DART-SD410 Android Getting Started

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DART-SD410 - First Time? Start Here.

This WIKI describes:

  • Variscite's FTP tree explanatioon.
  • Switching between Android and Linux.
  • How to start using your VAR-DT410CustomBoard.

Variscite's FTP

The Variscite's FTP directory tree is as following:

dart-sd410
├── Software
│   ├── Android
│   │   ├── LL.1.2.4-01810-8x16.0-3
│   │   └── RescueImages
│   ├── Yocto
│   ├── Ubuntu
│   ├── Windows
│   └── RescueDiskImage
└── Hardware
    ├── Schematics
    ├── Datasheets
    └── Layout

The SD410 section is divided into two subsections:

Software

In this section each supported OS has it's own subdirectory.
Additional directory named RescueDiskImage holds inside the rescue disk for switching between different OSes.
The partition table of Android and Linux is different and this image will help update the needed partition table.
To use this image it should be burnt into SD Card, to do so please follow:

Preparing rescue SD-Card

  • Plug your SD card to your Linux machine, run dmesg and see what device is added (i.e. /dev/sdX)

Run the following command to write the image file to the SD card

$ sudo dd if=~/Downloads/DART-DT410_sd_rescue.img of=/dev/sdX bs=128k<br/>

Overview

The objective of this document is to guide DART-SD410 Android developers to obtain Android Lollipop sources, setting up host environment, compilation and deployment.

This document contains instructions for:

  • Hardware and software requirements.
  • Setup the hardware.
  • Setup the toolchain.
  • Download & build the sources.
  • Install the binaries on the DART-SD410 SOM.