{"id":1792,"date":"2016-08-16T01:52:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T00:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2016-11-10T02:47:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T02:47:49","slug":"x86_64-up-board-new-pi-sized-system-with-intel-acorn-soc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"X86_64 – Up Board – New Pi-Sized System, with Intel Atom SoC.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Just taken delivery of the Up Board<\/strong><\/em> – an Intel Atom powered SoC system, with the same form factor as a Pi..<\/p>\n

\"UP<\/a>

UP Board Intel SoC<\/p><\/div>\n

It was quite a novelty to be able to plug a Fedora 24 Live USB stick in, and install directly to the device..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I booted the Live system first, and then used the ‘install to hard drive’ option..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For some reason, the install only worked if I unmounted<\/em> the main eMMC partition (\/dev\/mmcblk0p2<\/strong><\/span>) first..<\/p>\n

When it came to partitioning, the on-board eMMC (32GB) already had a 128MB partition as ‘Microsoft hidden’ and the other 29GB partition as NTFS, so I just changed the 128MB partition to ‘EFI System’ and mounted it as \/boot\/efi<\/strong><\/span>, and made the 29GB partition the standard EXT4-formatted rootfs..<\/p>\n

It even has a real bios interface, from another blast-from-the-past – American Megatrends<\/em>..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In case you were wondering – I left the OS IMAGE ID parameter at ‘Windows 8.1’, as it was working fine, and I didn’t want to mess with anything that worked OK!\u00a0\u00a0 Interesting that it had – apparently – detected the Boot Option #1 as ‘Fedora’?<\/p>\n

\"UP<\/a>

UP Board BIOS<\/p><\/div>\n

The install completed OK, and even the standard Fedora 24 kernel sort-of worked, although the display was a bit quirky, and attempts to switch out of the HDMI monitor connection caused the system to die..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I decided to try an upgrade to a compiled Kernel 4.8-rc2, and this was much better, with stable display, and ability to operate ‘headless’ if needed..<\/p>\n

....<\/strong><\/span>\r\nFedora 24 (Workstation Edition)<\/strong><\/span>\r\nKernel 4.8.0-rc2 on an x86_64 (tty1)<\/strong><\/span>\r\n.....<\/strong><\/span>\r\n$ uname -a<\/strong><\/span>\r\nLinux rgup 4.8.0-rc2 #1 SMP Mon Aug 15 15:16:23 PDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n
My only real mistake was not ordering the rather proprietary micro-ten-pin UART+USB combo connector at the same time as the rest of the system..\u00a0\u00a0 I thought I could modify an existing USB\/UART connector, but the on-board connection is really<\/span> tiny, and the ten-pin connector itself seems very hard to find…\u00a0\u00a0 I ended up ordering the combo connector separately, but shipping costs to the USA are rather steep for such an inexpensive item!<\/p>\n
The device seems – so far – to be quite powerful, but runs a bit hot, although it is capable of running a full multi-cpu kernel compile onboard, so hopefully the main heatsink – and metal plate attached under<\/span> the board, will be sufficient..<\/p>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 August 15, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just taken delivery of the Up Board – an Intel Atom powered SoC system, with the same form factor as a Pi.. It was quite a novelty to be able to plug a Fedora 24 Live USB stick in, and install directly to the device..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I booted the Live system first, and then used the ‘install to …<\/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":[5,10,1418,14,15,1322],"tags":[1398,468,1419,1420,1383,1175,1326],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-fedora","category-intel-atom","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-up-board","tag-fedora-24","tag-install","tag-intel-atom","tag-kernel-4-8-rc2","tag-soc","tag-success","tag-up-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","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=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}