Prebuilt Software; Building The Linux Image - OLIMEX OLinuXino-MAXI User Manual

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SERIAL-CABLE-F TX line/wire (RED cable) with anode towards the board.
When you power the board by battery you have to press the PWR_BUT to start the board.
If you start Linux and it is already running no matter which powering method you use
(PWR_JACK or BAT) pressing the PWR_BUT will put the Linux in power-save mode.
When you power the board by battery you have to press the PWR_BUT to start the board.
If you start Linux and it is already running no matter which powering method you use
(PWR_JACK or BAT) pressing the PWR_BUT will put the Linux in power-save mode.
For the European customers we sell a power supply adapter 12V/0.5A - SY0612E.

2.5 Prebuilt software

Note that the boards arrive without Linux or SD card. The Linux image can be purchased
separately on a SD card or you can built and adjust it yourself.
When we program the boards we change the default position of the following HW_OCOTP_ROM0
fuses of the processor:
SD_MBR_BOOT(3) - Blown
SD_POWER_GATE_GPIO(21:20) – 10-PWM3
For burning the fuse position we use the BitBurner software.

2.6 Building the Linux image

Note that building the Linux image from scratch is a time-consuming task. Even with powerful
machine and fast internet connection it might take few hours compiling. Some Linux distributions
might lack the tools required to compile/build/execute scripts/download from repository – how to
get those is not discussed below.
The Linux image is created and downloaded from https://github.com/Freescale/fsl-community-bsp-
platform. For the test here we used Debian 6.0 with GNOME visual libraries. The steps we did:
1) From the terminal created folder "bin" in home folder:
user@dist$: mkdir bin
user@dist$: cd bin
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