Update the PRE-INSTALLED software image to a current release

	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

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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.

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.

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 latest software image

	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. There is no guarantee that this will work on other distributions.

Start session in a Linux PC. The first thing you'll do is download latest firwmare from the ISEE site.

Download it from the Software / IGEP Firmware section of your board:

http://www.isee.biz/products/processor-boards/igepv2-board for IGEPv2

http://www.isee.biz/products/processor-boards/igep-com-module for IGEP COM MODULE

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

IMPORTANT NOTE (Update on February 29th, 2012):

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.

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

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 3.3.1-11
  • 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