A20-OLinuXino-Lime2-e4GB and n8Gb

[cnerone]

I alla,
I bought A20-Lime2 and I chosed the version with more internal memory (n8Gb).
It was delivered to me 4 days ago and I tested it today.
looking for installing procedure I read something I didn't know before: official Linux images from Olimex are different between eMMC version and NAND Lime2s.
You are kidding me?
I bought an A20 lime2... if I don't use NAND... I cannot use the standard (eMMC) image?
Is it?

I want to use official Debian image from Debian.org.... and it's for A20-Lime2 and A20-Lime2-e4Gb... so no chance to install it on Lime2-NAND?
What hardware diffs between eMMMC and NAND Lime2? excluding internal Menotti type...

[JohnS]

The hardware is different (and came later) so the software is.  Why would you say kidding?

John

[LubOlimex]

Hello,

There are a number of differences. You might find the exact differences following the image build description here:  https://github.com/OLIMEX/OLINUXINO/blob/master/SOFTWARE/A20/A20-build-3.4.103-release-7/BUILD_DESCRIPTION_A20_Olimex_kernel_3.4.103%2B_Jessie_rel_6.txt - just search for "emmc" on the page and you would find most of the things (emmc slot number in menu config gets changed, there is a patch applied in u-boot, the script fex is slightly different, etc).

Best regards,
Lub/OLIMEX

[cnerone]

Hi,
I installed Debian stretch, using Debian installer...
A20 lime SD image runs well even in A20-NAND...

I'm happy!

[LubOlimex]

Hey, glad about that. It would be nice if you have some time and describe how you did it. I guess you used the images available here: http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/

You concatenated the firmware and the partition and downloaded it to SD card. Is the NAND visible during the installation, or only the SD card is visible?

I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in mainline stretch. Also it would be nice to report what works fine and what doesn't work.