ccache is a C compiler cache. ccache can save a large amount of compilation time on recurring builds and builds restarted from a clean repository after make clean or git clean. It is well suited for e.g. u-boot and Linux compilation. Caching the host compiler Caching "native" builds is easily done by adding in the beginning of your $PATH a special directory, which contains links to ccache to override the usual compiler. On e.g. Debian this directory is readily available as /usr/lib/ccache, So you can do:   $ export PATH="/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH" Typical links found in this folder are:   c++ -> ../../bin/ccache   cc -> ../../bin/ccache   g++ -> ../../bin/ccache   gcc -> ../../bin/ccache etc... Caching the cross compiler Caching cross-compiled builds can be done in the same way as native builds, provided you create links of the form e.g. arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc pointing to ccache. But there is an even more convenient way for those projects, which rely on a $CROSS_COMPILE environment variable (as is the case for e.g. u-boot and Linux). You can prefix the cross compiler with ccache there in e.g. the following way:   $ export CROSS_COMPILE="ccache arm-linux-gnueabihf-" Monitoring efficiency Now that your builds are cached, you might want to see how much is "spared" with this technique. ccache -s will tell you all sorts of statistics, such as:   cache directory                     /home/vstehle/.ccache   cache hit (direct)                 10852   cache hit (preprocessed)            3225   cache miss                         19000   called for link                    33267   called for preprocessing            9463   compile failed                         3   preprocessor error                     1   couldn't find the compiler           117   unsupported source language          921   unsupported compiler option         2167   no input file                      31681   files in cache                     51694   cache size                           1.3 Gbytes   max cache size                       4.0 Gbytes Here you see a somewhat typical 50%/50% hit/miss ratio. Enjoy! See Also ccache is usually supported natively by build systems, such as Buildroot or Yocto.

On the build folder, type bitbake -g <image> && cat pn-depends.dot | grep -v -e '-native' | grep -v digraph | grep -v -e '-image' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq where <image> is the image name (e.g. core-image-minimal). In case you want to know if a certain <package> is included on an image, just grep the output bitbake -g <image> && cat pn-depends.dot | grep -v -e '-native' | grep -v digraph | grep -v -e '-image' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | grep <package>

Here is a quick summary at booting Linux on the i.MX 6 sabre sd platform. This assumes you already have u-boot working on your platform as described here. This implies you already have a "working" Linux development environment with some ARM cross-compilers at hand (e.g. Debian + Emdebian). Get Linux sources We will use git to fetch Linux sources:   $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git This should create a linux directory with all the latest sources (after a while). Note that for more stability you might want to checkout a release instead of the latest version; to do so, list the available release tags with e.g. git tag -l 'v*', and git checkout <the-desired-tag>. Compile Assuming your cross compiler is called e.g. arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc, you can compile by doing:   $ cd linux   $ export ARCH=arm   $ export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-   $ make imx_v6_v7_defconfig   $ make You then need to supply a LOADADDR (as joowonkim pointed out); do:   $ make uImage LOADADDR=0x10008000 This should create a number of files, including arch/arm/boot/uImage and arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q-sabresd.dtb. Put on SD We need a proper FAT partition on the SD card, from which u-boot will be able to load the kernel and dtb. Also, we need to make sure we leave some space for u-boot starting from offset 1024B. Here is an example SD card layout:   +-----+------+--------+-----+----------------   | MBR |  ... | u-boot | ... | FAT partition ...   +-----+------+--------+-----+----------------   0     512    1024           1M (offsets in bytes) Here is an example SD card layout, as displayed by fdisk:   Device    Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System   /dev/sdc1            2048     8054783     4026368    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA) (units: 512B sectors) You can format the FAT partition, mount, copy and unmount with:   $ mkfs.vfat /dev/<your-sd-card-first-partition>   $ mount /dev/<your-sd-card-first-partition> /mnt   $ cp arch/arm/boot/uImage arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q-sabresd.dtb /mnt/   $ umount /mnt Your SD card first partition is typically something in /dev/sd<X>1 or /dev/mmcblk<X>p1. Note that you need write permissions on the SD card for the command to succeed, so you might need to su - as root, or use sudo, or do a chmod a+w as root on the SD card device node to grant permissions to users. Also, be sure to have u-boot on the SD card as explained in this post. Boot! That's it; u-boot already knows how to deal with your kernel by default so you are good to go. Insert the SD card into the SD card slot of your i.MX6 sabre sd platform, connect to the USB to UART port with a serial terminal set to 115200 baud, no parity, 8bit data and power up the platform. You should see u-boot messages:   U-Boot 2013.07-rc1-00014-g74771f4 (Jun 21 2013 - 16:27:39) u-boot should load the uImage and dtb from SD card and boot the kernel:   (...)   reading uImage   4215344 bytes read in 449 ms (9 MiB/s)   Booting from mmc ...   reading imx6q-sabresd.dtb   22818 bytes read in 22 ms (1012.7 KiB/s)   ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 12000000 ...      Image Name:   Linux-3.10.0-rc6      Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)      Data Size:    4215280 Bytes = 4 MiB      Load Address: 10008000      Entry Point:  10008000      Verifying Checksum ... OK   ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 11000000      Booting using the fdt blob at 0x11000000      Loading Kernel Image ... OK   OK      Using Device Tree in place at 11000000, end 11008921   Starting kernel ... The kernel should boot:   Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0   Linux version 3.10.0-rc6 (vstehle@debian) (gcc version 4.7.2 (Debian 4.7.2-5) ) #1 SMP Fri Jun 21 18:09:26 CEST 2013 By default, the kernel will try to mount a root filesystem from the SD card second partition, as can be read in the default kernel command line:   (...)   Kernel command line: console=ttymxc0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk1p2 rootwait rw ...but we did not prepare a root filesystem partition, so after a number of boot messages the kernel will wait indefinitely:   (...)   mmc1: new SDHC card at address b368   (...)    mmcblk0: p1   (...)   Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk1p2... We will see in another post how to prepare this root filesystem on the second SD card partition. Enjoy! See also... If you plan to compile Linux often, you might want to use a C compiler cache; see this post. Once you have Linux booting on your platform the next step is to give it a root filesystem. See this post for a Debian root filesystem, this post for a minimal busybox filesystem and this post for generating a root filesystem with buildroot.

Here is the explaination of relationship of SD-CAN, SD-MAN, 6233, 6003, 3002: AR6003 + AR3002 = AR6233 AR6233 + RF Components = SX-SDMAN-2830S SX-SDMAN-2830S + SDIO CONN = SX-SDCAN-2830BT SX-SDCAN-2830BT card is inserted into SD3 slot. BT adaptor board (attached files) is inserted into SD1 slot. SX-SDCAN-2830BT card is connected with BT adaptor board via 20-pin FFC. Software: signals of SD1 are muxed into UART4 and GPIO for BT application. Below is the description of IO mux on SD1:

Here is a quick summary at booting u-boot on the i.MX 6 sabre sd platform. This assumes you already have a "working" Linux development environment with some ARM cross-compilers at hand (e.g. Debian + Emdebian). Get u-boot sources We will use git to fetch the U-Boot sources:   $ git clone git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git This should create a u-boot directory with all the latest sources. Note that for more stability you might want to checkout a release instead of the latest version; to do so, list the available release tags with e.g. git tag -l 'v2*', and git checkout <the-desired-tag>. Compile Assuming your cross compiler is called e.g. arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc, you can compile by doing:   $ cd u-boot   $ export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-   $ make mx6qsabresd_config   $ make This should create a number of files, including u-boot.imx. Put on SD U-boot should reside at offset 1024B of your SD card. To put it there, do:   $ dd if=u-boot.imx of=/dev/<your-sd-card> bs=1k seek=1   $ sync Your SD card device is typically something in /dev/sd<X> or /dev/mmcblk<X>. Note that you need write permissions on the SD card for the command to succeed, so you might need to su - as root, or use sudo, or do a chmod a+w as root on the SD card device node to grant permissions to users. Boot! Your SD card is ready for booting. Insert it in the SD card slot of your i.MX6 sabre sd platform, connect to the USB to UART port with a serial terminal set to 115200 baud, no parity, 8bit data, power up the platform and you should see something like:   U-Boot 2013.07-rc1-00014-g74771f4 (Jun 20 2013 - 19:05:09)   CPU:   Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.2 at 792 MHz   Reset cause: POR   Board: MX6Q-SabreSD   DRAM:  1 GiB   MMC:   FSL_SDHC: 0, FSL_SDHC: 1, FSL_SDHC: 2   *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment   In:    serial   Out:   serial   Err:   serial   Net:   FEC [PRIME]   Warning: FEC using MAC address from net device   Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 Enjoy! See also... u-boot most common mission is to boot the Linux kernel. See this post for details on how to do it. If you plan to compile u-boot often, you might want to use a C compiler cache; see this post. Running a Script in U-boot u-boot on the Vybrid tower board in a few commands

i.MX6Q PCIe EP/RC Validation and Throughput Hardware setup     * Two i.MX6Q SD boards, one is used as PCIe RC; the other one is used as PCIe EP. Connected by 2*mini_PCIe to standard_PCIe  adaptors, 2*PEX cable adaptors,  and one PCIe cable. Software configurations     * When building RC image, make sure that         CONFIG_IMX_PCIE=y         # CONFIG_IMX_PCIE_EP_MODE_IN_EP_RC_SYS is not set         CONFIG_IMX_PCIE_RC_MODE_IN_EP_RC_SYS=y     * When build EP image, make sure that         CONFIG_IMX_PCIE=y         CONFIG_IMX_PCIE_EP_MODE_IN_EP_RC_SYS=y         # CONFIG_IMX_PCIE_RC_MODE_IN_EP_RC_SYS is not set Features     * Set-up link between RC and EP by their stand-alone 125MHz running internally. * In EP's system, EP can access the reserved ddr memory    (default address:0x40000000) of PCIe RC's system, by the   interconnection between PCIe EP and PCIe RC. NOTE: The layout of the 1G DDR memory on SD boards is 0x1000_0000 ~ 0x4FFF_FFFF) Use mem=768M in the kernel command line to reserve the 0x4000_0000 ~ 0x4FFF_FFFF DDR memory  space used to do the EP access tests. (The example of the RC’s cmd-line: Kernel command line: noinitrd console=ttymxc0,115200 mem=768M root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.192.225.216:/home/r65037/nfs/rootfs_mx5x_10.11,v3,tcp ip=dhcp rw) Throughput results ARM core used as the bus master, and cache is disabled ARM core used as the bus master, and cache is enabled IPU used as the bus master(DMA) Data size in one write tlp 8 bytes 32 bytes 64 bytes Write speed ~109MB/s ~298MB/s ~344MB/s Data size in one read tlp 32 bytes 64 bytes 64 bytes Read speed ~29MB/s ~100MB/s ~211MB/s IPU used as the bus master(DMA) Here is the summary of the PCIe throughput results tested by IPU. Write speed is about 344 MB/s. Read speed is about 211MB/s ARM core used as the bus master (define EP_SELF_IO_TEST in pcie.c driver) write speed ~300MB/s. read speed ~100MB/s. Cache is enabled. PCIe EP: Starting data transfer... PCIe EP: Data transfer is successful, tv_count1 54840us, tv_count2 162814us. PCIe EP: Data write speed is 298MB/s. PCIe EP: Data read speed is 100MB/s. Regarding to the log, the data size of each TLP when cache is enabled, is about 4 times of the data size in write, and 2 times of the data size in read, when the cache is not enabled. Cache is disabled Cache is enabled Data size in one write tlp 8 bytes 32 bytes Write speed ~109MB/s ~298MB/s Data size in one read tlp 32 bytes 64 bytes Read speed ~29MB/s ~100MB/s Cache is not enabled PCIe EP: Starting data transfer... PCIe EP: Data transfer is successful, tv_count1 149616us, tv_count2 552099us. PCIe EP: Data write speed is 109MB/s. PCIe EP: Data read speed is 29MB/s. One simple method used to connect the imx6 pcie ep and rc View of the whole solution: HW materials: 2* iMX6Q SD boards,  2* Mini PCIe to STD PCIe adaptors, one SATA2 data cable. the mini-pcie to standard pcie exchange adaptor. Here is the URL: http://www.bplus.com.tw/Adapter/PM2C.html How to make it. signals connections Two adaptors, one is named as A, the other one is named as B. A                  B TXM <----> RXM TXN <----> RXN RXM <----> TXM RXN <----> TXN A1 connected to B3 A2 connected to B4 A3 connected to B1 A4 connected to B2 Connect the cable to the adaptor. Connect the SATA2 data cable to Mini PCIe to STD PCIe adaptor (A)    Connect the SATA2 data cable to Mini PCIe to STD PCIe adaptor (B) NOTE: * Please keep length of Cable as short as possible.  Our cable is about 12cm. * Please connect shield wire in SATA2 Cable to GND at both board. * Please boot up PCIe EP system before booting PCIe RC system. Base one imx_3.0.35 mainline, the patch, and the IPU test tools had been attached. NOTE: * IPU tests usage howto. Unzip the xxx.zip, and run xxx_r.sh to do read tests, run xxx_w.sh to do the write tests. Tests log: EP: root@freescale ~/pcie_ep_io_test$ ./pcie-r.sh pass cmdline 14, ./pcie_ipudev_test.out new option : c frame count set 1 new option : l loop count set 1 new option : i input w=1024,h=1024,fucc=RGB4,cpx=0,cpy=0,cpw=0,cph=0,de=0,dm=0 new option : O 640,480,RGB4,0,0,0,0,0 new option : s show to fb 0 new option : f output file name ipu1-1st-ovfb new option : ÿ show_to_buf:0, input_paddr:0x1000000, output.paddr0x18800000 ====== ipu task ====== input:         foramt: 0x34424752         width: 1024         height: 1024         crop.w = 1024         crop.h = 1024         crop.pos.x = 0         crop.pos.y = 0 output:         foramt: 0x34424752         width: 640         height: 480         roate: 0         crop.w = 640         crop.h = 480         crop.pos.x = 0         crop.pos.y = 0 total frame count 1 avg frame time 19019 us, fps 52.579000 root@freescale ~/pcie_ep_io_test$ ./pcie-w.sh pass cmdline 14, ./pcie_ipudev_test.out new option : c frame count set 1 new option : l loop count set 1 new option : i input w=640,h=480,fucc=RGB4,cpx=0,cpy=0,cpw=0,cph=0,de=0,dm=0 new option : O 1024,1024,RGB4,0,0,0,0,0 new option : s show to fb 1 new option : f output file name ipu1-1st-ovfb new option : ÿ show_to_buf:1, input_paddr:0x18a00000, output.paddr0x1000000 ====== ipu task ====== input:         foramt: 0x34424752         width: 640         height: 480         crop.w = 640         crop.h = 480         crop.pos.x = 0         crop.pos.y = 0 output:         foramt: 0x34424752         width: 1024         height: 1024         roate: 0         crop.w = 1024         crop.h = 1024         crop.pos.x = 0         crop.pos.y = 0 total frame count 1 avg frame time 11751 us, fps 85.099140 root@freescale ~$ ./memtool -32 01000000=deadbeaf Writing 32-bit value 0xDEADBEAF to address 0x01000000 RC: Before run "./memtool -32 01000000=deadbeaf" at EP. root@freescale ~$ ./memtool -32 40000000 10 Reading 0x10 count starting at address 0x40000000 0x40000000:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x40000010:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x40000020:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x40000030:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 After run "./memtool -32 01000000=deadbeaf" at EP. root@freescale ~$ ./memtool -32 40000000 10 Reading 0x10 count starting at address 0x40000000 0x40000000:  DEADBEAF 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x40000010:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x40000020:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x40000030:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Labels parameters

This patch adds DDR3 support for i.MX6SL, it is functionally tested with L3.0.35_2.1.0 release.

Application notes covering the necessary changes to enable Bluetooth on the Sabre-SD EVK with the Silex SX-SDCAN 802.11a/b/g/n + BT WiFi device. Overview of the modifications needed on the Sabre-SD board, including information on Silex SD images for Android and Ubuntu that include the WiFi and BT drivers.

There is GPU SDK for i.MX6D/Q/DL/S: IMX_GPU_SDK.  This is to share the experience when compiling the example code from the SDK with Linux BSP release: L3.0.35_1.1.0_121218 and  L3.0.35_4.0.0_130424 . Minimal profile is using and have been verified on both i.MX6Q SDP and i.MX6DL SDP. To start: Please make sure “gpu-viv-bin-mx6q” has been selected in the Package list and compiled to your rootfs. After finished the compilation of the rootfs, you should find some newly added libraries for GLES1.0, GLES2.0, OpenVG and EGL in <ltib>/rootfs/usr/lib However, you should find libOpenVG.so is actually copied from libOepnVG_3D.so: vmuser@ubuntu:~/ltib_src/ltib/rootfs/usr/lib$ ls -al libOpen* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 115999 2013-06-06 18:31 libOpenCL.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 515174 2013-06-06 18:31 libOpenVG_355.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 272156 2013-06-06 18:31 libOpenVG_3D.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 272156 2013-06-06 18:31 libOpenVG.so So, in this way, i.MX6D/Q will no use libOpenVG_355.so in the build. Also, if you run NFS, the libOpenVG.so will change to symbolic link:           For example, run on i.MX6Q SDP, it will link to /usr/lib/libOpenVG_355.so                          For example, run on i.MX6DL SDP, it will link to /usr/lib/libOpenVG_3D.so                Then, when you compile the OpenVG example code, it is becoming very confusing.  Thus, it needs to pay attention when doing the compilation.  For example, delete the symbolic link and make copy of the corresponding library: For i.MX6D/Q, please do this: $ sudo /bin/rm libOpenVG.so $ sudo cp libOpenVG_355.so libOpenVG.so For i.MX6S/DL, please do this: $ sudo /bin/rm libOpenVG.so $ sudo cp libOpenVG_3D.so libOpenVG.so To compile the sample code in the GPU SDK, you could refer to iMXGraphicsSDK_OpenGLES2.0.pdf or iMXGraphicsSDK_OpenGLES1.1.pdf in ~/gpu_sdk_v1.00.tar/Documentation/Tutorials to set up the cross compilation environment; which is assuming the LTIB and the rootfs is ready. $ export ROOTFS=/home/vmuser/ltib_src/ltib/rootfs $ export CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.6.2-glibc-2.13-linaro-multilib-2011.12/fsl-linaro-toolchain/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi- For OpenVG: $ cd ~/gpu_sdk_v1.00/Samples/OpenVG $ make -f Makefile.fbdev clean $ make -f Makefile.fbdev $ make -f Makefile.fbdev install The executable will then be copied to this directory: ~/gpu_sdk_v1.00/Samples/OpenVG/bin/OpenVG_fbdev For GLES2.0 $ cd ~/gpu_sdk_v1.00/Samples/ GLES2.0 $ make -f Makefile.fbdev clean $ make -f Makefile.fbdev $ make -f Makefile.fbdev install The executable will then be copied to this directory: ~/gpu_sdk_v1.00/Samples/ GLES2.0/bin/GLES20_fbdev For GLES1.1, please modify the Makefile.fbdev to remove the compilation of example codes "18_VertexBufferObjects" and "19_Beizer" that are not exist. Then, $ cd ~/gpu_sdk_v1.00/Samples/ GLES1.1 $ make -f Makefile.fbdev clean $ make -f Makefile.fbdev $ make -f Makefile.fbdev install The executable will then be copied to this directory: ~/gpu_sdk_v1.00/Samples/ GLES1.1/bin/GLES11_fbdev Finally, you could copy the executable to the rootfs and test on i.MX6Q SDP/SDB or i.MX6DL SDP board. NOTE: the newly added makefiles.tgz contains Makefile.x11 hacked from GLES2.0 example code to make OpenVG to compile and run on Ubuntu 11.10 rootfs.

The edit-compile-test loop is the quickest way so can test your changes. 1. Go to the package's source code folder and edit your files. 2. Compile that particular package, e.g. bitbake linux-imx -c compile -f 3. Deploy, e.g. bitbake linux-imx -c deploy 4. Insert the SD card into your host, and copy the Linux kernel into the the first partition sudo cp tmp/deploy/images/uImage /media/Boot 5. Insert the SD card into your board, boot and test your changes 6. In case you are satisfied with the results, you need to create a patch and add into the package's recipe. Check this document to execute this step.

Update The source code is one week old now, so please, update it! $ repo sync Images - the result of a bitbake Example of a content after bitbake build_mx6/tmp/deploy/images: fsl-image-gui-imx6qsabresd-20130505174618.rootfs.ext3 fsl-image-gui-imx6qsabresd-20130505174618.rootfs.sdcard fsl-image-gui-imx6qsabresd-20130505174618.rootfs.tar.bz2 fsl-image-gui-imx6qsabresd-20130508162511.rootfs.ext3 fsl-image-gui-imx6qsabresd-20130508162511.rootfs.sdcard fsl-image-gui-imx6qsabresd-20130508162511.rootfs.tar.bz2 fsl-image-gui-imx6qsabresd.ext3 fsl-image-gui-imx6qsabresd.sdcard fsl-image-gui-imx6qsabresd.tar.bz2 modules-3.0.35-1.1.0+yocto+g0596856-r32.10-imx6qsabresd.tgz README_-_DO_NOT_DELETE_FILES_IN_THIS_DIRECTORY.txt u-boot.imx u-boot-imx6qsabresd.imx u-boot-imx6qsabresd-v2013.04-r3.imx* uImage uImage-3.0.35-r32.10-imx6qsabresd-20130505174618.bin uImage-imx6qsabresd.bin Get used with generated images. Understand which file is a symbolic link and which one is the image in fact. Symbolic link will always point to latest image. sdcard image Take a look how sdcard is generated here meta-fsl-arm - Layer containing Freescale ARM hardware support metadata The disk layout used is: 0-> IMAGE_ROOTFS_ALIGNMENT    reserved to bootloader (not partitioned) IMAGE_ROOTFS_ALIGNMENT -> BOOT_SPACE    kernel and other data BOOT_SPACE -> SDIMG_SIZE     rootfs Use IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR to add more space Please, go to original file in order to understand the disk layout. It´s basically some initial space for u-boot. One partition for uImage. One partition for rootfs. The total sdcard size will be calculate for every image, if you want to add more empty space inside generated sdcard, use IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR. Deploy Deploy the sdcard image: $ sudo dd if=fsl-image-gui-imx6qsabresd.sdcard of=/dev/sdX bs=1M Or, deploy the ext3 rootfs $ sudo dd if=fsl-image-gui-imx6qsabresd.ext3 of=/dev/sdX2 bs=1M Or deploy only the tar.bz rootfs $ sudo mount /dev/sdX2 /mnt/card $ sudo tar xf imagename-imx53qsb.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/card In order to deploy only kernel $ sudo cp uImage-3.0.35-r32.10-imx6qsabresd-20130505174618.bin /media/Boot In order to  deploy only u-boot $ sudo dd if=u-boot-imx6qsabresd-v2012.10-r3.imx of=/dev/sdX bs=512 seek=2 If using HDMI please, modify u-boot environment arguments: setenv mmcargs "setenv bootargs console=${console},${baudrate} root=${mmcroot} rootwait rw video=mxcfb0:dev=hdmi,1920x1080M@60,if=RGB24" This is the how sdcards are made by meta-fsl-arm. Of course you can use your own. But double check the u-boot bootenv. Plug your sdcard and let the board boot To login: root Go to HOME Go to Task #3 - The build result Go to Task#5 - kernel

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

The attached patch enables HDMI overscan for Android JB, and tested by MX6Q SabreSD with Android_4.2.2_1.0.0-ga. The bootargs includes "video=mxcfb0:dev=ldb,bpp=32 video=mxcfb1:dev=hdmi,1920x1080M@60,if=RGB24,bpp=32 video=mxcfb2:off".

Tested on imx28 EVK Rev. D. When plug-in or plug-out cable on eth0 port, eth1 port (and vice versa) will also be reset and the communication will be interrupted. Reason: Both Ethernet PHYs on EVK board share the same GPIO as their reset pin, in software the function name is mx28evk_enet_gpio_init. So any call to pdata->init() in fec.c will reset both PHY at the same time. In order to avoid such problem, you have to use 2 individual GPIO for the PHY reset.

Add the above line to conf/local.conf file: PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-fslc" Check this page to see what the mainline Linux kernel supports for a particular Freescale board.

You can but building times will take much longer (approximately 2 times longer for the core-image-minimal) compared to a build done on a native machine. In case you can not do the build on a native machine, make sure your virtual has enough hard-disk room (at least 50GB). For example, these are the build folders sizes after baking core-image-minimal: build$ du -h --max-depth=1 1.3G    ./sstate-cache 3.2M    ./cache 12K    ./.hob 32K    ./conf 22G    ./tmp 23G    . The tmp folder is by far the largest (containing building statistics, source code, deployed images, etc.) build/tmp$ tree -L 2 -d . ├── buildstats │   ├── cogl-imx6qsabresd │   ├── fsl-image-gui-imx6qsabresd │   ├── fsl-image-gui-sdk-imx6qsabresd │   ├── mesa-dri-imx6qsabresd │   ├── mesa-imx6qsabresd │   └── pseudo-native-imx6qsabresd ├── cache │   └── default-eglibc ├── deploy │   ├── images │   ├── licenses │   └── rpm ├── log │   ├── cleanlogs │   └── cooker ├── pkgdata │   ├── all-poky-linux │   ├── all-poky-linux-gnueabi │   ├── armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi │   ├── imx6qsabresd-poky-linux │   └── imx6qsabresd-poky-linux-gnueabi ├── sstate-control ├── stamps │   ├── all-poky-linux │   ├── all-poky-linux-gnueabi │   ├── armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi │   ├── imx6qsabresd-poky-linux │   ├── imx6qsabresd-poky-linux-gnueabi │   ├── work-shared │   └── x86_64-linux ├── sysroots │   ├── imx6qsabresd │   ├── imx6qsabresd-tcbootstrap │   └── x86_64-linux ├── work │   ├── all-poky-linux │   ├── all-poky-linux-gnueabi │   ├── armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi │   ├── imx6qsabresd-poky-linux │   ├── imx6qsabresd-poky-linux-gnueabi │   └── x86_64-linux └── work-shared     └── gcc-4.7.2-r13

There are two ways: 1. BitBake. Append the package into the IMAGE_INSTALL variable. But In case you want the package in every image,  add a line to your conf/local.conf file IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " package"           Make sure to include the space BEFORE the package name. You can add other packages, just place spaces in-between. In case you want the package in a particular image, e.g. fsl-image-gui,, add it on meta-fsl-demos/recipes-fsl/images/fsl-image-gui.bb IMAGE_INSTALL += " \     ${SOC_IMAGE_INSTALL} \     cpufrequtils \     nano \     packagegroup-fsl-gstreamer \     packagegroup-fsl-tools-testapps \     packagegroup-fsl-tools-benchmark \     packagegroup-qt-in-use-demos \     qt4-plugin-phonon-backend-gstreamer \     qt4-demos \     qt4-examples \     fsl-gui-extrafiles \     package \     " 2. Hob. Due to its graphical nature, adding more packages to a base image is easier than the bitbake way. Run the hob app under the build folder, select your machine and image, then edit the later (click on the Edit image button) In case the package is not available, you need to create it. As a starting point take a look at this example. In case you consider is good enough to be present on the mainstream repos, send the patch to the meta-freescale mailing list.

There are two optionsou 1. Remove all source code after building: You can indicate bitbake to remove all source code after a build adding this line INHERIT += "rm_work" our to your conf/local.conf file. Of course, when baking another image, ALL source code has to be fetched again and it can take a lot of time, specially on machines with low connections to the Internet. The smallest image you can build is core-image-minimal, containing the minimal set of packages to board a particular machine. The largest is fsl-image-gui (in fact, there is one bigger 'fsl-image-gui-sdk' used for developing purposes inside the target). Between these two, there are a lot of images you can choose. You can even create your own image using hob. In case you do not want to build anything, there are some pre-built images on this site, just download the sdcard file and flash it to an SD card. 2. Select only those  IMAGE_FSTYPES you need. There is a variable named IMAGE_FSTYPES  which indicates the output formats you want for the resulting root file system images, by default is has this value: IMAGE_FSTYPES ?= "tar.bz2 ext3 sdcard" and it is located on /sources/meta-fsl-arm/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc machine's header file. If you want to change it, place this variable on the build/conf/local.conf file. In case you have NFS mounting, remove the 'sdcard' (and either 'ext3' or 'tar.bz2') string, resulting in IMAGE_FSTYPES = "tar.bz2"

1. Follow all instructions from Freescale's github repo except the last bitbake command 2. Run hob under the build folder build$ hob & 3. On the GUI, select machine and image, then build 4. In case you need to flash an SD Card, hob does not produce an .sdcard image, so as a workaround, close hob and on the same console run build$ bitbake <image>     where image must be the same as the one you choose with hob 5. Flash your SD card build$ sudo dd if=tmp/deploy/images/fsl-image-gui-imx6qsabresd.sdcard of=/dev/sdX bs=4M NOTES: In case of building issues, please follow this link In case of booting issues, make sure: 1. board DIP switches are set correctly 2. you have chosen the correct machine before baking If issues persist, report it to the community

Downloading and building the IPU examples IPU examples - v0.1 are available at https://github.com/rogeriorps/ipu-examples To download, just clone the project: $ git clone https://github.com/rogeriorps/ipu-examples.git Follow the README.md on the project root folder to build and install it. Available demos Alpha Blending Basic Combining Cropping Color Space Conversion Deinterlacing Resizing Rotation i.MX5 basic_ex1 rot_ex1 i.MX6 alpha_ex1 alpha_ex2 crop_ex1 csc_ex1 dint_ex1 res_ex1 rot_ex1 i.MX5 Basic examples basic_ex1: Prints all information from all framebuffers. It uses only the framebuffer device /dev/fb*. Rotation examples rot_ex1: Rotate an image a show on display. This example uses the ipu library instead using directly the /dev/mxc_ipu. i.MX6 Alpha blending examples alpha_ex1: This example shows how to use global alpha blending. It fills layer 1 with white color, an overlay layer with 4 color strips and varies the global alpha blending, showing on display 2 planes at the same time with different transparency rates. alpha_ex2: This example shows how to use local alpha blending. This example uses 3 buffers: 1 - Input buffer: Used as layer 1 (background). 2 - Overlay buffer: Used as layer 2 (foreground). 3 - Alpha buffer: Used as alpha buffer, where each pixel will correspond to the transparency value between input and overlay buffers. When running it will fill input and overlay buffers with solid colors, alpha buffer with 4 different alpha strips and will turn on and off the local alpha blending. Color space conversion examples csc_ex1: This example shows how to use color space conversion. It reads 4 different formats images (RGB565, RGBA32, NV12 and YUYV422) and show them on background framebuffer on a RGB565 format. Crop example crop_ex1: This example shows how to crop an image using "output crop". It fills the input buffer with a solid color and crop the output buffer. The result will be a solid block on the display. De-interlace example dint_ex1: This example shows how to de-interlace a single interlaced frame. The example loads an 320x240 interlaced NV12 image and show on display turning on and off the de-interlace feature. Resize examples res_ex1: This example resizes the image freescale_1024x768.raw (1024x768 RGB565 format) to an 800x480 RGB24 format image, storing into a local file output_file.raw. Rotation examples rot_ex1: This example rotates the image freescale_1024x768.raw (1024x768 RGB565 format) and displays using all rotation modes: 0 - No rotation 1 - Vertical flip 2 - Horizontal flip 3 - 180 degrees 4 - 90 degrees right 5 - 90 degrees right with vertical flip 6 - 90 degrees right with horizontal flip 7 - 90 degrees left Known issues