Changing the storage for U-boot environment variables   U-Boot on Freescale BSP has a compiling option that allows you to choose the storage for environment variables.   1 - Extract the u-boot source using LTIB: ./ltib -m prep -p u-boot   2 - The source will be extracted to <ltib path>/rpm/BUILD/u-boot-2009.08   3 - On u-Boot source locate the i.MXEVK config file, <ltib path>/rpm/BUILD/u-boot-2009.08/include/configs/mx51_bbg.h   4 - To change the storage of variables environment to SD card, on this file, comment out CONFIG_FSL_ENV_IN_SF and define CONFIG_FSL_ENV_IN_MMC:   //#define CONFIG_FSL_ENV_IN_SF   #define CONFIG_FSL_ENV_IN_MMC 5 - Adjust CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE and CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET accordingly. Recall that sd card read block size is 512B.   For example:   #define CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE (256 * 512)   #define CONFIG_ENV_SIZE CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE   #if defined(CONFIG_FSL_ENV_IN_MMC)   #define CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_MMC 1 #define CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET (1023 * 512)   6 - Save the file.   7 - Recompile u-boot: ./ltib -m scbuild -p u-boot   8 - Your new compiled u-boot image will be saved at: <ltib path>/rpm/BUILD/u-boot-2009.08/u-boot.bin

How to load the camera driver modprobe ov3640_camera modprobe mxc_v4l2_capture How to encode audio gst-launch alsasrc ! mfw_mp3encoder ! filesink location= audio.mp3 Encoding an AVI audio only gst-launch alsasrc ! mfw_mp3encoder ! avimux ! filesink location=audio.avi You can use audiotestsrc instead of alsasrc Encoding Audio and Video (testsrc only) Raw video and Raw audio gst-launch videotestsrc num-buffers=250 ! 'video/x-raw-yuv,format=fourcc)I420,width=320,height=240,framerate=(fraction)25/1' ! queue ! mux. audiotestsrc num-buffers=440 ! audioconvert ! 'audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2' ! queue ! mux. avimux name=mux ! filesink location=test.avi H.263 video and Raw audio gst-launch videotestsrc num-buffers=250 ! mfw_vpuencoder codec-type=1 ! queue ! mux. audiotestsrc num-buffers=440 ! audioconvert ! 'audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2' ! queue ! mux. avimux name=mux ! filesink location=test.avi H.263 video and MP3 audio gst-launch videotestsrc num-buffers=250 ! mfw_vpuencoder codec-type=1 ! queue ! mux. audiotestsrc num-buffers=440 ! audioconvert ! mfw_mp3encoder ! queue ! mux. avimux name=mux ! filesink location=test.avi Real Source gst-launch-0.10 mfw_v4lsrc capture-mode=5 num-buffers=300 capture-width=320 capture-height=240 fps-n=15 blocksize=115200 ! queue2 max-size-buffers=1000 max-size-bytes=0 max-size-time=0 ! mfw_vpuencoder framerate=15 codec-type=2 name=venc  alsasrc num-buffers=300 ! audio/x-raw-int,rate=32000,channels=1,depth=16 ! audioconvert ! queue2 max-size-buffers=1000 max-size-bytes=0 max-size-time=0 ! mfw_mp3encoder name=aenc avimux name=mux ! filesink location=all_in_one.avi aenc. ! mux. venc. ! mux. The movie isn't that good, but you can improve that increasing num-buffers, width and heigh, and even framerate! STAMP If you face synchronization issues, you can try to use a non-standard plugin called stamp. Use the spec file gst-entrans.spec and this command line: gst-launch-0.10 mfw_v4lsrc capture-mode=5 num-buffers=160 capture-width=320 capture-height=240 fps-n=15 blocksize=115200 !  stamp sync-margin=1 sync-interval=1 ! queue2 max-size-buffers=1000 max-size-bytes=0 max-size-time=0  !  mfw_vpuencoder framerate=15 codec-type=2 name=venc  alsasrc num-buffers=160  !  audio/x-raw-int,rate=32000,channels=1,depth=16     !  audioconvert ! queue2 max-size-buffers=1000 max-size-bytes=0 max-size-time=0      !  mfw_mp3encoder name=aenc avimux name=mux ! filesink location=test_ALL.avi aenc. ! mux. venc. ! mux. Donwload the package from here: http://gentrans.sourceforge.net/ (source for stamp topic: http://blog.buberel.org/2008/03/using-a-usb-web.html)

We use flash header which will be access by ROM code to do the NAND boot or secure boot. This is a document introduce the flash header.

This table shows how to configure i.MX51 EVK DIP Switches to boot from SD card and how to boot from internal ROM to use ATK: DS1 DS2 DS3 DS4 DS5 DS5 DS7 DS8 DS9 DS10 Boot from SD/MMC Card 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 Boot from i.ROM (ATK) 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1

In traditional file system, the WinCE image is a signal file “NK.NB0”/”NK.BIN”. And when using NAND flash for storage, since it can’t support XIP, the total “NK.NB0” need be copied into RAM before running. The EBOOT will do this copy. In this way, there are two main shortages: Long boot time and big size RAM requirement. If the WinCE image is big (Included more features), these issues will be critical. The BINFS can fix those two issues fine. It gave the chance to use 32MB RAM run 64MB WinCE image, this can cost down the final products. In BINFS file system, the final WinCE image will be divided into multi-BIN files, and only the XIPKERNEL BIN (Less than 7 MB) need be copied into RAM by EBOOT. The files in other BIN will work with demand paging mode. These files will be loaded into RAM only when they need run.

An i.MX50 customer encountered such kernel bug recently. Android UI has no response, because the suspend work queue is blocked:     suspend       pm_suspend         enter_state           suspend_prepare / suspend_finish             pm_prepare_console / pm_restore_console               vt_move_to_console                 vt_waitactive                   vt_event_wait                     wait_event_interruptible Confimed the same bug can also happen on imx6SL which is running linux 3.0.35. e.g. by echo standby/mem > /sys/power/state It takes over thousand suspend/resume cycles to reproduce the problem. The bug fix has been merged since linux 3.6: commit a7b12929be6cc55eab2dac3330fa9f5984e12dda

In the i.MX51 default WINCE6  release, the eCSPI doesn't support multiple bursts mode and set the wait states. Attached was the document and code for how to enable the multiple bursts mode and how to set the wait states between two burst.

Current the SSI is set to I2S slave mode in FSL default release BSP. attached the code for how to set it to master mode.

We have a ATK tool which can program image, also it can burn fuse for i.MX51. Since fuse is one time program, so please take care the fuse can't be turn back after programmed.

    Attached is the SDHC DMA read supported patch, it is based on WCE600_MX51_ER_1104, it was verified on iMX51 EVK board. The SDHC DMA read can reduce the NK copy time, in this way it can speed up the WinCE boot.

In L2.6.35_11.09.01_ER BSP Uboot, the MMC driver was updated, but there is issue that when you modified some uboot code, the MMC driver has chance to fail to work. The root cause is that mmc->has_init hasn't been initialized. Sometimes the value will be not zero, then mmc driver will be skipped for initialization. Attached is the patch to fix this issue in L2.6.35_11.09.01_ER BSP Uboot.

Question: When working with v1.6.0.55 using the standard profile for i.MX35 the tool fails most of the time when transferring the target root file system, on v1.6.0.42 it works just fine. The tags on the internal git don’t clearly mention a tool version, but a BSP. Wwhat are the differences between v1.6.0.55 and v1.6.0.42? Or to which tag(or commit) they correspond on git? Answer: 1.6.042 commit by looking at "Apps/MfgTool.exe/docs/changelog.txt": 1ca2a16df736ac51979a67423fef6a09bed6b7e2 And 1.6.055: "06a4f9190e34297b7273fc4bb4a92737e5bc837f"

Attached patch enable dual display on i.MX51 wince6. It will set DI0 as main display.

In our default release , the eboot logo only can be show on WVGA panel. Attached patch file can let the eboot logo show both on DVI XGA and RGB WVGA panel.

In the default release the SSI1 doesn't suport double FIFO in audio driver. Attached was the code to support double FIFO with updated DMA script.

Currently the default i.MX51 wince release doesn't support high capacity MMC card. Attached was the patch of how to enable high capacity MMC card in i.mx51. Original Attachment has been moved to: High-capacity-MMC-support.zip