New demo available for the new SAMA5D2-ICP (Available by Mid-March 2020). Based on the following components:
 New kernel features:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v4.19.78
- Added support for SAMA5D2-ICP board
- SAMA5D2-ICP drivers:
- MCP16502 PMIC driver
- KSZ 8563 ethernet switch driver
- USB 2534 hub generic driver
- LAN7850 driver with suspend / resume fix
- Driver for the WILC3000 and WILC1000 release 15.2 in place in the Linux4SAM kernel and ready to use
Yocto Project/Buildroot features:
- Support for new board: SAMA5D2-ICP
- Yocto branch, Warrior (2.7.1)
Demo Image for the new SAMA5D2-ICP board. Choose headless (no video) option, your root filesystem flavor, flash and you're ready to go:
And all goodies of previous Linux4SAM revisions!
New demo available for all previous SAMA5 boards and new SAM9X60-EK board and SAMA5D2 WLSOM1 EK. Based on updated components:
New kernel features:
- SAM9X60 SoC drivers:
- PLL Fractional support, PIT64 driver used for clock event, PIO drive strength and slew rate support
- PWM support, QSPI controller support, NAND controller support, ISI support, ADC support
- Reworked USB gadget driver. Updated endpoint allocation scheme. Fixed driver when working in FIFO mode only
- I2S Multi Channel driver with support of up to 8 channels in TDM mode
- Power management: ULP0 PM and Idle
- Watchdog support, TRNG support, RTC support
- SAMA5D27 WLSOM1 drivers:
- Backup and self-refresh support for LPDDR2
- PTC support for QT1 Mutual/Self Capacitance and Q2 wings
- Driver for the WILC3000 and WILC1000 release 15.2 in place in the Linux4SAM kernel and ready to use
New Yocto Project/Buildroot features:
- Full support for EGT (version 0.8.2 included)
- Support for two new boards: SAM9X60 Evaluation Kit and SAMA5D2 WLSOM1 EK
- Moved to the new Yocto branch, Warrior (2.7.1)
- Support for QT framework version 5.12.x is still included in the features
Demo Image for all boards. Choose headless (no video) or graphics option, your root filesystem flavor, flash and you're ready to go:
- NAND and SPI + eMMC media types were flashed using SAM-BA 3.3
Yocto Project SDK based on Linux4SAM 6.2 release (Yocto Project 2.7.1 Warrior)
And all goodies of previous Linux4SAM revisions!
New demo available for all SAMA5 boards and AT91SAM9x5-EK board. Based on updated components:
New kernel features:
- Redesign of the Image Sensor Controller (ISC) driver with new White balance enhanced features.
- Driver for the WILC3000 and WILC1000 release 15.2 in place in the Linux4SAM kernel and ready to use
- TWI hardware filters support that filter out possible glitches on the TWI wires for both SAMA5D4 Xplained and SAMA5D2 Xplained
- Add 9bit/Multidrop
 support in USART driver
- PIOBU pin controller driver
- MCP16502 PMIC driver
- ACT8945A: PM support (integrated in mainline)
- Ethernet: add runtime PM support (integrated in mainline)
- Ethernet: add backup and self-refresh support (integrated in mainline)
- Ethernet: use of NAPI GRO helpers to improve RX performance
- QSPI: move driver under the SPI-MEM interface. The controller can be used with NAND or NOR flashes.
New Yocto Project/Buildroot features:
- Update of QT framework to 5.12.x (latest LTS for QT5)
- Firmware version 15.2 for WILC3000 and WILC1000 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth together with all the required software components (wpa-supplicant, hostapd and more)
- Add 9bit serial demo applications for 9bit protocol demo
Demo Image for all boards. Choose with or without screen option, your root filesystem flavor, flash and you're ready to go: Demo Archive 6.1 page
- NAND and SPI + eMMC media types were flashed using SAM-BA 3.2.3
Yocto Project SDK based on Linux4SAM 6.1 release (Yocto Project 2.6.2 Thud)
And all goodies of previous Linux4SAM revisions!
New demo available for all SAMA5 boards and AT91SAM9x5-EK board. Based on updated components:
- Linux kernel 4.14.x (+ LTS maintenance updates up to v4.14.73)
- AT91Bootstrap 3.8.11 with new support for DMA load from SD-Card/eMMC and 8-bit bus eMMC detect & support
- U-Boot 2018.07 with PDA screen detection at boot time, FIT image support and overlay support. Check our FAQ for any questions
- Yocto Project 2.5.1 (Sumo)
- Buildroot generated from 2018.02 revision using buildroot external
- OpenWrt Linux operating system based on master branch of the reunified LEDE / OpenWrt project: 18.06
- Device tree overlays and FIT Image support
New kernel features:
- use of Device Tree overlays for board variants and auto-identification of PDA screens when hardware permits
- handling for all low power modes ULP0/ULP1/Backup Self Refresh on SoC that support them
- add support for PDA 5" screen TM5000/AC320005-5
- add driver for the new Atmel I2S controller
- ADC: add resistive touchscreen support to SAMA5D2
- QSPI: add Global Block Unlock support and SFDP tables to support SST26 QSPI flash memories
- USB host: add the HSIC port support
- USART: add ISO7816 support to serial driver
- USART: add support for SPI mode in USART driver: spi-at91-usart
- fix to sama5d2 shutdown controller
- fix drive strength for NAND data pins on SAMA5D2-PTC-EK
- fix Ethernet macb TX stuck under certain conditions (net: macb: restart tx after tx used bit read)
- fix cts(cbc(aes)) and rfc4543(gcm(aes))) crypto modes
New Yocto Project/Buildroot features:
- new whiteboard Qt application with improved performance
- new wildwest Qt demo showing parallax effects with libplanes
- new Qt application interactively demonstrating software vs hardware scene objects
- new spacetouch application showing using all planes with a parallax effect
- new defconfigs for node-red out-of-the-box working setup (only on buildroot)
- new vision demo demonstrating machine vision with OpenCV (only on buildroot)
- Qt Creator support
Libplanes with support for YUV plane formats (support video formats)
MPIO additions:
- Add support for at91sam9x5
- Add support to change board/cpu through environment variables
- Add loopback test for SPI
iocontrol - add splash screen and startup time optimizations.
Demo Image for all boards. Choose with or without screen option, your root filesystem flavor, flash and you're ready to go: Demo Archive 6.0 page
NAND and SPI + eMMC media types were flashed using SAM-BA 3.2.3
Yocto Project SDK based on Linux4SAM 6.0 release (Yocto Project 2.5.1 "Sumo")
And all goodies of previous Linux4SAM revisions!
New demo available for all SAMA5 boards and AT91SAM9x5-EK board. Based on updated components:
- Linux kernel 4.9.x (+ LTS maintenance updates up to v4.9.87)
- AT91Bootstrap 3.8.10
- U-Boot 2017.03 with Device Model / Device Tree support
- Yocto Project 2.4.2 (Rocko)
- Buildroot generated from latest 2018.02 revision with the new buildroot external
- OpenWrt filesystem solution based on master branch of the reunified LEDE / OpenWrt project
- Support for new SAMA5D2 PTC EK and dedicated page: Sama5d2PtcEKMainPage
- Support for the Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC), able to provide a Capacitive Touch interface. Linux driver uses it as an input device
- Use of QT LinuxFB with DRM/KMS backend without the need of wayland/weston nor OpenGLES (Mesa 3D)
- Libplanes graphical library for taking advantage of the LCD hardware overlays (2D Hardware operations)
- Availability of the new Microchip Peripheral I/O Python Package: mpio
- And all the goodies of previous Linux4SAM revisions!
Demo Image for all boards. Choose your screen option, your root filesystem flavor, flash and you're ready to go: Demo Archive 5.8 page
Yocto Project SDK based on Linux4SAM 5.8 release (Yocto Project 2.4.2 "Rocko")
New SDK based on latest Yocto Project release and libraries used for latest demos: Yocto Project 2.2.2 (Morty)
- install the SDK
- compile your project
- run on the board running the latest demo Linux4SAM 5.7
all libraries on your development host aligned with the target root filesystem.
Using the Image Sensor Controller (ISC) describes how the Image Sensor interface could be configured, and used to take pictures or videos with a simple camera sensor.
Pulse Width Modulation driver (PWM) FAQ describes how this interface could be configured, debugged and used.
FAQ page about how to connect a PDA Inc. LCD screens to the various SAMA5D2, SAMA5D3 and SAMA5D4 Xplained boards.
Learn the intrinsics of the recent move to Driver Model and Decive Tree in U-boot with the FAQ entry for SAMA5 SoC and boards.
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