HCL:SABRE Lite
The Sabre Lite, now known as BD-SL-i.MX6, is a low-cost development platform featuring the powerful i.MX 6 Quad applications processor. Products based on the Freescale SABRE (Smart Application Blueprint for Rapid Engineering) Lite platform for i.MX 6 applications processors enable cost-effective, rapid development of multimedia applications for Android® and Linux® operating systems.
Technical Data
- Quad-Core ARM® Cortex A9 processor at 1GHz
- 1GByte of 64-bit wide DDR3 @ 532MHz
- Three display ports (RGB, LVDS, and HDMI 1.4a)
- Two camera ports (1xParallel, 1x MIPI CSI-2)
- Multi-stream-capable HD video engine delivering H.264 1080p60 decode, 1080p30 encode and 3-D video playback in HD
- Triple Play Graphics system consisting of a Quad-shader 3D unit capable of 200MT/s, and a separate 2-D and separate OpenVG Vertex acceleration engine for superior 3D, 2D and user interface acceleration
- Serial ATA 2.5 (SATA) at 3Gbps
- Dual SD 3.0/SDXC card slots
- PCIe port (1 lane)
- Analog (headphone/mic) and Digital (HDMI) audio
- Compact size (3″x3″)
- 10/100/Gb Ethernet
- 10-pin JTAG interface
- 3 High speed USB ports (2xHost, 1xOTG)
- 1xCAN2 port
- I2C
- GPIOs
- 2MB Serial NOR Flash
More technical data (tests and configurations) on openSUSE:SABRE_Lite.
Writing a disk image to the SD card
- Download the image you want (Leap is stable, Tumbleweed is rolling) from here:
Version:TumbleweedJeOS image E20 image XFCE image LXQT image KDE image X11 image 如果上述链接无效 (因为我们在持续构建新镜像),请查看 常规下载目录 获取镜像。
Version:Leap15.0JeOS image E20 image XFCE image LXQT image KDE image X11 image 如果上述链接无效 (因为我们在持续构建新镜像),请查看 常规下载目录 获取镜像。
Version:42.3JeOS image E20 image XFCE image LXQT image KDE image X11 image 如果上述链接无效 (因为我们在持续构建新镜像),请查看 常规下载目录 获取镜像。
- As root extract the image onto your SD card (replace sdX with the device name of your SD card).
WARNING: all previous data on the SD card will be lost. Check first if the device you have selected is really your SD card!xzcat [image].raw.xz | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdX iflag=fullblock oflag=direct; sync
- Insert the SD card with the openSUSE image into your board.
- Connect the board to your PC via serial port (optional, but helpful for debugging; USB-TTL serial cable needed).
- Connect the board to your monitor (via DVI/HDMI, optional).
- Power on the board.
- Walk through the first boot steps.
- Ethernet is configured to request an IP via DHCP, check your DHCP server for the board IP if used.
- Have a lot of fun...
For SD3 :
mw.l 0x020d8040 0x3040 && mw.l 0x020d8044 0x10000000 reset
For uSD4 :
mw.l 0x020d8040 0x3840 && mw.l 0x020d8044 0x10000000 resetSee HCL:SABRE_Lite#Ease_boot_on_uSD4_or_SD3 below, to ease boot choice.
Ease boot on uSD4 or SD3
SABRE Lite board always boot on internal u-boot, stored in SPI flash. To ease your bootchoice, you can save new commands in internal u-boot:
setenv boot_on_sd3 'mw.l 0x020d8040 0x3040 && mw.l 0x020d8044 0x10000000 && reset' setenv boot_on_usd4 'mw.l 0x020d8040 0x3840 && mw.l 0x020d8044 0x10000000 && reset' saveenv
Then, on each boot, you can choose to boot on SD3 with:
run boot_on_sd3
or on uSD4:
run boot_on_usd4
If you want to always boot on SD3 run:
setenv bootcmd 'run boot_on_sd3' saveenv
or on uSD4:
setenv bootcmd 'run boot_on_usd4' saveenv
If you want to go back to original behaviour, just do:
setenv bootcmd 'bootcmd_mmc' saveenv
Known Issues
None.