Macnica Mpression Helio, Getting Started

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Mpression Helio Board
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Getting Started - Mpression Helio Board
© Mpression by Macnica Group
1.
Overview
1.1 Introducion
This getting started guide walks you through how to setup a board and booting linux on Helio board.
After reading this document, you will be able to:
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Basic setup for the Helio board
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Writing microSD boot disk for the Helio board
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Run U-Boot and Linux on the Helio board
1.2 Release Contents and Location
Macnica provides some of reference material for Helio Board as follows:
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Pre-Built ALL-IN-ONE imeage to create MicroSD boot disk that is included:
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Preloader
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U-Boot
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U-Boot script for bridge management
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Linux Kernel
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Device Tree Blob
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Root File System
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Golden Hardware Reference Design (GHRD)
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Board References
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Schematic
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Bill of Materials
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PWB data
All components can be downloaded from:
http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/Documentation/MacnicaHelioSoCEvaluationKit
1.3 Prerequisites
You need to prepare & setup following tools to boot up a Linux on Helio Board.
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Terminal Software like TeraTerm (for UART input/output)
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Win32DiskImager (to create SD card boot disk)
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager