How to deploy a Win IoT Core Image

Owned by Anu Selvaraj (Deactivated)
Last updated: 19. Oct 2022 by Albinleo Velappan (Deactivated)

Myon

Prepare System

  • Download the DragonBoard Update Tool x86 or x64

  • Install the DragonBoard Update Tool and allow to install the contain USB driver

Prepare Hardware (iPAN M7)

 

  • Set Forced_USB_Boot (SW201) to “on”. (marked with 6)

  • Connect a USB cable to the i-PAN M7 micro USB-Slave port and connect the other end to an USB-port on the host PC. (marked with 4)

  • Connect a power-supply to the i-PAN M7 board (marked with 1)

Deploy Image

  • Start the DragonBoard Update Tool.

  • The Update Tool should detect the i-PAN M7 and the Connection Status should turn green.

  • Select the “Browse” button and select the rawprogram0.xml. When this file does not exist you can create it when you select the Flash.ffu and click on „Program“.

  • Press the “Program” button and wait for the image to be stored onto the eMMC of the Myon.

Start Hardware

  • Once download is complete, disconnect the power supply and micro-USB cable from the board and switch Forced_USB_Boot (SW201) back to “off”. Set Boot_Config_1 (SW200) to “off” to ensure boot from eMMC. If no card is inserted to the µSD-card socket, it would make no difference if Boot_Config_1 is set or not.

Update Single Partitions on emmc

Please use this method only to test single components. You need the follwing tools:

  • emmcdl.exe (part of the DragonBoardUpdateTool)

  • prog_emmc_firehose_8916_ddr.mbn (Part of the DragonBoardUpdateTool)

  • cpfatfs.exe (part of the KuKMyonBuildEnvironment [KUK_SRC\acpi\bin])

To update a partition you need to start the Myon to USBDownloadMode. With „emmcdl -list“ you get the Right com port.

Update SBL

emmcdl -p COMxx -f prog_emmc_firehose_8916_ddr.mbn -b SBL sblfile.mbn

Update UEFI

emmcdl -p COMxx -f prog_emmc_firehose_8916_ddr.mbn -b UEFI uefifile.mbn

Update ACPI

Add need files to the fat16.bin file from ACPI build folder:

cpfatfs.exe fat16.bin panelcfg.xml

cpfatfs.exe fat16.bin boot1.bmp

cpfatfs.exe fat16.bin boot2.bmp

cpfatfs.exe fat16.bin SMBIOS SMBIOS.CFG

emmcdl -p COMxx -f prog_emmc_firehose_8916_ddr.mbn -b PLAT fat16.bin

Trizeps7/Trizeps8mini (SDCard)

insert SDCard and get the physical disk number:

powershell Get-WmiObject Win32_DiskDrive

install image in SDCard:

dism.exe /Apply-Image /ImageFile:"*.ffu" /ApplyDrive:\\.\PhysicalDrive{disk_number} /SkipPlatformCheck or: flashSD.cmd eval_image test {disk_number}

the first boot is very slow and take much time

Update Firmware on sd

you can easily insert your sd card into you host pc

insert SDCard and get the physical disk number:

powershell Get-WmiObject Win32_DiskDrive

update the sdcard with dd for windows

Trizeps8mini / Myon2 / SBCSOM (emmc)

Boot the device an press ESC to stop the boot process in uboot
start the Massstorage Mode

connect the USB Slave with your Host PC
get the Physical Device number of the emmc

flash the emmc

reset the device to boot into Windows IoT Core

Sometime the flash will crash, please close VirtualBox and all Explorer Windows.

Update Firmware on emmc

boot the device an press ESC to stop the boot process in uboot

update the firmware with fastboot

copy firmware from emmc user partition to boot partition (the ffu contains the firmware even on emmc images)

copy firmware from external SDCard (FAT32 partitioned with firmware.im8m.bin) calulate the firmware size after read file (e.g. 3601897 bytes –> #blocks=ceil(3601897/512)=0x1B7B)

Hints

if the emmc/sd card has an saved environment, sometime the system will not boot (mostly after an update from linux/android)
you can erase the save environment with

if the deployment breaks, sometime the emmc has no valid gpt table

you can write an dummy gpt before calling mounting in massstorage mode

on emmc you can choose the boot partion