Antminer Beaglebone S5 - hack to use linux research

BeagleBoneBlack-Research.md

erase emmc manually: https://e2e.ti.com/support/legacy_forums/embedded/linux/f/linux-forum-read-only/398780/script-to-erase-emmc-independently-beagle-bone-black

Online board view (click image for link)

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Beagle Reference Manual

• https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglebone-black/wiki/System-Reference-Manual

Images

• https://beagleboard.org/static/beaglebone/latest/README.htm

Debugging Putty

• https://www.dummies.com/computers/beaglebone/how-to-connect-the-beaglebone-black-via-serial-over-usb/

JTAG

• https://www.twosixlabs.com/running-a-baremetal-beaglebone-black-part-1/

Backup and Flashing

• https://elinux.org/BeagleBone_Black_Extracting_eMMC_contents
• https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:Updating_The_Software#Flashing_the_eMMC
• https://makezine.com/projects/beaglebone-black-update-to-debian-for-windows/
• https://www.dummies.com/computers/beaglebone/how-to-flash-the-beagleboards-onboard-emmc/

Resetting the root password

• http://mmmsoftware.blogspot.com/2014/01/recovering-root-password-on-beaglebone.html

Bootloader

• http://beagleboard.org/project/U-Boot+%28V1%29/
• http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/WebHome
• https://wiki.beyondlogic.org/index.php?title=BeagleBoneBlack_Upgrading_uBoot

About DTS files (Device Tree Blob - Flat Device Tree)

• http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1647051&seqNum=5
• libPRUio - Docs
• libPRUio - github

Micron NAND Flash Memory (S5 Antminer)

• https://www.micron.com/-/media/documents/products/data-sheet/nand-flash/20-series/2gb_nand_m29b.pdf

Could not probe the EEPROM; something fundamentally wrong on the I2C bus.

https://e2e.ti.com/support/processors/f/791/t/297989?AM335x-EEPROM-disable

Power quick flahs - Dead from bad probing

https://www.element14.com/community/thread/41564/l/element14-branded-beaglebone-black-wont-power-on?displayFullThread=true

NAND reading with arduino

https://hackaday.com/2017/03/10/arduino-into-nand-reader/ https://www.j-michel.org/blog/2014/05/27/from-nand-chip-to-files

CAPES

• Waveshare LCD cape schematic - https://www.waveshare.com/w/upload/9/93/LCD_CAPE_Schematic.pdf