HCL:PandaBoard

PandaBoard

Panda BuildfARM

The PandaBoard is a low-power, low-cost single-board computer development platform based on the Texas Instruments OMAP4430 system on a chip (SoC). It is a community-supported development platform.

Technical Data

• 1 GHz Dual core Cortex A9 Processor (OMAP 4430)
• 1 GB DDR2 RAM
• HDMI v1.3
• 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet
• 802.11 b/g/n WiFi

More technical data (tests and configurations) on openSUSE:PandaBoard.

Writing a disk image to the SD card

1. Download the image you want (Leap is stable, Tumbleweed is rolling) from here:
   
   This board is not supported by Tumbleweed anymore since it is not supported anymore in upstream u-boot (from version 2024.10)
   Please use openSUSE Leap images instead.

   Leap-15.6

   JeOS image

   If the direct links above do not work for you, please check the general download directory for the images.

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. Check first if the device you have selected is really your SD card!

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

3. Insert the SD card with the openSUSE image into your board.
4. Connect the board to your PC via serial port (optional, but helpful for debugging; USB-TTL serial cable needed).
5. Connect the board to your monitor (via DVI/HDMI, optional).
6. Power on the board.
7. Walk through the first boot steps.
8. Ethernet is configured to request an IP via DHCP, check your DHCP server for the board IP if used.
9. Have a lot of fun...

Default login is root:linux, works on serial console, via ssh, GUI.

Known Issues

• Video is not accelerated