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= Pre-installed software on IGEP Processor Boards ={{Message/Forum}}
{{#lst:Pre-installed_software_on_IGEP_Processor_Boards|overview}}
= How to create a SD-card with the latest software image =
= 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 [[How to flash the flash memory. latest software image]])''
Enter {{:How to flash the IGEP Processor Board using root as login name and an empty password, enter to the /opt/firmware and run the igep-flash script <pre>igep-flash --image /opt/firmware/demo-latest software image-sato-igep00x0.tar.bz</pre> When finish, power off your board, unplug the micro-SD card and power on the board. That's all, enjoy the new firmware running from the flash memory. }}
'''NOTE:''' You can speed up flash procedure. By default the flash script runs the nandtest command to mark bad blocks, this can take a long time and in most cases is not necessary, you can speed up the flash procedure running the script as follows: <pre>igep= Pre-flash --image /opt/firmware/demo-image-sato-igep00x0.tar.bz --skip-nandtest </pre> = Firmware releases = <span style="color: red;">'''IMPORTANT NOTE (Update installed software on February 29th, 2012): ''' IGEP™ 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> ---- *'''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.yPre-installed_software_on_IGEP_Processor_Boards]] for details )'' ***Updated IGEP X{{#lst:Pre-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 YORKinstalled_software_on_IGEP_Processor_Boards}}
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