ATM7029

Actions ATM7029 Linux

for BDF netbook and tablets

(c) Dmitry Ponyatov <dponyatov@gmail.com> CC BY-NC-SA

github: https://github.com/ponyatov/ATM7029/

manual: http://ponyatov.github.io/ATM7029/

About

I suddenly bought the cheapest chinese BDF netbook. It's a real crab both in hardware and especially in software. Some genius installed Android 5, so the device is totally unusable in any way.

As you know, support is also chinese. I uselessly spend two months kicking the ass of seller, asking about a contact of any technical specialist to consult about SDK and tools let me build my own system for this scrap.

I visit Actions Semiconductor website. There is nothing about ATM7029 SoC! Luckily Google let me find some tools and posts to uncover this thing and build a custom embedded Linux system.

See also:

Supported devices

BDF netbook

Ainol Novo 10 Hero II

Install

To build and install the system you should download source code archives from https://github.com/ponyatov/ATM7029/releases/latest and install some tools separately.

Installation process was automated:

$ cd ~
$ unzip ~/Downloads/ATM7029-190806.zip
$ cd ATM7029-190806
$ make install

You need to install some tools noted later into the VM with Windows XP running.

Tools

mans on use

ATM7029

see also: GS702A development board

ATM7029 & ATM7025 SOC family (aka GS702A, OWL, Leopard, GL5202, GL5302, and some other random internal names from Actions)

Actions ACT-ATM7029

SoC cores arch max clock GPU
ATM7021A 2xARM Cortex-A9 1.3 GHz GPU PowerVR SGX540
ATM7029A 4xARM Cortex-A5 1.2 GHz GPU Vivante GC1000
ATM7029B 4xARM Cortex-A5 1.3 GHz GPU PowerVR SGX540
ATM7031A 4xARM Cortex-A5 1.3 GHz GPU PowerVR SGX540
ATM7059 4xARM Cortex-A9 1.5 GHz GPU PowerVR SGX544
ATM9009 4xARM Cortex-A53 1.0 GHz GPU PowerVR G6230

ATM7031A

No HDMI

references

ru

GS702A

Actions ATM7029 development board

Vivante GPU

Vivante GC1000

Android extracts

Some files was grabbed from existsing tablet firmwares can be used as recovery or hackig [SD boot] image: