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What is LGVL? LVGL is a graphics library to run on devices with limited resources. LVGL is fully open-source and has no external dependencies, works with any modern MCU or MPU, and can be used with any (RT)OS or bare metal setup. https://lvgl.io/   What is Framebuffer? The Linux framebuffer (fbdev) is a Linux subsystem used to show graphics on a display, typically manipulated on the system console   How to write on the frame buffer? The device is listed on de device list typically "fb0" on iMX.   1. Stop the window manager (Weston in our BSP) $ systemctl stop weston   2. Write random data on the frame buffer with the next command: $ cat /dev/urandom > /dev/fb0   You should see colored pixels on the screen   3. Restart the window manager. $ systemctl start weston     Cross-compiling the application   1. On the host computer we will clone the LGVL repo: $ git clone https://github.com/lvgl/lv_port_linux_frame_buffer.git -b release/v8.2 $ cd lv_port_linux_frame_buffer $ git submodule update --init --recursive 2. Configure the screen resolution, rotation, and the touch input.       2.1 The resolution is configured in lines 33 and 34 of the main.c disp_drv.hor_res = 1080; disp_drv.ver_res = 1920;           2.2 Rotation configured is on lines 32 and 57 of main.c. disp_drv.sw_rotate = 3; lv_disp_set_rotation(NULL, LV_DISP_ROT_270);     2.3 The touch input is configured on line 450 of lv_drv_conf.h # define EVDEV_NAME "/dev/input/event2"   Note: In my case is on /dev/input/event2 to check the inputs use the command "evtest"   3. Compile the application using the command "make"   Note: To compile the application on your host computer you have to set the environment.   4. Share the file called "demo" with your board and execute it on the board with the command $ ./demo   Note: You have to stop the weston service to run the application.     Notes: Tested on iMX8MN EVK with BSP 6.1.36 Works on Multimedia and Full image.
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  Some customer need to config different I2C bus for their PMIC in DDR test period. There is a simple method can complete this, that is NXP DDR Config Tool. The tool download link is below: https://www.nxp.com/design/development-boards/i-mx-evaluation-and-development-boards/config-tools-for-i-mx-applications-processors:CONFIG-TOOLS-IMX I'm going to use the i.MX 93 EVK board here as a demonstration. On i.MX 93 EVK board, the default PMIC I2C Bus is I2C2, I will show you how to change I2C2 to I2C1, the other i2c bus is same.  Step 1 : Rework the board and make sure the PMIC is connected to I2C1. Remove R714 R715, connnect I2C1_SCL(C20) to U701 pin 41  and I2C1_SDA(C21) tp U701 pin 42. Step 2 : Setup I2C1 PinMux: Config Tool UI:   Advance -> IOMUX config   Command:           Address                Size               Value memory   set     0x443c0170            32                   0x10 memory   set     0x443c0174            32                   0x10 memory   set     0x443c0320            32                   0x40000b9e memory   set     0x443c0324            32                   0x40000b9e Step 3 : Set PMIC VDDQ as 1.1 V Config Tool UI:   Advance -> Custom PMIC initialization enabled   #  PMIC commands        Value 0         pmic_cfg             0x0025       /*I2C bus 1,  PMIC address 0x25 */ (0 for I2C1, 1 for I2C2, 2 for I2C3, 3 for I2c4 …) 1         pmic_set             0x0C29       /* BUCKxOUT_DVS0/1, preset_buck1=0.8V, preset_buck2=0.7V, preset_buck3=0.8V PCA9451_BUCK123_DVS, 0x29 */ 2         pmic_set             0x1118      /*  BUCK1OUT_DVS0=0.9V   PCA9451_BUCK1OUT_DVS0, 0x18 */ 3         pmic_set             0x1718      /*  BUCK3OUT_DVS0=0.9V   PCA9451_BUCK3OUT_DVS0, 0x18 */ 4         pmic_set             0x1428      /*  Set VDDQ to 1.1V  PCA9451_BUCK2OUT_DVS0, 0x28  */ PS : About pmic register, The first two bytes are the register address and the next two bytes are the register setting. Step 4 : Run the DDR "Firmware init test" and see the test result. The success log is as follows: DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel ==================hardware_init======================= DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel Power up ddr... DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel DDRMIX power on done... DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel DDRPHY coldreset... DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel ********Found PMIC PCA945X********** DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel Set VDDQ to 1.1V for LPDDR4 DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel DEBUG memtool.comm.serial_channel ==================hardware_init exit==================    
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In the IMX8MM SDK unfortunately we cannot find any example about of use a GPIO as an input with interrupt.  To use a GPIO as input with interrupt we need to keep in mind how the GPIO IRQs works in the ARM Cortex M4.   We can find in Table 7-2 (CM4 Interrupt Summary) of IMX8MMRM (IMX8MM Reference Manual) the GPIOs IRQs are divided by two parts:     Combined interrupt indication for GPIOn signal 0 throughout 15  Combined interrupt indication for GPIOn signal 16 throughout 31    This basically means, the pines of GPIOn from 0 to 15 are handled by Combined interrupt indication for GPIOn signal 0 throughout 15 and the pines from 16 to 31 are handled by Combined interrupt indication for GPIOn signal 16 throughout 31.    In SDK we can find these definitions in:  <SDK root>/devices/MIMX8MM6/MIMX8MM6_cm4.h (Remember this is for IM8MM SDK)    In this example I will use GPIO5_IO12 (ECSPI2_MISO) as Input with IRQ and GPIO5_IO11 (ECSPI_MOSI) as Output of IMX8MM-EVK. I will connect the Output to the Input and will see the behavior of the IRQ in Rising and Falling edge.    For this example I will connect ECSPI2_MOSI (GPIO5_IO11) to ECSPI_MISO (GPIO5_IO12):   See the below definitions:   #define IN_GPIO   GPIO5  This define the GPIO base of the IN pin  #define IN_GPIO_PIN  12u  This define the pin number (for in)  #define IN_IRQ  GPIO5_Combined_0_15_IRQn  This define the IRQ number (72 in this case)  #define GPIO_IRQ_HANDLER  GPIO5_Combined_0_15_IRQHandler  This is a "pointer" to function that will handle the interrupt  #define IN_NAME  "IN GPIO5_IO12"  This is only a name or description for the pin    See below definitions:    #define OUT_GPIO  GPIO5  This is the GPIO base of OUT pin  #define OUT_GPIO_PIN  11u  This define the pin number (for out)  #define OUT_NAME  "OUT GPIO5_IO11"  This is only a name or description for the pin      Now the below section is the IRQ handler (which was defined before)😞   The GPIO_ClearPinsInterruptFlags(IN_GPIO, 1u << IN_GPIO_PIN); refers to GPIOx_ISR register:      For this example, the IRQ Handler will print "IRQ detected ............" in each interrupt.    We will create two different GPIOs config, one for Output and other one for Input with IRQ Falling edge:    Then configure the GPIOs and IRQ:     EnableIRQ refers to enable the 72 IRQ.   GPIO_PortEnableInterrupts refers to GPIOx_IMR: Finally, the example put the out GPIO5_IO11 in High state and then in low state many. First the IRQ is configured as Falling edge, then as Rising edge.     I will attach the complete source file.    To compile it you can use ARMGCC toolchain directly, but I like to use VSCode with MCUXpresso integration.  Once, when you have your .bin file (in my case igpio_led_output.bin) you can load to board with UUU tool: In your Linux machine: sudo uuu -b fat_write igpio_led_output.bin mmc 2:1 gpio.bin In U-boot board: u-boot=> fastboot 0   Then, when the .bin file was loaded, you can load to the CORTEX M4 in U-boot whit: u-boot=> fatload mmc 2:1 ${loadaddr} gpio.bin 7076 bytes read in 14 ms (493.2 KiB/s) u-boot=> cp.b 0x80000000 0x7e0000 0x10000 u-boot=> bootaux 0x7e0000 ## No elf image ar address 0x007e0000 ## Starting auxiliary core stack = 0x20020000, pc = 0x1FFE02CD... u-boot=>   NOTE: You can load the binary to cortex m4 with Custom bootscripts for practicity.   Once the binary loaded in M4 core you should see in seria terminal this logs (Remember GPIO5_IO11 and GPIO5_IO12 must be connected to get the same logs):    And the logs when you disconnect the GPIO5_IO11 and GPIO5_IO12 in execution time:  🔴Disconnection (Red color) 🔵Reconnection (Blue color)   I hope this can helps.     Best regards!    Salas. 
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Information about the transition from the NXP Demo Experience to GoPoint for i.MX Application Processors.
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BSP: L6.1.36 Some customer need use adb under usb ffs. The adb in Yocto can greatly improves development efficiency. This is a demo for enabling adb on Yocto.   Yocto local.conf IMAGE_INSTALL:append = "android-tools android-tools-adbd" PREFERRED_PROVIDER_android-tools-conf = "android-tools-conf-configfs"   Test script for launching adbd modprobe g_ffs idVendor=0x1fc9 idProduct=0x0146 iSerialNumber="ZhimingLiu" mkdir -p /dev/usb-ffs/adb mount -t functionfs adb /dev/usb-ffs/adb -o uid=2000,gid=2000 adbd &   Test on Windows: PS C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\platform-tools> .\adb.exe devices List of devices attached ZhimingLiu device PS C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\platform-tools> .\adb.exe shell sh-5.2# uname -a Linux imx8mp-lpddr4-evk 6.1.36+g04b05c5527e9 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 24 04:46:22 UTC 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux sh-5.2# ls config ffs t.sh test2.sh sh-5.2# cd / sh-5.2# ls bin dev home lost+found mnt proc run srv tmp usr boot etc lib media opt root sbin sys unit_tests var sh-5.2#
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Platform: Demo images, i.MX8MPlus EVK   Some customer need test ffs gadget function on i.MX8MPlus EVK. Here is demo for ffs test, please connect EVK and Ubuntu PC before test.   Test script: #!/bin/sh # Setup the device (configfs) modprobe libcomposite mkdir -p config mount none config -t configfs cd config/usb_gadget/ mkdir g1 cd g1 echo 0x1fc9 >idVendor echo 0x0146 >idProduct mkdir strings/0x409 echo 12345 >strings/0x409/serialnumber echo "Signal 11" >strings/0x409/manufacturer echo "Test" >strings/0x409/product mkdir configs/c.1 mkdir configs/c.1/strings/0x409 echo "Config1" >configs/c.1/strings/0x409/configuration # Setup functionfs mkdir functions/ffs.usb0 ln -s functions/ffs.usb0 configs/c.1 cd ../../../ mkdir -p ffs mount usb0 ffs -t functionfs cd ffs ffs-test 64 & # from the Linux kernel, with mods! sleep 3 cd .. # Enable the USB device echo 38100000.usb > config/usb_gadget/g1/UDC   EVK log root@imx8mpevk:~# ./test2.sh [ 17.859597] file system registered ffs-test: dbg: ep0: writing descriptors (in v2 format) ffs-test: dbg: ep0: writing strings ffs-test: dbg: ep1: starting ffs-test: dbg: ep2: starting ffs-test: dbg: ep1: starts ffs-test: dbg: ep0: starts ffs-test: dbg: ep2: starts Event BIND Event ENABLE Ubuntu PC log: lzm@lzm-GL552VW:~$ lsusb -D /dev/bus/usb/001/008 Device: ID 1fc9:0146 NXP Semiconductors Test Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.10 bDeviceClass 0 bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x1fc9 NXP Semiconductors idProduct 0x0146 bcdDevice 6.01 iManufacturer 1 Signal 11 iProduct 2 Test iSerial 3 12345 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 0x0020 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 4 Config1 bmAttributes 0x80 (Bus Powered) MaxPower 2mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 0 bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 5 Source/Sink Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x01 EP 1 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 1 Binary Object Store Descriptor: bLength 5 bDescriptorType 15 wTotalLength 0x0016 bNumDeviceCaps 2 USB 2.0 Extension Device Capability: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 16 bDevCapabilityType 2 bmAttributes 0x0000010e BESL Link Power Management (LPM) Supported BESL value 256 us SuperSpeed USB Device Capability: bLength 10 bDescriptorType 16 bDevCapabilityType 3 bmAttributes 0x00 wSpeedsSupported 0x000f Device can operate at Low Speed (1Mbps) Device can operate at Full Speed (12Mbps) Device can operate at High Speed (480Mbps) Device can operate at SuperSpeed (5Gbps) bFunctionalitySupport 1 Lowest fully-functional device speed is Full Speed (12Mbps) bU1DevExitLat 0 micro seconds bU2DevExitLat 0 micro seconds Device Status: 0x0001 Self Powered  
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Usually, device tree source files are not a signal pure dts file. It could include dtsi, dts or C code heads .h files. Need C compiler finish the pre-compile to a pure dts file first. It is integrated inside the like Linux build system(Makefile, etc.). This document shows the original way to compile device tree. This document will show compile device tree under windows.    
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How to use UART4 on iMX8M from Linux User Space   The UART4 on iMX8MM-EVK and iMX8MN-EVK are thinking of debugging the M core which is not usable on Linux user space by default on pre-compiled images.   To use the UART4 on Linux user space you have to do the next modifications on the device tree and atf to assign that peripheral to Linux User Space     https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-atf/blob/lf_v2.6/plat/imx/imx8m/imx8mm/imx8mm_bl31_setup.c     iMX8MN-EVK   imx8mn_bl31_setup.c   https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-atf/blob/lf_v2.6/plat/imx/imx8m/imx8mn/imx8mn_bl31_setup.c   /* Master domain assignment */ RDC_MDAn(RDC_MDA_M7, DID1), /* peripherals domain permission */ - RDC_PDAPn(RDC_PDAP_UART4, D1R | D1W), + RDC_PDAPn(RDC_PDAP_UART4, D0R | D0W), RDC_PDAPn(RDC_PDAP_UART2, D0R | D0W), RDC_PDAPn(RDC_PDAP_RDC, D0R | D0W | D1R),       Device tree configurations for iMX8MN-EVK   iMX8MN-EVK.dtsi   https://github.com/nxp-imx/linux-imx/blob/lf-6.1.y/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mn-evk.dtsi   &uart3 { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_uart3>; assigned-clocks = <&clk IMX8MN_CLK_UART3>; assigned-clock-parents = <&clk IMX8MN_SYS_PLL1_80M>; uart-has-rtscts; status = "okay"; }; + &uart4 { + pinctrl-names = "default"; + pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_uart4>; + assigned-clocks = <&clk IMX8MN_CLK_UART4>; + assigned-clock-parents = <&clk IMX8MN_SYS_PLL1_80M>; + status = "okay"; + }; ********************** pinctrl_uart3: uart3grp { fsl,pins = < MX8MN_IOMUXC_ECSPI1_SCLK_UART3_DCE_RX 0x140 MX8MN_IOMUXC_ECSPI1_MOSI_UART3_DCE_TX 0x140 MX8MN_IOMUXC_ECSPI1_SS0_UART3_DCE_RTS_B 0x140 MX8MN_IOMUXC_ECSPI1_MISO_UART3_DCE_CTS_B 0x140 >; }; + pinctrl_uart4: uart4grp { + fsl,pins = < + MX8MN_IOMUXC_UART4_RXD_UART4_DCE_RX 0x140 + MX8MN_IOMUXC_UART4_TXD_UART4_DCE_TX 0x140 + >; + };   iMX8MM-EVK   https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-atf/blob/lf_v2.6/plat/imx/imx8m/imx8mm/imx8mm_bl31_setup.c   imx8mm_bl31_setup.c   /* Master domain assignment */ RDC_MDAn(RDC_MDA_M7, DID1), /* peripherals domain permission */ - RDC_PDAPn(RDC_PDAP_UART4, D1R | D1W), + RDC_PDAPn(RDC_PDAP_UART4, D0R | D0W), RDC_PDAPn(RDC_PDAP_UART2, D0R | D0W), RDC_PDAPn(RDC_PDAP_RDC, D0R | D0W | D1R),   Device tree configurations for iMX8MM-EVK   iMX8MM-EVK.dtsi   https://github.com/nxp-imx/linux-imx/blob/lf-6.1.y/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mm-evk.dtsi   &uart3 { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_uart3>; assigned-clocks = <&clk IMX8MM_CLK_UART3>; assigned-clock-parents = <&clk IMX8MM_SYS_PLL1_80M>; uart-has-rtscts; status = "okay"; }; + &uart4 { + pinctrl-names = "default"; + pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_uart4>; + assigned-clocks = <&clk IMX8MM_CLK_UART4>; + assigned-clock-parents = <&clk IMX8MM_SYS_PLL1_80M>; + status = "okay"; + }; ********************** pinctrl_uart3: uart3grp { fsl,pins = < MX8MM_IOMUXC_ECSPI1_SCLK_UART3_DCE_RX 0x140 MX8MM_IOMUXC_ECSPI1_MOSI_UART3_DCE_TX 0x140 MX8MM_IOMUXC_ECSPI1_SS0_UART3_DCE_RTS_B 0x140 MX8MM_IOMUXC_ECSPI1_MISO_UART3_DCE_CTS_B 0x140 >; }; + pinctrl_uart4: uart4grp { + fsl,pins = < + MX8MM_IOMUXC_UART4_RXD_UART4_DCE_RX 0x140 + MX8MM_IOMUXC_UART4_TXD_UART4_DCE_TX 0x140 + >; + };   iMX8MP-EVK   https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-atf/blob/lf_v2.6/plat/imx/imx8m/imx8mp/imx8mp_bl31_setup.c   imx8mp_bl31_setup.c   RDC_MDAn(RDC_MDA_M7, DID1), RDC_MDAn(RDC_MDA_LCDIF, DID2), RDC_MDAn(RDC_MDA_LCDIF2, DID2), RDC_MDAn(RDC_MDA_HDMI_TX, DID2), /* peripherals domain permission */ + RDC_PDAPn(RDC_PDAP_UART4, D0R | D0W), RDC_PDAPn(RDC_PDAP_UART2, D0R | D0W), RDC_PDAPn(RDC_PDAP_WDOG1, D0R | D0W), RDC_PDAPn(RDC_PDAP_RDC, D0R | D0W | D1R),   Device tree configurations for iMX8MP-EVK   iMX8MP-EVK.dts   https://github.com/nxp-imx/linux-imx/blob/lf-6.1.y/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-evk.dts   &uart3 { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_uart3>; assigned-clocks = <&clk IMX8MP_CLK_UART3>; assigned-clock-parents = <&clk IMX8MP_SYS_PLL1_80M>; fsl,uart-has-rtscts; status = "okay"; }; + &uart4 { + pinctrl-names = "default"; + pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_uart4>; + assigned-clocks = <&clk IMX8MP_CLK_UART4>; + assigned-clock-parents = <&clk IMX8MP_SYS_PLL1_80M>; + status = "okay"; + }; ************************************ pinctrl_uart3: uart3grp { fsl,pins = < MX8MP_IOMUXC_ECSPI1_SCLK__UART3_DCE_RX 0x140 MX8MP_IOMUXC_ECSPI1_MOSI__UART3_DCE_TX 0x140 MX8MP_IOMUXC_ECSPI1_SS0__UART3_DCE_RTS 0x140 MX8MP_IOMUXC_ECSPI1_MISO__UART3_DCE_CTS 0x140 >; }; + pinctrl_uart4: uart4grp { + fsl,pins = < + MX8MP_IOMUXC_UART4_RXD__UART4_DCE_RX 0x140 + MX8MP_IOMUXC_UART4_TXD__UART4_DCE_TX 0x140 + >; + };     After compiling the image with the changes previously shown, we obtained this result:      
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Board : i.MX93 EVK BSP: imx L6.1.1-1.0.0 Gui guider: 1.6.1   We have a GUI software tool called GUI Guider. It is a user-friendly graphical user interface development tool from NXP that enables the rapid development of high quality displays with the open-source LVGL graphics library. The GUI demo can run on the i.MX93EVK board. (https://www.nxp.com/design/software/development-software/gui-guider:GUI-GUIDER)   This document will show you an example how the buttons(gpio) on the EVK to interacting with the GUI. Basically, customer could use the same method to use the gpio pins to control everything.   On the i.MX93 EVK board, there are two buttons BTN1 and BTN2. They are connected to GPIO IO23 and GPIO IO24. Below is the schematic.    Buttons on the board.      SW1005 on the board   In the EVK's device tree file, need to change the pinmux for the two buttons like this: pinctrl_spdif: spdifgrp { fsl,pins = < // MX93_PAD_GPIO_IO22__SPDIF_IN 0x31e // MX93_PAD_GPIO_IO23__SPDIF_OUT 0x31e MX93_PAD_GPIO_IO23__GPIO2_IO23 0x31e MX93_PAD_GPIO_IO24__GPIO2_IO24 0x31e >; note: all the pins are defined in imx93-pinfunc.h.   For getting the input value of the buttons in user's space, I use the sysfs gpio. Build the imx-image-multimedia image first and then select the GPIO_SYSFS in kernel's menuconfig.   $ DISTRO=fsl-imx-xwayland MACHINE=imx93evk source imx-setup-release.sh -b build-xwayland $ bitbake imx-image-multimedia   After the build completed, go to the kernel's menuconfig to select the GPIO sysfs. $ bitbake linux-imx -c menuconfig [*] General setup-> Configure standard kernel features (expert users) [*] Device Drivers->GPIO Support-> /sys/class/gpio/... (sysfs interface)   Build the whole image again by "$ bitbake imx-image-multimedia".   Using the UUU to program the image to the EMMC on the EVK board. uuu -b emmc_all imx-image-multimedia-imx93evk.rootfs.wic.zst   Connect the LVDS to the board. Use the corresponding dtb to boot the board. In u-boot, set the dtb file. => setenv fdtfile imx93-11x11-evk-boe-wxga-lvds-panel.dtb => saveenv   Then restart the board. After the board boot up, it will look like below.     You need to calibrate the LVDS touch screen before it can normally use. Please use this command: $ weston-touch-calibrator LVDS-1     Now, build the GUI guider example. I use the Air Conditioner example. Download the GUI guider from the gui-guider web page: https://www.nxp.com/design/software/development-software/gui-guider:GUI-GUIDER   Follow the steps from the below web page to build the i.MX BSP and the gui example code. https://docs.nxp.com/bundle/GUIGUIDERUG-1.6.1/page/topics/yocto.html   After the gui-guider build completed, use the 'scp' command to transfer the gui_guider executable file to the board. Execute the command on your host PC like this: $ scp bld-imx93evk/tmp/work/armv8a-poky-linux/gui-guider/1.6.0-r0/image/usr/bin/gui_guider root@<Your Board IP address>:/ Note: You could use a router to connect your board and your host PC. They are on the same network so could use the 'scp' command to transfer the file to your board.   On your board, type the following commands to execute the gui. $ chmod 755 gui_guider $ ./gui_guider &   Then the GUI is running like this:   Now, let me explain how to find out the gpio number. Type the following command to show the mapping addresses of gpio. root@imx93evk:/# cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio gpiochip3: GPIOs 0-31, parent: platform/47400080.gpio, 47400080.gpio: gpiochip0: GPIOs 32-63, parent: platform/43810080.gpio, 43810080.gpio: gpiochip1: GPIOs 64-95, parent: platform/43820080.gpio, 43820080.gpio: gpio-64 ( |cd ) in hi IRQ ACTIVE LOW gpio-71 ( |regulator-usdhc2 ) out lo gpiochip2: GPIOs 96-127, parent: platform/43830080.gpio, 43830080.gpio: gpiochip6: GPIOs 472-477, parent: i2c/0-001a, wm8962, can sleep: gpiochip5: GPIOs 478-487, parent: platform/adp5585-gpio.1.auto, adp5585-gpio, can sleep: gpio-479 ( |regulator-audio-pwr ) out hi gpio-483 ( |regulator-can2-stby ) out hi ACTIVE LOW gpio-486 ( |enable ) out hi gpiochip4: GPIOs 488-511, parent: i2c/1-0022, 1-0022, can sleep: gpio-492 ( |Headphone detection ) in lo IRQ gpio-501 ( |? ) out hi gpio-502 ( |regulator-vdd-12v ) out hi gpio-505 ( |reset ) out lo gpio-507 ( |? ) out hi gpio-508 ( |reset ) out lo ACTIVE LOW   The gpio pins of two buttons are GPIO2_IO23 and GPIO2_IO24. They are belongs to gpio2. In the imx93.dtsi, the gpio2's address is "gpio2: gpio@43810080". So, base on the information output from "/sys/kernel/debug/gpio", the gpio2 is mapping to "gpiochip0: GPIOs 32-63". So, the GPIO2_IO23 is 32+23=55, and the GPIO2_IO24 is 32+24=56.   To verify the gpio number is correct or not. We could do the following test. root@imx93evk:/# echo 55 > /sys/class/gpio/export root@imx93evk:/# echo in > /sys/class/gpio/gpio55/direction root@imx93evk:/# echo 56 > /sys/class/gpio/export root@imx93evk:/# echo in > /sys/class/gpio/gpio56/direction   Then, run these two commands to check the values. root@imx93evk:/# cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio55/value root@imx93evk:/# cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio55/value   When the button is not pressed, the value is 1. When press the button, the value is 0.  We could add the same in the GUI's custom.c. Open the GUI Guider software and add the code in the custom.c. /********************* * INCLUDES *********************/ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <errno.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include "lvgl.h" #include "custom.h" #include "ui_Aircon.h" #include "guider_customer_fonts.h" /********************** * STATIC VARIABLES **********************/ int fdbtn1,fdbtn2,fdgpio; int btn1_pressed; int btn2_pressed; char btn1_value, btn2_value; void custom_func(void) { fdbtn1 = open("/sys/class/gpio/gpio55/value", O_RDWR); fdbtn2 = open("/sys/class/gpio/gpio56/value", O_RDWR); read(fdbtn1, &btn1_value, 1); read(fdbtn2, &btn2_value, 1); if(btn1_value=='0' && btn1_pressed) { btn1_pressed=0; ui_aircon_update_temp(0, kAIRCON_TempUp); } if(btn1_value=='1') btn1_pressed=1; if(btn2_value=='0' && btn2_pressed) { btn2_pressed=0; ui_aircon_update_temp(0, kAIRCON_TempDown); } if(btn2_value=='1') btn2_pressed=1; close(fdbtn1); close(fdbtn2); } void custom_init(lv_ui *ui) { fdbtn1 = open("/sys/class/gpio/gpio55/value", O_WRONLY); if (fdbtn1 == -1) { fdgpio = open("/sys/class/gpio/export", O_WRONLY); write(fdgpio,"55",3); write(fdgpio,"56",3); close(fdgpio); fdgpio = open("/sys/class/gpio/gpio55/direction", O_WRONLY); write(fdgpio,"in",3); close(fdgpio); fdgpio = open("/sys/class/gpio/gpio56/direction", O_WRONLY); write(fdgpio,"in",3); close(fdgpio); } else close(fdbtn1); ... ... ... ...   Add the custom_func() in the custom.h. #ifndef __CUSTOM_H_ #define __CUSTOM_H_ #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif #include "gui_guider.h" void custom_init(lv_ui *ui); + void custom_func(void);   Also, need to add the custom function() into the dead loop in main.c.   To modify the code, bld-imx93evk$ vim tmp/work/armv8a-poky-linux/gui-guider/1.6.0-r0/gui-guider-1.6.0/ports/linux/main.c   while(1) { + custom_func(); // <--- Add the custom function here. /* Periodically call the lv_task handler. * It could be done in a timer interrupt or an OS task too.*/ time_till_next = lv_wayland_timer_handler(); #if LV_USE_VIDEO video_play(&guider_ui); #endif /* Run until the last window closes */ if (!lv_wayland_window_is_open(NULL)) { break; }   Re-build the code after modified. bld-imx93evk$ bitbake gui-guider -c compile -f   Build the whole image again. bld-imx93evk$ bitbake gui-guider Then use the 'scp' command to transfer the new gui-guider file to the board.   Finally, you can use the buttons on the EVK board to set the temperature up and down.                          
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i.MX93 DDR stress test tool is different with previous i.MX tool. This Chinese article describe how to debug i.MX93 DDR and introduce DDR config tool usage.
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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.  
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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).    
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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!
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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:~#
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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
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  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.  
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Traditional non-matter devices cannot directly join the matter network. But Matter Bridge solves the problem. Matter bridge can join a Matter network as a Matter device and nonmatter devices need to be mapped to Matter network as a dynamic endpoint. In this way, other Matter devices can communicate with non-matter devices through dynamic endpoints. The Guide is a Matter Zigbee Bridge implement based on i.MX93 + K32W0.     Feature List • Matter over Ethernet • Matter over Wi-Fi • Register and Remove Zigbee Deivces • Connect Zigbee devices into Matter ecosystem seamlessly • Zigbee Devices o OnOff cluster o Temperature Sensor Cluster • Matter Actions o Start Zigbee Network o Zigbee Network Permit Join o Factory Reset • No limitation if migrating to other i.MX MPU like i.MX6ULL, i.MX8MP • OTBR and Zigbee bridge can be integrated into one single device
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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 / #  
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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.
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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
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