Sipeed Lichee Nano

This is the base Nerves System configuration for the LicheePi Nano. This is a very early proof of concept port. The most notable hack is that booting Erlang causes out of memory errors, so swap had to be enabled.

Usage

This is a nerves_system, so to use it in your Nerves project, just add:

{:nerves_system_lichee_nano, "~> 0.1.0", runtime: false, targets: :lichee_nano},

to your mix.exs file, and then you can build firmware for this device with:

# fetch dependencies
MIX_TARGET=lichee_nano mix deps.get
# burn a firmware image to a sdcard
MIX_TARGET=lichee_nano mix firmware.burn

What works

• booting erlang (was surprisingly difficult)
• usb ethernet gadget
• firmware upgrades (sort of, see below)

What doesnt work

• rebooting
• booting from spiflash device.
  • This will probably never work with Nerves due to size and speed constraints
• probably more idk

Special Thanks

Most of the hard work on this project was done by George Hilliard. This includes the Linux Kernel port and buildroot package for of sunxi-tools-f1c100s. You should definitely check out his blog post