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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.<br>
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The pre-installed software consists on a minimal '''Linux-based distribution''' with a lite X Window System and GNOME Mobile based applications created with Poky Platform Builder. If you want to '''update your pre-installed software''', you can create a MicroSD card in your host PC with the latest software. Then boot your IGEP Processor Board from that MicroSD card.= Summary =
This article explains how to '''update the pre-installed software''' of your IGEP Processor Board to a current release. This will update to the latest available version of the pre-installed software, which consists of IGEP X-Loader, IGEP Kernel and the IGEP firmware Yocto.
Finally, you can write This tutorial will follow the updated software from the MicroSD to the flash memory on your IGEP device.following steps:
#'''Download the latest firmware''' from ISEE in a Linux PC.
#Run a script that will automatically setup and '''create a MicroSD card''' with the latest software in your host PC.
#Then '''boot your IGEP Processor Board''' from that MicroSD card you have just created.
#Finally, you can write the updated software from the MicroSD to the '''flash memory''' on your IGEP device.
This How-To is meant {{Message/Information Message|message=If you want to be run a starting point for people to learn to'''different software distribution''', you can follow this article:* create a SD card with latest firmware available* write it [[How to the flash memoryboot from MicroSD Card]].}}
for any IGEP Processor Board as quickly and easily as possible. '''Note:''' this How-To was tested with an Ubuntu 10.04 host machine, but most of the contents are valid also for other GNU/Linux distributions. We do not issue any guarantee that this will work on other distributions. = 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-3.3.1-11.tar.gz * Or download it from: http://www.isee.biz/component/zoo/item/igep-firmware Next, untar the firmware and enter to the directory tar xzf poky-firmware-3.3.1-11.tar.gz cd poky-firmware-3.3.1-11/ Insert your SD card into the host machine (the machine you downloaded the firmware), and run following command ./poky-media-create --mmc [device] --binary poky-image-sato-igep00x0-[timestamp].tar.gz --machine [machine] 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 MicroSD card into IGEP Processor Board and power up your board. = How to flash the latest software image =<br>
Now you have a booted board with latest firmware running from MicroSD card, you can write the firmware to the flash memory.{{Message/Forum}}
Enter to the IGEP Processor Board using root as login name and an empty password, enter to the /opt/firmware and run the ./flash script
= How to create a SD-card with the latest software image cd /opt/firmware ./flash.sh=
When finish, unplug ''(from [[How to create a SD-card with the MicroSD latest software image]])'' {{:How to create a SD-card and reboot the board, enjoy with the new firmware running from flash memory.latest software image}}
= 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 How to flash from Micron require a recent version of IGEP X-LOADER and KERNEL ottherwise they won't boot correctly. Bootable microSD cards with the latest software older will not boot these upgraded COMs. Follow the “IGEP™ firmware update procedure” image to update to the latest firmware version.</span>=
<span style="color: red;">The required minimum versions of ''(from [[How to flash the latest software that supports the new flash are v2.4.0-2 for IGEP X-LOADER and 2.6.37-2 for KERNEL</span>image]])''
<span style="color{{: red;">'''Bootable boards and MicroSD cards with software older than version 3.3.1-11 will not boot properly, please update How to flash the latest version'''</span><hr>software image}}
* = Pre-installed software on IGEP Processor Boards ='''Poky Image Sato Release 3.3.1(from [[Pre-11''installed_software_on_IGEP_Processor_Boards]])'** What's new ?*** Support for new 512 MB RAM and 512 MB NAND flash from Micron*** Updated kernel to the latest stable release 2.6.37-2, see http{{#lst://labs.igep.es/index.php/Linux_Kernel_2.6.37.y for details*** Updated IGEP X-LOADER to 2.4.0Pre-2** Supported IGEP™ products.*** Boards :**** IGEP™ v2**** IGEP™ COM MODULE**** IGEP™ COM PROTON***Expansion boards :**** IGEP™ v2 EXPANSION**** IGEP™ BERLIN**** IGEP™ PARIS**** IGEP™ NEW YORKinstalled_software_on_IGEP_Processor_Boards}}
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