I got one of these cheap mini2440 board, that has fantastic hardware for the price…
However the software you find is pretty dreadful. u-boot 1.1.6 , linux 2.6.13 etc. 5 years old stuff.
Anyone know if more modern software exists, at the least for this SoC, or for this SBC idealy…
You could get the source code for the latest versions and build them yourself.
Leon
u-boot git doesn’t have the s3c2440 support somehow. I don’t know why but these patches were never upgraded. of course u-boot evolved considerably since, and a plain patch won’t work.
As for the kernel, there is support for s3c2440, but not this particular board. I’m asking here because since it’s cheap ($125 with a 3.5" screen) and seemingly plentiful someone must have ran into it…
Which board is that? I found a nice one for $200.
Leon
The board is pretty nifty, hardware-wise it’s great, well made and all that. Comes with Qtopia installed, but as I said, the BSP is old…
I guess I will have to do the job myself, I hoped someone else would be using it :D](http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Samsung-S3C2440-ARM9-Board-3-5-TFT-LCD-Touch-Screen_W0QQitemZ110316812113QQcmdZViewItemQQptZBI_Electrical_Equipment_Tools?hash=item110316812113&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177)
That’s strange, it looks identical to the $200 one:
http://www.developmentboard.net/index.p … 0+with+LCD
$125 is a very good price for all that stuff.
Leon
Thats what I thought too. They have a 7" screen version as well, and a board that has a VGA output (1024x768).
All in all worth the effort of getting it to work, that ARM9 is no slouch !
I’ll try to get a more modern kernel working this week-end, hopefully it’s less problematic to integrate independant drivers to the existing CPU support. For a distro, I already have openwrt built…
I’m working on getting the Poky distribution to run on that board.
I agree with you, the stuff they are sending you on the CD is really old.
I’ve run in to a few snags getting Poky to build though but i guess it’ll be up and running soon. I’ll let you know on how I’m progressing.
/Pac
I managed to get a recent u-boot working on the board (1.3.4 base); I took the openmoko branch that already has s2c2440 base support, and added the necessary bits to it.
So now I have a modern bootloader with nand, mmc, tftp and all that. I decided to ignore the NOR an boot u0boot from nand. I’ll keep the crap vivi bootloader on the nor for emergency 
I also managed to upload code via openocd, but the nand support is no longer accessible.
Kernels are more problematic. I can build kernels but they won’t run… they hang after the decompression. I tried 3 toolchains (opensourcery, openwrt and sandbox2) and they all behave the same.
The binary 2.6.13 from the cd starts up fine… most annoying…
I now got a git-kernel (2.6.29-rc3) working fine on the board. Got pretty much everything working, but I need to find a nagging problem when I run it at “full” speed (400/100), the DM9000 ethernet fails somehow.
It’s possible it can’t run that fast anyway, and I might have to use more conservative bus speed.
I also got a openwrt board support working, so it’s a nice little distro. No graphical apps so far, I’ll debunk the rest of the drivers before bothering