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Restart your board and enjoy your new firmware. That's all folks.
 
Restart your board and enjoy your new firmware. That's all folks.
  
=== Annex: firmware status ===
 
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    <th><b>&nbsp;Firmware version&nbsp;</b></th>
 
    <th><b>&nbsp;X-load version&nbsp;</b></th>
 
    <th><b>&nbsp;U-boot version&nbsp;</b></th>
 
    <th><b>&nbsp;Kernel version&nbsp;</b></th>
 
    <th><b>&nbsp;Rootfs&nbsp;</b></th>
 
    <th><b>&nbsp;Hw. Rev. B&nbsp;</b></th>
 
    <th><b>&nbsp;Hw. Rev. C&nbsp;</b></th>
 
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    <td>&nbsp;<a href="http://downloads.myigep.com/releases/binaries/firmware/firmware-poky-image-sato-igep0020-3.2.1-0.tar.gz">3.2.1-0</a><a href="http://downloads.myigep.com/releases/binaries/firmware/firmware-poky-image-sato-igep0020-3.2.1-0.tar.gz.md5">&nbsp;(md5sum)</a>&nbsp;</td>
 
    <td>&nbsp;1.4.2-2&nbsp;</td>
 
    <td>&nbsp;2009.11-1&nbsp;</td>
 
    <td>&nbsp;2.6.28.10-3&nbsp;</td>
 
    <td>&nbsp;poky-image-sato&nbsp;<a href="http://git.myigep.com/gitweb?p=pub/scm/poky.git;a=commit;h=949b440e52d637ef52eadb50c87e615eebd64ed4">(949b440e52d637ef52eadb50c87e615eebd64ed4)</a>&nbsp;</td>
 
    <td style="background: green;">YES</td>
 
    <td style="background: green;">YES</td>
 
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    <td>&nbsp;<a href="http://downloads.myigep.com/releases/binaries/firmware/firmware-poky-image-sato-igep0020b-3.2.0-0.tar.gz">3.2.0-0</a><a href="http://downloads.myigep.com/releases/binaries/firmware/firmware-poky-image-sato-igep0020b-3.2.0-0.tar.gz.md5">&nbsp;(md5sum)</a>&nbsp;</td>
 
    <td>&nbsp;1.4.2-1&nbsp;</td>
 
    <td>&nbsp;2009.11-0&nbsp;</td>
 
    <td>&nbsp;2.6.28.10-igep0020b-2&nbsp;</td>
 
    <td>&nbsp;poky-image-sato&nbsp;<a href="http://git.myigep.com/gitweb?p=pub/scm/poky.git;a=commit;h=47ba87263b3e82a40d5437c49f05076d0c177f2e">(47ba87263b3e82a40d5437c49f05076d0c177f2e)</a>&nbsp;</td>
 
    <td style="background: green;">YES</td>
 
    <td style="background: red;">NO</td>
 
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[[Category:How to forge|Firmware]]
 
[[Category:How to forge|Firmware]]

Revision as of 13:52, 14 July 2010

How to upgrade the factory firmware

Overview of How-To

This How-To is meant to be a starting point for people to learn how to upgrade the factory firmware for IGEP v2 devices as quickly and easily as possible.

This How-To works with the Ubuntu 8.04 IGEP v2.0 SDK Virtual 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.

Requirements

  • Ubuntu 8.04 IGEP v2.0 SDK Virtual Machine

Upgrade the factory firmware

Upgrade the firmware using an NFS-TFTP environment

First of all setup a poky-image-sato NFS-TFTP environment using latest images as explained in Ubuntu 8.04 IGEP v2.0 SDK Virtual Machine

With this kernel the partitions looks like,

# cat /proc/mtd
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00080000 00040000 "X-Loader"
mtd1: 00180000 00040000 "U-Boot"
mtd2: 00080000 00040000 "U-Boot Env"
mtd3: 00300000 00040000 "Kernel"
mtd4: 1fa80000 00040000 "File System"

To flash files to mtd partitions just use the nandwrite program. For example, to flash the firmware factory v3.2.1-0 download from

and copy to target directory /home/root in your board, then follow next steps

# cd /home/root/firmware-factory-igep0020-3.2.1-0
# for i in 0 1 2 3 4; do flash_eraseall /dev/mtd${i}; done
# nandwrite -p /dev/mtd0 x-load-ddp-1.4.2-2.igep0020-flash.bin.ift
# nandwrite -p /dev/mtd1 u-boot-arm-2009.11-1.igep0020.bin
# nandwrite -p /dev/mtd2 u-boot-environment.bin
# nandwrite -p /dev/mtd3 uImage-2.6.28-r4-igep0020-20100321091933.bin
# nandwrite -p /dev/mtd4 poky-image-sato-igep0020-20100321084218.rootfs.jffs2

Restart your board and enjoy your new firmware. That's all folks.