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Did you have information between the boot switch SW1 and the CPU on the print side (Notice the marking ‘ON’ on the DIP switch)
how to boot from SD card, eMMc, SPI.
for example to booting from SD-Card: configure the boot switch SW1 to be [1:off,2:on,3:on,4:on,5:nc]

Flashing Ubuntu on NVME m.2 or SATA drive

Preparing a bootable micro SD

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unxz lx2160acex7_2000_700_....img.xz
sudo dd if=lx2160acex7_2000_700_...img of=/dev/sdX

Booting the micro SD and flashing to either eMMC, NVME M.2 or SATA drive

Plug a micro USB cable to the ‘console’ micro USB connector and run a terminal emulator like minicom or putty pointing to the USB tty running at 115200,8N1.

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For different dpmac configuration please refer to the reference manual on different SERDES configuration and how it’s map to the different dpmacs.

Packet Generator using DPDK

Following is an example instructions that demonstrates using the DPDK framework that is built in the lx2160a_build project under build/dpdk/ directory –

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  1. sshd is disabled by default for root access. Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and set ‘PermitRootLogin yes’

  2. ssh to the machine might take long time after boot. To accelerate that install ‘rng-tools’ where it’s main daemon increases the kernel’s entropy and accelerates random number key generation (which used by libssl and sshd afterwards).

Example to install Gentoo from the Ubuntu

Gentoo is a free and open-source distribution with a rolling-release model.
The bootloader and kernel provided are recent enough to install Gentoo from the eMMC Ubuntu to the NVMe or SATA device.

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