Banana Pi BPI-R2 New Image Release : Ubuntu 16.04 V1.3
1.About this release
- This release is for banana pi R2 board which is based on MTK7623N, and it is based on Ubuntu 16.04 Operation system.
2.What’s new in this release
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Fixed bugs
Issue：Environments of u-boot won’t save in sd card when boot from external sd card
https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-R2-bsp/issues/28
Issue：Unable to disable tx-checksum-ipv4 for both eth0 and eth1
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Enabled Uart0 / 1 by default
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Support 4G module EC25 ( qmi-wwan / ppp；GPS / BeiDou )
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Change CONFIG_ATA and CONFIG_SATA_AHCI drivers to built-in mode
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Add mmc-util tool
3.Known limitations
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Bluetooth is unstable
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Wifi Ap is unstable
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SPI is unstable
4.Image link：
username: root , password: bananapi
5.FAQ：
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Q1：How to use BPI-4G module with R2?
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Q2：How about the performance of BPI-4G module with R2？
Use ppp：
Use qmi-wwan：
Qmi-wwan is faster than ppp，so we recommend qmi-wwan.
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Q3：How to use mmc-util？
A3：Here is quote from Frank-w，“write emmc-partition-config with mmc-utils”
[18:02] root@bpi-r2:~# ./mmc extcsd read /dev/mmcblk1 | grep PARTITION_CONFIG Boot configuration bytes [PARTITION_CONFIG: 0x00] [18:02] root@bpi-r2:~# ./mmc bootpart enable 1 1 /dev/mmcblk1 [18:03] root@bpi-r2:~# ./mmc extcsd read /dev/mmcblk1 | grep PARTITION_CONFIG Boot configuration bytes [PARTITION_CONFIG: 0x48]You can find more infos from here：http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/emmc-partition-information-mmc-tools-on-a-live-system/4940/3