Qt Creator can be a very good IDE in order to develop great QT applications. This IDE does not only helps with syntax highlighting, access to examples and tutorials, but also helps you to configure different toolchains Qt binary versions and target options. First download the binary installer from: For 32 bits: $ wget http://releases.qt-project.org/qtcreator/2.6.2/qt-creator-linux-x86-opensource-2.6.2.bin For 64 bits: $ wget http://releases.qt-project.org/qtcreator/2.6.2/qt-creator-linux-x86_64-opensource-2.6.2.bin execute the binary $ ./qt-creator-linux-x86_64-opensource-2.6.2.bin Follow the Installer GUI and choose a location. Default options should be OK. in my case the installation was done here: $ /home/b35153/qtcreator-2.6.2/bin Open Qt Creator (in my case from command line, use "&" to regain control of the terminal) $./qtcreator & Open Tools -> Options Choose Build & Run  on the menu of the left. and Select the Compilers Tab Here you can add the toolchain GCC compiler of your convenience. It will appear in the "Manual"  section. Now click on Qt Version Tab.  Here you can add the Qmake that you had created with your Qt installation; for example, the Qt5 installation described here: Building QT for i.MX6 It will appear in the Manual section. In my case I have Qmake for PC and Qmake for i.MX6. Now click on Kits Tab Here you can create combinations of Compilers and Qmake, and also specify where do you want the executables to go. In my case here I combined the i.MX6 toolchain and the Qmake for I.MX6 i had created. I did not set up device configuration since the sysroot is already shared to my device via NFS, but you can configure it so the files are sent via ssh to your device. And that's It! Next time you load a project you can choose which Kit you want to work on, and it will be compiled just as you need.

Design Check Lists: HW Design Checking List for i.MX6DQSDL HW Design Checking List for i.Mx53 Hardware Design Checklist for i.MX28 HW_Design_Checking_List_for_i.MX6SoloX i.MX6UL Hardware design checklist   DDR Design Tool: I.MX53 DDR3 Script Aid imx53 DDR stress tester V0.042 i.Mx6DQSDL DDR3 Script Aid MX6DQP DDR3 Script Aid i.Mx6DQSDL LPDDR2 Script Aid i.Mx6SL LPDDR2 Script Aid i.MX6SX DDR3 Script Aid I.MX6UL DDR3 Script Aid i.MX6UL_LPDDR2_Script_Aid i.MX6ULL_DDR3_Script_Aid  i.MX6ULL_LPDDR2_Script_Aid  MX6SLL_LPDDR2_Script_Aid  MX6SLL_LPDDR3_Script_Aid  i.MX6 DDR Stress Test Tool V1.0.3 i.MX6/7 DDR Stress Test Tool V3.00 i.MX8MSCALE DDR Tool Release  i.MX8M DDR3L register programming aid  i.MX 8/8X Family DDR Tools Release   Application Notes: MX_Design_Validation_Guide I.MX6 series USB Certification Guides

GStreamer has a simple feature to enable tracing, allowing the developer to do basic debugging. These can be done in two ways: Adding the parameter --gst-debug=LIST to the pipeline (a pipeline is a executed gst-launch command) Prepending the environment variable GST_DEBUG=LIST' LIST is a a comma-separated argument, indicating the GStreamer elements to trace. For example, if one needs to trace the sink element      $ GST_DEBUG=*sink*:5 gst-launch playbin2 uri=file:///sample.avi or      $ gst-launch playbin2 uri=file:///sample.avi --gst-debug=*sink*:5 Both commands produces the same log. In case want to trace for than one element, so can simple add the <element>:5, for example      $ GST_DEBUG=mfw_v4lsink:5,vpudec:5 gst-launch playbin2 uri=file:///sample.avi The number 5 indicates the log category, where 5 is the highest (the most verbose log you can get) and 0 produces no output (5=LOG, 4=DEBUG, 3=INFO, 2=WARN, 1=ERROR). Log can be huge in each pipeline run. One way to filter it is using the grep command. Before grepping, one needs to redirect the standard error to the standard output (GStreamer log goes always to stderr), so      $ GST_DEBUG=mfw_v4lsink:5,vpudec:5 gst-launch playbin2 uri=file:///sample.avi 2>&1 | grep <filter string> In case the log needs to be shared, it is important to remove the 'color' of the log, again, one just needs to add the parameter --gst-debug-no-color or prepend the env variable GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR=1 ----- More shell variables that GStreamer react, can be found here https://developer.gnome.org/gstreamer/0.10/gst-running.html

1. Set up HDMI Set up your kernel to use HDMI adding the following code to bootargs on u-boot: video=mxcfb0:dev=hdmi,1920x1080M@60,if=RGB24 2. Test raw audio In order to test only raw audio, use the following command: aplay -D hw:1,0 Kaleidoscope.wav 3. Make HDMI audio the default output In order to configure audio output over HDMI, please, replace content of file ~/.asoundrc to the following one pcm.dmix_48000{      type dmix      ipc_key 5678293      ipc_key_add_uid yes      slave{           pcm "hw:1,0"           period_time 0           period_size 2048           buffer_size 24576           format S16_LE           rate 48000      } } pcm.!dsnoop_44100{      type dsnoop      ipc_key 5778293      ipc_key_add_uid yes      slave{           pcm "hw:0,0"           period_time 0           period_size 2048           buffer_size 24576           format S16_LE           rate 44100      } } pcm.!dsnoop_48000{      type dsnoop      ipc_key 5778293      ipc_key_add_uid yes      slave{           pcm "hw:1,0"           period_time 0           period_size 2048           buffer_size 24576           format S16_LE           rate 48000      } } pcm.asymed{      type asym      playback.pcm "dmix_48000"      capture.pcm "dsnoop_44100" } pcm.dsp0{      type plug      slave.pcm "asymed" } pcm.!default{      type plug      route_policy "average"      slave.pcm "asymed" } ctl.mixer0{      type hw      card 0 } This will configure alsa to use sound card hw:1,0. Please, pay attention to use the proper audio card name for your device. In order to see available sound cards on board: root@imx53qsb:~# aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: imx3stack [imx-3stack], device 0: SGTL5000 SGTL5000-0 []   Subdevices: 1/1   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: imx3stackspdif [imx-3stack-spdif], device 0: IMX SPDIF mxc spdif-0 []   Subdevices: 1/1   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 For detail on how to create asound.conf, please see alsa-lib configuration introduction. 4. Encoded audio For encoded (i.e. AC3, DTS) audio, you can use, for example, ac3dec, an utility provided by alsa-tools with the following command line: ac3dec -D hw:1,0 -C test.ac3 This would work for both HDMI audio and SPDIF audio. Double check your hardware and/or schematic in order to know which one to use.

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Prerequisites: The build is verified on prebuilt rootfs(based on LTIB) which can be downloaded from freescale.com or built from Yocto fsl-image-gui These steps are performed on the host: 1. Download the git respository for qt5: $ git clone git://gitorious.org/qt/qt5.git qt5     cd qt5     Let us consider this as <QTDir> 2. Create a build directory to install for the qt5 packages. This directory can be  in any loctation. For example,  $ mkdir /opt/qt5 sudo chown -R <username> /opt/qt5 Let us consider the the installdir as /opt/qt5 3. Enter the Qt5 directory and run the perl init-repository script to download all the source code for    Qt5. To download all the source code will take about an hour. $ perl init-repository 4. Download the attached linux-imx5-g++.tar.gz and copy to  qtbase/mkspecs/devices. Will try to get updstreamed. 5. From the following path $ gedit qtbase/mkspecs/devices/linux-imx5-g++/qmake.conf   6. At the top of the qmake.conf, there is a configure line. Copy and paste the configure line into a text file located    in your build build directory. Edit the configure line to find your toolchain and filesystem. Also make sure to    include the options -no-pch, -no-opengl, -opengl es2, Here is an example of    a configure line.     $ cd <QTDir>     $ cd qtbase     $  ./configure -v -opensource -confirm-license -no-pch -opengl es2 -make libs -device imx5 \     -nomake examples -nomake demos \ -device-option CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.4.4-glibc-2.11.1-multilib-1.0/arm-fsl-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-fsl-linux-gnueabi- \ -sysroot <rootfs> -no-gcc-sysroot \ -prefix <installdir> 7. Make the textfile that has the configure line and executable and run it. When the configure summary is shown make sure the Qt5    has openGL ES 2.0 support. Do build       $make     $make install    When Qt5 has finished building, Qt5 will be installed in two places:            1. <location of rootfs>/<installdir>            2. <HOST Machine>/<install dir> This is good because now all the libraries and binaries for Qt5 are installed on the host and the target filesystem. Therefore, the target already has all the libraries and  binaries needed to run Qt5. 8. Also need to build qtjsbackend and qtdeclarative.     $ cd <location to Qt5 git>     $ cd qtjsbackend     $ ../qtbase/bin/qmake -r     $ make && make install        $ $ cd <location to Qt5 git>     $ cd qtdeclarative     $ ../qtbase/bin/qmake -r     $ make && make install 9. Run Qt apps on target     - Boot the target either with NFS or SD Image     - Ensure that folder <installdir> is copied on target file system at “/usr/local”.     - Launch application using     $ cd /usr/local/qt5/examples/opengl/hellogl_es2     $ ./hellogl_es2 -platform eglfs

Getting Started for i.MX53 Quick Start Board Here is a quick overview you can follow to get your very first contact with i.MX53 QSB. Introduction Out of box i.MX53 QSB video booting up Ubuntu Original Video: Out of box i.MX53 QSB video booting up Ubuntu with some demo (GPU and VPU) Original Video: How to load a pre-built image Here, you should have loaded your board with the out-of-box SD card. Next step is create your own SD card with some pre-built image. You can find pre-built image packages from Freescale for Linux look for Linux Binary Demo file Please, go to Timesys wikipage[1] and see how to load a pre-built image. You can use some Freescale image or some Timesys image. Both will work! For loading linux OS you need at least 3 images: bootloader image kernel image root file system image or tarball Bootloader For iMX53QSB the default bootloader provided by Freescale is u-boot.You can build your own image using LTIB following the same procedure from here. Kernel You can build a new uImage (kernel binary image to be loaded by u-boot) using LTIB, and you can follow the instructions from here Root File System Root file system is a set of directories and files that become the system environment. How to Built Your Own Image Take BSP package on Freescale i.MX53 QSB web site. Prepare your computer to LTIB installation, see that you need All Boards LTIB. Transfer all images to the SD Card (it will be placed under <ltib_dir>/rootfs/boot). Configure your u-boot environment variable. Boot your board. In case you want to boot via NFS, please follow the next procedure instead. Take BSP package on Freescale i.MX 53 QSB web site. Prepare your computer to LTIB installation, see that you need @all_boards_ltib Configure your computer to be able to provide NFS service: Configure your TFTP server. Configure your NFS server. Configure your u-boot environment variable. Boot your board. Be aware the kernel command line you set on u-boot variable can configure the display.

Qt framework Qt is a cross-platform complete development framework with tools designed to streamline the creation of stunning native applications and amazing user interfaces for desktop, embedded and mobile platforms. Qt's cross-platform full framework and tools enables developers to target various desktop, embedded, mobile and real-time operating systems with one code base. Qt brings freedom to the developer saving development time, adding efficiency and ultimately shortening time to market. Building Qt Compile Qt for i.MX28 Building QT5 for i.MX53 Building QT for i.MX6 Qt on iMX6 Installing tools Installing and Configuring QT Creator (Ubuntu) Qt5 with Qt3D over Wayland rootfs Demos Qt5 Cinematic Experience Demo on i.MX6 Video - IMx 53 Qt5 qt3d demo Qt5 with Qt3D over Wayland rootfs Information Qt5 on i.MX6  DO's and DONT's Best Practices for QML

Linphone is an internet phone or Voice Over IP phone (VoIP). With Linphone you can communicate freely with people over the internet, with voice, video, and text instant messaging. Linphone makes use of the SIP protocol, an open standard for internet telephony. You can use Linphone with any SIP VoIP operator, including our free SIP audio/video service. Linphone is free software (or open-source), you can download and redistribute it freely. Linphone is available for desktop computers: Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, and for mobile phones: Android, iPhone, Blackberry. Linphone-android is a good example to show the integration of Java code based on Android SDK with native CODEC, network protocols. Not like XBMC-Android that is almost total c++/c project. Perform the following steps to build a linphone-android project: 1. git clone git://git.linphone.org/linphone-android.git --recursive 2. sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool pkg-config 3. "cd" to the root of "git clone" : cd /home/user/linphne-android // wherver git'ed linphone-android is 4. export PATH=/home/user/android-ndk:$PATH //wherever your android-ndk, android-sdk tools, and platform-tools, and ANT are stored in.             For example on my PC.      export PATH=/home/alanz/android-ndk-r8d:/home/alanz/android-sdk-linux/tools:/home/alanz/android-sdk-linux/platform-     tools:/home/alanz/bin/apache-ant-1.8.4/bin:$PATH             Note: PATH contains the ndk, sdk, and ant. 5. Make sure the network is working, then execute "./prepare_sources.sh" at the linphone-android root 6. Then, execute "/home/alanz/android-ndk-r8d/ndk-build", it will take a while to be finished 7. Modify Makefile as following example, modify it accordingly.      NDK_PATH=/home/alanz/android-ndk-r8d      SDK_PATH=/home/alanz/android-sdk-linux/tools      SDK_PLATFORM_TOOLS_PATH=/home/alanz/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools      .....................      generate-libs:           $(NDK_PATH)/ndk-build ....... (remove -j$(NUMCPUS) by the end of this command line) 8. execute "make", after finish, the apk file can be found under bin/ subdirectory.

Enabling Dual Display in Ubuntu with the i.MX53 Quick Start Board Here you will learn how to enable two displays in a Ubuntu system running in an iMX53 Quick Start Board. We assume here that you already have a micro SD card with a valid Ubuntu image (including uboot, Linux kernel and Ubuntu filesystem). You can use the original SD card that comes with the i.MX53 Quick Start Board, which brings an image of Ubuntu or, if you do not have the original SD card, you can reproduce it by downloading Ubuntu binaries package (L2.6.35_MX53_ER_1101_IMAGE) from Freescale iMX53qsb download area. You will also need to update U-boot and kernel binaries in the SD card with more recent images. You can find the most recent binaries (L2.6.35_MX53_ER_1109_IMAGE_) from Freescale iMX53qsb download area as well. Introduction To enable dual display, you need to perform two tasks: Enable two displays at kernel level Configure your Xorg server accordingly Enabling Two Displays at Kernel Level To enable two displays at kernel level means to map one display interface to fb0 device and the other to fb1 device. So first thing is to choose which interface will be the primary one, mapped as fb0. As an example, we consider the VGA interface as primary in this tutorial. Second thing is to choose one of the other available external video interfaces to be secondary, mapped as fb1 device in the system. We consider the 4.3" seiko LCD display in this tutorial as the secondary interface. Once chosen primary and secondary interfaces, we need to configure kernel video arguments accordingly. The arguments are available in specific variables in the U-boot that comes with the Ubuntu binaries. You can see them (HDMI, VGA, etc.) by printing the U-boot environment variables from the U-boot shell, but you will probably not find those variables in other versions of U-boot and their contents will probably need to be adapted to the kernel version in use, as arguments recognized by kernel modules varies considerably between kernel versions. You can always refer to the Linux Release Notes documents for video arguments. It's available for each Linux BSP that can be found on the Freescale website. For the 1109 BSP, we have the following video arguments (extracted from i.MX53_START_Linux_BSP_Release_Note.pdf that comes with L2.6.35_11.09.01_ER_docs.tar.gz downloaded from here - IMX53_1109_LINUXDOCS_BUNDLE😞 VGA: video=mxcdi1fb:GBR24,VGA-XGA di1_primary vga SEIKO LCD: video=mxcdi0fb:RGB24,SEIKO-WVGA di0_primary Both are considered primary, because these are the arguments for single display setups. Now that we have video arguments for both desired interfaces, we only need to merge them together removing the primary argument from the one that is the secondary. In our case, we need to pass the following arguments to the kernel: video=mxcdi1fb:GBR24,VGA-XGA di1_primary vga video=mxcdi0fb:RGB24,SEIKO-WVGA For this, we can add these arguments to one of the variables that are used in the boot process. We can add the content to bootarg_base, for instance. In the U-boot command line, execute following commands to setup the environment: setenv vga_and_seiko 'video=mxcdi1fb:GBR24,VGA-XGA di1_primary vga video=mxcdi0fb:RGB24,SEIKO-WVGA' setenv bootargs_base 'setenv bootargs console=ttymxc0,115200 vga_and_seiko' saveenv After applying a reset and booting the board, you shall have both interfaces enabled, but the secondary will not be used by the Xorg server until we complete the next step. Configuring Xorg Server Now that we have two video interfaces properly configured and mapped to /dev/fb0 and /dev/fb1 devices, we need to tell Xorg server how to use them. Here is an example of xorg.conf file that you can use to replace the default one, found at /etc/X11: Section "InputDevice" Identifier     "Generic Keyboard" Driver          "kbd" Option          "XkbRules"     "xorg" Option          "XkbModel"     "pc105" Option          "XkbLayout"     "us" EndSection  Section "InputDevice" Identifier     "Configured Mouse" Driver          "mouse" Option          "CorePointer" EndSection  Section "Device" Identifier     "i.MX Accelerated Framebuffer Device 0" Driver          "imx" Option          "fbdev"               "/dev/fb0"  # This option only recognized when "mxc_epdc_fb" frame buffer driver in # use.  Values are "RGB565" (default, 16-bit RGB), "Y8" (8-bit gray), # and "Y8INV" (8-bit gray inverted). Option          "FormatEPDC"               "Y8INV"  EndSection  Section "Device" Identifier     "i.MX Accelerated Framebuffer Device 1" Driver          "imx" Option          "fbdev"               "/dev/fb1"  EndSection  Section "Monitor" Identifier     "Configured Monitor 0" EndSection  Section "Monitor" Identifier     "Configured Monitor 1" EndSection  Section "Screen" Identifier     "Screen 0" Monitor          "Configured Monitor 0" Device          "i.MX Accelerated Framebuffer Device 0"  # These "Display" SubSection's are needed for working with the # "mxc_epdc_fb" frame buffer driver. SubSection     "Display" Depth     8 Visual     "StaticGray" EndSubSection SubSection     "Display" Depth     16 Visual     "TrueColor" EndSubSection EndSection  Section "Screen" Identifier     "Screen 1" Monitor          "Configured Monitor 1" Device          "i.MX Accelerated Framebuffer Device 1" EndSection  Section "ServerLayout" Identifier     "Xinerama Layout" Screen          "Screen 0" Screen          "Screen 1" RightOf "Screen 0" EndSection  Section "ServerFlags" Option          "Xinerama"          "true" EndSection Results The following picture shows the i.MX 53 QSB running the extended desktop previously configured. You can see the VGA monitor with a Firefox instance and the SEIKO LCD display with a calc instance.

The following document contains a list of document, questions and discussions that are relevant in the community based on amount of views. If you are having a problem, doubt or getting started in i.MX processors, you should check the following links to see if your doubt is in there. Yocto Project Freescale Yocto Project main page‌ Yocto Training - HOME‌ i.MX Yocto Project: Frequently Asked Questions‌ Useful bitbake commands‌ Yocto Project Package Management - smart  How to add a new layer and a new recipe in Yocto  Setting up the Eclipse IDE for Yocto Application Development Guide to the .sdcard format  Yocto NFS &amp; TFTP boot  YOCTO project clean  Yocto with a package manager (ex: apt-get)  Yocto Setting the Default Ethernet address and disable DHCP on boot.  i.MX x Building QT for i.MX6  i.MX6/7 DDR Stress Test Tool V3.00  i.MX6DQSDL DDR3 Script Aid  Installing Ubuntu Rootfs on NXP i.MX6 boards  iMX6DQ MAX9286 MIPI CSI2 720P camera surround view solution for Linux BSP i.MX Design&amp;Tool Lists  Simple GPIO Example - quandry  i.MX6 GStreamer-imx Plugins - Tutorial &amp; Example Pipelines  Streaming USB Webcam over Network  Step-by-step: How to setup TI Wilink (WL18xx) with iMX6 Linux 3.10.53  Linux / Kernel Copying Files Between Windows and Linux using PuTTY  Building Linux Kernel  Patch to support uboot logo keep from uboot to kernel for NXP Linux and Android BSP (HDMI, LCD and LVDS)  load kernel from SD card in U-boot  Changing the Kernel configuration for i.MX6 SABRE  Android  The Android Booting process  What is inside the init.rc and what is it used for.  Others How to use qtmultimedia(QML) with Gstreamer 1.0

Hi all, I shared my test results and solutions in attachments. Best regards, Carl

LTIB Creating Uimage Uboot Configuration file for fw_(printenv/saveenv) utility Add new i.MX5x board on LTIB LTIB Creating Uimage Uboot U-boot expects uImage format for the kernel image. In order to LTIB generate a uImage file: $ export SYSCFG_KTARG=uImage $ ./ltib -p kernel Setup in U-Boot the kernel bootargs: u-boot> setenv bootargs noinitrd console=ttymxc0,115200 init=/linuxrc root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.29.244.27:/tftpboot/rootfs ip=dhcp Change 10.29.244.27 to your host IP. The procedure above is needed when default bootloader used by ltib was redboot. In some ltib releases (before 2010) default bootloader is u-boot. In this case, ltib will create uImage by default Configuration file for fw_(printenv/saveenv) utility # Configuration file for fw_(printenv/saveenv) utility. # Up to two entries are valid, in this case the redundant # environment sector is assumed present. # Notice, that the "Number of sectors" is ignored on NOR.               # MTD device name Device offset Env. size Flash sector size Number of sectors #/dev/mtd1 0x0000 0x4000 0x4000 #/dev/mtd2 0x0000 0x4000 0x4000 # NAND example /dev/mtd0 0x80000 0x40000 0x20000 2 Add new i.MX5x board on LTIB After porting u-boot to your i.MX5x board you might want add it on LTIB menu, "Choose your board for u-boot" section. For this, edit ltib/config/platform/imx/main.lkc to add your board: Enter board on menu: comment "Choose your board for u-boot" choice prompt "board" default BOARD_MX51_BBG depends on PLATFORM = "imx51" help This menu will let you choose the board you use. ... + config BOARD_MX53_MYBOARD + bool "mx53_myboard" ... endchoice Add the "mx53_myboard_config" that matches your board configuration on the u-boot Makefile to PKG_U_BOOT_CONFIG_TYPE: config PKG_U_BOOT_CONFIG_TYPE   string   ... + default "mx53_myboard_config" if ( PLATFORM = "imx51" && BOARD_MX53_MYBOARD && !PKG_KERNEL_UPDATER )   ...

This PDF is training material for showing examples on video encoding, video decoding, video streaming on an i.MX53QSB board.

In FSL i.MX53 reference design, it is configured as: static struct mxc_audio_platform_data sgtl5000_data = { .ssi_num = 1, .src_port = 2, .ext_port = 5, .hp_irq = gpio_to_irq(HEADPHONE_DEC_B), .hp_status = headphone_det_status, .init = mxc_sgtl5000_init, .ext_ram_rx = 1, }; by default. If change the configuration to be : static struct mxc_audio_platform_data sgtl5000_data = { .ssi_num = 0, .src_port = 1, .ext_port = 5, .hp_irq = gpio_to_irq(HEADPHONE_DEC_B), .hp_status = headphone_det_status, .init = mxc_sgtl5000_init, .ext_ram_rx = 1, }; There will prompt "imx_ssi_irq mxc_ssi SISR 8003a3 SIER 180100 fifo_errs=XXXX"  constantly, and audio is greatly distorted. The root cause of this issue is that SSI1/3 use SDMA, and also use IPMUX, but there is not the clock dependency between SDMA and IPMUX, so sometimes IPMUX clock is closed automatically. The attached patch may fix this issue. NOTE: If use SSI2 .ssi_num = 1,             .src_port = 2, If use SSI1 .ssi_num = 0,             .src_port = 1,

This example is useful  if you have your device connected to a host machine using a USB cable, and you want your host machine to be able to update your device using a protocol ready to go. Information you need prior to using this example Fastboot is a protocol used to update firmware in Android devices from a host over USB; Freescale implements fastboot as a uboot driver for the device and the implementation is available from patches applied to uboot source code; By default, fastboot is only enabled when building uboot to use with an Android BSP; To run fastboot at the device in default implementation you need to call it from uboot command line (using the debug serial port of the slave device, for example); The host fastboot application is available as source code from Google. You can build your own fastboot(.exe) binary (which is not in the scope of this howto), or you can find a binary ready for you to go searching the web; You are required to be familiar with Linux BSP and have i.MX53 BSP version 11.05 installed. With this information in mind, what do you get from this example? Patch for uboot to enable fastboot driver for iMX53 Quick Start Board with a new spec file; A command line application that set a flag in iMX53 to automatically start fastboot after a reset, either if it is a SOFT or a HARD reset. How to prepare the example Copy uboot patch file (attached) to /opt/freescale/pkgs; Replace your uboot spec file (u-boot.spec.in attached) in <bsp_root>/ltib/config/platform/imx/; Build a system image for iMX53 Quick Start Board with the packages you need; Build the command line application (setbootmode.c attached) using ltib shell; Prepare an SD card copy the command line application /usr/sbin in your SD card system partition. See attachment to this page. How to test the example Boot the Quick Start Board with the SD card you prepared; Login as root using a serial cable and a terminal application; Run setbootmode application as follows: $ setbootmode 1 Reboot the system: $ reboot After rebooting, the device will automatically run fastboot from uboot and will wait for a connection from the host machine. You can test the connection using a fastboot binary at the host machine (not provided here). Even if you HARD reset your hardware, your device will keep running fastboot at startup. If you want to go back to a regular boot operation, you need to cut power supply to your board. How does the magic happen? The setbootmode application sets the LSB in the Low Power General Register (LPGR) of the Secure Real Time Clock (SRTC) module to true. The patched version o uboot tests for this bit as a flag to run fastboot or not. The magic is that the LPGR is persistent, even during reset. Additional tips You can run setbootmode with no arguments to see its options; You need to set the boot mode to 0 after a successful update to avoid entering fastboot mode again after a new reboot; Partitioning of the device seen by fastboot is not implemented; Besides using setbootmode, you can read/set LPGR using either md.l / nm.l in uboot or devmem2 at command line: uboot-> md.l 0x53fa401c 1 - displays LPGR; uboot-> nm.l 0x53fa401c - presents a prompt for you to change LPGR; linux shell-> devmem2 0x53fa401c w - displays LPGR; linux shell-> devmem2 0x53fa401c w <value> - changes LPGR; devmem2 has issues that you need to fix so that you can use it to change LPGR: include "volatile" in all writing instruction; uncomment 'w' write instruction.

Software Update and Recovery The information reproduced above is from Android User Guide R10.2, found into Android release package. It is possible to format the /data and /cache partitions or update software based on a update script using recovery mode as follows: Prepare for all Android source code that assumed to be saved in ~/myandroid directory. Prepare for ADB over USB. make sure that ADB over USB is ok. USB cable is connected. Refer to i.MX51 Android ADB over USB section for more information. Connect the UART to the PC and open a terminal to check for printed messages Enter the recovery by manual for imx51_BBG board:       setenv bootargs_android_recovery 'setenv bootargs ${bootargs} init=/init root=/dev/mmcblk0p4 rootfs=ext4 di1_primary'       setenv bootcmd_android_recovery 'run bootargs_base bootargs_android_recovery;mmc read 0 ${loadaddr} 0x800 0x2000;bootm'       run bootcmd_android_recovery For imx53_SMD board:       setenv bootargs_android_recovery 'setenv bootargs ${bootargs} init=/init root=/dev/mmcblk0p4 rootfs=ext4'       setenv bootcmd_android_recovery 'run bootargs_base bootargs_android_recovery;mmc read 0 ${loadaddr} 0x800 0x2000;bootm'       run bootcmd_android_recovery When system has completed bootup,  You will see this screen: You can press "MENU" "HOME" or "F1" (by USB keyboard, for developer)" going to the text menu like this: Select the required option using the direction keys on the keypad or keyboard. Apply sdcard:update.zip, you may update the software from update.zip as shown in the following example: Copy this directory from android source code myandroid/bootable/recovery/etc to a tempepory directory, such as ~/recovery. cd ~/recovery and remove init.rc from this directory. Edit ./META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script according to the required commands. for example, in order to format /system partition and use update.zip to update system partition, copy whole the entire content directory to system partition, all commands are found in ~/myandroid/bootable/recovery/update/install.c You must notice, when your signing the zip package, it will lose ALL of the permission information, you need to set the right permission in the script. You can find the example in ./META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script Copy update-binary, Copy out/target/product/YOU_PRODUCT/system/bin/updater to ~/recovery/META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary Create a directory called system and copy some files you would like to update to ./system. Create a directory called res to save the public key of your system.         fsl@fsl-desktop:~/recovery$ mkdir res         fsl@fsl-desktop:~/recovery$ ~/myandroid/out/host/linux-x86/framework/dumpkey.jar ~/myandroid/build/target/product/security/testkey.x509.pem > res/keys Create a package called recovery.zip using the zip command         fsl@fsl-desktop:~/recovery$zip recovery.zip -r ./META-INF ./system ./res recovery.zip is located in the current directory. Then create a digital signature for recovery.zip package as follows.         fsl@fsl-desktop:~/recovery$ cd ~/myandroid         fsl@fsl-desktop:~/myandroid$ make signapk         fsl@fsl-desktop:~/myandroid$ cd ~/recovery         fsl@fsl-desktop:~/recovery$ java -jar ~/myandroid/out/host/linux-x86/framework/signapk.jar -w ~/myandroid/build/target/product/security/testkey.x509.pem ~/myandroid/build/target/product/security/testkey.pk8 recovery.zip recovery_signed.zip recovery_signed.zip is located in the current directory. Copy it to the SD card using ADB         fsl@fsl-desktop:~/recovery$ adb push recovery_signed.zip /sdcard/update.zip update.zip is completed and the system is updated based on the commands in the update-script. Check for error messages on the LCD. Wipe data/factory reset. /data and /cache partitions are formatted. Wipe cache partition. /cache partition is formatted. Reboot the system.

DirectFB DirectFB is a thin library that provides hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and multiple display layers, not only on top of the Linux Framebuffer Device. It is a complete hardware abstraction layer with software fallbacks for every graphics operation that is not supported by the underlying hardware. DirectFB adds graphical power to embedded systems and sets a new standard for graphics under Linux. [Source: directfb.org] DirectFB Quick Test Select DirectFB in Package List on LTIB1011: [x] DirectFB Select also DirectFB examples: [x] DirectFB examples Build your Linux. Flash your SD card. Launch your Linux image on your board, and then launch a DirectFB example: $ df_dok DirectFB benchmark is launched. Benchmark result on an i.MX 53 EVK:

When to improve kernel booting using hibernation [1], I found kernel initialized each component [2] took too much time. One solution is to remove unnecessary module to save time. Another approach is to delay those modules until user space up. Then it won’t lost some features just because hopes to gain benefit on booting speed. This is very useful since hibernation’s trigger point is at the late_initcall [3]. Kernel doesn't need do much module initialize since hibernate will restore those module status later. The detailed implementation is in the attached patch. [1]: hibernation is a technique to store system memory content to storage. Then the device can be shutdown and read the content back after power on. [2]: component means subsystem or driver. [3]: Consult kernel/power/hibernate.c, software_resume

This is a workaround—this page needs to be updated to add instructions for multi-touch support. Based on Freescale BSP 11.05. The LVDS panel (MCIMX-LVDS1) has a serial multi-touch controller, eGalax. As a workaround to have it supported on directly on Qt, we can force the driver to behave as a single touch. To do this: 1 - Edit the file ltib/rpm/BUILD/linux-2.6.35.3/drivers/input/touchscreen/egalax_ts.c adding the following line: + #define FORCE_SINGLE_POINTER_SUPPORT 1 2 - Compile the kernel ./ltib -m scbuild -p kernel 3 - Copy the new kernel to Card/Memory and boot it. 4 - Start your Qt app: $ Xfbdev -screen 1024x768 -mouse tslib,,device=/dev/input/event0  & $ export DISPLAY=:0.0 $ ./yourQTapp Note: You can read the touch events with "evtest" $ evtest  /dev/input/event0 or tslib apps: $ export TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/event0 $ ts_print