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If you have a brand new IGEP Processor Board you must know that This article explains how to '''it comes with a firmware''' provided and update the pre-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 of your IGEP Processor Board to a MicroSD card and boot from it''' by inserting it current release. This will update to the MicroSD card reader latest available version of the pre-installed software, which consists of your IGEP Processor BoardX-Loader, as it has more priority than IGEP Kernel and the flashIGEP firmware Yocto.

The pre-installed software consists on #'''Download the latest firmware''' from ISEE in a Linux PC. #Run a minimal script that will automatically setup and '''Linux-based distributioncreate a MicroSD card''' with a lite X Window System and GNOME Mobile based applications the latest software in your host PC. #Then '''boot your IGEP Processor Board''' from that MicroSD card you have just created with Poky Platform Builder. #Finally, you can write the updated software from the MicroSD to the '''flash memory''' on your IGEP device.

= How to create a SD-card with the latest software image =

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Start session in a Linux PC. The first thing you'll do is download = How to flash the latest firwmare from the ISEE site.software image =

Download it ''(from [[How to flash the Software / IGEP Firmware section of your board:latest software image]])''

http{{://www.isee.biz/products/processor-boards/igepv2-board for IGEPv2How to flash the latest software image}}

= Pre-installed software on IGEP Processor Boards http=''(from [[Pre-installed_software_on_IGEP_Processor_Boards]])'' {{#lst://www.isee.biz/products/processor-boards/igepPre-com-module for IGEP COM MODULEinstalled_software_on_IGEP_Processor_Boards}}

http://www.isee.biz/products/processor-boards/igep-com-proton for IGEP COM PROTON  Next, open a Terminal to untar the firmware you have just donwloaded 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 = Now you have a booted board with latest firmware running from MicroSD card, you can write the firmware to the flash memory. 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  cd /opt/firmware ./flash.sh When finish, unplug the 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.</span> <span style="color: red;">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</span> <span style="color: red;">'''Bootable boards and MicroSD cards with software older than version 3.3.1-11 will not boot properly, please update to the latest version'''</span><hr> * '''Poky Image Sato Release 3.3.1-11'''** 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 [[Linux_Kernel_2.6.37.y]] for details*** Updated IGEP X-LOADER to 2.4.0-2** Supported IGEP™ products.*** Boards :**** IGEP™ v2**** IGEP™ COM MODULE**** IGEP™ COM PROTON***Expansion boards :**** IGEP™ v2 EXPANSION**** IGEP™ BERLIN**** IGEP™ PARIS**** IGEP™ NEW YORK [[Category:Software]][[Category:Boot loadersBoot_loaders]][[Category:Linux KernelLinux_Kernel]][[Category:Software distributionsSoftware_distributions]]