HCL:Poplar

The Tocoding Poplar is a 96Boards Enterprise Edition TV Platform compliant single-board computer (SBC).

Technical data

• Hisilicon Hi3798CV200 SoC
  • 4x ARM Cortex-A53 CPU
  • ARM Mali-T720 GPU
• 1 GB RAM
• 8 GB eMMC
• Micro SD card slot
• 1x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0
• 1 Gb Ethernet
• HDMI
• SPDIF
• 1x PCIe
• Wifi
• IR
• Serial via Micro USB

Manual installation

Press Ctrl+C on the serial console to enter a U-Boot prompt, labeled as "Fastboot".

Arm Trusted Firmware

Poplar is in mainline ATF since v1.5.

An arm-trusted-firmware-poplar package is available.

U-Boot

Poplar is in mainline U-Boot since v2017.09.

A u-boot-poplar package is available.

Linux Loader

An l-loader-poplar package is available.

Copy fastboot.bin to a FAT32-formatted USB stick, plug it to one of the two USB 2.0 ports and press the USB_BOOT (S3) button on power-on to boot the new bootloader.

For flashing to eMMC, derive loader.bin from l-loader.bin:

$ dd if=l-loader.bin of=loader.bin bs=512 skip=1

From the U-Boot prompt you can then flash it to eMMC:

load usb 0:1 0x10000000 loader.bin
mmc write 0x10000000 0x1 0x00000f7f

Kernel

TBD