4.12.5. 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.

4.12.5.1. 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