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Zircon on Khadas VIM2 Board

This document describes running Zircon on the Khadas VIM2 board. Additional documentation can be found at docs.khadas.com

When describing the location of buttons, pins and other items on the board, we will refer to the side with the USB, ethernet and HDMI connectors as the front of the board and the opposite side the back of the board.

Heat Sink

Before you start, you need a heat sink. A passive chip heat sink will allow you to run 2 cores out of 8 at full speed before reaching 80C, the critical temperature at which cores have to be throttled down.

Setup

  • USB C port: Connect to host. Provides power and fastboot.
  • Ethernet: Connect cable directly to board (do not use a USB ethernet adapter).
  • HDMI: Optional. Connects to display.
  • Serial Console: Optional but very useful. See next section.

Serial Console

The debug UART for the serial console is exposed on the 40 pin header at the back of the board. You may use a 3.3v FTDI USB to serial cable to access the serial console. On the front row of the header:

  • 2nd from right: TX (Yellow wire)
  • 3rd from right: RX (Orange wire)
  • 4th from right: Ground (Black wire)

For FTDI serial cables with black, white, red and green wires, use this:

  • 2nd from right: TX (White wire)
  • 3rd from right: RX (Green wire)
  • 4th from right: Ground (Black wire)

In this diagram of the 40 pin header, these correspond to pins 17 through 19.

Buttons

The VIM2 has 3 buttons on the left side of the board. On the board schematic, SW1 (switch closest to the USB plug) is the reset switch. SW3 (farthest away from the USB plug on the schematic) can be used for entering flashing mode. If SW3 is held down while the board is reset or power cycled , the bootloader will enter flashing mode instead of booting the kernel normally.

VIM2 Bootloader

Booting Zircon on the VIM2 requires a custom bootloader.

The bootloader can be found at third-party-mirror.googlesource.com/u-boot/, in the vim2 branch.

{% dynamic if user.is_googler %}

[Googlers only] However, within Google, this can be found at go/vim2-bootloader. Download the .bin file and follow the instructions in the document.

{% dynamic endif %}

To find out what version of the bootloader you have, grep for zircon-bootloader in the kernel boot log. You should see something like: cmdline: zircon-bootloader=0.11.

Building

fx set bringup.vim2
fx build

Be sure you've already set up your network before proceeding to the next step.

Flashing & Paving

First enter fastboot mode by holding down SW3 (leftmost button), pressing SW1 (rightmost button) quickly and keeping pressing SW3 for a few seconds.

fx flash --pave

In order to get into zedboot you can reboot into the recovery:

dm reboot-recovery

Alternatively, you can get to zedboot by resetting your vim2 by pressing SW1(rightmost button) quickly and keeping pressing SW2 for a few seconds.

netbooting

fx set bringup.vim2 --netboot && fx build && fx netboot -1

You should be able to see “Issued boot command to ...” message printed out if this step is successful.

Paving

Paving is available from the “core” product and above. Run the following under the fuchsia directory:

fx set core.vim2 && fx build && fx pave -1

Fuchsia logo

To update the boot splash screen to be the Fuchsia logo, do this in fastboot mode:

fastboot flash logo kernel/target/arm64/board/vim2/firmware/logo.img