Next Thing Co. CHIP (ntc-chip)
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USB Networking | |
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Flashing | |
Touchscreen |
Unavailable |
Display | |
WiFi | |
Xwayland | |
FDE | |
Mainline | |
Battery | |
3D Acceleration | |
Accelerometer | |
Audio | |
Bluetooth | |
Camera |
Unavailable |
GPS |
Unavailable |
Mobile data |
Unavailable |
SMS |
Unavailable |
Calls |
Unavailable |
USB OTG | |
Contributors
- Symmetrist
Maintainer(s)
- Symmetrist
Users owning this device
How to enter flash mode
The CHIP has two different flashing modes:
- FEL mode: used to flash bootloader and rootfs
- Fastboot mode: used to flash rootfs
To enter FEL mode:
- Connect the FEL and GND pins with a jumper cable
- Power on the CHIP
To enter Fastboot mode:
- Connect an serial (UART) USB adapter to UART1-TX, UART1-RX and GND
- Power on the CHIP
- Press enter during boot up to access the U-Boot console
- On the console type `fastboot 0`
Configure U-Boot
PostmarketOS loads an initramfs together with the kernel, while original Debian installation only used the kernel.
To boot PostmarketOS we need to change the U-Boot configuration to support the initramfs.
From the U-boot serial console issue the following commands:
- Print the current value of the `bootcmd`, save it in case you want to restore it later.
> printenv bootcmd
- Change the `bootcmd` value
> printenv bootcmd
> setenv bootcmd "gpio set PB2; ${bootcmd_fel}; ${boot_initrd};"
> saveenv
Create the UBIfs image
- Configure the installation and build the system
$ pmbootstrap init
$ pmbootstrap install
In `workdir/chroot_rootfs_ntc-chip` there is the rootfs for your ntc-chip
The following commands needs to be launched from your pmbootstrap workdir
- Copy dtb from linux-ntc-chip
$ sudo cp cache_git/pmaports/device/testing/linux-ntc-chip/sun5i-r8-chip.dtb chroot_rootfs_ntc-chip/boot/
Install mtd-utils from your distro repositories e.g. `pacman -S mtd-utils`
- Create the UBIfs image
$ mkdir ubi
$ sudo mkfs.ubifs -m 16384 -e 0x1f8000 -c 2000 -r chroot_rootfs_ntc-chip ubi/ubifs.img
$ sudo chown youruser:youruser ubi/ubifs.img
$ ubinize -o ubi/ubi.img -m 16384 -p 2MiB -s 16384 cache_git/pmaports/device/testing/device-ntc-chip/ubinize.cfg
$ img2simg ubi/ubi.img ubi/ubi.img.sparse 2097152
Flash the UBIfs image
- Enter fastboot mode as described above
- On your computer
$ fastboot erase UBI
$ fastboot flash UBI ubi/ubi.img.sparse
$ fastboot reboot