AXIOM Beta Firmware Version 2.0
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1 Prepare Micro SD Card
- Get a new Micro SD card (4GB is enough, bigger is fine as well, but the partitions are not yet automatically resized when a bigger SD card is detected).
- Acquire the latest automatically built firmware image from: https://github.com/apertus-open-source-cinema/axiom-beta-firmware/releases - don't be alarmed by the name "Unstable Development Snapshot" it just means the firmware has been automatically built without human interaction.
- Download, install and start Etcher: https://www.balena.io/etcher/
- Flash the acquired image to a new Micro SD card with Etcher (we highly recommend not overwriting the Micro SD card you currently use in your AXIOM Beta).
- After flashing put the Micro SD card into the AXIOM Beta Microzed SD card slot and power up the Beta.
2 Notes
This new firmware is still in development so expect issues and bugs.
This is the list of current issues/bugs: https://github.com/apertus-open-source-cinema/axiom-beta-firmware/issues
If you find a new bug or have ideas for improvement please add it as github issue (please first check it has not been reported yet).
- Default user is now operator and password: axiom
- Sudo is required to change system/camera settings (like running the various scripts)
- All camera related programs and scripts are now prefixed with
axiom-
(for example to runset_gain.sh
use runaxiom-set_gain.sh
) kick_manual.sh
was renamed tostart.sh
halt_manual.sh
was renamed tostop.sh
- Image build log is located in each image under:
/var/build.log
- Devicetree source can be found at
/boot/devicetree.dts
. To recompile it after any changes usedtc -O dtb -o /boot/devicetree.dtb /boot/devicetree.dts
- To interrupt the autoboot from u-boot send
Ctrl-C
over serial quickly after a boot / reboot (try holding it down) axiom-file-check.sh
does an integrity check of /usr, /etc and /opt- Binaries are linked in:
/usr/axiom/bin
- Scripts are linked in:
/usr/axiom/script
/opt/axiom-firmware
contains scripts and binaries- Every AXIOM Beta currently has the same MAC address - a random one should be generated on the first boot, but this is not implemented yet.
2.1 FPGA Bitstreams
- FPGA bitstreams are located in
/usr/lib/firmware
and softlinked to from/opt/bitstreams/
- *.bit files need to be converted to *.bin files with: /opt/axiom-firmware/makefiles/in_chroot/to_raw_bitstream.py -f input_file.bit output_file.bin
Further documentation: