topic Re: mfgtool with Buildroot - how to question in i.MX Processors

mfgtool with Buildroot - how to question

brankokaraklaji — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 11:01:46 GMT

Hi all,

In our company we prefer Buildroot over yocto. For now yocto is to painful for customization, also, disk space hungry and time consuming.

We successfully built different images with Builroot, including customized or stocked u-boot/kernel/initramfs, etc...

But we are not able to build working mfgtool initramfs? How to do that?

We need answers on:
What are additional CONFIG's we need to turn on in Linux kernel?

What are additional applications/commands needed in userspace?

Or maybe someone could point us to where to look differences in Yocto tool?

Any help appreciated.

Branko

Re: mfgtool with Buildroot - how to question

gary_bisson — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:51:53 GMT

Hi Branko,

You are right on time, my patch that adds the imx-uuc package has just been accepted to Buildroot:

imx-uuc: new package · buildroot/buildroot@6a8b948 · GitHub

You can either use the master branch or cherry-pick the patch above to your current Buildroot source.

In order to build an image that works with the MFGTools you need to add this UUC package plus a couple of mkfs tools. Here is my testing MFG configuration:

BR2_arm=y
BR2_cortex_a9=y
BR2_ARM_ENABLE_NEON=y
BR2_ARM_ENABLE_VFP=y
BR2_ARM_FPU_NEON=y
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL=y
BR2_PACKAGE_DOSFSTOOLS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_DOSFSTOOLS_FATLABEL=y
BR2_PACKAGE_DOSFSTOOLS_FSCK_FAT=y
BR2_PACKAGE_DOSFSTOOLS_MKFS_FAT=y
BR2_PACKAGE_E2FSPROGS_RESIZE2FS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_E2TOOLS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_EXFAT=y
BR2_PACKAGE_EXFAT_UTILS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_F2FS_TOOLS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MMC_UTILS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MTD=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MTD_MKFSJFFS2=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MTD_MKFSUBIFS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MTD_MTDPART=y
BR2_PACKAGE_NTFS_3G=y
BR2_PACKAGE_NTFS_3G_NTFSPROGS=y
BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX=y
BR2_PACKAGE_IMX_UUC=y
BR2_PACKAGE_PARTED=y
BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO=y
BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_GZIP=y
BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_UIMAGE=y
# BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_TAR is not set

Regards,

Gary

Re: mfgtool with Buildroot - how to question

art — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:36:30 GMT

As an example, just download some of the MFGtool packages, e.g. the following one:

https://www.nxp.com/webapp/Download?colCode=IMX6_L3.14.52_MFG_TOOL&appType=license&location=null&Parent_nodeId=1337723891654732089522&Parent_pageType=product&Parent_nodeId=1337723891654732089522&Parent_pageType=product

It should contain all required scripts/documentation.

Have a great day,
Artur