- All 4 Cores and other basics
- Booting from MMC
- Serial Output
- HDMI Output
- eSata
- USB
- Sound (probably S/PDIF only without better X11 driver than fbdev)
- RTC
- Infrared
- Wireless
- Bluetooth
- 2D accelertion. 3D acceleration is more or less working.
Download the image
Fedora 21:
wget https://googledrive.com/host/0B0vm64JM4bFZN3RIOUZoT3Y5RnM -O Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-cubox-i_hb-21-5-sda.raw.xz
Fedora 20:
wget https://googledrive.com/host/0B0vm64JM4bFZcjNjakNIZG9CMnM -O Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-cubox-i_hb-20-1-sda.raw.xz
Write the image to your media
xzcat <fedora-arm-image> > /dev/<location-of-your-fedora-arm-media>
Extend the root partition to fill your media if you wish
Fedora 21:
fdisk /dev/<location-of-your-fedora-arm-media> <<EOF
d
3
n
p
1251328
w
EOF
partprobe /dev/<location-of-your-fedora-arm-media>
e2fsck -f /dev/<location-of-your-fedora-arm-media>3
resize2fs /dev/<location-of-your-fedora-arm-media>3
Fedora 20:
fdisk /dev/<location-of-your-fedora-arm-media> <<EOF
d
3
n
p
1251954
w
EOF
partprobe /dev/<location-of-your-fedora-arm-media>
e2fsck -f /dev/<location-of-your-fedora-arm-media>3
resize2fs /dev/<location-of-your-fedora-arm-media>3
Boot, login (root/fedora), and get up to date
yum -y update
You can use the script below:
#Edit lines below
export fedoraimx6image=Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21-5-sda.raw.xz #or Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-20-1-sda.raw.xz
export fedoraimx6release=21 #or 20
export kernelversion=3.18.1-300.8.1.cuboxi_hb #use ver. at: http:https://repo.maltegrosse.de/fedora/20/stable/armv7hl/
export cuboxihbenvver=1-3.2 #use ver at: http:https://repo.maltegrosse.de/fedora/20/common/noarch/
export locationofyourfedoraarmmedia=sdzzzzzzz #BE CAREFUL. This script will overwrite the location you choose.
export mediamountpoint=/mnt/fedoraimx6root
#Edit lines above
wget http:https://people.redhat.com/jmontleo/cubox-i_hb/u-boot-images/SPL
wget http:https://people.redhat.com/jmontleo/cubox-i_hb/u-boot-images/u-boot.img
wget http:https://mirror.nexcess.net/fedora/releases/${fedoraimx6release}/Images/armhfp/${fedoraimx6image}
wget http:https://repo.maltegrosse.de/fedora/${fedoraimx6release}/common/noarch/cubox-i_hb-uenv-${cuboxihbenvver}.fc${fedoraimx6release}.noarch.rpm
wget http:https://repo.maltegrosse.de/fedora/${fedoraimx6release}/stable/armv7hl/kernel-${kernelversion}.fc${fedoraimx6release}.armv7hl.rpm
xzcat ${fedoraimx6image} > /dev/${locationofyourfedoraarmmedia}
dd if=SPL of=/dev/${locationofyourfedoraarmmedia} bs=512 seek=2
dd if=u-boot.img of=/dev/${locationofyourfedoraarmmedia} bs=1K seek=42
partprobe /dev/${locationofyourfedoraarmmedia}
mkdir ${mediamountpoint}
mount /dev/${locationofyourfedoraarmmedia}3 ${mediamountpoint}
mount /dev/${locationofyourfedoraarmmedia}1 ${mediamountpoint}/boot
rm -f ${mediamountpoint}/var/lib/rpm/__*
rm -f ${mediamountpoint}/boot/boot.*
unlink ${mediamountpoint}/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/initial-setup-text.service
sed -i s@^root:\\*:@root:\\\$6\\\$VpqypThR\\\$QZF3tM8USR6bnIK.CQn3bnj0SU5VeStkKA56ZEtAoPCECe23RqPgWzafuoKGzdWzUz9z8ctjSEhHrVg63wzra0:@g ${mediamountpoint}/etc/shadow
rpm -i --noscripts --ignorearch --root ${mediamountpoint} ./kernel-${kernelversion}.fc${fedoraimx6release}.armv7hl.rpm ./cubox-i_hb-uenv-${cuboxihbenvver}.fc${fedoraimx6release}.noarch.rpm
depmod -ab ${mediamountpoint}/ ${kernelversion}.fc${fedoraimx6release}.armv7hl
cp ${mediamountpoint}/boot/dtb-${kernelversion}.fc${fedoraimx6release}.armv7hl/imx6dl-cubox-i.dtb ${mediamountpoint}/boot/imx6dl-cubox-i.dtb
cp ${mediamountpoint}/boot/dtb-${kernelversion}.fc${fedoraimx6release}.armv7hl/imx6dl-hummingboard.dtb ${mediamountpoint}/boot/imx6dl-hummingboard.dtb
cp ${mediamountpoint}/boot/dtb-${kernelversion}.fc${fedoraimx6release}.armv7hl/imx6q-hummingboard.dtb ${mediamountpoint}/boot/imx6q-hummingboard.dtb
cp ${mediamountpoint}/boot/dtb-${kernelversion}.fc${fedoraimx6release}.armv7hl/imx6q-cubox-i.dtb ${mediamountpoint}/boot/imx6q-cubox-i.dtb
ln -sf vmlinuz-${kernelversion}.fc${fedoraimx6release}.armv7hl ${mediamountpoint}/boot/zImage
wget http:https://people.redhat.com/jmontleo/cubox-i_hb/cubox-i_hb.repo -O ${mediamountpoint}/etc/yum.repos.d/cubox-i_hb.repo
umount ${mediamountpoint}/boot
umount ${mediamountpoint}
rmdir ${mediamountpoint}
if [ $fedoraimx6release == 21 ]; then
fdisk /dev/${locationofyourfedoraarmmedia} <<EOF
d
3
n
p
1251328
w
EOF
fi
if [ $fedoraimx6release == 20 ]; then
fdisk /dev/${locationofyourfedoraarmmedia} <<EOF
d
3
n
p
1251954
w
EOF
fi
e2fsck -f /dev/${locationofyourfedoraarmmedia}3
resize2fs /dev/${locationofyourfedoraarmmedia}3
Boot and login (root/fedora)
To get blueooth support set up:
yum -y install cubox-i_hb-brcm43xx-bluetooth
systemctl enable brcm43xx.timer
systemctl start brcm43xx
To get mainline kernels on top of stable, enable the mainline repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/cubox-i_hb.repo
I also recommend installing yum-plugin-priorities to ensure you only get kernels from these repos since the generic Fedora kernels will possibly not boot and will likely be missing drivers. These repos have a slightly higher priority (98 vs. 99), so packages in them will be used before those from other repos regardless of verion-release-epoch.
yum -y install yum-plugin-priorities
The wireless driver prints ugly messages to the console every so often. You can suppress all of these except the first set at ~1 second after boot with the following command and a reboot.
echo "kernel.printk = 1 4 1 7" > /etc/sysctl.d/10-printk.conf
For anyone using an rtl8192cu based wireless card on a Cubox-i or Hummingboard that does not have built in wireless there is a dkms 8192cu package that should improve stability yum -y install 8192cu; reboot
Get up to date
yum -y update
To get the armada driver working requires some configuration:
yum -y install xorg-x11-drv-armada
cat >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-device.conf << EOF
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
VendorName "Freescale"
BoardName "IMX6 SOC"
Driver "armada"
Option "AccelModule" "etnadrm_gpu"
Option "UseGPU" "TRUE"
Option "XvAccel" "TRUE"
Option "XvPreferOverlay" "FALSE"
EndSection
EOF
cat >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf << EOF
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Builtin Default Monitor"
EndSection
EOF
cat >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-screen.conf << EOF
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0"
Device "Builtin Default fbdev Device 0"
Monitor "Builtin Default Monitor"
EndSection
EOF
cat >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-server.conf << EOF
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Builtin Default Layout"
Screen "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0"
EndSection
EOF
If you want XFCE
yum groupinstall "Xfce Desktop"
cat >> /etc/sysconfig/desktop << EOF
PREFERRED=startxfce4
EOF
or LXDE
yum groupinstall "LXDE Desktop"
cat >> /etc/sysconfig/desktop << EOF
PREFERRED=lxsession
EOF
git clone https://github.com/rabeeh/u-boot-imx6.git
cd u-boot-imx6
make mx6_cubox-i_config
make
sudo dd if=SPL of=/dev/<location-of-your-fedora-arm-media> bs=512 seek=2
sudo dd if=u-boot.img of=/dev/<location-of-your-fedora-arm-media> bs=1K seek=42
You can build using the SRPM from http:https://repo.maltegrosse.de/fedora/ for the appropriate release mainline or stable repo src directory.
yum -y install yum-utils rpm-build
yum-builddep -y ./<download-kernel-src-rpm>
rpm -ivh ./<downloaded-kernel-src-rpm>
rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel.spec
Or you can clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/jmontleon/fedora-cubox-i_hb.git
cd fedora-cubox-i_hb
git checkout 3.18.1
make oldconfig #Or make menuconfig if you want to change stuff, and so on.
make zImage
make dtbs
sudo cp arch/arm/boot/zImage /boot
sudo cp arch/arm/boot/dts/*{cubox-i,hummingboard}*.dtb /boot
sudo cp System.map /boot
make modules
sudo make modules_install
Ensure you have a /boot/uEnv.txt if you haven't already:
bootfile=zImage
mmcargs=setenv bootargs root=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait console=ttymxc0,115200n8 console=tty1 video=1920x1080M@60 rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 rd.lvm=0 raid=noautodetect zswap.enabled=1 coherent_pool=1M quiet