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<section id="banana-pi-bpi-m2u-bpim2u">
<h1>Banana Pi BPI-M2U (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bpim2u</span></code>)<a class="headerlink" href="#banana-pi-bpi-m2u-bpim2u" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>Banana Pi BPI-M2 Ultra is a quad-core mini single board computer built with
Allwinner A40i/R40/V40 SoC. It features 2GB of RAM and 8GB eMMC. It also
has onboard WiFi and BT. On the ports side, the BPI-M2 Ultra has 2 USB A
2.0 ports, 1 USB OTG port, 1 HDMI port, 1 audio jack, a DC power port,
and last but not least, a SATA port.</p>
<section id="supported-devices">
<h2>Supported devices<a class="headerlink" href="#supported-devices" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>The Banana Pi M2U machine supports the following devices:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><ul class="simple">
<li><p>SMP (Quad Core Cortex-A7)</p></li>
<li><p>Generic Interrupt Controller configuration</p></li>
<li><p>SRAM mappings</p></li>
<li><p>SDRAM controller</p></li>
<li><p>Timer device (re-used from Allwinner A10)</p></li>
<li><p>UART</p></li>
<li><p>SD/MMC storage controller</p></li>
<li><p>EMAC ethernet</p></li>
<li><p>GMAC ethernet</p></li>
<li><p>Clock Control Unit</p></li>
<li><p>TWI (I2C)</p></li>
</ul>
</div></blockquote>
</section>
<section id="limitations">
<h2>Limitations<a class="headerlink" href="#limitations" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Currently, Banana Pi M2U does <em>not</em> support the following features:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Graphical output via HDMI, GPU and/or the Display Engine</p></li>
<li><p>Audio output</p></li>
<li><p>Hardware Watchdog</p></li>
<li><p>Real Time Clock</p></li>
<li><p>USB 2.0 interfaces</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Also see the unimplemented array in the Allwinner R40 SoC module
for a complete list of unimplemented I/O devices: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">./hw/arm/allwinner-r40.c</span></code></p>
</section>
<section id="boot-options">
<h2>Boot options<a class="headerlink" href="#boot-options" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>The Banana Pi M2U machine can start using the standard -kernel functionality
for loading a Linux kernel or ELF executable. Additionally, the Banana Pi M2U
machine can also emulate the BootROM which is present on an actual Allwinner R40
based SoC, which loads the bootloader from a SD card, specified via the -sd
argument to qemu-system-arm.</p>
</section>
<section id="running-mainline-linux">
<h2>Running mainline Linux<a class="headerlink" href="#running-mainline-linux" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>To build a Linux mainline kernel that can be booted by the Banana Pi M2U machine,
simply configure the kernel using the sunxi_defconfig configuration:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">ARCH</span><span class="o">=</span>arm<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">CROSS_COMPILE</span><span class="o">=</span>arm-linux-gnueabi-<span class="w"> </span>make<span class="w"> </span>mrproper
$<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">ARCH</span><span class="o">=</span>arm<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">CROSS_COMPILE</span><span class="o">=</span>arm-linux-gnueabi-<span class="w"> </span>make<span class="w"> </span>sunxi_defconfig
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>To boot the newly build linux kernel in QEMU with the Banana Pi M2U machine, use:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span>qemu-system-arm<span class="w"> </span>-M<span class="w"> </span>bpim2u<span class="w"> </span>-nographic<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>-kernel<span class="w"> </span>/path/to/linux/arch/arm/boot/zImage<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>-append<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">&#39;console=ttyS0,115200&#39;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>-dtb<span class="w"> </span>/path/to/linux/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-r40-bananapi-m2-ultra.dtb
</pre></div>
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</section>
<section id="banana-pi-m2u-images">
<h2>Banana Pi M2U images<a class="headerlink" href="#banana-pi-m2u-images" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Note that the mainline kernel does not have a root filesystem. You can choose
to build you own image with buildroot using the bananapi_m2_ultra_defconfig.
Also see <a class="reference external" href="https://buildroot.org">https://buildroot.org</a> for more information.</p>
<p>Another possibility is to run an OpenWrt image for Banana Pi M2U which
can be downloaded from:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p><a class="reference external" href="https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/22.03.3/targets/sunxi/cortexa7/">https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/22.03.3/targets/sunxi/cortexa7/</a></p>
</div></blockquote>
<p>When using an image as an SD card, it must be resized to a power of two. This can be
done with the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">qemu-img</span></code> command. It is recommended to only increase the image size
instead of shrinking it to a power of two, to avoid loss of data. For example,
to prepare a downloaded Armbian image, first extract it and then increase
its size to one gigabyte as follows:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span>qemu-img<span class="w"> </span>resize<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>openwrt-22.03.3-sunxi-cortexa7-sinovoip_bananapi-m2-ultra-ext4-sdcard.img<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>1G
</pre></div>
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<p>Instead of providing a custom Linux kernel via the -kernel command you may also
choose to let the Banana Pi M2U machine load the bootloader from SD card, just like
a real board would do using the BootROM. Simply pass the selected image via the -sd
argument and remove the -kernel, -append, -dbt and -initrd arguments:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span>qemu-system-arm<span class="w"> </span>-M<span class="w"> </span>bpim2u<span class="w"> </span>-nic<span class="w"> </span>user<span class="w"> </span>-nographic<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>-sd<span class="w"> </span>openwrt-22.03.3-sunxi-cortexa7-sinovoip_bananapi-m2-ultra-ext4-sdcard.img
</pre></div>
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</section>
<section id="running-u-boot">
<h2>Running U-Boot<a class="headerlink" href="#running-u-boot" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>U-Boot mainline can be build and configured using the Bananapi_M2_Ultra_defconfig
using similar commands as describe above for Linux. Note that it is recommended
for development/testing to select the following configuration setting in U-Boot:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Device Tree Control &gt; Provider for DTB for DT Control &gt; Embedded DTB</p>
</div></blockquote>
<p>The BootROM of allwinner R40 loading u-boot from the 8KiB offset of sdcard.
Lets create an bootable disk image:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span>dd<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">if</span><span class="o">=</span>/dev/zero<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">of</span><span class="o">=</span>sd.img<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">bs</span><span class="o">=</span>32M<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">count</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="m">1</span>
$<span class="w"> </span>dd<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">if</span><span class="o">=</span>u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">of</span><span class="o">=</span>sd.img<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">bs</span><span class="o">=</span>1k<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">seek</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="m">8</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">conv</span><span class="o">=</span>notrunc
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>And then boot it.</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span>qemu-system-arm<span class="w"> </span>-M<span class="w"> </span>bpim2u<span class="w"> </span>-nographic<span class="w"> </span>-sd<span class="w"> </span>sd.img
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="banana-pi-m2u-integration-tests">
<h2>Banana Pi M2U integration tests<a class="headerlink" href="#banana-pi-m2u-integration-tests" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>The Banana Pi M2U machine has several integration tests included.
To run the whole set of tests, build QEMU from source and simply
provide the following command:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">cd</span><span class="w"> </span>qemu-build-dir
$<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">AVOCADO_ALLOW_LARGE_STORAGE</span><span class="o">=</span>yes<span class="w"> </span>tests/venv/bin/avocado<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>--verbose<span class="w"> </span>--show<span class="o">=</span>app,console<span class="w"> </span>run<span class="w"> </span>-t<span class="w"> </span>machine:bpim2u<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>../tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py
</pre></div>
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