latest mini210S/Tiny210 DVD sources

hi All, I was browsing the official friendlyarm site, www.arm9home.net and
found this:
http://www.arm9home.net/read.php?tid-27934.html

You have to create an account on the arm9home website to see the links but
they take you to the latest mini210/tiny210 software/sources/images
uploaded to a baidu cloud account.

They are the same format as the iso images, 210-A = source code +
toolchains, 210-B = prebuilt images/kernels + burning/image tools.

You can download the whole lot as a single zip file, or you can pick and
choose which files or folders you actually need.  Very useful if you're
only developing for one platform and don't need all of the other stuff.

As far as I can tell these discs are for both tiny210 board (tiny210,
tiny210v2) and the mini210S.  Use the slc images for the original tiny210
board or the mlc images for the tiny210v2/mini210S boards.

I've only looked at the android image so far, there are a couple of very
useful little updates in there, although they might need tweaking a bit.

the first addition they've made is adding ethernet support to the
framework, we used to have to use friendlyarm's own ethernet tool but there
is a patch for x86-android that makes it part of android, you can find it
in the settings menu, just below wifi.

I had looked into this but couldn't get it to compile properly myself and
got called away to do something else, so they've obviously fixed whatever
issue I was seeing (I think it was having issues with low dpi resources).

Next we have the addition of google apps. This is incredibly useful for
obvious reasons, access to google play, gmail etc.

There is one small issue that I've come across so far, signing in or
creating a google account requires a wifi connection.  As far as I know,
the ethernet patch that they've added *should* add the ethernet connection
as a valid download source, although I haven't tested that far yet, it
should've allowed me to use ethernet to connect to google play.

Either way, this is a nice little update for android from friendlyarm,
anyone that is using the mini210S for android development will find the
process a little bit easier with the full android/google experience.

Oh, I missed one, they've also pre-rooted the image too, so you can pretty
much install anything but of course be aware that it's on there, these
images should not be deployed in a working environment with root enabled!!

I registered on the website but the link does not appear???

Do I have to do something before it works?

Hi Dave, Oh yes, I forgot, you have to reply to the thread.  Any thread
where there is information/a download, you usually have to reply to the
thread to see the important stuff.

I also use google chrome to visit that site, first time you visit, it
offers to translate, then you can set it so that it does auto-translation.


Headsup for anyone reading this, at this point in time, there isn't a
'android-4.0.3_r1-fs-20130219.tar.gz' file, It's the android-4.0.3_r1 repo,
it looks like they had an upload issue, I downloaded it twice over the
weekend and it was corrupted.  Typical as that was the bit I was really
interested in.

The ethernet patch looks good but I *think* there may be some extra bits
that they may not have put in, I'd really like to check.

Thanks Reggie. Looks like the source file is no longer up there.

PS.. The attached image is of the Tiny210 Cap installed in a front panel I
had made with front mounted USB and back and menu buttons etc. There is
also a slot for a MicroSD card.

This is still in development and I am waiting for the interface PCB to
arrive but so far I have been happier with this than the Mini210 with the
older 7" resistive screen and Gingerbread. This unit is a lot more stable
but still needs the Ethernet and automatic connection to 3G sorted to make
it better.

:)

Dave...

Yeah, looks like they've taken down the source, hopefully to re-upload it.

The ethernet patch is a good start but I believe it still needs more work
(I think the download providers bit isn't done?) as you still have to have
wifi for initial connection to google stuff.

Nice to see they put google apps on there, I believe both of us have done
stuff to do with that, so it's nice to see it all in the images at last, it
just makes the images infinitely more usable for western users/developers.

That's a neat little surround Dave, Gingerbread and ICS use different
kernels and of course ICS should have improved stability over gingerbread,
I also believe they've been making small changes to the 3.0.8 kernel as
they've been updating the dvds, so it's no surprise.


I think there are a few things we still need, a kernel fix for the usb ohci
reboot issue, and the focaltech touchscreen driver in the
/drivers/input/touchscreen source folder (ft5x06.c?).

Looks like I jumped the gun a little bit about the ethernet patch, although
I could still be wrong, I managed to get it to setup a google account
without the need for wifi :)

There was a little google play icon up on the status bar, I clicked that
and it allowed me to setup my google account :)