Freescale Development Board - Getting Linux to Boot

kevcal — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:02:23 GMT

Hi,

I've been successfully using the Boundary Devices Sabre Lite board http://boundarydevices.com/product/sabre-lite-imx6-sbc/ both with a prebuilt Trusty image (from BD) and also built and run YOCTO builds with no issues (have set uboot to simply jump to the SD card directly to get it to boot).

I have now been given a Freescale development board SABRE for Smart Devices Reference Design|Freescale which comes with an Android SDcard which boots fine.

However I don't seem to be able to get any yocto build to even attempt to boot and this card doesn't appear to enter MFG mode so I can use the OTG interface to update uboot.

The BD board had switches to jump to OTG access however the new card apparently should default to that if it can't boot from any other medium; it doesn't appear to..

Has anyone else tried using this development board wrt Linux and if so can I have some clues as to, maybe what MACHINE I should use in YOCTO and/or why the MFG interface doesn't appear to work?

Kev

Re: Freescale Development Board - Getting Linux to Boot

igorpadykov — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 01:54:21 GMT

Hi Kevin

first please check connections:

connect the UBS OTG port (J505, bottom) from the SABRE SD to the computer.

connect the USB to SERIAL port (J509, bottom) from the SABRE SD to the computer.

Most simple way to prepare SD image with dd command, this is described in

sect.4.3.2 "Copying the full SD card image Linux Guide" attached Linux Guide and

Demo Images:

Board Support Packages (27)

L3.14.28_1.0.0_iMX6QDLS_BUNDLE (REV L3.14.28_1.0.0)

i.MX 6Quad, i.MX 6Dual, i.MX 6DualLite, i.MX 6Solo Linux Binary Demo

Files and Linux BSP Documentation

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=RDIMX6SABREBRD&fpsp=1&tab=Design_Tools_Tab

Below presentation gives short quidelines for starting to work with board

http://2012ftf.ccidnet.com/pdf/0066.pdf

Best regards

igor

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