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[[Image:Warning_icon.png|left|52x47px]]<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'''IMPORTANT NOTE''': This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but '''WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY'''; without even the implied warranty of '''MERCHANTABILITY''' or '''FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE'''</span>
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If you have a brand new IGEP Processor Board you must know that '''it comes with a firmware''' provided and installed on it by ISEE. By default, if you power up your board it will run the software on the flash. But '''you can prepare a MicroSD card and boot from it''' by inserting it to the MicroSD card reader of your IGEP Processor Board, as it has more priority than the flash.
Finally, you can write the updated software from the MicroSD to the flash memory on your IGEP device.
This How-To is meant to be a starting point for people to learn to:
* '''create a SD card with latest firmware''' available
* write it to the flash memory
for any IGEP Processor Board as quickly and easily as possible.
= How to create a SD-card with latest software image =
The first thing you'll do is download latest firwmare
wget http://downloads.igep.es/binaries/firmware/poky-firmware-3.3.1-1011.tar.gz
Next, untar the firmware and enter to the directory
tar xzf poky-firmware-3.3.1-1011.tar.gz cd poky-firmware-3.3.1-1011/
Insert your SD card into the host machine (the machine you downloaded the firmware), and run following command
where:
* [device] is the SD card device name, for example: /dev/sdb
* [timestamp] is the timestamp of tar.gz file
* [machine] is the machine name, options are
** igep0020
** igep0030
** igep0032
Finally plug the SD MicroSD card into IGEP device Processor Board and power up your board.
= How to flash the latest software image =
Now you have a booted board with latest firmware running from SD MicroSD card, you can write the firmware to the flash memory.
Enter to the IGEP device Processor Board using root as login name and an empty password, enter to the /opt/firmware an and run the ./flash script
cd /opt/firmware
./flash.sh
When finish, unplug the SD MicroSD card and reboot the board, enjoy the new firmware running from flash memory.
= Firmware releases =
<span style="color: red;">'''IMPORTANT NOTE (Update on February 29th, 2012): '''<br/><br/>
IGEP™ Processor Boards with new 512 MB RAM and 512 MB NAND flash from Micron require a recent version of IGEP X-LOADER and KERNEL ottherwise they won't boot correctly. Bootable microSD cards with software older will not boot these upgraded COMs. Follow the “IGEP™ firmware update procedure” to update to the latest firmware version.
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The required minimum versions of software that supports the new flash are v2.4.0-2 for IGEP X-LOADER and 2.6.37-2 for KERNEL
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'''Bootable boards and MicroSD cards with software older than version 3.3.1-11 will not boot properly, please update to the latest version'''
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* '''Poky Image Sato Release 3.3.1-1011'''
** What's new ?
*** Updated kernel to the latest stable release 2.6.37-12, see http://labs.igep.es/index.php/Linux_Kernel_2.6.37.y for details
** Supported IGEP products.
*** Boards :
**** IGEP v2
**** IGEP COM MODULE
