On this tutorial we will review the implementation of Flutter on the i.MX8MP using the Linux Desktop Image. Please find more information about Flutter using the following link: Flutter: Option to create GUIs for Embedded System... - NXP Community Requirements: Evaluation Kit for the i.MX 8M Plus Applications Processor. (i.MX 8M Plus Evaluation Kit | NXP Semiconductors) NXP Desktop Image for i.MX 8M Plus (GitHub - nxp-imx/meta-nxp-desktop at lf-6.1.1-1.0.0-langdale) Note: This tutorial is based on the NXP Desktop Image Ubuntu 22.04 with Yocto version 6.1.1 – Langdale. Steps: 1. First, run commands to update packages. $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt upgrade 2. Install Flutter for Linux using the following command. $ sudo snap install flutter --classic 3. Run the command to verify the correct installation. $ flutter doctor With this command you will find information about the installation. The important part for our purpose is the parameter "Linux toolchain - develop for Linux desktop". 4. Run the command “flutter create .” to create a flutter project, this framework will create different folders and files used to develop the application.  $ cd Documents $ mkdir flutter_hello $ cd flutter_hello $ flutter create .​ 5. Finally, you can run the “hello world” application using: $ flutter run Verify the program behavior incrementing the number displayed on the window.  

One of the most popular use cases for embedded systems are projects destinated to show information and interact with users. These views are called GUI or Graphic User Interface which are designed to be intuitive, attractive, consistent, and clear. There are many tools that we can use to achieve great GUIs, mostly implemented for platforms such as Web, Android, and iOS. Here, we will need to introduce the concept of framework, basically, it is a set of tools and rules that provides a minimal structure to start with your development. Frameworks usually comes with configuration files, code snippets, files and folders organization helping us to save time and effort. Also, it is important to review the concept of SDK or Software Development Kit which is a set of tools that allows to build software for specific platforms. Usually supplies debugging tools, documentation, libraries, API’s, emulators, and sample code. Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit by Google that help us to create applications with great GUIs on different platforms from a single codebase. Depends on the reference, you can find Flutter defined as a framework or SDK and both are correct, however, an SDK could be a best definition thanks to Flutter supplies a wide and complete package to create an application in which framework is also included. This article is aimed at those that are in a prototyping stage looking for a different tool to develop projects. Also, this article pretends to be a theoretical introduction explaining the most important concepts. However, is a good practice to learn more about reviewing the official documentation from Flutter. (Flutter documentation | Flutter) Here is the structure used throughout this article: What is Flutter? Flutter details Platforms Programming language Official documentation Flutter for embedded systems What is Flutter? Flutter was officially released by Google in December 2018 with a main aim, to give developers a tool to create applications natively compiled for mobile (Android, iOS), web and desktop (Windows, Linux) from a single codebase. It means that as a developer, Flutter will create a structure with minimal code, configuration files, build files for each operating system, manifests, etc. in which we will add our custom code and finally build this code for our preferred OS. For example, we can create an application to review fruit and vegetable information and compile for Android and iOS with the same code. A basic Flutter development process based on my experience looks like the following diagram: Flutter has the following key features: Cross-platform development. Flutter allows the developer to create applications for different platforms using a single codebase. It means that you will not need to recreate the application for each platform you want to support.   Hot-reload. This feature allows the developer to see changes in real time without restarting the whole application, this results in time savings for your project.   High Performance Flutter apps achieve high performance due to the app code is compiled to native ARM code. With this tool no interpreters are involved.   UI Widgets Flutter supplies a set of widgets (UI components such as boxes, inputs text, buttons, etc.) predefined by UI systems guidelines Material on Android and Cupertino for iOS. Source: Material 3 Design Kit | Figma Community Source: Design - Apple Developer   Great community support. This feature could be subjective but, it is useful when we are developing our project find solutions to known issues or report new ones. Because of Flutter is an open source and is widely implemented in the industry this tool owns a big community, with events, forums, and documentation. Flutter Details Supported Platforms With Flutter you can create applications for: Android iOS Linux Debian Linux Ubuntu macOS web Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge Windows Supported deployment platforms | Flutter Programming Language Flutter use Dart, a programming language is an open-source language supported by Google optimized to use on the creation of user interfaces. Dart key features: Statically typed. This feature helps catching errors making the code robust ensuring that the variable’s value always match with the declared variable’s type. Null safety. All variables on Dart are non-nullable which means that every variable must have a non-null value avoiding errors at execution time. This feature also, make the code robust and secure. Async/Await. Dart is client-optimized which means that this language was specially created to ensure the best performance as a client application. Async/Await is a feature part of this optimization making easier to manage network requests and other asynchronous operations. Object oriented. Dart is an object-oriented language with classes and mixin. This is especially useful to use on Flutter with the usage of widgets. Compiler support of Just-In-Time (JIT) and Ahead-of-Time (AOT) JIT provides the support that enables the Hot Reload Flutter feature that I mentioned before. It is a complex mechanism, but Dart “detects” changes in your code and execute only these changes avoiding recompiling all the code. AOT compiler produces efficient ARM code improving start up time and performance. Official documentation Flutter has a rich community and documentation that goes from UI guidelines to an Architectural Overview. You can find the official documentation at the following links: Flutter Official Documentation: Flutter documentation | Flutter Flutter Community: Community (flutter.dev) Dart Official Documentation: Dart documentation | Dart Flutter for embedded systems So far, we know all the excellent features and platforms that Flutter can support. But, what about the embedded systems? On the official documentation we can find that Flutter may be used for embedded systems but in fact there is no an official supported platform. This SDK has been supported by their community, specially there is one repository on GitHub supported by Sony that provides documentation and Yocto recipes to support Flutter on embedded Linux. To understand the reason to differentiate between Flutter for Linux Desktop with official support and to create a specific Flutter support for embedded Linux is important to describe the basics of Flutter architecture. Based on the Flutter documentation the system is designed using layers that can be illustrated as follows:   Source: Flutter architectural overview | Flutter We can see as a top level “Framework” which is a high-level layer that includes widgets, tools and libraries that are in contact with developers. Below “Framework,” the layer “Engine” is responsible of drawing the widgets specified in the previous layer and provides the connection between high-level and low-level code. This layer is mostly written in C++ for this reason Flutter can achieve high performance running applications. Specifically for graphics rendering Flutter implements Impeller for iOS and Skia for the rest of platforms. The bottom layer is “Embedder” which is specific for each target and operating system this layer allows Flutter application to run as a native app providing the access to interact with different services managed by the operating systems such as input, rendering surfaces and accessibility. This layer for Linux Desktop uses GTK/GDK and X11 as backend that is highly dependent of unnecessary libraries and expensive for embedded systems which have constrained resources for computation and memory. The work around founded by Sony’s Flutter for Embedded Linux repository is to change this backend using a widely implemented backend for embedded systems Wayland. The following image illustrates the difference between Flutter for Linux Desktop and Flutter for Embedded Linux.   Source: What's the difference between Linux desktop and Embedded Linux · sony/flutter-embedded-linux Wiki · GitHub   Source: What's the difference between Linux desktop and Embedded Linux · sony/flutter-embedded-linux Wiki · GitHub Here is the link to the mentioned repository: GitHub - sony/flutter-elinux: Flutter tools for embedded Linux (eLinux) Finally, I would like to encourage you to read the official Flutter documentation and consider this tool as a great option compared to widely used tools on embedded devices such as Qt or Chromium. Also, please have a look to a great article written by Payam Zahedi delving into the implementation of Flutter for Embedded Linux measuring performance and giving conclusions about the usage of Flutter in embedded systems. (Flutter on Embedded Devices. Learn how to run Flutter on embedded… | by Payam Zahedi | Snapp Embedded | Medium).    

What is a device tree? The device tree is a data structure that is passed to the Linux kernel to describe the physical devices in a system. Before device trees came into use, the bootloader (for example, U-Boot) had to tell the kernel what machine type it was booting. Moreover, it had to pass other information such as memory size and location, kernel command line, etc. Sometimes, the device tree is confused with the Linux Kernel configuration, but the device tree specifies what devices are available and how they are accessed, not whether the hardware is used. The device tree is a structure composed of nodes and properties: Nodes: The node name is a label used to identify the node. Properties: A node may contain multiple properties arranged with a name and a value. Phandle: Property in one node that contains a pointer to another node. Aliases: The aliases node is an index of other nodes. A device tree is defined in a human-readable device tree syntax text file such as .dts or .dtsi. The machine has one or several .dts files that correspond to different hardware configurations. With these .dts files we can compile them into a device tree binary (.dtb) blobs that can either be attached to the kernel binary (for legacy compatibility) or, as is more commonly done, passed to the kernel by a bootloader like U-Boot. What is Devshell? The Devshell is a terminal shell that runs in the same context as the BitBake task engine. It is possible to run Devshell directly or it may spawn automatically. The advantage of this tool is that is automatically included when you configure and build a platform project so, you can start using it by installing the packages and following the setup of i.MX Yocto Project User's Guide on section 3 “Host Setup”. Steps: Now, let’s see how to compile your device tree files of i.MX devices using Devshell. On host machine. Modify or make your device tree on the next path: - 64 bits. ~/imx-yocto-bsp/<build directory>/tmp/work-shared/<machine>/kernel-source/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale - 32 bits. ~/imx-yocto-bsp/<build directory>/tmp/work-shared/<machine>/kernel-source/arch/arm/boot/dts To compile, it is needed to prepare the environment as is mentioned on i.MX Yocto Project User's Guide on section 5.1 “Build Configurations”. $ cd ~/imx-yocto-bsp $ DISTRO=fsl-imx-xwayland MACHINE=<machine> source imx-setup-release.sh -b <build directory> $ bitbake -c devshell virtual/kernel (it will open a new window) On Devshell window. $ make dtbs (after finished, close the Devshell window) On host machine. $ bitbake -c compile -f virtual/kernel $ bitbake -c deploy -f virtual/kernel This process will compile all the device tree files linked to the machine declared on setup environment and your device tree files will be deployed on the next path: ~/imx-yocto-bsp/<build directory>/tmp/deploy/images/<machine> I hope this article will be helpful. Best regards. Jorge.

This is a tool for screen capture under DRM (Direct Render Manager). This also a revised version for previous “drmfbcap” (DRM Framebuffer Capture). Unlike the FB based system under which we can capture the frame buffer easily through reading the device node, the DRM is much more complex and secure-protected. No direct way for reading framebuffer data from user space. Under DRM case, we need to open the DRM device, query the resource, get and map the FB object and then read the buffer eventually. With this tool, we can capture the buffer content from a DRM device and output as raw RGB/YUV data. Features: Capture all planes or specific plane, including hidden/covered planes or planes (overlays) managed by applications directly. Both RGB and YUV supported (auto detect). Tile format (VSI Super-Tile) is also supported. Repeat mode which can capture frames continuously. Tool was built as static linked, in this case, it should be working in both Linux and Android.   Important notes: Behavior of DRM subsystem is different between Linux 4.x and 5.x/6.x. For Linux 4.x, you can capture the RGB buffer without any problem. But, there’s no API for YUV (multi-plane) buffer. To capture YUV, please patch kernel with: “kernel_0001-drm-Add-getfb2-ioctl_L4.14.98.patch”. For Linux 5.x, mapping/capturing the internal buffer is not allowed by default due to security reason. To overcome this temporary (for debug only), patch the kernel with: “0001-drm-enable-mapping-of-internal-object-for-debugging_L5.x.patch”. It contains a minor change to remove this guard. Both patches are included in attachment. To get more details about how to use this tool, try “-h” option to print the usage message. Enjoy!

Customer is asking high-capacity external storage(for example >64GB) support on i.MX BSP, ext4 is ok for HC storage, but it can’t be supported by Windows. Pls find NFTS and exFAT support status on Linux BSP below: Updated test result on L5.4.70.2.3.0 and L6.1.22: L5.4.70.2.3.0 1.You can enable ntfs support in kernel config as below,  ntfs can be mounted normally, but you can only modify existing file content in disk, you can’t create/delete/rename file on disk. > File systems > DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems   Log: root@imx8mpevk:~# mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/fat/ [  662.732869] ntfs: volume version 3.1. root@imx8mpevk:~# cp ntfs-3g /mnt/fat/ cp: cannot create regular file '/mnt/fat/ntfs-3g': Permission denied root@imx8mpevk:~# ls /mnt/fat/ 111.png  Image_org  System Volume Information  gpuinfo.sh root@imx8mpevk:~# vi /mnt/fat/gpuinfo.sh root@imx8mpevk:~# umount /mnt/fat/ root@imx8mpevk:~# ntfs file system can be accessed via ntfs-3g in user space as below //build: wget https://tuxera.com/opensource/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2017.3.23.tgz tar zxvf ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2017.3.23.tgz cd ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2017.3.23/ source ../../sdk/environment-setup-aarch64-poky-linux   ./configure --host=aarch64-linux --build=aarch64-poky-linux --disable-shared --enable-static   make   ls /src/ntfs-3g   //put it into rootfs cp ntfs-3g /bin   //test log: root@imx8mpevk:/# [ 1058.724471] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 4 [ 1062.058613] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci-hcd [ 1062.214029] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [ 1062.220986] scsi host0: usb-storage 1-1:1.0 [ 1063.235871] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     VendorCo ProductCode      2.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 [ 1063.246185] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 15728640 512-byte logical blocks: (8.05 GB/7.50 GiB) [ 1063.254023] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 1063.259164] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page found [ 1063.264540] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 1063.296946]  sda: sda1 [ 1063.300860] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk   root@imx8mpevk:/# ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/fat/ root@imx8mpevk:/# ls /mnt/fat/ README  System Volume Information  gpu.sh  gpuinfo.sh root@imx8mpevk:/# cp /unit_tests/memtool /mnt/fat/ root@imx8mpevk:/# umount /mnt/fat/ root@imx8mpevk:/# ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/fat/ root@imx8mpevk:/# ls /mnt/fat/ README  System Volume Information  gpu.sh  gpuinfo.sh  memtool root@imx8mpevk:/#   3.exFAT is not supported on this BSP..   L6.1.22(you can check it on L5.15 and above, should be the same) You can enable ntfs support in kernel config as below, full features can be supported. > File systems > DOS/FAT/EXFAT/NT Filesystems   Pls use ‘-t ntfs3’ during mounting, otherwise it will be mounted as ‘read-only’ Log: root@imx8ulpevk:~# mount -t ntfs3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/fat/ root@imx8ulpevk:~# ls /mnt/fat/ 111.png   Image_org  'System Volume Information' root@imx8ulpevk:~# root@imx8ulpevk:~# cp gpuinfo.sh /mnt/fat/ root@imx8ulpevk:~# umount /mnt/fat/ root@imx8ulpevk:~# root@imx8ulpevk:~# mount -t ntfs3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/fat/ root@imx8ulpevk:~# ls /mnt/fat/ 111.png   Image_org  'System Volume Information'   gpuinfo.sh root@imx8ulpevk:~#   exFAT has been supported in L6.1.22. > File systems > DOS/FAT/EXFAT/NT Filesystems   /dev/sda1 on /run/media/sda1 type exfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,iocharset=utf8,errors=remount-ro) root@imx8ulpevk:~# ls /run/media/sda1 'Certificate of Completion.pdf'             carlife.MP4 Image_org                                  example.tflite L5.4.70_2.3.0                              mx8mp_vpu.txt NXP-5G.mp4                                 sd.mp4 'System Volume Information'                 vela.ini android_p9.0.0_2.1.0-auto-ga_image_8qmek root@imx8ulpevk:~# ls Image_org  gpuinfo.sh root@imx8ulpevk:~# cp gpuinfo.sh /run/media/sda1/ root@imx8ulpevk:~# umount /run/media/sda1 root@imx8ulpevk:~#

  Test environment   i.MX8MP EVK LVDS0 LVDS-HDMI  bridge(it6263) L5.15.5_1.0.0 Background   Some customers need show logo using LVDS panel. Current BSP doesn't support LVDS driver in Uboot. This patch provides i.MX8MPlus LVDS driver support in Uboot. If you want to connect it to LVDS panel , you need port your lvds panel driver like  simple-panel.c   Update [2022.9.19] Verify on L5.15.32_2.0.0  0001-L5.15.32-Add-i.MX8MP-LVDS-driver-in-uboot 'probe device is failed, ret -2, probe video device failed, ret -19' is caused by below code. It has been merged in attachment. // /* Only handle devices that have a valid ofnode */ // if (dev_has_ofnode(dev) && !(dev->driver->flags & DM_FLAG_IGNORE_DEFAULT_CLKS)) { // /* // * Process 'assigned-{clocks/clock-parents/clock-rates}' // * properties // */ // ret = clk_set_defaults(dev, CLK_DEFAULTS_PRE); // if (ret) // goto fail; // }   [2023.3.14] Verify on L5.15.71 0001-L5.15.71-Add-i.MX8MP-LVDS-support-in-uboot   [2023.9.12] For some panel with low DE, you need uncomment CTRL_INV_DE line and set this bit to 1. #include <linux/string.h> @@ -110,9 +111,8 @@ static void lcdifv3_set_mode(struct lcdifv3_priv *priv, writel(CTRL_INV_HS, (ulong)(priv->reg_base + LCDIFV3_CTRL_SET)); /* SEC MIPI DSI specific */ - writel(CTRL_INV_PXCK, (ulong)(priv->reg_base + LCDIFV3_CTRL_CLR)); - writel(CTRL_INV_DE, (ulong)(priv->reg_base + LCDIFV3_CTRL_CLR)); - + //writel(CTRL_INV_PXCK, (ulong)(priv->reg_base + LCDIFV3_CTRL_CLR)); + //writel(CTRL_INV_DE, (ulong)(priv->reg_base + LCDIFV3_CTRL_CLR)); }      

1.Test environment Board: i.MX8MPlus, RM67199 BSP: uboot 2022.04, linux-6.1.1-1.0.1 2.Modification of uboot  In uboot, you need comment the video_link_shut_down and dm_remove_devices_flags in announce_and_cleanup function. #if defined(CONFIG_VIDEO_LINK) //video_link_shut_down(); #endif board_quiesce_devices(); printf("\nStarting kernel ...%s\n\n", fake ? "(fake run for tracing)" : ""); /* * Call remove function of all devices with a removal flag set. * This may be useful for last-stage operations, like cancelling * of DMA operation or releasing device internal buffers. */ // #ifndef CONFIG_POWER_DOMAIN // dm_remove_devices_flags(DM_REMOVE_ACTIVE_ALL | DM_REMOVE_NON_VITAL); // /* Remove all active vital devices next */ // dm_remove_devices_flags(DM_REMOVE_ACTIVE_ALL); // #endif cleanup_before_linux(); }  After doing this, the uboot logo will not be cleaned before Linux PM framework. 3.Modification of Linux You need add  CONFIG_LOGO=n into defconfig file to disable kernel logo.  3.1 Disable the power down of mediamix and mipi-dphy in gpcv2.c Please add below code into the beginning of  imx_pgc_power_down function if ((strcmp(genpd->name, "mipi-phy1") == 0) || (strcmp(genpd->name, "mediamix") == 0)) { return 0; }  3.2 Only reset lcdif in the last call of drm framework Please modify imx_lcdifv3_runtime_resume function like this. The imx_lcdifv3_runtime_resume function will be called two times, thus the lcdif will be reset two times.We can let it only reset last time,which before the rootfs mount. bool rst = false; ////////////////////////////// static int imx_lcdifv3_runtime_resume(struct device *dev) { int ret = 0; struct lcdifv3_soc *lcdifv3 = dev_get_drvdata(dev); if (unlikely(!atomic_read(&lcdifv3->rpm_suspended))) { dev_warn(lcdifv3->dev, "Unbalanced %s!\n", __func__); return 0; } if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&lcdifv3->rpm_suspended)) return 0; /* set LCDIF QoS and cache */ if (of_device_is_compatible(dev->of_node, "fsl,imx93-lcdif")) regmap_write(lcdifv3->gpr, 0xc, 0x3712); request_bus_freq(BUS_FREQ_HIGH); ret = lcdifv3_enable_clocks(lcdifv3); if (ret) { release_bus_freq(BUS_FREQ_HIGH); return ret; } ////////////////////////////// if (rst) { /* clear sw_reset */ writel(CTRL_SW_RESET, lcdifv3->base + LCDIFV3_CTRL_CLR); rst = false; } rst = true; ////////////////////////////// /* enable plane FIFO panic */ lcdifv3_enable_plane_panic(lcdifv3); return ret; } 4.Conclusion The uboot logo will be cleaned at log "imx-drm 1.0.0 20120507 for display-subsystem on minor 1". The boot time of  systemd service on evk is very long. For weston.service, it needs 3 seconds. From log here we test, the pcie and ethernet probe after drm system also cost about 1 second. If you want to reduce the boot time of other modules, you can try to reduce the system service and disable pcie/ethernet drivers if you don't need them. [ 2.505616] [drm] Initialized imx-drm 1.0.0 20120507 for display-subsystem on minor 1 [ 2.620324] imx6q-pcie 33800000.pcie: iATU unroll: enabled [ 2.620335] imx6q-pcie 33800000.pcie: iATU regions: 4 ob, 4 ib, align 64K, limit 16G [ 2.720689] imx6q-pcie 33800000.pcie: PCIe Gen.1 x1 link up [ 2.820996] imx6q-pcie 33800000.pcie: PCIe Gen.2 x1 link up [ 2.821003] imx6q-pcie 33800000.pcie: Link up, Gen2 [ 2.821010] imx6q-pcie 33800000.pcie: PCIe Gen.2 x1 link up [ 2.821112] imx6q-pcie 33800000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00 [ 2.821119] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff] [ 2.821126] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0000-0xffff] [ 2.821133] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x18000000-0x1fefffff] [ 2.821161] pci 0000:00:00.0: [16c3:abcd] type 01 class 0x060400 [ 2.821176] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff] [ 2.821187] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 0x38: [mem 0x00000000-0x0000ffff pref] [ 2.821232] pci 0000:00:00.0: supports D1 [ 2.821237] pci 0000:00:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D3hot D3cold [ 2.824664] pci 0000:01:00.0: [1b4b:2b42] type 00 class 0x020000 [ 2.824725] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff 64bit pref] [ 2.824761] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 0x18: [mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff 64bit pref] [ 2.825066] pci 0000:01:00.0: supports D1 D2 [ 2.825072] pci 0000:01:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D3hot D3cold [ 2.835499] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x18000000-0x180fffff] [ 2.835511] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 15: assigned [mem 0x18100000-0x182fffff pref] [ 2.835519] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0x18300000-0x1830ffff pref] [ 2.835530] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x18100000-0x181fffff 64bit pref] [ 2.835561] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 2: assigned [mem 0x18200000-0x182fffff 64bit pref] [ 2.835590] pci 0000:00:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01-ff] [ 2.835598] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge window [mem 0x18100000-0x182fffff pref] [ 2.835899] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: PME: Signaling with IRQ 218 [ 2.897767] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 135x120 [ 3.098361] imx-drm display-subsystem: [drm] fb0: imx-drmdrmfb frame buffer device [ 3.111239] pps pps0: new PPS source ptp0 [ 3.316650] fec 30be0000.ethernet eth0: registered PHC device 0 [ 3.323645] imx-dwmac 30bf0000.ethernet: IRQ eth_lpi not found [ 3.329593] imx-dwmac 30bf0000.ethernet: force_sf_dma_mode is ignored if force_thresh_dma_mode is set. [ 3.340074] imx-dwmac 30bf0000.ethernet: User ID: 0x10, Synopsys ID: 0x51 [ 3.346883] imx-dwmac 30bf0000.ethernet: DWMAC4/5 [ 3.351684] imx-dwmac 30bf0000.ethernet: DMA HW capability register supported [ 3.358825] imx-dwmac 30bf0000.ethernet: RX Checksum Offload Engine supported [ 3.365966] imx-dwmac 30bf0000.ethernet: Wake-Up On Lan supported [ 3.372113] imx-dwmac 30bf0000.ethernet: Enable RX Mitigation via HW Watchdog Timer [ 3.379778] imx-dwmac 30bf0000.ethernet: Enabled L3L4 Flow TC (entries=8) [ 3.386573] imx-dwmac 30bf0000.ethernet: Enabled RFS Flow TC (entries=10) [ 3.393373] imx-dwmac 30bf0000.ethernet: Enabling HW TC (entries=256, max_off=256) [ 3.400950] imx-dwmac 30bf0000.ethernet: Using 34 bits DMA width [ 3.608045] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.1.auto: xHCI Host Controller [ 3.613580] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.1.auto: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 [ 3.621621] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.1.auto: hcc params 0x0220fe6d hci version 0x110 quirks 0x0000002001010010 [ 3.631059] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.1.auto: irq 226, io mem 0x38200000 [ 3.637197] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.1.auto: xHCI Host Controller [ 3.642698] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.1.auto: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 [ 3.650365] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.1.auto: Host supports USB 3.0 SuperSpeed [ 3.657695] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 3.661473] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected [ 3.665669] usb usb2: We don't know the algorithms for LPM for this host, disabling LPM. [ 3.674445] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 3.678220] hub 2-0:1.0: 1 port detected [ 3.683428] imx-cpufreq-dt imx-cpufreq-dt: cpu speed grade 7 mkt segment 2 supported-hw 0x80 0x4 [ 3.693184] Hot alarm is canceled. GPU3D clock will return to 64/64 [ 3.702683] sdhci-esdhc-imx 30b50000.mmc: Got CD GPIO [ 3.703346] mxc-mipi-csi2-sam 32e40000.csi: supply mipi-phy not found, using dummy regulator [ 3.716645] : mipi_csis_imx8mp_phy_reset, No remote pad found! [ 3.722602] mxc-mipi-csi2-sam 32e40000.csi: lanes: 2, hs_settle: 13, clk_settle: 2, wclk: 1, freq: 500000000 [ 3.739353] mmc1: SDHCI controller on 30b50000.mmc [30b50000.mmc] using ADMA [ 3.752018] isi-m2m 32e00000.isi:m2m_device: Register m2m success for ISI.0 [ 3.759172] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database [ 3.768303] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7' [ 3.787598] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2 [ 3.795171] ALSA device list: [ 3.796227] platform regulatory.0: Falling back to sysfs fallback for: regulatory.db [ 3.799186] No soundcards found. [ 3.819630] EXT4-fs (mmcblk2p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none. [ 3.828212] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) on device 179:2. [ 3.834944] devtmpfs: mounted

  Introduction   Prior to 6.1.22_2.0.0 BSP release, Bluetooth interface are based on the tty line discipline framework, so we need to use hciattach tool to enable it in the user space. From 6.1.22_2.0.0 BSP, the nxp bluetooth driver no longer needs the help of the userspace hciattach tool, and the tty port bound by bluetooth also won't be exported to the user space, so you cannot find the corresponding tty device anymore. So, you won't see the (/dev/ttymxcX), for the Bluetooth interface. All jobs has been done in the new NXP Bluetooth driver. New Method   The new NXP Bluetooth UART Driver is based on a server driver for the NXP BT serial protocol, which can enable the built-in Bluetooth device inside an NXP BT chip. This driver has a Power Save feature that will put the chip into a sleep state whenever there is no activity for 2000ms and will be woken up when any activity is to be initiated over UART.  Device Tree support The new BT framework requires adding a "bluetooth" sub node with a device compatibility string to the attached UART node in the dts file &uart1 { bluetooth { compatibility = "nxp,88w8987-bt"; fw-init-baudrate = <3000000>; #Optional. Default is considered 115200 if this parameter not defined. }; };   Note: The parameter ‘compatibility = “nxp,88w8987-bt”’ will use for 88W8987, IW416, 88Q9098, IW612 chipsets and need to change for 88W8997 with parameter ‘compatibility = “nxp,88w8997-bt”’.   Note: ’fw-init-baudrate’ parameter depends on the module vendor. The Murata and Azuere wifi modules support in BSP release uses the default value -- 115200. We strongly recommend looking at the module vendor-specific baud rate parameter. Note: For the old 88Q9098 Murata 1XL module that uses the 3Mbps by default, please add the fw-init-baudrate = <3000000> property in dts files to make it work. Enable Guide   Use wifi interface to load combo (wifi & bt) firmware and enable BT Need to load wifi driver first, then load the BT driver, otherwise, BT driver suspend/resume test will fail. This is a HW limitation, since NXP wifi and BT module use the same power control pin(W_DISABLE1#), if we don't load the wifi driver, SDIO bus will power down the wifi chip during suspend resume, which may cause the BT chip also been powered down and cannot work after resume back. So we need to load the wifi driver to make sure SDIO bus won't power down the BT chip to make sure BT functions can work during suspend resume. modprobe moal mod_para=nxp/wifi_mod_para.conf modprobe btnxpuart or insmod mlan.ko insmod moal.ko mod_para=nxp/wifi_mod_para.conf insmod btnxpuart   Unload UART Driver modprobe moal Make sure run hciconfig hci0 up or hciconfig hci0 reset or bluetootctl power on before unload btnxpuart driver. If we don't open hci0 interface, the driver cannot send change to 115200 baud rate command to BT chip, which causes the host and BT chip baud rate mismatch, the host still uses 115200bps talk to the BT chip which now use 3Mbps, it cannot work anymore. So we need to make sure open the hci0 interface before unload btnxpuart driver.   mod_para=nxp/wifi_mod_para.conf modprobe btnxpuart sleep 3 hciconfig hci0 up #Note: Need to up hci interface before unload the BT module hcitool -i hci0 cmd 3F 23 02 00 00 modprobe -r btnxpuart modprobe -r moal sleep 3​ For better reference: Please find the I.MX 8MQ Linux getting started user guide, UM11483, Chapter "7.1 Bring-up using NXP Bluetooth UART driver"  Bluetooth Deep Sleep Feature App Note AN13920, Chapter 6 Load NXP UART driver module NOTE: Please do not run the power save feature for Murata IW612 2EL Module Regards, Mario

GUI Guider version: 1.6.0 LVGL version: v8.3.5 Host software requirements: Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04 or Debian 12 Hardware requirements: Evaluation Kit for the i.MX 93 Applications Processor. (i.MX 93 Evaluation Kit | NXP Semiconductors) On this guide we will use the IMX-MIPI-HDMI accessory board to connect the iMX93 with a HDMI Monitor. (IMX-MIPI-HDMI Product Information|NXP) This board is usually provided with the iMX8M Mini and the iMX8M Nano.  Steps: 1. Copy your project from the folder GUI-Guider-Projects to your Linux PC.  2. Build an image for iMX93 using The Yocto Project.    a. Based on iMX Yocto Porject Users Guide set directories and download the repo $ mkdir imx-bsp-6.1.1-1.0.0 $ cd imx-bsp-6.1.1-1.0.0 $ repo init -u https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-manifest -b imx-linux-langdale -m imx-6.1.1-1.0.0.xml $ repo sync Use distro fsl-imx-xwayland and select machine imx93evk and use this commnad with a build folder name: $ MACHINE=imx93evk DISTRO=fsl-imx-xwayland source ./imx-setup-release.sh - b bld-imx93evk b. Use bitbake command to start the build process. Also, add the -c populate_sdk to get the toolchain. $ bitbake imx-image-multimedia -c populate_sdk  c. Install the Yocto toolchain located on <build-folder>/tmp/deploy/sdk/.  $ sudo sh ./fsl-imx-xwayland-glibc-x86_64-imx-image-multimedia-armv8a-imx93evk-toolchain-6.1-langdale.sh d. Install ninja utility on the build host $ sudo apt install ninja-build e. For Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04, copy the lv_conf.h file from lvgl-simulator to lvgl $ cp lvgl-simulator/lv_conf.h lvgl/ f. Change the interpreter on build.sh from #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash. This is an important step! g. Then, enter to linux folder and use the following commands to make build.sh executable $ dos2unix build.sh $ chmod +x build.sh h. Execute the build.sh $ ./build.sh i. Copy the binary to the iMX93 using a USB or SCP.  2. On the target iMX93 follow these steps. a. On Uboot, use fatls interface device:partition fatls mmc 0:1 (Device 0 : Partition 1) With this command, we will be able to list device tree files. => fatls mmc 0:1 b. Select imx93-11x11-evk-rm67199.dtb and use the command editenv fdtfile  => editenv fdtfile Output example edit: imx93-11x11-evk-rm67199.dtb c. In edit command line put the selected device tree .dtb d. Use saveenv command to save environment and continue with the boot process. e. Finally, run the GUI Application $ ./gui_guider&   I hope this article will be helpful. Best regards, Brian.

In some cases, such as mass production or preparing a demo. We need u-boot environment stored in demo sdcard mirror image.  Here is a way: HW:  i.MX8MP evk SW:  LF_v5.15.52-2.1.0_images_IMX8MPEVK.zip The idea is to use fw_setenv to set the sdcard mirror as the operation on a real emmc/sdcard. Add test=ABCD in u-boot-initial-env for test purpose. And use fw_printenv to check and use hexdump to double confirm it. The uboot env is already written into sdcard mirror(imx-image-multimedia-imx8mpevk.wic). All those operations are on the host x86/x64 PC. ./fw_setenv -c fw_env.config -f u-boot-initial-env Environment WRONG, copy 0 Cannot read environment, using default ./fw_printenv -c fw_env.config Environment OK, copy 0 jh_root_dtb=imx8mp-evk-root.dtb loadbootscript=fatload mmc ${mmcdev}:${mmcpart} ${loadaddr} ${bsp_script}; mmc_boot=if mmc dev ${devnum}; then devtype=mmc; run scan_dev_for_boot_part; fi arch=arm baudrate=115200 ...... ...... ...... splashimage=0x50000000 test=ABCD usb_boot=usb start; if usb dev ${devnum}; then devtype=usb; run scan_dev_for_boot_part; fi vendor=freescale hexdump -s 0x400000 -n 2000 -C imx-image-multimedia-imx8mpevk.wic 00400000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| hexdump -s 0x400000 -n 10000 -C imx-image-multimedia-imx8mpevk.wic 00400000 5f a4 9b 97 20 6a 68 5f 72 6f 6f 74 5f 64 74 62 |_... jh_root_dtb| 00400010 3d 69 6d 78 38 6d 70 2d 65 76 6b 2d 72 6f 6f 74 |=imx8mp-evk-root| 00400020 2e 64 74 62 00 20 6c 6f 61 64 62 6f 6f 74 73 63 |.dtb. loadbootsc| 00400030 72 69 70 74 3d 66 61 74 6c 6f 61 64 20 6d 6d 63 |ript=fatload mmc| 00400040 20 24 7b 6d 6d 63 64 65 76 7d 3a 24 7b 6d 6d 63 | ${mmcdev}:${mmc| 00400050 70 61 72 74 7d 20 24 7b 6c 6f 61 64 61 64 64 72 |part} ${loadaddr| 00400060 7d 20 24 7b 62 73 70 5f 73 63 72 69 70 74 7d 3b |} ${bsp_script};| 00400070 00 20 6d 6d 63 5f 62 6f 6f 74 3d 69 66 20 6d 6d |. mmc_boot=if mm| ...... ...... ...... 00401390 76 3d 31 00 73 6f 63 3d 69 6d 78 38 6d 00 73 70 |v=1.soc=imx8m.sp| 004013a0 6c 61 73 68 69 6d 61 67 65 3d 30 78 35 30 30 30 |lashimage=0x5000| 004013b0 30 30 30 30 00 74 65 73 74 3d 41 42 43 44 00 75 |0000.test=ABCD.u| 004013c0 73 62 5f 62 6f 6f 74 3d 75 73 62 20 73 74 61 72 |sb_boot=usb star| 004013d0 74 3b 20 69 66 20 75 73 62 20 64 65 76 20 24 7b |t; if usb dev ${| 004013e0 64 65 76 6e 75 6d 7d 3b 20 74 68 65 6e 20 64 65 |devnum}; then de| flash the sdcard mirror into i.MX8MP evk board emmc to check uuu -b emmc_all imx-boot-imx8mp-lpddr4-evk-sd.bin-flash_evk imx-image-multimedia-imx8mpevk.wic  The first time boot, the enviroment is already there.  How to achieve that: a. fw_setenv/fw_printenv: https://github.com/sbabic/libubootenv.git Note: Please do not use uboot fw_setenv/fw_printenv Compile it on the host x86/x64 PC. It is used on host. b. u-boot-initial-env Under uboot, make u-boot-initial-env Note: Yocto deploys u-boot-initial-env by default c. fw_env.config  imx-image-multimedia-imx8mpevk.wic 0x400000 0x4000 0x400000 0x4000 are from uboot-imx\configs\imx8mp_evk_defconfig CONFIG_ENV_SIZE=0x4000 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET=0x400000 Now, you can run  ./fw_setenv -c fw_env.config -f u-boot-initial-env

Hello everyone, this document will share an step by step guide of the configuration needed in a Linux PC to compile the SDK examples we provide, as well as how to download them in an easy way. Requirements: I.MX 8M Mini EVK SDK package (for i.MX8MM) UUU tool First step would be to get the SDK package, this include documentation and code, which is available at the MCUXpresso builder webpage: https://mcuxpresso.nxp.com/en/welcome Click on the select a development board and select the package for your development kit or the i.MX MPU   This guide is focused on Linux build so will select GCC package and Linux host PC as the environment. Click on build and wait for the SDK package to be ready for download. Note1: Click on select all if the whole middleware package is desired Note2: it is possible to select each middleware that are desired. On new window select download SDK Select on new pop-up window download both SDK and documentation Read and accept EULA so the download start Decompress the package using the following command: $ tar -xvzf ~/SDK_2_13_0_EVK-MIMX8MM.tar.gz -C ~/SDK_2_13_0_EVK-MIMX8MM Next will be to download the GCC from the ARM webpage, gcc-arm-none-eabi-10.3-2021.10-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2 https://developer.arm.com/downloads/-/gnu-rm Note that the GCC version used is based on the minimum version required, since this was tested and supported, this could be found within the SDK documentation (~/SDK_2_13_0_EVK-MIMX8MM/docs/MCUXpresso SDK Release Notes for EVK-MIMX8MM) Once downloaded we can decompress and configure the environment: $ tar -xf gcc-arm-none-eabi-10.3-2021.10-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2 $ export ARMGCC_DIR=~/gcc-arm-none-eabi-10.3-2021.10 $ export PATH=$PATH:~/gcc-arm-none-eabi-10.3-2021.10 $ sudo apt-get install cmake  Check the version >= 3.0.x $ cmake --version Once this is done we enter the path of the example of our choice and compile using the script, as necessary using debug, release or all. $ cd ~/SDK_2_13_0_EVK-MIMX8MM/boards/evkmimx8mm/demo_apps/hello_world/armgcc $./build_release.sh The binary (elf and bin) will be found inside the folder according to whether we use debug or release script. For this example we used release script: $ cd release Once builded we can move/download the binaries from the Linux host PC to the board by using the UUU tool with the command fat_write #### we put the board in fastboot mode by entering the command in the uboot terminal fastboot 0 #### From the Linux terminal introduce the UUU command to  download to the FAT partition of the eMMC of the baord: ## For rproc it is needed the .elf binary ## $ uuu -v -b fat_write hello_world.elf mmc 0:1 hello_world.elf ## For bootaux it is needed the .bin binary ## $  uuu -v -b fat_write hello_world.bin mmc 0:1 hello_world.bin Once with the binaries in the FAT partition of the SD/eMMC of our board we can make the necessary modifications (device tree/bootargs) to test the Cortex-M examples. For any question regarding this document, please create a community thread and tag me if needed. Saludos/Regards, Aldo.

Application Note AN13872 - Enabling SWUpdate on i.MX 6ULL  is available on www.nxp.com    SWUpdate: Embedded Systems become more and more complex. Software for Embedded Systems have new features and fixes can be updated in a reliable way. Most of time, we need OTA(Over-The-Air) to upgrade the system. Like Android has its own update system. Linux also need an update system. SWUpdate project is thought to help to update an embedded system from a storage media or from network. However, it should be mainly considered as a framework, where further protocols or installers (in SWUpdate they are called handlers) can be easily added to the application. Mongoose daemon mode: Mongoose is a daemon mode of SWUpdate that provides a web server, web interface and web application. Mongoose is running on the target board(i.MX8MM EVK/i.MX8QXP MEK).Using Web browser to access it.   Suricatta daemon mode: Suricatta regularly polls a remote server for updates, downloads, and installs them. Thereafter, it reboots the system and reports the update status to the server. The screenshot is SWUpdate scuricatta working with hawkbit server.          

  Platform: i.MX8MP EVK , L6.1.22-2.0.0 LT9211 is a chip that can realize the conversion of MIPI DSI signals to LVDS signals. This patch is based on this mainline driver:https://github.com/nxp-imx/linux-imx/blob/lf-6.1.y/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/lontium-lt9211.c Keypoint Move lt9211_host_attach function to lt9211_attach to skip bridge attach error.  

Installing the new release (Ubuntu 22.04) was detected some NXP boards as iMX8MNEVK, iMX8MM-EVK, iMX8MP-EVK and iMX8ULP-EVK had an issue with the WIFI module that basically it does not initialize at boot. Remember, the supported WIFI modules in Ubuntu 22.04 in the EVKs are the following:       • NXP 88W8987       • NXP 88W9098       • NXP 88W8997       • NXP IW416       • NXP 88W8801       • NXP IW612 To initialize the WIFI module of NXP EVKs in Ubuntu 22.04 you can set the following command in console:   sudo modprobe moal mod_para=nxp/wifi_mod_para.conf   That command find the correct driver for our WIFI module and then initialize it, but this only works when Ubuntu is working and if you reset the EVK you need to set the command again.   The definitive solution is create a custom startup script as a service:   Step 1: Go to etc/systemd/system   cd etc/systemd/system   Step 2: In this directory create a new file with the name of your preference but the extension must be .service. You can do it with nano or vim: sudo nano or sudo vim   The file must contain: [Unit] Description=”Wifi Start” [Service] ExecStart=sudo modprobe moal mod_para=nxp/wifi_mod_para.conf [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target   Now save the file, in my case the name was wifi_start.service.   Step 3: Now we need to enable the script in the startup/boot sequence following the command: sudo systemctl enable wifi_start.service   Remember in wifi_start.service is the name as you saved your file.   Finally, each time you boot your board, the WIFI module will initialize automatically.   Boards tested: iMX8MN (With WIFI module NXP 88W8987) iMX8MM (With WIFI module NXP 88W8987) iMX8MP (With WIFI module NXP 88W8997) iMX8ULP (With WIFI module NXP IW416)  

This demo for all(bootloader, device tree, Linux kernel, rootfs) in spi. It uses raw read(sf read)/raw write(sf write in uuu script) to achieve that. sf probe 0; sf read ${fdt_addr} 0x500000 0x100000; sf read ${loadaddr} 0x600000 0x1E00000; sf read ${initrd_addr} 0x2400000 0x600000; setenv bootargs console=${console},${baudrate} earlycon=${earlycon},${baudrate} rdinit=/linuxrc; booti ${loadaddr} ${initrd_addr} ${fdt_addr} |-- 0001-all-in-spi-demo-lf-5.10.72-2.2.0.patch --- patch for this demo |-- demo_binary | |-- flash.b0.bin --- b0 bootloader | |-- flash.bin --- c0 bootloader | |-- Image-imx8qxpc0mek.bin --- Linux kernel | |-- imx8qxp-mek.dtb --- device tree | |-- uramdisk_boot.rootfs.aarch64.img --- ram disk | |-- uuu.qspi.all.b0.uuu --- uuu script for b0 | `-- uuu.qspi.all.uuu --- uuu script for c0 `-- readme.txt --- this file # The spi layout used is: # - --------- -------------------------------------------- # | | flash.bin | env | dtb | Image |rootfs| # - --------------- -------------------------------------- # ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ # | | | | | | | # 0 4kiB 4MiB 5MiB 6MiB 36MiB 42MiB 0x1000 0x400000 0x500000 0x600000 0x2400000 Test: HW: i.MX8QXP MEK SW: lf-5.10.72-2.2.0 + 0001-all-in-spi-demo-lf-5.10.72-2.2.0.patch Test log: SF: Detected mt35xu512aba with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 128 KiB, total 64 MiB device 0 offset 0x500000, size 0x100000 SF: 1048576 bytes @ 0x500000 Read: OK device 0 offset 0x600000, size 0x1e00000 SF: 31457280 bytes @ 0x600000 Read: OK device 0 offset 0x2400000, size 0x600000 SF: 6291456 bytes @ 0x2400000 Read: OK [ 4.787552] imx6q-pcie 5f010000.pcie: unable to add pcie port. [ 4.797467] Freeing unused kernel memory: 2944K [ 4.807379] Run /linuxrc as init process Starting syslogd: OK Starting klogd: OK Running sysctl: OK Starting network: OK /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off / #  

In this article, I will explain how to set up the iMX8M Plus to use the 4K Dart BCON Basler Camera module. Requirements: Evaluation Kit for the i.MX 8M Plus Applications Processor. (i.MX 8M Plus Evaluation Kit | NXP Semiconductors) Basler Camera for i.MX 8M Plus (4K dart BCON for MIPI camera module for i.MX 8M Plus | NXP Semiconductors). Embedded Linux for i.MX Applications Processors (Embedded Linux for i.MX Applications Processors | NXP Semiconductors) (For this example we will use BSP version Linux 5.15.71_2.2.0) Serial Console Emulator Basler Camera Specifications and Manuals: Basler Camera Specifications at this link: Embedded Vision Kits daA3840-30mc-IMX8MP-EVK - Embedded Vision Kits (baslerweb.com). Basler Manual to identify and setting up the hardware at this link: daA3840-30mc-IMX8MP-EVK | Basler Product Documentation (baslerweb.com) Basler Camera Module out-of-box with i.MX 8M Plus Applications Processor. (Video: Basler Camera Module out-of-box with i.MX 8M Plus Applications Processor | NXP Semiconductors) Steps After setting up the hardware we will need to turn on the iMX8M Plus and follow these steps: 1. Stop the boot process on Uboot by pressing any key. 2. Use the following command to list interfaces. => mmc list Output example => FSL_SDHC: 1 (SD) => FSL_SDHC: 2 The above command will show you the device number in this example for SD, the device number is 1. 3. Then use fatls <interface> <device[:partition]> [<directory>] fatls mmc 1:1 (Device 1 : Partition 1) With this command, we will be able to list device tree files. => fatls mmc 1:1 4. Select imx8mp-evk-basler.dtb or imx8mp-evk-dual-basler.dtb and use the command editenv fdtfile.  => editenv fdtfile Output example edit: imx8mp-evk-basler.dtb 5. In edit command line put the selected device tree (*.dtb). 6. Use saveenv command to save environment and continue with the boot process. 7. Using the terminal and go to /opt/imx8-isp/bin and execute the script run.sh. $ ./run.sh -c basler_1080p60 -lm 8. Use the command gst-device-monitor-1.0 to list devices. Here you will find the path to the camera device. $ gst-device-monitor-1.0 Output example Device found: name : VIV class : Video/Source caps : video/x-raw, format=YUY2, width=[ 176, 4096, 16 ], height=[ 144, 3072, 8 ], pixel-aspect-ratio=1/1, framerate={ (fraction)30/1, (fraction)29/1, (fraction)28/1, (fraction)27/1, (fraction)26/1, (fraction)25/1, (fraction)24/1, (fraction)23/1, (fraction)22/1, (fraction)21/1, (fraction)20/1, (fraction)19/1, (fraction)18/1, (fraction)17/1, (fraction)16/1, (fraction)15/1, (fraction)14/1, (fraction)13/1, (fraction)12/1, (fraction)11/1, (fraction)10/1, (fraction)9/1, (fraction)8/1, (fraction)7/1, (fraction)6/1, (fraction)5/1, (fraction)4/1, (fraction)3/1, (fraction)2/1, (fraction)1/1 } ... properties: udev-probed = true device.bus_path = platform-vvcam-video.0 sysfs.path = /sys/devices/platform/vvcam-video.0/video4linux/video2 device.subsystem = video4linux device.product.name = VIV device.capabilities = :capture: device.api = v4l2 device.path = /dev/video2 v4l2.device.driver = viv_v4l2_device v4l2.device.card = VIV v4l2.device.bus_info = platform:viv0 v4l2.device.version = 393473 (0x00060101) v4l2.device.capabilities = 2216693761 (0x84201001) v4l2.device.device_caps = 69206017 (0x04200001) gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video2 ! ... 9. Finally, use gstreamer to verify proper operation. (With this gstreamer pipeline you will see a new window with the camera output. Then, just rotate the lens to acquire the correct focus) $ gst-launch-1.0 -v v4l2src device=/dev/video2 ! "video/x-raw,format=YUY2,width=1920,height=1080" ! queue ! imxvideoconvert_g2d ! waylandsink Basic description of Gstreamer Pipeline gst-launch-1.0 -v: The option -v enables the verbose mode to get detailed information of process. v4l2src device=/dev/video2: Select input device in this case the camera is on path /dev/video3. "video/x-raw,format=YUY2,width=1920,height=1080": Received format from camera. queue: This command is a buffer between camera recording process and the following image process, this command help us to interface two process and prevent blocking where each process has different speeds, in other words, when a process A is faster than process B. imxvideoconvert_g2d: This proprietary plugin uses hardware acceleration to perform rotation, scaling, and color space conversion on video frames. waylandsink : This command creates its own window and renders the decoded frames processed previously. 10. Result     I hope this article will be helpful. Best regards, Brian.

Hello everyone, We have recently migrated our Source code from CAF (Codeaurora) to Github, so i.MX NXP old recipes/manifest that point to Codeaurora eventually will be modified so it points correctly to Github to avoid any issues while fetching using Yocto. Also, all repo init commands for old releases should be changed from: $ repo init -u https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-manifest -b <branch name> [ -m <release manifest>] To: $ repo init -u https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-manifest -b <branch name> [ -m <release manifest>] This will also apply to all source code that was stored in Codeaurora, the new repository for all i.MX NXP source code is: https://github.com/nxp-imx For any issues regarding this, please create a community thread and/or a support ticket. Regards, Aldo.

Platform: i.MX8MP SW:Linux 5.4.70.2.3.0 On current linux BSP, PCIE driver does not support Hot-plug, customers wants to turn off PCIE device to save power, attached is guide. Remove PCIE device driver Suspend PCIE driver Turn off PCIE device power supply Turn on PCIE device power supply Resume PCIE driver Rescan PCIE device Load PCIE device driver

This is a summary for the software lockup issue found in the following platform: −i.MX8/8X −Linux 4.14.98_2.3.3   Issue description: •Issue happens during the boot procedure, at the systemd stage. •The symptom of the issue: −From user perspective, the symptom varies, but mainly fall into several types: §At the console, there may be login prompt, but no response (only echo) when input user/password. Unable to login. §Some user service in systemd failed to start. E.g. weston. −When checking the task status using sysrq (w/t), many tasks, including some kernel core tasks stays in “D” (uninterruptable sleep) state. E.g. agetty, login, chvt, etc. •Kernel itself is still alive. This can be verified by triggering some drivers, such as plugin a USB device. Issue can be reproduced on MEK through long time stress.   Please refer to the doc/patch attached for details.

PCIE IP on i.MX8MM and i.MX8MP is same, customer can follow PCIE test Application note to do compliance test, if eye diagram failed, they can fine turn corresponding regs below: iMX8MMRM.pdf IMX8MPRM.pdf GEN1:             GEN2:                 Related code in kernel Phy-fsl-imx8-pcie.c (kernel-source\drivers\phy\freescale)    3794      2020/11/4 static int imx8_pcie_phy_init(struct phy *phy) { ……          /* Configure TX drive level  */        writel(0x2d, imx8_phy->base + 0x404);          return 0; }   Thanks Lambert