For early i.MX 8QuadXPlus MEK boards with C0 chips, power on the board when the board is connected to the PC with USB Type-C cable may cause the PC to shut down directly. This is a hardware known issue. another type of TCPC PHY chip will be used in later boards to fix this issue. If you have this kind of i.MX 8QuadXPlus MEK boards with c0 chips already, you can take below way to avoid this issue: 1. change the boot switch to "serial download mode", firstly power on the board, then connect the board to PC with Type-C cable. 2. download the attached files, uncompress this two files and put them in the same folder. 3. open the command window, change the working directory to the one contains the files just downloaded, and execute "uuu uuu_change_DRP_to_DFP.auto-imx8qxpc0mek" on command window. After the command being successfuley executed, the board can be powerwed up when the board is connected to PC with type-C cable.

To copy the screen (framebuffer) execute on i.MX 31 PDK terminal: dd if=/dev/fb0 of=screen.raw bs=1280 count=480 Where: the value 1280 means 640 * 2 bytes (16bpp) and the value 480 is equal the screen width. Copy this raw file to your Linux host and execute it to convert to png image: fbgrab -f screen.raw -w 480 -h 640 -b 16 screen.png To install fbgrab on Debian/Ubuntu execute: apt-get install fbgrab

i.MX6UL OBDS test image

On power-up of a system, the bootloader performs initial hardware configuration, and is responsible for loading the Linux kernel in memory. Several bootloaders are available which support i.MX SoCs: Barebox (http://www.barebox.org/) RedBoot (http://ecos.sourceware.org/redboot/) U-Boot (http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/) Qi (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi)

In recovery mode, recovery may update /boot or /system, but it never overwrite itself. The update of /recovery is in the normal bootup. When system boot up, it will execute init.rc which will call install-recovery.sh. The install-recovery.sh is in update.zip. when the system is in recovery mode, updater-script will  unzip update.zip, and the install-recovery.sh will be unzip into /system/etc/. So if you update your image through recovery mode, the install-recovery.sh will be unzip to /system/etc/ automatically. If your update.zip do not include install-recovery.sh. You can edit it and copy it to /system/etc. the below is content in install-recovery.sh. #!/system/bin/sh if ! applypatch -c EMMC:/dev/block/mmcblk3p2:7762488:374c3807940a38d9497a4c5ef64a069e553bc218; then   log -t recovery "Installing new recovery image"   applypatch -b EMMC:/dev/block/mmcblk3p1:7203059:238a297e7e3c7197b2f5af646d0e7e49cef0fd9f EMMC:/dev/block/mmcblk3p2  374c3807940a38d9497a4c5ef64a069e553bc218 7762488 c3c9482c8616805ea4c071ee9184240936f260e5:/system/recovery-from-boot.p else   log -t recovery "Recovery image already installed" fi Explain of the install-recovery.sh: 1、 judge whether the recovery-imx6q.img’s sha1 is the same with mmcblk3p2 on board. 374c3807940a38d9497a4c5ef64a069e553bc218 is the new recovery-imx6q.img’s sha1. 7762488 is the length of recovery-imx6q.img. 2、 if not the same , that mean it was a new recovery-imx6q.img. make a new recovery-imx6q.img through patch recovery-from-boot.p on boot.img. 7203059 and 238a297e7e3c7197b2f5af646d0e7e49cef0fd9f is the length and sha1 of boot.img.     src-file EMMC:/dev/block/mmcblk3p2 is the recovery partition.      tgt-file c3c9482c8616805ea4c071ee9184240936f260e5 is the sha1 of recovery-from-boot.p which is in update.zip. Note: 1、 recovery-from-boot.p is in update.zip. And it is unzip into /system. It is the patch of boot-imx6q.img and recovery-imx6q.img. 2、 for EMMC:/dev/block/mmcblk3p2 is the partition, you can check ./out/target/product/sabresd_6dq/recovery/root/etc/recovery.fstab to see detail partition. Check whether recovery is updated, there are two ways to check: 1、 you can write printf() in file bootable/recovery/recovery.cpp. On the board you can check the file /cache/recovery/last_log. You can find what you printf if the recovery.img was updated. 2、 Also you can use the adb the pull the recovery file system to check whether the recovery was updated.

1. Register to the meta-freescale maillist 2. Follow just the install and download steps indicated on the Freescale's github repo. Make sure you local code is in sync (repo sync) 3. Create a local branch using the repo command fs-community-bsp $ repo start <branch_name> --all      Where <branch_name> can be any name you want for your contribution (either a fix or a implementation) 4. Modify the files you want under the Freescale source folders (e.g. meta-fsl-arm) 5. Create a commit (follow the recommendations from Commit Patch Message Guidelines - Openembedded.org ) meta-fsl-arm $ git add <modified file 1> meta-fsl-arm $ git add <modified file 2> . . meta-fsl-arm $ git commit -m '<recipe name>: <my contribution>' 6. Create a patch file meta-fsl-arm $ git format-patch -s --subject-prefix='meta-fsl-arm][PATCH' -1 7. Configure ~./gitconfig so you are able to send e-mails through git, e.g. [sendemail]   smtpencryption = tls   smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com   smtpuser = [email protected]   smtpserverport = 587 8.Send the patch file to the community git send-email --to [email protected] <generated patch> 9. Check your patch's progress on meta-freescale mailing list. 10. In case you need to rework your patch, make sure you add v2 (version 2 of the patch) when creating the patch meta-fsl-arm $ git format-patch -s --subject-prefix='meta-fsl-arm][PATCH v2' -1

For more information verify the U-Boot Manual[1]. You need the "lrzsz" package to add support on minicom to transfer over serial: aptitude install lrzsz Open Minicom and power-on the board. When the U-Boot prompt appears: => Type the command to transfer the u-boot.bin binary: => loady Then press the combination keys: Ctrl+a s Then select the option: ymodem A text mode "file explorer" will appear. Select the desired binary (u-boot.bin) pressing "Space" key. The file transfer will start. To execute the uploaded file just issue: => go 0x100000 Replace 0x100000 with your TEXT_BASE address.

Why reset EPDC When TCE underrun occurs repeatedly, EPDC might lock up and the signal to panel continues. There is chance to cause panel damage. The attached patch provides a way to reset EPDC to cut the signal out and recover EPDC from lockup. The patch is based on L4.1.15. As for TCE underrun, QoS patch has obvious improvement. https://community.nxp.com/docs/DOC-343599

NXP i.MX 8 series of application processors support running ArmV8a 64-bit and ArmV7a 32-bit user space programs.  A Hello World program that prints the size of a long int is cross-compiled as 32-bit and as 64-bit from an Ubuntu host and then each is copied to MCIMX8MQ-EVK and run. Resources: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Host i.MX 8M Evaluation Kit|NXP  MCIMX8MQ-EVK Linux Binary Demo Files - i.MX 8MQuad EVK L4.9.88_2.0.0_GA release Source Code: Create a file with contents below using your favorite editor, example name hello-sizeInt.c. #include <stdio.h> int main (int argc, char **argv) { printf ("Hello World, size of long int: %zd\n", sizeof (long int)); return 0; }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Ubuntu host packages: $ sudo apt-get install -y gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf $ sudo apt-get install -y gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu‍‍‍‍ Line 1 installs the ArmV7a cross-compile tools: arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc is used to cross compile on Ubuntu host Line 2 install the ArmV8a cross-compile tools: aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc is used to cross compile on Ubuntu host Create Linux User Space Applications Build each application and use the static option to gcc to include run time libraries. Build ArmV7a 32-bit application: $ arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -static hello-sizeInt.c -o hello-armv7a‍-static‍‍ Build ArmV8a 64-bit application: $ aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -static  hello-sizeInt.c -o hello-armv8a‍-static‍‍ Copy Hello applications from Ubuntu host and run on MCIMX8MQ-EVK Using a SDCARD written with images from L4.9.88_2.0.0 Linux release (see resources for image link), power on EVK with Ethernet connected to network and Serial Console port which was connected to a windows 10 PC. Launched a terminal client (TeraTerm) to access console port. Login credentials: root and no password needed. Since Ethernet was connected a DHCP IP address was acquired, 192.168.1.241 on the EVK.  On the Ubuntu host, secure copy the hello applications to EVK: $ scp hello-armv7a-static [email protected]:~/ hello-armv7a-static                           100%  389KB   4.0MB/s   00:00    $ scp hello-armv8a-static [email protected]:~/ hello-armv8a-static                           100%  605KB   4.7MB/s   00:00 ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Run: root@imx8mqevk:~# ./hello-armv8a-static Hello World, sizeof long int: 8 root@imx8mqevk:~# ./hello-armv7a-static Hello World, sizeof long int: 4‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

The document is a master page for learning i.MX6Q SABRE. It contains several parts as following. The pdf files listed below(item 0, 1, 2) are contained in the NXP official website and others are in the community links. 0. i.MX6 SMART DEVICE SYSTEM(Schematics): SPF-27516_C5.pdf(in the iMX6Q_SABRE_SDB_DESIGNFILES) i.MX 6Quad SABRE Development Board|NXP  1. How to build an image for an i.MX NXP board by using a Yocto Project build environment: Freescale_Yocto_Project_User's_Guide.pdf(in the L4.1.15_1.1.0_LINUX_DOCS) i.MX 6Quad SABRE Development Board|NXP  2. How to build and install the NXP Linux OS BSP: i.MX_Linux_User's_Guide.pdf (in the L4.1.15_1.1.0_LINUX_DOCS) i.MX 6Quad SABRE Development Board|NXP  3. How to Use Trace32 to Run U-boot in the i.MX6Q SABRE Platform: How to Use Trace32 to Run U-boot in the i.MX6Q SABRE Platform  4. Bootloader Boot Procedure for linux OS in i.MX6Q: Bootloader Boot Procedure for linux OS in i.MX6Q  5. Kernel Loading Procedure for Linux OS in i.MX6Q: Kernel Loading Procedure for Linux OS in i.MX6Q 

A discussion of random hangs and other issues using Windows Embedded Compact on Freescale i.MX6 application processor and how they were solved. This white paper is about the investigation and shares some of our discoveries. All information in this document applies to Windows Embedded Compact 7 and 2013 as well as all variants of the i.MX6.    

NOTE: Always de-power the target board and the aggregator when plugging or unplugging smart sensors from the aggregator. The aggregator portion of the i.MX Power Profiling System sits between the "smart" current sensor boards and the host computer. It provides power and signal connections to each connected sensor board. The communication is done over I2C, where three I2C bus extenders (PCA9518) effectively provide a dedicated bus to each I2C device, to better allow for cabling.  More information will follow... A photo, layout images and schematic attached below.   MBED source for the FRDM-KL25Z is available here: 30848-KL25Z-AGGREGATOR    Smart Sensor Connections At each smart sensor header JP0-JP13, these are the connections provided: 5V: powers the 3.3V regulator on each sensor board 12V: all the gates of all the switching FETs are pulled pulled up to 12V GND: ground connection SCL/TX0: I2C clock line  SDA/RX0: I2C data line  SWD_CLK:  global line for triggering smart sensors to make measurements RESET_B:  global line for resetting all smart sensor boards SWD_IO_n: individual select line for each smart sensor I2C Bus Connection Three I2C bus extenders (PCA9518) provide buffered connections between the FRDM board and all the connected smart sensors. The bus extenders were added to allow for longer cables between the aggregator and the smart sensor boards. Each bus extender has five ports and along with connections that allow extending the bus to more bus extenders. Gate Supply The aggregator contains a boost regulator that boost the 5V input from the FRDM board to 12V. The boosted voltage is fed to each of the smart sensor headers. It's used by the smart sensor board to pull up the gates of the switching FETs above any of the rails under test by at least 4.5V in order to benefit from a lower Rds(on). Caution must be exercised with some older FRDM boards since the 5V from the USB connection passes through diodes with a maximum current of 200mA.  The boost regulator and the load presented by the smart sensor boards may exceed the diode's limit and damage it. (Yes, it's happened... two older FRDM-KL25Z boards were used during development. One of them failed with the diode shorted (~0.05 Ohms), so everything kept working. The other failed with a  short of ~45 Ohms, so it kind of worked but not really...) Application Code for Aggregator  To date, application code has only been developed for the FRDM-KL25Z board. The latest application code resides at: https://os.mbed.com/users/r14793/code/30848-KL25Z-AGGREGATOR/, with the latest binary attached below. SWD Programming of Smart Sensors  Connectors J5 and JP15 are provided as an adapter for programming the smart sensor boards via SWD. JP15 provides power to the smart sensor board, since they have no direct 3.3V input for the KL05Z. An SWD programmer (or suitably modified FRDM-KL05Z board) connects to J5. Both connections use 10-pin 0.05"-spaced ribbon cables. Additionally, when a smart sensor is connected to JP15, J6 provides access to the UART pins of the smart sensor (the I2C pins on the smart sensor also mux out the UART of the KL05Z). No hardware changes are necessary at all; changing the code running on the smart sensor is all that's required. In fact, during the initial prototyping of the smart sensors, the serial UART connection was used instead of I2C. Modify Aggregator To Use SWD Dongle To Program Smart Sensor:  Add a wire as shown on the bottom side of the aggregator board as shown below. This ties 3.3V on the aggregator to the debug header, enabling the voltage level translators on the dongle to communicate with the KL05Z on the smart sensor board.  

Q: What is i.Mx6 ECSPI max frequency? https://community.freescale.com/message/338305 But in the RM we clearly state 60 MHz is the default config while Boot from SPI. I cannot measure it because I have no board where I can boot from SPI Nor. Also if I look at clocking, PLL  is 480MHz divided by 8 is fixed thus we get 60 MHz. Next divider can be either 1, thus ECSPI_CLK_ROOT  = 60MHz or 2, thus ECSPI_CLK_ROOT = 30 MHz. A: From i.MX6 Datasheet (IMX6DQCEC, Rev. 2.3, 07/2013), Table 52 (ECSPI Master Mode Timing Parameters) : ECSPIx_SCLK Cycle Time–Read • Slow group                                        55 ns • Fast group                                        40 ns         ECSPIx_SCLK Cycle Time–Write          15 ns So, only for writing we can get ~60 MHz.

These instructions used ltib-imx27ads-20071219. First, get u-boot v2.0: git clone http://git.denx.de/u-boot-v2.git u-boot-v2 Enter the U-Boot directory: cd u-boot-v2 Export the proper compilation paths and environment variables: export ARCH=arm export PATH="$PATH:/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/" export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- Configure it for the i.MX27ADS board: make mx27ads_defconfig You may want to enable the FEC driver: make menuconfig And go to Drivers -> Network drivers and select Yes on i.MX FEC Ethernet driver Exit the config menu (don't forget to save the configuration) and just make it: make Or if you prefer the verbose mode make V=1 After a quick build, you should get a uboot.bin on your current directory. I used the ADS Toolkit to program the NOR flash.

I followed the Yocto Training up until Task #4 - Deploy and test.... and I got stuck here. I am not able to download the .sdcard image to my SD card. Do I need to format it first? It is brand new. Since the sudo dd if=core-image-base-imx6solosabresd.sdcard of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M did not work for me, I was not able to boot from the SD on my board. The board switches are set to boot from SD4. Is imx6solosabresd the correct MACHINE to use for the solox? I tried setting MACHINE=imx6sxsabersd in the local.conf file but I got an error message (Task #2). This is why I want to try the MFGTool. I have set the board to boot from SD3 so it can go into "download mode". When I go through the MFGTool, it says No Device Connected although HID-compliant vendor-defined device shows up. This document was generated from the following discussion: 

Hi All, The i.MX6 Android R13.4.1.04 patch release is now available onwww.freescale.com ·         Files available # Name Description 1 IMX6_R13.4.1.04_ANDROID_PATCH This patch release is based on the i.MX 6 Android R13.4.1   release. The purpose of this patch release is correct the PFD workflow in   U-Boot, fix the miscalibration issue for the thermal sensor and corrects   ramp-up time of the internal LDOs

Voltage overshoot (>1.8V) is found on VDD_ARM_SSOC_IN when the EVK board is powered down by POWER BUTTON long pressed after the Linux kernal loaded. It would not happen if only U-boot is run. It happens also when the system recovers from idle. The overshoot is out of i.MX6UL maximum rating.

Dear,   We want to start application program from bootloader, we have below questions: We we use I.MX6UL bootrom start BootLoader， we need use mkimage.sh, compile and generator bin file, then we convert to executable file. If we need use Bootloader run application program,whether application image also need convert by mkimage.sh?  The file which convert by mkimage.sh is compressed file. we do not know its format, how about its start address, how to realize the the address jump, do you have example? Thanks.  

Add kcontrol API for Headphone Jack and Spk for WM8962, from this kcontrol, you can use amixer to change freely between Headphone and Spk. The names of the mixers 1: HP Function 2: SPK Function amixer controls: numid=62,iface=MIXER,name='HP Function' numid=63,iface=MIXER,name='SPK Function' 1: How to enable HeadPhone using this Kcontrol: amixer cget numid=62 numid=62,iface=MIXER,name='HP Function'    ; type=ENUMERATED,access=rw------,values=1,items=2    ; Item #0 'off'    ; Item #1 'on'    : values=0 amixer cset numid=62 1 //enable HP numid=62,iface=MIXER,name='HP Function'    ; type=ENUMERATED,access=rw------,values=1,items=2    ; Item #0 'off'    ; Item #1 'on'    : values=1 2: How to enable Speaker using this Kcontrol: amixer cget numid=63 numid=63,iface=MIXER,name='SPK Function'    ; type=ENUMERATED,access=rw------,values=1,items=2    ; Item #0 'off'    ; Item #1 'on'    : values=0 amixer cset numid=63 1 //SPK enable numid=63,iface=MIXER,name='SPK Function'    ; type=ENUMERATED,access=rw------,values=1,items=2    ; Item #0 'off'    ; Item #1 'on'    : values=1

Background Configure Trace32 Attach to SCFW with Lauterbach Snooping Perf Examples Example 1 : Snoop a function call (or a variable) Example 2: MonitorFrame Per Second Example 3: Monitor Frame Per Second and rendering size Background None of my automotive have trace pins on their board. Trace is consequently not possible. Anyway you can do "Snooping" with your Lauterbach JTAG probe. Snooping just send data as fast as possible. In the following example I will Snoop the i.MX8X' SCFW, notice I do not have the sources (except board.c) but I have the elf file (thus I have debug info with functions names for instance). Notice Snooping is available on all MCU/MPU with JTAG.   In my case I used it for the first time in 2015 on Vybrid, our first heterogeneous dual core (Cortex-A5 & Cortex-M4) with no XRDC... My customer has sent the final product with a JTAG connector and flashed SW product to me. I had a laconic comment: "software is done all around the world in UK, India and the US, when we flash all the software the Vybrid Reset for some version, we don't have the sources for this specific software we have flashed in this product. Good Luck". In this case snooping on both core at the same time was the only solution for me... At the end I have discovered (thanks to the last PC addresses before the crash) the cortex-A5 was deconfiguring a pin of the QSPI flash interface on which the M4 was eXecuting In Place (XiP). Configure Trace32 When your Trace32 is open, CPU>>System Settings... menu and configure the JtagClock as fast as possible (here 40MHz) to have fast data streaming: go in Trace>>Configuration menu Select "SNOOPer" Select to stream the Pointer Counter thus select the mode "PC" Pass to State to "Arm" You can increase also the SIZE of the buffer Launch your code: Attach to SCFW with Lauterbach In Trace32, CPU>>System Settings, chose IMX8QXP-SCU: And then do an "Attach": Then yu should see your SCU core running: Snooping And break your code, your "used" field " should be filled: Open Trace>>List>>Default Click on "Chart" On the trace list you can see the sampling rate: around 48µs in our case. It means you may (almost) not see functions lasting less than 48µs (depends when it is sampled), or you'll see it sometimes. But for performance analysis it can be useful to see which function is too slow (rather then instrument the code), but as I mentioned in my case function has to last more than 48µs! Perf You can also get Performance analysis. But keep in mind if your function is faster than 48µs in my case, the result will not be accurate! Go in Perf>>Perf Configuration (it can also be done un real time with Perf>>Perf List Dynamic)... and select "Snoop": Then put the State in "Arm" and click on "List" to open the "List Window" Launch your code and stop it. In the "List" window you'll see all the function ranked according to their usage occurrence (my SCFW is almost always in sleep!) Examples Example 1 : Snoop a function call (or a variable) With Snooping you cannot trace a function calls. To do that I add a global variable in the function. You'll have a little overhead due to that. I will use an i.MXRT1170 with the SDK 2.6.1. I have built the Tiger example (vglite). April 4th 2020: i.MXRT1170 is not public, meaning not officially supported by Lauterbach. Please follow the instruction in my SharePoint folder (if the link disappears, it may signify i.MXRT1170 is supported) to add support of the i.MXRT1170. https://nxp1-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/vincent_aubineau_nxp_com/Ej8ID8mXaNZPnVgTWgYgqHQBzR0XcE0K4sl1WusR3UMBnw?e=…  I want to know the framerate. To do that I have to monitor the redraw() calls. What I do, is I put the "n" variable as global. Trace>>Configuration ... Chose "memory" and "changes" (to log only when the variable is changing): Then then click on select... and "i" Search for "n" variable and select it: Launch your software and then do a break. Click on "List": You have the list of your function call (as you can see it is not always the same), in the "ti. call" you have the duration between 2 call (keep in mind the function must not be called at high frequency: If you click on "draw", you can display the variable values (click on  to scale it): Example 2: Monitor Frame Per Second I can also monitor the fps if I pass "time" variable global: And you can have a reprensentation of you fps (notive I have unchecked "Changes" to have an easy to intrepret curve Example 3: Monitor Frame Per Second and rendering size Results often depends of several variables. If you display 2 variables on 1 display window, if the 2 variable does not have the same range, it is not easy to observe. The best solution I have found in this case is to have 2 "Draw" Windows. Add the 2 variables in the "SElect" field ("time" and "ScaleCount", beware, it is case sensitive). Launch your code, and stop it after a while. Then right click on the "time" and "ScaleCount" variable in your code to display 2 "Draw" window: Thus you have 2 "Draw" windows, and you see FPS depends on rendering size... logical!