Banana Pi Format Emmc

The Compute Module has an on-board eMMC device connected to the primary SD card interface. This guide explains how to write data to the eMMC storage using a Compute Module IO board.

Please also read the section on the Compute Module Datasheet.

Prepare your SD card for the Banana Pi. In order to enjoy your Banana Pi, you will need to install an Operating System (OS ) onto an SD card or eMMC Flash. Instructions below will teach you how to write an OS image to your SD card or eMMC Flash under Windows and Linux. 1.Insert your SD card into your computer. The Banana Pi M64 comes with 8 GB of eMMC which is the main feature that differentiates it from the Raspberry Pi 4. It also features a 4K HDMI interface, MIPI-DSI, and MIPI-CSI, as well as onboard wireless and Gigabit Ethernet for your connectivity needs.

Steps to flash the eMMC on a Compute Module

To flash the Compute Module eMMC, you either need a Linux system (a Raspberry Pi is recommended, or Ubuntu on a PC) or a Windows system (Windows 7 is recommended). For BCM2837 (CM3), a bug which affected the Mac has been fixed, so this will also work.

Note There is a bug in the BCM2835 (CM1) bootloader which returns a slightly incorrect USB packet to the host. Most USB hosts seem to ignore this benign bug and work fine; we do, however, see some USB ports that don't work due to this bug. We don't quite understand why some ports fail, as it doesn't seem to be correlated with whether they are USB2 or USB3 (we have seen both types working), but it's likely to be specific to the host controller and driver. This bug has been fixed in BCM2837.

For Windows users

Under Windows, an installer is available to install the required drivers and boot tool automatically. Alternatively, a user can compile and run it using Cygwin and/or install the drivers manually.

Windows installer

For those who just want to enable the Compute Module eMMC as a mass storage device under Windows, the stand-alone installer is the recommended option. This installer has been tested on Windows 10 32-bit and 64-bit, and Windows XP 32-bit.

Please ensure you are not writing to any USB devices whilst the installer is running.

1. Download and run the Windows installer to install the drivers and boot tool.
2. Plug your host PC USB into the CMIO USB SLAVE port, making sure J4 is set to the EN position.
3. Apply power to the CMIO board; Windows should now find the hardware and install the driver.
4. Once the driver installation is complete, run the RPiBoot.exe tool that was previously installed.
5. After a few seconds, the Compute Module eMMC will pop up under Windows as a disk (USB mass storage device).

Setting up the Compute Module IO board

Ensure the Compute Module itself is correctly installed on the IO board. It should lie parallel with the board, with the engagement clips clicked into place.

Make sure that J4 (USB SLAVE BOOT ENABLE) is set to the 'EN' position.

Use a micro USB cable to connect the IO board to the host device.

Do not power up yet.

Building rpiboot on your host system (Cygwin/Linux)

We will be using Git to get the rpiboot source code, so ensure Git is installed. In Cygwin, use the Cygwin installer. On a Pi or other Debian-based Linux machine, use the following command:

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Git may produce an error if the date is not set correctly. On a Raspberry Pi, enter the following to correct this:

where MM is the month, DD is the date, and hh and mm are hours and minutes respectively.

Clone the usbboot tool repository:

libusb must be installed. If you are using Cygwin, please make sure libusb is installed as previously described. On the Raspberry Pi or other Debian-based Linux, enter the following command:

Now build and install the usbboot tool:

Run the usbboot tool and it will wait for a connection:

Now plug the host machine into the Compute Module IO board USB slave port (J15) and power the CMIO board on. The rpiboot tool will discover the Compute Module and send boot code to allow access to the eMMC.

Writing to the eMMC - Windows

After rpiboot completes, a new USB mass storage drive will appear in Windows. We recommend following this guide and using Win32DiskImager to write images to the drive, rather than trying to use /dev/sda etc. from Cygwin.

Once you have written an OS image, make sure J4 (USB SLAVE BOOT ENABLE) is set to the disabled position and/or nothing is plugged into the USB slave port. Power cycling the IO board should result in the Compute Module booting the OS image from eMMC.

Writing to the eMMC - Linux

After rpiboot completes, you will see a new device appear; this is commonly /dev/sda on a Pi but it could be another location such as /dev/sdb, so check in /dev/ or run lsblk before running rpiboot so you can see what changes.

You now need to write a raw OS image (such as Raspbian) to the device. Note the following command may take some time to complete, depending on the size of the image: (Change /dev/sdX to the appropriate device.)

Once the image has been written, unplug and re-plug the USB; you should see two partitions appear (for Raspbian) in /dev. In total, you should see something similar to this:

The /dev/sdX1 and /dev/sdX2 partitions can now be mounted normally.

Make sure J4 (USB SLAVE BOOT ENABLE) is set to the disabled position and/or nothing is plugged into the USB slave port. Power cycling the IO board should now result in the Compute Module booting from eMMC.

Troubleshooting

For a small percentage of Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3s, booting problems have been reported. We have traced these back to the method used to create the FAT32 partition; we believe the problem is due to a difference in timing between the BCM2835/6/7 and the newer eMMC devices. The following method of creating the partition is a reliable solution in our hands.

• 1Summary
• 2Hardware Revision
• 3Resources
• 4Release

Introduction

The Banana Pi R2 is a router based development board, which can run on a variety of open source operating systems including OpenWrt, Android, and Linux. It has 4 Gigabit LAN ports, 1 Gigabit WAN, and 300Mbs wireless N capabilities.

Key Features

• MediaTek MT7623N, Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7
• Mali 450 MP4 GPU
• 2G DDR3 SDRAM
• Mini PCIE interface.
• support 2 SATA interface
• MicroSD slot supports up to 256GB expansion
• 8G eMMC flash (option 16/32/64G)
• MIPI display interface support
• 5 port 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet port
• (2) USB 3.0 and (1) USB 2.0 otg port
• 1080P high-definition video playback
• HDMI port and multi-channel audio output
• WIFI&Bluetooth 4.1 with 802.11B/G/N onboard

Getting Start

Hardware interface

Hardware spec

BPI-MT7615 802.11 ac wifi 4x4 dual-band

we have design a MT7615 802.11 ac wifi module ,can use on BPI-R2

MT7615 is a highly integrated Wi-Fi single chip which support 1733 Mbps PHY rate,It fully compies with IEEE 802.11ac and IEEE802.11 a/b/n standards,offering feature-rich wireless connecivity at high standards,and delivering reliable,cost-effective throughput from and extended distance.

BPI-R2 GPIO Pin define

Banana Pi BPI-R2 40-pin GPIO define:

Banana Pi BPI-R2 has a 40-pin GPIO header that matches that of the Model Raspberry Pi 3. Following is the Banana Pi GPIO Pinout:

BPI-R2 40 PIN GPIO define:

MIPI DSI (Display SerialInterface)

Thedisplay Connector is a 40-pin FPC connector which can connect external LCD panel (MIPI DSI) and touch screen (I2C) module as well. The pin definitions of this connector are shown as below. This is marked on the Banana Pi board as“DSI”.

UART specification:

Theheader CON4 is the UART interface. For developers of Banana Pi, this is an easy way to get the UART console output to check the system status and log message.

Source code

• OpenWRT 18.06 source code on Github: https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-R2-OPENWRT-18.06
• BPI-R2 github BSP : https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-R2-bsp
• OpenWRT LEDE: https://github.com/garywangcn/bpi-r2_lede/tree/bpi-r2-on-lede-v1
• BPI-R2 linux kernel 4.14 : https://github.com/frank-w/BPI-R2-4.14
• OpenMPTCProuter : https://github.com/Ysurac/openmptcprouter
• BPI-R2 FreeBSD support/ZRouter.org support :https://gist.github.com/rayddteam/3461964e69f1fcc727b1b68ec9d6d0c8

Documents

• BPI-R2 Schematics :BPI-R2 V1.2 hardware schematic diagram
• BPI-R2 Schematics :BPI-R2 V1.1 hardware schematic diagram
• Dimensional diagram BPI-R2 DXF design file
• MTK MT7623N datasheet

MTK 7623N datasheet for development board programming guide v1.1 new update

• FW-Web Wiki : http://fw-web.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:bpi-r2:start
• Banana pi BPI-R2 CE,FCC,RoHS:

CE,FCC,RoHS

• Banana Pi BPI-R2 Razberry board OpenHab2

https://community.openhab.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-r2-razberry-board-openhab2-help/37222/8

• gitbook online documents: https://bananapi.gitbooks.io/banana-pi-bpi-r2-open-source-smart-router/content/
• The best news is that the final patchset version for HNAT framework was accepted ( kernel 4.16) and it's based on nftables.:https://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg50973.html
• How to build an Ubuntu/Debian SD image from scratch : http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/how-to-build-an-ubuntu-debian-sd-image-from-scratch/6805
• Best Banana Pi R2 Operating System Options: https://www.electromaker.io/blog/article/best-banana-pi-r2-operating-system-options
• Make a Banana Pi R2 Router: Banana Pi R2 OpenWRT Installation and Review:https://www.electromaker.io/tutorial/blog/make-a-banana-pi-r2-router-banana-pi-r2-openwrt-installation-and-review
• MTK chip mailline Linux effort :https://mtk.bcnfs.org/doku.php?id=linux_mainline_effort

Android 6.0

• baidu cloud : https://pan.baidu.com/s/1pMrroy3
• discuss on forum : http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-r2-new-image-release-android-6-0-v1-0/4630

Ubuntu with kernel 4.4

• Source code(BSP): https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-R2-bsp
• BPI-R2 Ubuntu 16.04 Kernel4.4 V1.3

Image Release : http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/topic/5293

Ubuntu with kernel 4.14

• Source code(BSP): https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-R2-bsp-4.14
• Image Release

BPI-R2 Ubuntu 16.04 Kernel4.14 V1.0: http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/topic/5548

OpenWrt(LEDE)

• Official OpenWR 18.06.4 for Banana Pi BPI-R2 image released 2019-7-04

image download:https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/targets/mediatek/mt7623/

Forum pthread:http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/official-openwr-18-06-4-for-banana-pi-bpi-r2-image-released-2019-7-04/9459

• BananaPI BPI-R2 Openwrt18.06 Image Release and source code 2019-03-06

source code on Github: https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-R2-OPENWRT-18.06

image download: https://dev.banana-pi.org.cn/Image/BPI-R2/Openwrt/1806/

MD5SUM

mtk-bpi-r2-EMMC.img : 5d1537c45679de352dd25d8dda46b9ad

mtk-bpi-r2-SD.img ：71fce303abdceed4f1c3548d5a3fc207

forum Pthread: http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bananapi-bpi-r2-openwrt18-06-demo-image-release-2019-03-06/8562

• Official OpenWRT 18.06.0 image :

https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.0/targets/mediatek/mt7623/

• Source code: https://github.com/garywangcn/bpi-r2_lede/tree/bpi-r2-on-lede-v1
• Image Release

BPI-R2 OpenWrt(LEDE) 20180509: http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/topic/5646

BPI-R2 OpenWrt(LEDE) 20180411: http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/topic/5395

BPI-R2 OpenWrt(LEDE) 20170908: http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/topic/3797

OpenMPTCProuter

• 2018-10-12 update, OpenMPTCProuter use MultiPath TCP (MPTCP) to aggregate multiple Internet connections and OpenWrt. and have official support BPI-R2.

image download:https://www.openmptcprouter.com/download

source code on github:https://github.com/Ysurac/openmptcprouter

forum pthread: http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-r2-new-image-openmptcprouter-official-support/7229

Armbian

• Armbian preview image for Bananapi R2 / K4.19.y

https://www.armbian.com/bananapi-r2/

Centos 7

• Source code(BSP): https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-R2-bsp
• Image Release

BPI-R2 Centos 7 Kernel4.4 20180112: http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/topic/5124

how to install: https://www.electromaker.io/tutorial/blog/getting-started-with-centos-on-the-banana-pi-r2-how-to-install-centos-on-banana-pi-r2

Debian

• 2019-8-12 update.[BPI-R2] debian 10 buster image with Kernel 4.19.62, shared by frank-w

Kernel: 4.19.62,uboot 2019-07 with erase-env + sata-support,new preloader (2019-07-22),configured to ip 192.168.0.11 on lan0,openssh-server running with root-login (should be disabled afterwards),username/password: root/bananapi

google drive:https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oP7jy1KrrIOifvImo2nQ59wx3_9hHkgk

how to : https://www.fw-web.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:bpi-r2:storage#short_install-guide

forum discuss:http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-r2-debian-buster-image-with-kernel-4-19-62/9601

• Image Release

image download : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oP7jy1KrrIOifvImo2nQ59wx3_9hHkgk

documents: http://www.fw-web.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:bpi-r2:debian

Basic Alpine Router Platform with WIFI AccessPoint on Pantavisor 005

• Image Release

release date :2018-06-17

• SD-Card images:

512M: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bpi-pv/alpine-router/2/2018-06-16-alpine-router-pantavisor-512M-bpi-r2-sd-emmc.img.zip

8G: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bpi-pv/alpine-router/2/2018-06-16-alpine-router-pantavisor-8G-bpi-r2-sd-emmc.img.zip

• PVR Command Line Tool (download to PATH directory and make executable):

Linux (amd64): https://gitlab.com/pantacor/pvr/uploads/b0db2e9e36fa70ff09e045df9c9803d4/pvr-004-amd64.gz

Windows (x64): https://gitlab.com/pantacor/pvr/uploads/a7a26b603a5b8e9a98e2dc7c77b4c252/pvr-004-win10-x64.zip

More downloads: https://gitlab.com/pantacor/pvr/tags/004

• Discuss on forum :

http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-r2-new-image-basic-alpine-router-platform-with-wifi-accesspoint-on-pantavisor-005-2018-06-17/6032

yocto Linux

• this image just for test. yocto with kernel 4 4,and GPU working fine.this GPU binary is from yocto SDK with kernel 3.18 , we test it with github kernel 4.4 , just change rootfs. if working fine .so , maybe can use on kernel 4.14. just need to test . and have weston commond to test more.

test image : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1le2rroD3Dgc4HkEUmGyDLZix-Llrzeen

video demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhFn1Nqht1E&feature=youtu.be

Forum pthread : http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-r2-new-image-gpu-decode-test-yocto-with-kernel-4-4-just-for-test/6508

MQLinux 19.02 beta

• update 2019-03-12, Note : this image is shared by http://www.morequick.net/. not support by BPI team

Main features:

Highly streamlined embedded design system, running in memory

Mutilple Language (en/zh_CN currently)

DNS Proxy/Cache

DDNS

VLAN Extension for WAN

Multiple WAN (each ethernet port can be defined)

DHCP Server

FTP Server

PPPoE Server

Samber Server

VPN client/Server (PPTP VPN, IPsecVPN, OpenVPN)

Cloud Login

Firewall

IP-MAC Locking

Port Mapping/DMZ/UPnP

Diagnose Tools …

image dwonload: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ws2IUiCGSKKQ2dCM5XJBV-pog-hk17PM/view?usp=sharing

MD5: 09b58f050166ed5d09803e1de56d7890

Forum pthread: http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-r2-new-image-mqlinux-19-02-beta/8832

FreeBSD

• BPI-R2 FreeBSD support/ZRouter.org support

http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-r2-freebsd-support-zrouter-org-support/7290

• BPI-R2 based DIY NAS/Router : https://bburky.com/NAS/

Forum pthread:http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-r2-based-diy-nas-router/6787