4.17.6. Ritmix RZX-50

Ritmix RZX-50 is a portable game console for the Russian market.

The portable game console has

  • Ingenic JZ4755 SoC;

  • 64 MiB SDRAM;

  • 4 GiB microSDHC card / 4 GiB NAND type Flash Memory (internal boot device);

  • RS232 serial interface (LV-TTL levels on the board!);

  • LCD display (480x272);

  • Video out interface;

  • 1xUSB interface;

  • buttons.

The game console uses U-Boot 1.1.6 as bootloader.

4.17.6.1. Running barebox

  1. Connect to the game console’s UART (see. http://a320.emulate.su/2012/01/19/uart-na-ritmix-rzx-50/);

  2. Unblock U-Boot console (see. http://a320.emulate.su/2012/01/25/rzx-50-dostup-k-konsoli-u-boot/); Please note that U-Boot’s Zmodem support does not work;

  3. Boot Ritmix linux and login;

  4. Build barebox and upload barebox.bin via Zmodem to the board:

# cd /tmp
# rz

  1. Write barebox to onboard flash:

# dd if=barebox.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=1048576 bs=1 count=262144

  1. Reboot RZX-50, next in U-Boot console start barebox:

CETUS # msc read 0xa0800000 0x100000 0x40000; g a0800000