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mobile-nixos/devices/pine64-pinephone-braveheart/README.adoc
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= PinePhone “BraveHeart”
include::_support/common.inc[]
== Building a full disk image
This platform uses the `u-boot` system-type. This means that a full disk image
can be produced, and this full disk image flashed _outright_ to the block
device. That block device can be the internal eMMC or the SD card.
The PinePhone will boot from SD card if a bootloader can be found. This means
that the full disk image can be flashed to an SD card, and it will prioritise
booting it.
```
$ nix-build --argstr device pine64-pinephone-braveheart -A build.disk-image
$ dd if=result of=/dev/mmcblkX bs=8M oflag=sync,direct status=progress
```
== Building the boot partition
Building the full disk image may require a native AArch64 system.
The boot partition can be built, and then flashed on top of an existing Mobile
NixOS boot partition.
```
$ nix-build --argstr device pine64-pinephone-braveheart -A build.boot-partition
$ dd if=result/mobile-nixos-boot.img of=/dev/mmcblkXp1 bs=8M oflag=sync,direct status=progress
```
== Building U-Boot
Flashing the boot partition will not affect the installed U-Boot bootloader.
U-Boot can be built and then flashed the usual way for Allwinner platforms.
```
$ nix-build --argstr device pine64-pinephone-braveheart -A build.u-boot
$ dd if=result/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/mmcblkX bs=1024 seek=8
```
== Usage notes
=== LED
In the default setup, the LED has been configured to show status information.
Its colour or pattern can be used to infer the status.
During boot:
* Red as early as possible in our U-Boot build
* Yellow when our U-Boot "boot script" ran
* Green by the kernel whenever it sets it up
At any time:
* The red LED will flash on panic
As it does not reset the other LED colours, it may flash green/yellow rather
than off/red. If applications customize the LED status, it may flash in other
patterns involving red.