HCL:Origen

tagline: From openSUSE

The Origen Board is a developer board for evaluation of the Exynos 4 SoC.

[edit] Technical Data

• ARM Cortex-A9 Dual Core sub-system with NEON SIMD at up to 1.2GHz per core
• 32KB/32KB L1 Cache and 1MB L2 Cache
• 32-bit DD3 Memory Interface
• Mali-400 MP4 GPU (Quad Core) supporting OpenGL ES 1.2, 2.0 and OpenVG 1.1 APIs
• Multi format video hardware codec : 1080p 30fps MPEG-4/H.263/H.264/MPEG-2/VC1
• JPEG hardware decode
• 1GBytes DDR3 RAM
• Mini HDMI
• LCD Interface (Optional LCD module available)
• Camera Connector
• HDMI Audio
• Stereo Audio Input and Output Jacks
• Full size USB 2.0
• USB OTG
• 2x SD Card
• On-board WiFI and Blutooth module
• Ethernet through USB adapter
• JTAG
• Serial RS-232

[edit] Installing the openSUSE 12.3 Image

1. Download the latest image at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/12.3:/Contrib:/Origen/images/ and download
   1. JeOS image for a minimal system openSUSE-12.3-ARM-JeOS-origen-*.raw.xz
2. 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.

    xzcat [image].raw.xz | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdX; sync

3. Insert the SD-Card with the openSUSE image into your Origen Board.
4. Connect the Origen Board to your PC via RS-232.
   1. Run a a terminal emulator on your PC, e.g. screen:

       screen /dev/ttyS0 115200

      Replace ttyS0 with the character device name of the serial port you connected the Origen Board to (e.g. ttyUSB0 for a USB/Serial adapter).
5. Power on the Origen Board.
6. Walk through the first boot steps on the serial console.
7. Have a lot of fun...

[edit] Known Issues

• Wifi doesn't work with initrd
• USB does not work
• Video is untested