{"id":1129,"date":"2014-05-30T13:45:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T12:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2014-05-30T13:52:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T12:52:02","slug":"arm-new-quad-core-cubox-i4-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":"ARM – New Quad-Core Cubox-i4-PRO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just took delivery of one of a CuBox-i4-PRO<\/strong>, with quad-core i-MX6 1Mhz CPUs and 2GB memory built in..<\/p>\n

\"CuBox-i4-PRO,<\/a>
\nCuBox-i4-PRO (with Odroid in the background..)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The device comes with Android on a 4GB SD card, and I discarded this and – for testing purposes – used an old 16GB SD card and installed Fedora 20 on it.<\/p>\n

Some instructions for this are available here (scroll down to the README.MD): \u00a0 https:\/\/github.com\/jmontleon\/fedora-20-cubox-i4pro\/tree\/3.14.4<\/a><\/p>\n

I read the instructions, and was puzzled by some of the details, including the sequence of creating the SD card partitions and then – apparently – deleting one of them!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So – be warned..!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Needless to say, I ignored this part!<\/p>\n

The next ‘confusion’ was over the kernel compile instructions, which appear to recommend using the hummingboard<\/em> DTB..<\/p>\n

I did try this, and the resulting kernel crashed during the boot process…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Further research found that the correct<\/span> DTB for the i4 is imx6q-cubox-i.dtb<\/strong>, and this worked fine for me:<\/p>\n

$ uname -a<\/strong>\r\nLinux rgcubox 3.14.4+ #1 SMP Mon May 26 16:47:51 EDT 2014 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/pre>\n
One of the useful features of the device is that it includes an eSATA port, to enable a (faster) SATA disk to be used..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is not an eSATA-p port, so you will need to get an adapter that includes a USB connection, for power, which just plugs in to one of the (two) USB2 ports.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The device also has a Gigabit Ethernet port, but this runs at a slower overall speed, due to restrictions on the internal bus..<\/p>\n
A nice feature is that it has a built in serial console port, which just needs a micro-usb cable connection.<\/p>\n
Next, I will be moving the filesystem to an eSATA-attached SSD.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The \/boot directory is EXT3, and the root filesystem EXT4.<\/p>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 May 30, 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just took delivery of one of a CuBox-i4-PRO, with quad-core i-MX6 1Mhz CPUs and 2GB memory built in.. CuBox-i4-PRO (with Odroid in the background..) The device comes with Android on a 4GB SD card, and I discarded this and – for testing purposes – used an old 16GB SD card and installed Fedora 20 on it. Some …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,862,10,11,14,16,19],"tags":[1174,867,863,865,868,1173,866,242,864,1175],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-cubox","category-fedora","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-arm","category-opinion","tag-arm","tag-confused-instructions","tag-cubox-i4-pro","tag-esata","tag-imx6q-cubox-i-dtb","tag-kernel","tag-kernel-3-14-4","tag-linux","tag-quad-core","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}