Content Comparison

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Block Diagram

The following figure describes the RZ/G2UL Block Diagram.

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Please see below the features overview of the connector side of the HummingBoard Ripple & RZ/G2UL.

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Print side connector overview of the HummingBoard Ripple & RZ/G2LCG2UL.

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Software Setup

Cable setup and prerequisites

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Before powering up the board for the first time it is recommended to select the boot media. In order to configure the boot media, please refer to HummingBoard RZ/G2LC G2UL Boot Select .

Generating Yocto, Buildroot and Debian image

Buildroot/Debian

1. Clone the repository rz-g2ul_build and move your terminal to this directory.

2. In this stage you can modify your image configs as you want, you can find more info about it the the repository.

3. Build your own image by this command

   Code Block
   $ MACHINE=rzg2ul-hummingboard Distro=<Buildroot/Debian> ./runme.sh

Yocto <TBD - Comig Soon>

1. Clone the repository from the “List of supported OS” link and move your terminal to this directory.

2. Download the layers by this command

   Code Block
   $ repo init -u https://github.com/SolidRun/meta-solidrun-arm-rzg2lc.git -b dunfell -m meta-solidrun-arm-rzg2lc.xml $ repo sync

3. In this stage you can modify your image configs as you want, you can find more info about it the the repository.

4. For graphics support you need to explore in the readme file in the github and follow the instructions of this utility.

5. Set the environment of the image that going to be build by this command

   Code Block
   $ TEMPLATECONF=$PWD/meta-solidrun-arm-rzg2lc/docs/template/conf/rzg2lc-solidrun source poky/oe-init-build-env build

6. Build your own Yocto image by this command

   Code Block
   $ MACHINE=rzg2ul-hummingboard bitbake <target>

   • NOTE: Choose your relevant target, for example:
     -core-image-bsp: cli image.
     -core-image-weston: graphical image.
     -core-image-qt: graphical image including qt.

Buildroot/Debian

1. Clone the repository from the “List of supported OS” link and move your terminal to this directory.

2. In this stage you can modify your image configs as you want, you can find more info about it the the repository.

3. Build your own image by this command

   Code Block$ MACHINE=rzg2ul-hummingboard Distro=<Buildroot/Debian>

   • .

   /runme.sh

Booting from SD card

The following shows how to set the switches on the boot source selector:

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1. Downloading the image
   Download the image (for example Debian) by running the following command on your Linux/Windows PC:

   Code Block
   wget https://solid-run-images.sos-de-fra-1.exo.io/RZ/rzg2lc_build/20231122-6391518/rzg2lc-solidrun-sd-debian-6391518.img.xz

   • For more Debian releases, please visit Debian Releases for RZ/G2LCG2UL.

2. Writing the image to the SD card
   Use the following commands for writing the image to an SD card:

   Code Block
   xz -dc rzg2lcrzg2ul-solidrun-sd-debian-6391518.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdX bs=4k conv=fdatasync

   • For more information, please visit Flashing an SD Card .

   • Note:Plug a micro SD into your Linux PC, the following assumes that the USB-Disk / Micro-SD is added as /dev/sdX and all it’s partitions are unmounted.

   • Note: You can use the following command for writing to the SD in case you generated your own image:

     Code Block
     $ sudo dd if=/your/image/path of=/dev/sdX bs=4k conv=fdatasync

3. SD card insertion
   Please Insert the SD card into your device.

4. Power connection
   Connect your power adaptor to the DC jack, and then connect the adaptor to mains supply.

5. Power On
   Hold on the On/Off Power button - SW1 (as shown in the figure below)

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   • Note: The system should turn on by default when the power is connected (without pressing the button).

6. Serial Connection
   Please insert the micro USB into your device, then you can refer to Serial Connection for installing necessary serial connection software in Linux/Windows.
   Once you installed the necessary serial connection software, you should be able to see the following:

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List Of Supported OS

OS
Image Added	Debian
Image Added	RZ/G2LC Yocto
Image Added	Buildroot

Build from source

• https://github.com/SolidRun/build_rzg2lc

Documentation

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