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[Yocto-Lichee] 2. Getting started: flashing an image to the SD card for the Lichee Pi Nano

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:25:15 +0700

In this post I show you how to get familiar with the board and test it when you first receive a LicheePi Nano and want to check whether it is alive :vv.

It is a bit backwards that the getting-started post is only the third post in the Yocto-Lichee series :vv. Recently I realised Yocto is quite complicated for beginners, so after the basic posts I will probably move to Buildroot to build the image first :vv.

[Device-Driver-Lichee] 3. Gpioget, controlling an LED with a button

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:23:00 +0700

I said we would use a button, but I turned my pile of electronics upside down and found no through-hole buttons, only SMD ones. So in this post I use a potentiometer playing the role of a button :vv

1. Connecting the LED and the potentiometer

[Device-Driver-Lichee] 2. Blink an LED with gpioset, create an LED node in the Device Tree

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:46:00 +0700

Okay, after part 1 we have a board that boots to a terminal to tinker with; now for the Hello world of the embedded world. Let's try blinking an LED

1. LicheePi Nano pinout

Search online for sipeed licheepi nano and you will find plenty; this is the pinout from Sipeed

[Device-Driver-Lichee] 1. Build the image and flash it to the board

Sat, 30 May 2026 06:03:00 +0700

Instead of using yocto, which I think is actually quite complicated for beginners, I simplify things by building u-boot and the kernel separately and taking a ready-made root file system to flash to the board. Then we start the Device Driver series without needing to care what yocto is :vv

[Yocto-Lichee] 1. Building Yocto Scarthgap for the Lichee Pi Nano

Sun, 24 May 2026 18:26:27 +0700

In fact I have already finished porting and updated the meta-layer, so the work here is quite easy; I leave a note at the end of the post on what I had to change to port from Yocto 3.0 Zeus to Yocto 5.0 Scarthgap

[Yocto-Lichee] 0. Building Yocto Zeus for the Lichee Pi Nano

Sat, 16 May 2026 06:02:00 +0700

I have decided to use the Lichee Pi Nano as the cheap board for the upcoming Device Driver series. I found a guide from fanning (ninhnn2) showing how to build for this board with Yocto Zeus (3.0), from 6 years ago. Many thanks to him for creating the BSP meta layer for it; the hardest part is already done !!