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Neon User's manual and software guide

The manual listed below contains detailed information about the Neon board and associated software, including U-Boot, Windows CE, and Linux.

Document Revision	Date	Description
2.9	May 27, 2006	Updated `arm-elf` build instructions
2.8	December 28, 2005	Minor updates regarding Javascript and SSHD
2.7	November 9, 2005	Added rootfs usage notes (Linux)
2.6	November 8, 2005	Added userland build instructions
2.5	October 21, 2005	Bumped U-Boot version Added Linux kernel info
2.4	September 15, 2005	Bumped BSP version
2.3	August 9, 2005	Added MAC address notes
2.2	July 23, 2005	Updated U-Boot version Added upgrade instructions
2.1	June 27, 2005	Added connector reference
2.0	June 12, 2005	Updated display, networking sections
1.1	April 5, 2005	Additional U-Boot, CE updates
1.0	March 21, 2005	Original

Windows CE 5.0 BSPs

July 26, 2007
Neon-270 updates, SD Card partitions, Release notes here
July 6, 2007
Neon-270 support, EBOOT support, I2C support, and much more... Release notes
May 27, 2006
Touch screen settings in flash. Miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements. Release notes
January 14, 2006
Registry on SD card. Release notes
December 4, 2005
Added automatic 4/5-wire touch detection, fixed multimedia timer
BSP installer with Universal display and touch-screen support
Sample Platform Builder Project

Windows CE 4.2 BSPs
(Not actively supported)

Linux support

Quick-start compile guide is here.

Linux kernel patches

2.6.26 - PXA based board (Neon, Neon-270, Hydrogen, and Argon) patches, Dec 22, 2008
2.6.25 - Xenon kernel patches, July 26, 2008
2.6.22 Kernel (All boards except Xenon), June 3, 2008
Added support for GPIOs > 64
Additional multi-display support
Contains full patches against 2.6.22 from kernel.org
2.6.22 Kernel, December 28, 2007
Add Neon-270 support
Support multiple displays on Neon(2)/Neon-270(3)
Add EABI defconfigs
2.6.22 Kernel, July 22, 2007
Cleaned up patch set.
2.6.22 Kernel, July 19, 2007
Fixed race in ucb1x00-core.c
Increased pxa-ac97 reset time on PXA25x
Updated argon_defconfig to support wireless
2.6.22 Kernel, July 12, 2007
First 2.6.22 patch
Patch against linux-2.6.22.tar.bz2 from kernel.org
Supports argon_defconfig, neon_defconfig, and neon270_defconfig
Requires updated userland with udev support
2.6.19.2 Kernel, May 17, 2007
First 2.6.19.2 patch
Patch against linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2 from kernel.org
Supports argon_defconfig and neon_defconfig
Requires updated userland with udev support
2.6 Kernel, August 15, 2006 SM-501 acceleration
Added SM-501 command list support
Added SM-501 memory allocator
Added SM-501 video sync signalling
See odometer doc for details.
2.6 Kernel, May 29, 2006 Added real-time clock support.
2.6 Kernel, May 17, 2006
Added ZD-1211 WLAN driver,
backport 2.6.16 MMC driver,
added low-level PXA UART wait_until_empty
2.6 Kernel, November 26, 2005 (fix 5-wire touch, added USB support)
2.6 Kernel, November 17, 2005 (includes touch screen support)
2.6 Kernel, October 20, 2005

Linux Userland Build tool

December 28, 2007 Updates to allow builds with compilers other than arm-linux
July 27, 2007 Update busybox config (setuid fix), update DirectFB support.
July 23, 2007 Compile Module-init-tools for modules_install operation.
July 22, 2007 Added DirectFB support.
Add staticip script in initrd.
Make wpa_supplicant optional.
Bump bdScript version.
July 19, 2007 More 2.6.19 updates, added wireless & WPA support
July 6, 2007 More 2.6.19 updates
May 17, 2007 Updated for use with 2.6.19 kernel
August 17, 2006 Updated bdScript package
December 28, 2005 (Complete openssh/tinylogin support)
November 28, 2005 (add webcam/printer choices)
November 26, 2005 (update bdScript version, add console FB)
November 19, 2005 (fixed UDHCP, allow newer autotools)

Javascript Sources

December 28, 2007 Allow display of a portion of Flash Movie
July 22, 2007 Add program daemonize
July 19, 2007 Allow flashVar to erase entire sector
July 6, 2007 Added watchdog support, 18-bit graphics support
May 11, 2007 Added usblp, Postscript support, Odometer updates
August 17, 2006 Include accelerated SM-501 support, odometer sample
November 26, 2005 (use FLASHVARDEV for writes)
November 19, 2005 (allow TSDEV override for touch device, FLASHVARDEV for param sector)

Javascript Manual

May 11, 2007 - Added usblp and Postscript support examples
April 2, 2006 - Added TCP networking and Audio input examples
November 28, 2005 - Partial (through 4.16)
November 17, 2005 - Partial (through 4.10)

Odometer (and SM-501 acceleration) documentation

August 20, 2006 - First revision

Das U-Boot patches

Revision	Date	Description
2008-07-25	July 25, 2008	U-Boot-1.3.3 (from git)
1.6	December 30, 2007	Added support for Xenon
1.5	June 3, 2006	Added `rtc` command.
1.4	May 27, 2006	Release notes here
1.3	January 21, 2006	SM-501 and UCB-1400 initialization fixes.
1.2	October 21, 2005	Allow 32-bit clusters for FAT filesystem
1.1	July 23, 2005	Turned on Memory Manager, added networking
Original	May 3, 2005

Neon U-Boot binary

Latest Neon Boot Loader (January 21, 2006)
Neon Upgrade Package - Use this to upgrade U-Boot on a PXA-based board
Xenon Upgrade Package - Use this to upgrade U-Boot on Davinci-based boards
Upgrade Instructions here

JTAG bundle

Contains JTag executable and minidebug/mdebug monitor.

Date	Platform	Description
April 14, 2005	Neon	First public Neon bundle

Linux toolchain

Contains GCC 4.1.2 cross-compiler for Linux hosts. This tar-ball should be extracted into /opt/boundary/... and contains tools labelled with the prefix arm-v5t-linux-gnueabi-x (i.e. arm-v5t-linux-gnueabi-gcc, arm-v5t-linux-gnueabi-ld...

Date	Platform	Description
January 24, 2009	All	Download