i500 Evaluation Board

The i500 EVB is using the i500 (MT8385) platform.

Building

You can build an image for the i500 Evaluation Board by setting the MACHINE variable in your local.conf to i500-evb.

MACHINE=i500-evb

For full build instructions, please refer to the top level README.md.

Displays

The i500 Evaluation board supports three differents displays:

  • Sharp NT35532 (Red display)

  • TPV OTM1901A (Green display)

  • Truly R63350A (Yellow display)

The default display when building with MACHINE=i500-evb is Sharp NT35532. If your display on your evaluation board is different, you can add support to your display through device-tree overlays. In order to do so, the related overlay are located in recipes-kernel/dtbo/mt8183-evb/:

  • Green display: panel-tpv-otm1901a.dts

  • Yellow display: panel-truly-r63350a.dts

MT7668 wireless chipset

The i500 EVB is integrating a MT7668 wireless chipset. By default the chipset comes with no MAC or BD address. Please refer to the MT7668 wireless chipset documentation to see how to program a MAC or BD address.

Device-Tree Overlays (DTBO)

The following Device-Tree Overlays are supported:

  • panel-tpv-otm1901a.dtbo: Green display (see Displays section)

  • panel-truly-r63350a.dtbo: Yellow display (see Displays section)

Limitations

The software image has the following limitations:

  • CSI (Camera), HW accelarated video encode / decode are not yet supported