To quickly reprogram the FoxBoardLX832 you need:
Download a ready to use flash image for your FOX Board LX832:
Be patient when at the first boot, the Fox will regenerate the ssh keys and then login to your FOX Board LX832 and type:
# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/flash3 9144 9144 0 100% / /dev/flash2 4736 296 4440 6% /mnt/flash tmpfs 14952 72 14880 0% /var #
With the df command you can see the different kind of memory available on your Fox Board.
As you can see the FoxBoardLX832 has much more read/write Flash memory (available on /dev/flash2 and mounted on /mnt/flash) and much more RAM (available on tmpfs and mounted on /var) compared with both the standard Fox classic red and the FoxBoardLX416.
If you have 8 Megabytes of Flash you should see the following markings on the flash chip:
8 Megabytes Flash chip from ST semiconductor
8 Megabytes Flash chip from Samsung
For the 32 Megabytes RAM, not only the RAM chip is different but also there is a 0 Ohm resistor in a different position to adapt the board wirings to the different chip memory size.
This is the appearing of a FoxLX416 that has 16 Megabytes of RAM memory:
16 Megabytes RAM memory from a FoxLX416
In the following instead, there is the appearance of a 32 Megabytes RAM memory from a Fox LX832:
32 Megabytes RAM memory from a FoxLX832
As you can see in the right low part of the images, the position of the 0 Ohm resistor in the two boards is different.
The Fox LX832 has the resistor on the rightest set of pads.
There are two kind of settings to be changed in the standard or patched SDK to let it compile a fimage for the FoxLX832:
[dev@AcmeBob devboard-R2_01]$ . ./init_envThen enter in the menuconfig options with:
[dev@AcmeBob devboard-R2_01]$ make menuconfig
Choose Hardware Configuration and press Select
Now choose the Flash2 size option and press Select
Now enter the hexadecimal value 0x4a0000 instead of the standard 0x0a0000.
Then press OK, Exit, Exit and Yes when asked to save the configuration.
Now you have to update a file inside the kernel to let it manage the newer Samsung model memories (the update is backward compatible and works well with any Fox Board).
If you are using the SDK with the Phrozen patch download the following file:
If you are using instead the original SDK2_01 from Axis download the following file:
[dev@AcmeBob devboard-R2_01]$ ./configure
At this point you have to launch a make to obtain a fimage with 8Megabytes of Flash memory enabled. Better instead to proceed with the following paragraphs with the kernel modifications to adapt the SDK also for 32 Megabytes of RAM memory and for LX board memory.
If you are using kernel 2.4 you have to invoke:
[dev@AcmeBob devboard-R2_01]$ make -C packages/os/linux-2.4 menuconfig
Instead, if you are using kernel 2.6 you have to invoke:
[dev@AcmeBob devboard-R2_01]$ make -C packages/os/linux-2.6 menuconfig
In the following we will refer to the 2.6.15 kernel options screens since it will be the most used now on.
Choose Hardware setup and press Select
In these options we have to change three parameters. The first is DRAM size.
Enter in the option choosing it and pressing Select. Set it to 32 and press OK.
Then go lower in the Hardware setup looking for R_SDRAM_CONFIG
Choose it and press Select. Set it to the hexadecimal value: 0x09603737 and press OK.
Now go down in the Hardware setup options for the parameter R_SDRAM_TIMING
Enter in the option choosing it and pressing Select. Set it to the hexadecimal value 0x80008002 and press OK.
This R_SDRAM_TIMING parameter is the standard value to set for all the FoxBoardLX.
Now press Exit and then Exit again. When asked to save the new configuration, answer Yes.
Now, you are ready to recompile the new fimage enabled with 32 MBRAM and 8MBFlash. to do so invoke:
[dev@AcmeBob devboard-R2_01]$ make clean [dev@AcmeBob devboard-R2_01]$ ./configure [dev@AcmeBob devboard-R2_01]$ make
The new fimage generated is bigger than the usual 4MBytes standard Fox fimage:
[dev@AcmeBob devboard-R2_01]$ ls -liat fimage 1560105 -rw-rw-r-- 1 newsdk201 newsdk201 8388632 Dec 17 09:27 fimage [dev@AcmeBob devboard-R2_01]$
Now you are ready to flash the newly generated image on your Fox Board LX832 (see How to reflash a FOX Board).
Enjoy.