Intel Edison Ubuntu 16.0.4 with Mainline Kernel 4.8 Wireless Enabled

(1) Current Kernel is 4.8RC4 Mainline supporting the following:-

Wireless, External SD-Card, Internal MMC, SPI/I2C

(2) Working-in-progress (streamline):-

SPI/DMA, PWM and intel_idle

(3) Not-yet-started/Unknown:-

(4) No Audio, no BT, no PSH - Platform Service Hub aka Quark MCU, SST - Smart Sound Technology for now.

(5) Mainline with device-tree will officially begin from 4.9

(6) Login as root/password

Please edit /etc/network/interfaces and include your ssid and password within double quotes.

wpa-ssid "ssid"

wpa-psk "password"

Ap mode is also supported for Ubuntu

(7) Credits to Andy Shevchenko for all the current and future work. https://github.com/andy-shev/linux/

Intel XFSTK Tool 1.7 for Windows [For flashall --recovery]

This tool will be required for running the following command flashall.bat --recovery.

Install and set your windows path to the installed folder....

Tool for Flashing Intel Edison on windows....

Alpine Linux for Intel Edison

Please un-7zip and run flashall.bat --recovery first and then immediately run flashall.bat

You should have working AlpineLinux for Intel Edison. Please note that all drivers like Wi-Fi, SPI etc are included, its just that they are not configured at the moment.

Expect fully configured releases soon. I am not responsible if something goes wrong. However having said that, I have fully tested this release.

Rahul Atlury

Mainline Kernel 4.8RC3

This is a pre-release only. Only boots and resets after 30 seconds as watch-dog timer sets in. Expect the following in future.

To disable the watch dog timer please run a script
while [ 1 ] ; do sleep 1; echo V > /dev/watchdog; echo V > /dev/watchdog0; done

This prerelease is for testing andy's wifi and sd-card (external) patches etc

Mainline Kernel 4.7RC4

This is a pre-release only. Only boots and resets after 30 seconds as watch-dog timer sets in. Expect the following in future.

1. Wireless
2. External SD-Card support
3. Watch dog timer management soon

This is all due to Andy Shevchenk at https://github.com/andy-shev/linux/tree/eds