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.

= 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 =


 * Cubietech Cubieboard2
 * Cubietech 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