I have an HiKey Early Access Board which I assume is made by CircuitCo.
I have connected it to a HDMI display and USB keyboard/mouse. When I plug in a 12v PS, and click on the power button, after a few seconds LED 1 lights and stays on, LED 0 flashes a couple times and goes out.
Nothing else happens. I don't get any signal to the display.
Am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions?
Hi Michael,
You'll want to flash using a USB cable to the latest firmware. See the instructions on the 96Boards website.
g.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
I have an HiKey Early Access Board which I assume is made by CircuitCo.
I have connected it to a HDMI display and USB keyboard/mouse. When I plug in a 12v PS, and click on the power button, after a few seconds LED 1 lights and stays on, LED 0 flashes a couple times and goes out.
Nothing else happens. I don't get any signal to the display.
Am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions?
-- Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@lists.96boards.org https://lists.96boards.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
Thanks Grant --
The HiKeyUEFI instructions on how to flash to the eMMc say to attach a PC to the UART to monitor the debug status. The board does not have a header for the UART installed at J16. I don't know if this means that the UART is not available or if I can add the header myself.
Am I looking at the correct instructions? Is the serial port needed to flash the firmware?
On 03/30/2016 11:07 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
Hi Michael,
You'll want to flash using a USB cable to the latest firmware. See the instructions on the 96Boards website.
g.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
I have an HiKey Early Access Board which I assume is made by CircuitCo.
I have connected it to a HDMI display and USB keyboard/mouse. When I plug in a 12v PS, and click on the power button, after a few seconds LED 1 lights and stays on, LED 0 flashes a couple times and goes out.
Nothing else happens. I don't get any signal to the display.
Am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions?
-- Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@lists.96boards.org https://lists.96boards.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
On Wednesday, 30 March 2016, Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
Thanks Grant --
The HiKeyUEFI instructions on how to flash to the eMMc say to attach a PC to the UART to monitor the debug status. The board does not have a header for the UART installed at J16. I don't know if this means that the UART is not available or if I can add the header myself.
Am I looking at the correct instructions? Is the serial port needed to flash the firmware?
The UART is optional to reflash the board.
g.
On 03/30/2016 11:07 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
Hi Michael,
You'll want to flash using a USB cable to the latest firmware. See the instructions on the 96Boards website.
g.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
I have an HiKey Early Access Board which I assume is made by CircuitCo.
I have connected it to a HDMI display and USB keyboard/mouse. When I plug in a 12v PS, and click on the power button, after a few seconds LED 1 lights and stays on, LED 0 flashes a couple times and goes out.
Nothing else happens. I don't get any signal to the display.
Am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions?
-- Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@lists.96boards.org https://lists.96boards.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
-- Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:17:30PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 March 2016, Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
Thanks Grant --
The HiKeyUEFI instructions on how to flash to the eMMc say to attach a PC to the UART to monitor the debug status. The board does not have a header for the UART installed at J16. I don't know if this means that the UART is not available or if I can add the header myself.
Am I looking at the correct instructions? Is the serial port needed to flash the firmware?
The UART is optional to reflash the board.
More info for this: For Hikey, SoC's bootROM is default to use USB OTG to burn firmwares; after 60s' timeout it will switch to usb UART (from J16) to burn images.
Yesterday Akira shared "Reference Platform Build" page for burning images, it's quite nice and handy: https://github.com/96boards/documentation/wiki/Reference-Platform-CE-Home
Thanks, Leo Yan
On 03/30/2016 11:07 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
Hi Michael,
You'll want to flash using a USB cable to the latest firmware. See the instructions on the 96Boards website.
g.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
I have an HiKey Early Access Board which I assume is made by CircuitCo.
I have connected it to a HDMI display and USB keyboard/mouse. When I plug in a 12v PS, and click on the power button, after a few seconds LED 1 lights and stays on, LED 0 flashes a couple times and goes out.
Nothing else happens. I don't get any signal to the display.
Am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions?
-- Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@lists.96boards.org https://lists.96boards.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
-- Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077
Dev mailing list Dev@lists.96boards.org https://lists.96boards.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
Hi Micheal,
On 03/31/2016 09:21 AM, Leo Yan wrote:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:17:30PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 March 2016, Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
Thanks Grant --
The HiKeyUEFI instructions on how to flash to the eMMc say to attach a PC to the UART to monitor the debug status. The board does not have a header for the UART installed at J16. I don't know if this means that the UART is not available or if I can add the header myself.
Am I looking at the correct instructions? Is the serial port needed to flash the firmware?
The UART is optional to reflash the board.
More info for this: For Hikey, SoC's bootROM is default to use USB OTG to burn firmwares; after 60s' timeout it will switch to usb UART (from J16) to burn images.
Yesterday Akira shared "Reference Platform Build" page for burning images, it's quite nice and handy: https://github.com/96boards/documentation/wiki/Reference-Platform-CE-Home
The "HiKey Early Access Board" do not have bootloader written.
Please follow the instruction in this section. https://github.com/96boards/documentation/wiki/HiKey-Board-Recovery
Akira
Thanks, Leo Yan
On 03/30/2016 11:07 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
Hi Michael,
You'll want to flash using a USB cable to the latest firmware. See the instructions on the 96Boards website.
g.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
I have an HiKey Early Access Board which I assume is made by CircuitCo.
I have connected it to a HDMI display and USB keyboard/mouse. When I plug in a 12v PS, and click on the power button, after a few seconds LED 1 lights and stays on, LED 0 flashes a couple times and goes out.
Nothing else happens. I don't get any signal to the display.
Am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions?
-- Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@lists.96boards.org https://lists.96boards.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
-- Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077
Dev mailing list Dev@lists.96boards.org https://lists.96boards.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
Dev mailing list Dev@lists.96boards.org https://lists.96boards.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
On 03/30/2016 05:37 PM, Akira Tsukamoto wrote:
Hi Micheal,
On 03/31/2016 09:21 AM, Leo Yan wrote:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:17:30PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 March 2016, Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
Thanks Grant --
The HiKeyUEFI instructions on how to flash to the eMMc say to attach a PC to the UART to monitor the debug status. The board does not have a header for the UART installed at J16. I don't know if this means that the UART is not available or if I can add the header myself.
Am I looking at the correct instructions? Is the serial port needed to flash the firmware?
The UART is optional to reflash the board.
More info for this: For Hikey, SoC's bootROM is default to use USB OTG to burn firmwares; after 60s' timeout it will switch to usb UART (from J16) to burn images.
Yesterday Akira shared "Reference Platform Build" page for burning images, it's quite nice and handy: https://github.com/96boards/documentation/wiki/Reference-Platform-CE-Home
The "HiKey Early Access Board" do not have bootloader written.
Please follow the instruction in this section. https://github.com/96boards/documentation/wiki/HiKey-Board-Recovery
Akira
Hi Akira --
I've been delayed getting back to setting up the HiKey board.
When follow the instructions you mention, I run into a problem. The fastboot hangs when downloading the ptable:
$ sudo python hisi-idt.py -d /dev/ttyUSB0 --img1=l-loader.bin +----------------------+ (' Serial: ', '/dev/ttyUSB0') (' Image1: ', 'l-loader.bin') (' Image2: ', '') +----------------------+
('Sending', 'l-loader.bin', '...') Done
$ sudo fastboot flash ptable ptable-linux-4g.img
Before downloading the l-loader.bin file, I verified that /dev/ttyUSB0 exists. After downloading, this device does not exist. LED0 on the board it lit. I waited about 15 seconds and then ran fastboot. It does not terminate.
Any suggestions?
Hi Michael,
On 21 April 2016 at 21:24, Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
On 03/30/2016 05:37 PM, Akira Tsukamoto wrote:
Hi Micheal,
On 03/31/2016 09:21 AM, Leo Yan wrote:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:17:30PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 March 2016, Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
Thanks Grant --
The HiKeyUEFI instructions on how to flash to the eMMc say to attach a PC to the UART to monitor the debug status. The board does not have a header for the UART installed at J16. I don't know if this means that the UART is not available or if I can add the header myself.
Am I looking at the correct instructions? Is the serial port needed to flash the firmware?
The UART is optional to reflash the board.
More info for this: For Hikey, SoC's bootROM is default to use USB OTG to burn firmwares; after 60s' timeout it will switch to usb UART (from J16) to burn images.
Yesterday Akira shared "Reference Platform Build" page for burning images, it's quite nice and handy: https://github.com/96boards/documentation/wiki/Reference-Platform-CE-Home
The "HiKey Early Access Board" do not have bootloader written.
Please follow the instruction in this section. https://github.com/96boards/documentation/wiki/HiKey-Board-Recovery
Akira
Hi Akira --
I've been delayed getting back to setting up the HiKey board.
When follow the instructions you mention, I run into a problem. The fastboot hangs when downloading the ptable:
$ sudo python hisi-idt.py -d /dev/ttyUSB0 --img1=l-loader.bin +----------------------+ (' Serial: ', '/dev/ttyUSB0') (' Image1: ', 'l-loader.bin') (' Image2: ', '') +----------------------+
('Sending', 'l-loader.bin', '...') Done
$ sudo fastboot flash ptable ptable-linux-4g.img
Before downloading the l-loader.bin file, I verified that /dev/ttyUSB0 exists. After downloading, this device does not exist. LED0 on the board it lit. I waited about 15 seconds and then ran fastboot. It does not terminate.
Any suggestions?
I would suggest trying with a few different USB cables. I had a similar problem the other day and it turned out I had two bad USB cables in a row (quite bad luck I think...I blame the cat), with the third cable everything worked well and reliably.
Before issuing the flashing command you can do: -
sudo fastboot devices
0123456789ABCDEF fastboot
To see if the HiKey board has been detected as a fastboot device. If it hasn't unplug / re-plug / try a different cable.
I've also had issues if other devices are plugged into the USB host ports (e.g. a USB ethernet dongle), so I normally ensure nothing else is plugged into the board when doing this.
Peter.
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