I spent half a day on setting up the buildroot , a whole day on developing lcd and kbd drivers and another whole day on fixing some bugs.
Now it runs linux on picocalc.
Image for test:
If you use the version with spi nand, please erase the spi nand. Otherwise, the board will boot from the spi nand, not the sd card
The Lyra doesn’t have wifi/bt, correct? I wonder if they could be added via the USB OTG connector on the board, and adding a wireless dongle? How fully featured is Linux on the device? From what I could tell researching online, it appears to support a headless Ubuntu build. Without network connectivity I’m wondering how updates would be supported or applications could be installed?
I updated the image.
Now it supports tmux, pico8_dyn and prboom. Retroarch still has some problems, maybe related to the config.
And the screen’s spi bus is overclocked to 80Mhz.
“Micro USB Lichee Pi Zero Allwinner V3S ARM Cortex-A7 Core CPU Linux Development Control Board 512Mbit DDR2”
An adapter for a Lychee Pi Zero.
Would there be drivers for it to work on the Lyra?
From what I could find, it appears to be a RTL8723BS chipset. Sounds like Linux drivers exist, but it might also be an old module that doesn’t support BLE, and is probably an older Bluetooth standard. The physical size worries me too, though maybe it could be connected with a flexible extension ribbon adaptor. I dont think I’ll take the risk, but if anyone else gets something like this working, I’d be happy to hear it.