Cubietech Cubieboard

Cubieboard is a small (10x6cm), hacker friendly, extendable and very low-cost while powerful ARM board with Allwinner A10 SoC.

= Identification =

The board helpfully reads "Cubietech" "Cubieboard.org" and has an A10 chip on it. :)

= Sunxi support =

Current status
The cubieboard is well represented within the main sunxi developer community and has excellent support both in u-boot as well as 3.4 and mainline kernels.

Images

 * Android firmwares.
 * Fedora images.
 * Ubuntu images.

Cubietech also has a bunch of official firmwares available on their download page.

HW-Pack
Generating a HW pack for the cubieboard is easily done with the sunxi-bsp and well supported.

BSP
Under the BSP the cubieboard is simply known as cubieboard. Just run: ./configure cubieboard make

Manual build

 * For building u-boot, use the "Cubieboard" target.
 * The .fex file can be found in sunxi-boards as cubieboard.fex

Everything else is the same as the manual build howto.

Mainline kernel
Use the sun4i-a10-cubieboard.dts device-tree file for the mainline kernel.

= Tips, Tricks, Caveats =

FEL mode
The FEL button triggers FEL mode.

Hardware Hacking

 * The two expansion headers U14 and U15 invite you to create your own extension board
 * Adding a second SD Card slot
 * Adding a reset button
 * Adding a JTAG header
 * Bypassing USB2 current limiter

Software Hacking

 * Building Android TV image
 * Building jellybean for cubieboard
 * Installing on NAND
 * Build your own embedded linux with buildroot
 * Run linux 3.9 on Cubieboard
 * USB Webcam Surveillance on Cubieboard

= Adding a serial port =



There is a nice 2.54mm pin header near to the SoC. All you have to do is connect the correct wires, according to our UART howto or the Cubieboard TTL howto. Do not connect Vcc as that might damage your board.

= Pictures =

= Also known as =

The cubieboard was a major success, and it has become a name of its own. Therefor, no rebadging has taken place, but there might be some bad chinese rip-offs out there, which carry the same name.

= See also =


 * Cubieboard2
 * Cubietruck
 * Wikipedia page on Cubieboard

Cubieboard Community
Next to the sunxi community, the cubieboard has its own cummunity.


 * cubieboard@googlegroups.com
 * Forums on cubieforums.com
 * #cubieboard IRC channel on Freenode. Click to join via WebChat).

Other links

 * Arch Linux on Cubieboard
 * Berryboot multiboot bootloader
 * Kali Linux on Cubieboard