meta-nanopi-neo-air - Meta Layer for Nanopi Neo AIr

This README file contains information on building the meta-nanopi-neo-air BSP layer. Please see the corresponding sections below for details.

This layer provides:

• Linux 4.11.2 based on FriendlyArm Linux release
• U-Boot 2017.05 based on FriendlyArm U-Boot release

Current status:

1. WiFi Test OK
2. Audio codec Test OK
3. Bluetooth Untested

Dependencies

This layer depends on:

URI: git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky branch: morty

URI: git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded branch: morty

URI: git://github.com/linux-sunxi/meta-sunxi branch: master

Flashing NanoPi image on external SD card

At some moments, you definitely need to push your piece of software on your Pi:

bitbake core-image-minimal # or whatever image you built
sudo dd if=tmp/deploy/images/nanopi-neo-air/core-image-minimal.sunxi-sdimg of=/dev/sdXXX # XXX is your SD device

Flashing NanoPi image on internal eMMC

The generated image is compatible with both SD card and eMMC.

You had to first boot your device on SD card, then flash the internal eMMC by command line with 'dd'.

You can copy the image on SD card filesystem first, but my preference is to make a direct eMMC copy through the WiFI of the board:

bitbake core-image-minimal # or whatever image you built
sudo dd if=tmp/deploy/images/nanopi-neo-air/core-image-minimal.sunxi-sdimg | ssh root@<nanopi-ip-address> dd of=/dev/mmcblk3 # <nanopi-ip-address> is your NanoPi IP address

Bluetooth init

/etc/init.d/bluetooth start

echo 205 > /sys/class/gpio/export # BT-RESET
echo 8 > /sys/class/gpio/export # BT-WAKE

echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio205/direction
echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio8/direction

echo -n " " > /dev/ttyS3

sleep 1

echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio205/value && echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio205/value

sleep 1

echo -n " " > /dev/ttyS3

cat /proc/tty/driver/serial 

sleep 1

brcm_patchram_plus -d  --patchram /etc/firmware/ap6212/4343A0.hcd --bd_addr 11:22:33:44:55:66 --no2bytes --tosleep 1000 /dev/ttyS3

sleep 1

hciattach /dev/ttyS3 any
hciconfig hci0 up

Audio codec init

Capture on Mic1 can be started with:

amixer set Mic1 cap

Wifi init

It works without user intervention, except I observed some init failure when power is coming from the weakly/non-powered USB plug on my laptop.