot the efika it starts normally with ubuntu. is it works in smarttop as well? Thanks! Yes, it should work in a smarttop as well. I think I see what the problem might be. The image is compressed so you would have to use -as root- something like the following: Code: xzcat efika-armhf+3d-20110925.img.xz\| dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=8192 After that you should reboot and it should load into armhf. :)

Author:	magiza83 [ Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:59 pm ]
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Hello, I've just tried to boot it but it does not work. Should i do anything else before efika starts to boot? Some kind of bios? Thanks!!!

Author:	markos [ Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:42 am ]
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Quote: Hello, I've just tried to boot it but it does not work. Should i do anything else before efika starts to boot? Some kind of bios? Thanks!!! Could you please give more details? That is, what does it do exactly?

Author:	magiza83 [ Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:48 am ]
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Hi, It does nothing :? I mean, when i boot efika nothing happend. It starts ubunut like there was not any SD card installed. My question was, Is there any bios in efika where i can tell to boot from sd card? Sorry if my english is not totally correct :oops: Thanks

Author:	jpa256 [ Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:10 pm ]
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Quote: Hi, It does nothing :? I mean, when i boot efika nothing happend. It starts ubunut like there was not any SD card installed. My question was, Is there any bios in efika where i can tell to boot from sd card? Sorry if my english is not totally correct :oops: Thanks I get the same problem on the Efika MX Smart Book. The system hangs when it boots up with the armhf+3d SD card.

Author:	markos [ Fri Sep 30, 2011 10:27 am ]
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Quote: Quote: Hi, It does nothing :? I mean, when i boot efika nothing happend. It starts ubunut like there was not any SD card installed. My question was, Is there any bios in efika where i can tell to boot from sd card? Sorry if my english is not totally correct :oops: Thanks I get the same problem on the Efika MX Smart Book. The system hangs when it boots up with the armhf+3d SD card. Ok, I forgot to mention that the image expands to a 4GB SD card image, have you used a smaller one?

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Author:	jpa256 [ Fri Sep 30, 2011 10:58 am ]
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Quote: Quote: Quote: Hi, It does nothing :? I mean, when i boot efika nothing happend. It starts ubunut like there was not any SD card installed. My question was, Is there any bios in efika where i can tell to boot from sd card? Sorry if my english is not totally correct :oops: Thanks I get the same problem on the Efika MX Smart Book. The system hangs when it boots up with the armhf+3d SD card. Ok, I forgot to mention that the image expands to a 4GB SD card image, have you used a smaller one? I used a 16GB SD card. I tried dd twice, first with the option bs=8192, then without it. Efika MX did not start up with it and crashed twice.