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Business Card Linux
This is the Linux distribution small enough to run from the 8MB of storage on my Linux-powered business card. It is powered by the Allwinner F1C100s, a $1.40 Linux-capable ARM system-on-chip. This repository is the source code for its firmware image, based on Buildroot 2019.05. This directory is a "Buildroot external," providing a few patches, additional packages, and board support files on top of mainline Buildroot.
For a complete write-up, see my blog post about the project.
Patched Linux and U-Boot
I lightly patched the Linux kernel and U-Boot to get all the hardware peripherals working. You can find my forks here:
Build
Make sure submodules are initialized:
git submodule update --init
Change to the top-level Buildroot directory:
cd buildroot
Initialize the configuration, including the defconfig and this external directory:
make BR2_EXTERNAL=$PWD/../ thirtythreeforty_businesscard_defconfig
And compile:
make
This may take a couple hours to do from scratch, depending on the speed of your machine.
Installation
If you have a Lichee Pi Nano with a flash chip, or one of my blank business cards, you can flash it with the following command.
Make sure the board is in FEL mode using dmesg or similar.
output/host/bin/sunxi-fel -p spiflash-write 0 output/images/flash.bin
You can erase the card after it boots by simply logging in (as root) and erasing the flash manually:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mtd0
Don't erase it unless you're prepared to burn a new image!