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

For iMX6DQ, there are two IPUs, so they can support up to 4 cameras at the same time. But the default BSP can only support up to two cameras at the same time.     The attached patch can make the BSP support up to 4 cameras based on 3.10.53 GA 1.1.0 BSP.   The 4 cameras can be: - 1xCSI, 3xMIPI - 2xCSI, 2xMIPI - 4xMIPI   For 4xMIPI case, the four cameras should be combined on the single MIPI CSI2 interface, and each camera data should be transfered on a mipi virtual channel.   In this patch, we given the example driver for Intersil ISL79985. The input to ISL79985 is four CVBS camera. There are four patches: 0001-IPU-update-IPU-capture-driver-to-support-up-to-four-.patch      Updated IPU common code to support up to four cameras.   0002-Add-Intersil-ISL79985-MIPI-Video-Decoder-Driver-for-.patch      ISL79985 driver, which can support both 1 lanes and 2 lanes mode.   0003-Remove-the-page-size-align-requirement-for-v4l2-capt.patch      With this patch, the mxc_v4l2_tvin test application can use overlay framebuffer as V4l2 capture buffer directly.   0004-IPU-CSI-Drop-1-2-frame-on-MIPI-interface-for-interla.patch      This patch is option, it will drop one field data, so for each camera, the input will be 720*240 30 FPS.   For 720P HD solution, it is based on Maxim MAX9286: iMX6DQ MAX9286 MIPI CSI2 720P camera surround view solution for Linux BSP   How to builld the kernel with ISL79985 support:       make imx_v7_defconfig       make menuconfig (In this command, you should select the ISL79985 driver:             Device Drivers  --->                   <*> Multimedia support  --->                         [*]   V4L platform devices  --->                               <*>   MXC Video For Linux Video Capture                                       MXC Camera/V4L2 PRP Features support  --->                                           <*>Intersil ISL79985 Video Decoder support                                           <*>mxc VADC support                                           <*>Select Overlay Rounting (Queue ipu device for overlay library)                                           <*>Pre-processor Encoder library                                           <*>IPU CSI Encoder library)       make zImage       make dtbs   The built out image file:       arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q-sabresd.dtb       arch/arm/boot/zImage   "mxc_v4l2_tvin.zip" is the test application, test command to capture the four cameras and render on 1080P HDMI display: /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 0 -ot 0 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 0 -g2d & /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 960 -ot 0 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 1 -g2d & /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 0 -ot 540 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 2 -g2d & /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 960 -ot 540 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 3 -g2d &   2015-10-10 Update: Updated the test application "mxc_v4l2_tvin_isl79985.tar.gz" to fix the Yocto build errors. Updated ISL79985 register setting "page5, isl79985_write_reg(0x07, 0x46)" in patch "0002-Add-Intersil-ISL79985-MIPI-Video-Decoder-Driver-for-.patch", which can fix the green line issue.   2016-01-25 Update: Added de-interlace support, L3.10.53_ISL79985_Surroundview_Patch_20160125.tar.gz New test capplication for de-interlance: mxc_v4l2_tvin_isl79985_vdi_20160125.tar.gz New test commands: /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 0 -ot 0 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 0 -g2d -m & /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 960 -ot 0 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 1 -g2d -m & /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 0 -ot 540 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 2 -g2d -m & /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 960 -ot 540 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 3 -g2d -m &   Note:  with the 0005-Add-interlaced-mode-capture-for-ISL79985.patch, the V4l2 capture driver will return 720x480 video size, but only odd lines have the video data, they are filled in line skip line mode.     2016-11-21 Update: Added ISL79987 support, L3.10.53_ISL7998x_Surroundview_Patch_20161121.zip New test capplication for de-interlance support: mxc_v4l2_tvin_isl7998x.tar.gz   Test commands (without de-interlace): /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 0 -ot 0 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 0 -g2d & /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 960 -ot 0 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 1 -g2d & /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 0 -ot 540 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 2 -g2d & /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 960 -ot 540 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 3 -g2d &   Test commands (with de-interlace, for ISL79987 only): /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 0 -ot 0 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 0 -m 1 -g2d & /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 960 -ot 0 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 1 -m 1 -g2d & /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 0 -ot 540 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 2 -m 1 -g2d & /mxc_v4l2_tvin.out -ol 960 -ot 540 -ow 960 -oh 540 -d 1 -x 3 -m 1 -g2d &     Now the same patch can support both ISL79985 and ISL79987, with NTSC CVBS camera, for ISL79985, it captures 60fps 720*240; for ISL79987, it captures 30fps 720*480.   2016-11-22 Update: Added patch for L4.1.15 BSP, it supports both ISL79985 and ISL79987, L4.1.15_ISL7998x_Surroundview_Patch_20161122.zip Test capplication mxc_v4l2_tvin_isl7998x.tar.gz is re-used.

Yocto Project versions and names Preparing host environment For virtual machine (VirtualBox): Download the source code from NXP Code Aurora Yocto Project versions and names See here the list of all yocto version names: Releases - Yocto Project  The current stable release is Zeus Preparing host environment For virtual machine (VirtualBox): Please set memory size minimal to 1GB and disk size to 32GB. (24Feb2014 Ubuntu 12.04LTS)   First, make sure your host PC has the required packages to run Yocto The essential packages you need for a supported Ubuntu distribution are shown in the following command: $ sudo apt-get build-dep qemu $ sudo apt-get remove oss4-dev $ sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib \   build-essential chrpath socat cpio python python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect \   xz-utils debianutils iputils-ping python3-git python3-jinja2 libegl1-mesa libsdl1.2-dev \   xterm‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ For other Linux distribution or newer Yocto Project release see here the updated list. Download the source code from community Install the repo $ sudo apt-get install repo‍‍‍‍ Download the BSP source: $ mkdir fsl-community-bsp $ cd fsl-community-bsp $ repo init -u https://github.com/Freescale/fsl-community-bsp-platform -b zeus $ repo sync‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Download the source code from NXP Code Aurora See here the list of all BSP releases from NXP: imx-manifest - i.MX Release Manifest  Currently, the latest NXP release how to is here: README - imx-manifest - i.MX Release Manifest  To understand the difference between the 2 source code (community X NXP BSP) see here Go to https://community.nxp.com/docs/DOC-94849  Go to Task #2

The Guide is how to use Ubuntu filesystem with i.MX8 series platform.At present, I had try it on i.MX8QXP with 4.14.98 kernel with ubuntu16.04. The Document will be continuously updated with enable VPU, ubuntu18.04. The desktop we can chose Gnome or weston.  Because driver  support issue, gc7000 series gpu not support render Gnome destop but it can render weston destop.  Update 2019/7/31: Ubuntu-i.MX8-weston.pdf   Feature: weston + ubuntu18.04 + 4.14.98 kernel VPU (enable with gplay or gst-play)  GPU (could render desktop and run GPU demo under root privileges on Weston Desktop) I also try ubuntu with gnome desktop, ubuntu18.04 can not run gnome, need use ubuntu19.04. But Gnome Desktop just render by CPU.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update 2020/3/6: Ubuntu-i.MX8M.pdf Just a simple guide for IMX8M series, will be  continuously updated. 

Introduction The "smart" package management system is available in  Yocto Project for managing  packages on a target machine. A host is configured as a server for the packages and on the target the "package-management" feature is enabled for working with the packages. The steps for setup and usage are described below. Resources The Yocto Project package management system will work with many hosts and targets. The following were used for creating this document: Host: Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit Target: MCIMX6Q-SDP Freescale Yocto Project Release Documentation: Linux 3.14.38_6ul BSP & Multimedia Codecs Documentation (fsl-yocto-L3.14.38_6ul-ga.tar.gz) Host You have successfully installed a Freescale Yocto Project release. (Refer to Freescale Yocto Project Release Documentation). There are two steps for adding package management and then building: 1. Modify conf/local.conf EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks package-management" ‍ 2. Build the image: bitbake core-image-minimal ‍ The core-image-minimal recipe provides an image enabling the target board to boot and support a serial console. 3. Create SDCARD: $ cd <build>/tmp/deploy/images/imx6qsabresd $ sudo dd if=core-image-minimal-imx6qsabresd.sdcard of=/dev/sdb bs=4M && sync ‍‍ Note - verify location of SDCARD on your host, /dev/sdb in this example. Examine 'cat /proc/partitions' 4. Setup web server and add link to rpm packages A web server, lighttpd, is installed. $ sudo apt-get install lighttpd ‍ Provide user write capability in /var/www $ sudo chmod 777 /var/www ‍ Create a soft link in the default web server directory to the rpm directory from the build. Note: Please update $HOME/<build> to your actual location: $ ln -s $HOME/<build>/tmp/deploy/rpm /var/www/imx6qsd ‍‍‍ Target Insert the SDCARD created from step 3 above, connect power and console cable  and power on the MCIMX6Q-SDP. Login using the "root" id, no password required. The /usr/bin/smart application is now used to setup the channels and perform package commands. For all smart options: smart --help ‍ 1. Add channels To add the packages from the host to your target, the smart  channel --add is used: Please enter the IP adress of your server, replacing SERVERIP below: smart channel --add all type=rpm-md name=all baseurl= http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/all smart channel --add cortexa9hf_vfp_neon type=rpm-md name=cortexa9hf_vfp_neon baseurl= http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/cortexa9hf_vfp_neon smart channel --add imx6qsabresd type=rpm-md name=imx6qsabresd baseurl= http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/imx6qsabresd ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Check  the added channels: root@imx6qsabresd:~# smart channel --list all imx6qsabresd rpmsys cortexa9hf_vfp_neon ‍‍‍‍‍ 2. Update  local package cache Once the chanels have been added, the local package cache is updated. Note  SERVERIP below will be the host IP address in your network. root@imx6qsabresd:~# smart update Loading cache... Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] Fetching information for 'all'...                                           -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/all/repodata/repomd.xml                          repomd.xml                      ######################################## [ 16%]                                                                             Fetching information for 'imx6qsabresd'... -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/imx6qsabresd/repodata/repomd.xml                 repomd.xml                      ######################################## [ 41%]                                                                             Fetching information for 'cortexa9hf_vfp_neon'... -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/cortexa9hf_vfp_neon/repodata/repomd.xml          repomd.xml                      ######################################## [ 66%] Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] Channels have no new packages. 3. Searching for packages Let us look at all packages containing the string client root@imx6qsabresd:~# smart search client* Loading cache... Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] libice-dbg - ICE: Inter-Client Exchange library - Debugging files libice-dev - ICE: Inter-Client Exchange library - Development files libice-doc - ICE: Inter-Client Exchange library - Documentation files libice-staticdev - ICE: Inter-Client Exchange library - Development files (Static Libraries) libice6 - ICE: Inter-Client Exchange library libsm-dbg - SM: Session Management library - Debugging files libsm-dev - SM: Session Management library - Development files libsm-doc - SM: Session Management library - Documentation files libsm-staticdev - SM: Session Management library - Development files (Static Libraries) libsm6 - SM: Session Management library libx11-6 - Xlib: C Language X Interface library libx11-dbg - Xlib: C Language X Interface library - Debugging files libx11-dev - Xlib: C Language X Interface library - Development files libx11-doc - Xlib: C Language X Interface library - Documentation files libx11-locale - Xlib: C Language X Interface library libx11-staticdev - Xlib: C Language X Interface library - Development files (Static Libraries) libx11-xcb1 - Xlib: C Language X Interface library libxau-dbg - Xau: X Authority Database library - Debugging files libxau-dev - Xau: X Authority Database library - Development files libxau-doc - Xau: X Authority Database library - Documentation files libxau-staticdev - Xau: X Authority Database library - Development files (Static Libraries) libxau6 - Xau: X Authority Database library python-netclient - Python Internet Protocol clients xtrans-dbg - XTrans: X Transport library - Debugging files xtrans-dev - XTrans: X Transport library - Development files xtrans-doc - XTrans: X Transport library - Documentation files ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Adding openssh client to core-image minimal The core-image-minimal does not provide openssh client applications like ssh or scp. Let's add them on the host then update the target cache of packages and then install. Host Run bitbake to exercise all the tasks for packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh $ bitbake packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh ‍ After building a package individually, always update the package-index $ bitbake package-index ‍ Target Run smart to update the local cache which will pickup the new packages from the bake above. root@imx6qsabresd:~# smart update Loading cache... Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] Fetching information for 'all'...                                              -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/all/repodata/repomd.xml                           repomd.xml                      ######################################## [ 16%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/all/repodata/primary.xml.gz                       primary.xml.gz                  ######################################## [ 25%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/all/repodata/filelists.xml.gz                     filelists.xml.gz                ######################################## [ 33%]                                                                                Fetching information for 'imx6qsabresd'... -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/imx6qsabresd/repodata/repomd.xml                  repomd.xml                      ######################################## [ 50%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/imx6qsabresd/repodata/primary.xml.gz              -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/imx6qsabresd/repodata/filelists.xml.gz            filelists.xml.gz                ######################################## [ 58%] primary.xml.gz                  ######################################## [ 66%]                                                                                Fetching information for 'cortexa9hf_vfp_neon'... -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/cortexa9hf_vfp_neon/repodata/repomd.xml           repomd.xml                      ######################################## [ 83%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/cortexa9hf_vfp_neon/repodata/primary.xml.gz       primary.xml.gz                  ######################################## [ 91%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/cortexa9hf_vfp_neon/repodata/filelists.xml.gz     filelists.xml.gz                ######################################## [100%] Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] Channels have 15 new packages. Saving cache... ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Examine information about local cache: root@imx6qsabresd:~# smart stats Loading cache... Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] Installed Packages: 80 Total Packages: 3586 Total Provides: 6580 Total Requires: 1611 Total Upgrades: 3565 Total Conflicts: 25 ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ See what ssh packages are now available: root@imx6qsabresd:~# smart search *ssh* Loading cache... Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] openssh - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement openssh-dbg - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement - Debugging files openssh-dev - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement - Development files openssh-doc - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement - Documentation files openssh-keygen - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement openssh-misc - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement openssh-ptest - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement - Package test files openssh-scp - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement openssh-sftp - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement openssh-sftp-server - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement openssh-ssh - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement openssh-sshd - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp/telnet replacement packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh - OpenSSH SSH client/server packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh-dbg - OpenSSH SSH client/server - Debugging files packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh-dev - OpenSSH SSH client/server - Development files ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Install openssh root@imx6qsabresd:~# smart install openssh Loading cache... Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%] Computing transaction... Installing packages (9):   openssh-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                                            openssh-keygen-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                                     openssh-scp-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                                        openssh-ssh-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                                        openssh-sshd-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                                       shadow-4.2.1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                                             shadow-base-4.2.1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                                        shadow-securetty-4.2.1-r3@imx6qsabresd                                          util-linux-sulogin-2.25.2-r1@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon                              1.4MB of package files are needed. 3.2MB will be used. Confirm changes? (Y/n): y Fetching packages...                                                           -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/.../openssh-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm      -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/.../shadow-securetty-4.2.1-r3.imx6qsabresd.rpm    shadow-securetty-4.2.1-r3.imx.. ######################################## [ 11%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/.../openssh-scp-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm openssh-scp-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9.. ######################################## [ 22%] openssh-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9hf_v.. ######################################## [ 33%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/.../openssh-sshd-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm openssh-sshd-6.7p1-r0.cortexa.. ######################################## [ 44%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/.../shadow-4.2.1-r0.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm       -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/.../openssh-ssh-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm openssh-ssh-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9.. ######################################## [ 55%] -> http://SERVERIP/imx6qsd/.../shadow-base-4.2.1-r0.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm shadow-base-4.2.1-r0.cortexa9.. ######################################## [ 66%] shadow-4.2.1-r0.cortexa9hf_vf.. ######################################## [ 77%] -> http://SERVERIP/.../util-linux-sulogin-2.25.2-r1.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm util-linux-sulogin-2.25.2-r1... ######################################## [ 88%] -> http://SERVERIP/.../openssh-keygen-6.7p1-r0.cortexa9hf_vfp_neon.rpm       openssh-keygen-6.7p1-r0.corte.. ######################################## [100%]                                                                                Committing transaction... Preparing...                    ######################################## [  0%]    1:Installing openssh-ssh     ######################################## [ 11%] Output from openssh-ssh-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon:                          update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/ssh to /usr/bin/ssh.openssh                 2:Installing openssh-scp     ######################################## [ 22%] Output from openssh-scp-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon:                          update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/scp to /usr/bin/scp.openssh                 3:Installing shadow-secure.. ######################################## [ 33%]    4:Installing shadow-base     ######################################## [ 44%] Output from shadow-base-4.2.1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon:                          update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/newgrp to /usr/bin/newgrp.shadow         update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/groups to /usr/bin/groups.shadow update-alternatives: Linking /bin/login to /bin/login.shadow update-alternatives: Linking /bin/su to /bin/su.shadow    5:Installing util-linux-su.. ######################################## [ 55%] Output from util-linux-sulogin-2.25.2-r1@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon:                  update-alternatives: Linking /sbin/sulogin to /sbin/sulogin.util-linux            6:Installing openssh-keygen  ######################################## [ 66%]    7:Installing shadow          ######################################## [ 77%] Output from shadow-4.2.1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon:                               update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/passwd to /usr/bin/passwd.shadow         update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/chfn to /usr/bin/chfn.shadow update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/chsh to /usr/bin/chsh.shadow update-alternatives: Linking /usr/sbin/chpasswd to /usr/sbin/chpasswd.shadow update-alternatives: Linking /sbin/vipw to /sbin/vipw.shadow update-alternatives: Linking /sbin/vigr to /sbin/vigr.shadow Output from openssh-sshd-6.7p1-r0@cortexa9hf_vfp_neon:                         Removing any system startup links for sshd ...                                Running useradd commands... NOTE: Performing useradd with [ --system --no-create-home --home-dir /var/run/sshd --shell /bin/false --user-group sshd] and 10 times of retry    8:Installing openssh-sshd    ######################################## [ 88%] Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/sshd.                                   Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd   generating ssh RSA key...   generating ssh ECDSA key...   generating ssh DSA key...   generating ssh ED25519 key... done.    9:Installing openssh         ######################################## [100%] ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Check for the scp command: root@imx6qsabresd:~# which scp /usr/bin/scp ‍‍ Summary To add a new package on the server host, run bitbake <recipe> then bitbake package-index to update the rpm tracking information. On the target board, run smart update and then smart install <package>. Use smart search <regular expression string> to hunt for a package to install.

Introduction This guide provides a step by step explanation of what is involved in adding a new WiFi driver and making a new WiFi card work well in a custom Android build. (This guide was written for Android 4.1 but should be applicable to previous Android releases and hopefully future releases.) Contents Understand how Android WiFi works Port WiFi driver. Compile a proper wpa_supplicant in your BoardConfig.mk Modify your wifi.c in HAL. Launch wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd services in init.rc. Several debug tips. Understand How Android WiFi Works As the following figure, Android wireless architecture can be divided into three parts: Java Framework(WifiManager, WifiMonitor etc..), HAL(wifi.c,wpa_supplicant,netd) kernel space modules(wireless stack, wifi drivers) Java Framework communicate with wpa_supplicant using native interface (wifi.c). Wpa_supplicant and netd uses wireless extension or nl80211 to control WiFi drivers. Port WiFi driver Usually WiFi driver is provided as a kernel module. There are mainly two types of Android WiFi architecture:nl80211 and wext. With the implementation of nl80211/cfg80211 many wireless drivers in main line kernel  support nl80211 interface instead of wireless extension. For different vendors’ WiFi drivers, writing one Android.mk to add its compile into Android is what you should do. Here take atheros’s AR6kl as an example: ath6kl_module_file :=drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/ath6kl_sdio.ko $(ATH_ANDROID_SRC_BASE)/$(ath6kl_module_file):$(mod_cleanup) $(TARGET_PREBUILT_KERNEL) $(ACP)         $(MAKE) -C $(ATH_ANDROID_SRC_BASE) O=$(ATH_LINUXPATH) ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=$(ARM_EABI_TOOLCHAIN)/arm-eabi- KLIB=$(ATH_\ LINUXPATH) KLIB_BUILD=$(ATH_LINUXPATH)         $(ACP) -fpt $(ATH_ANDROID_SRC_BASE)/compat/compat.ko $(TARGET_OUT)/lib/modules/         $(ACP) -fpt $(ATH_ANDROID_SRC_BASE)/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko $(TARGET_OUT)/lib/modules/ include $(CLEAR_VARS) LOCAL_MODULE := ath6kl_sdio.ko LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := optional LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS := ETC LOCAL_MODULE_PATH := $(TARGET_OUT)/lib/modules LOCAL_SRC_FILES := $(ath6kl_module_file) include $(BUILD_PREBUILT) Compile a proper wpa_supplicant in your BoardConfig.mk In Android’s external directory, there are two wpa_supplicant_* projects. For wext-based wifi driver, wpa_supplicant_6 can be used. For nl80211-based WiFi driver, wpa_supplicnat_8 can only be used. But if WiFi vendors supply their own customized wpa_supplicant, it will be much easier to debug the communication between wpa_supplicant and WiFi drivers. No matter which supplicant  you choose, just control their compile in your BoardConfig.mk. Take atheros’s ath6kl as an example: ifeq ($(BOARD_WLAN_VENDOR),ATHEROS) BOARD_WLAN_DEVICE                        := ar6003 BOARD_HAS_ATH_WLAN                      := true WPA_SUPPLICANT_VERSION                  := VER_0_8_ATHEROS WIFI_DRIVER_MODULE_PATH                  := "/system/lib/modules/ath6kl_sdio.ko" WIFI_DRIVER_MODULE_NAME                  := "ath6kl_sdio" WIFI_DRIVER_MODULE_ARG                  := "suspend_mode=3 wow_mode=2 ar6k_clock=26000000 ath6kl_p2p=1" WIFI_DRIVER_P2P_MODULE_ARG              := "suspend_mode=3 wow_mode=2 ar6k_clock=26000000 ath6kl_p2p=1 debug_mask=0x2413" WIFI_SDIO_IF_DRIVER_MODULE_PATH          := "/system/lib/modules/cfg80211.ko" WIFI_SDIO_IF_DRIVER_MODULE_NAME          := "cfg80211" WIFI_SDIO_IF_DRIVER_MODULE_ARG          := "" WIFI_COMPAT_MODULE_PATH                  := "/system/lib/modules/compat.ko" WIFI_COMPAT_MODULE_NAME                  := "compat" WIFI_COMPAT_MODULE_ARG                  := "" endif then you need to provide a proper wpa_supplicant.conf  for your device. wpa_supplicant.conf  is very important because the control socket for android is specified in this file(ctrl_interface=). This file should be copied to /system/etc/wifi. Minimum required config options in wpa_supplicant.conf : There are two different ways in which wpa_supplicant can be configured, one is to use a "private" socket in android namespace, created by socket_local_client_connect() function in wpa_ctrl.c and another is by using a standard UNIX socket. Android private socket ctrl_interface=wlan0 update_config=1 - Unix standard socket ctrl_interface=DIR=/data/system/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wifi update_config=1 Modify your wifi.c in HAL Here what you should do is modifying some codes like wifi_load_driver and wifi_unload_driver. For Broadcom or CSR’s wifi driver, you can directly use the original wifi.c. But for atheros’s ath6kl driver, there are total three  .ko modules to install. So some micro variables and codes need to be changed to adapt it. Launch wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd services in init.rc If you have configured to use android private socket, you should do like this: service wpa_supplicant /system/bin/wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c / data/misc/wifi /wpa_supplicant.conf socket wpa_wlan0 dgram 660 wifi wifi disabled oneshot or if you have configured to use unix standard socket, you should do like this: service wpa_supplicant /system/bin/wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0  -c/data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf disabled oneshot If WiFi driver is not “wext” but “nl80211”, you should change it to –Dnl80211. For dhcpcd, you should lunch it like the following: service dhcpcd_wlan0 /system/bin/dhcpcd -ABKL     class late_start     disabled oneshot The parameters “-ABKL” can largely enhance wifi connection speed.  About what “ABKL” stand for, you can refer to dhcpcd’s GNU manual. Several debug tips Incorrect permissions will result in wpa_supplicant not being able to create/open the control socket andlibhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c won't connect. Since Google modified wpa_supplicant to run as wifi user/group the directory structure and file ownership should belong to wifi user/group (see os_program_init() function in wpa_supplicant/os_unix.c ). Otherwise errors like: E/WifiHW  (  😞 Unable to open connection to supplicant on "/data/system/wpa_supplicant/wlan0": No such file or directory will appear. Also wpa_supplicant.conf should belong to wifi user/group because wpa_supplicant will want to modify this file. How to Enable debug for wpa_supplicant.               By default wpa_supplicant is set to MSG_INFO that doesn't tell much.                    To enable more messages:                 modify common.c and set wpa_debug_level = MSG_DEBUG                 modify common.h and change #define wpa_printf from if ((level) >= MSG_INFO) to if ((level) >= MSG_DEBUG)         3. WiFi driver’s softmac.               For most vendors’ WiFi driver, the mac address is fixed. We should add one softmac rule to let WiFi driver’s mac is unique for each board.

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

The original implementation is from Frias Renato for Sabreauto board. How to define the booting time? The booting time we defined here is from the board be powered up to the main application working and main application be showed directly to the end user, for example: for the media play purpose board, the booting time count to the first video frame be shown on the screen. For minimizing the booting time, some methods be tried. Optimizing for performance. Remove unnecessary modules at boot time. Start main application at the first time after the kernel be boot up. Optimizing for performance: U-Boot:   1:Enable MMU and L2-Cache.   2:Optimizing memset and memcpy.   3:Implementation of SDMA, accelerate copying data from NOR flash to memory.   4:Implementation of uSDHC’s ADMA, improve performance for SD card read. Kernel:   1:Optimizing _memcpy_fromio function at  arch/arm/kernel/io.c Remove unnecessary modules: U-Boot:   1: Disable uart output at u-boot procedure and add quiet parameter to Kernel boot.   2: Remove boot up delay at u-boot.   3: Disable I2C, SPI, SPLASH_SCREEN at u-boot. Kernel: Below removing unnecessary modules just for Sabresd board boot up through SD card and MIPI camera overlay on LVDS screen application, for other special board and special board usage application please don’t use below directly.   1: Modify arch/arm/mach-mx6/board-mx6q_sabresd.c just keep necessary module initialization at  mx6_sabresd_board_init : iomux configuration, uart0, voda, ipu, ldb, v4l2, mipi-csi, i2c1, uSDHC1, pwm0, dvfs, mipi camera clock.   2: Update Linux kernel configuration file. Try to just keep necessary module and configuration to keep minim size. Build necessary modules from external to Kernel itself. Create uImage from Image instead of zImage to reduce Kernel self extraction time. Use ext4 file system on SD card to accelerate rootfs mounting.    Notice: Kernel configuration remove NETWORK support, it includes Unix Domain Socket, the udev mechanism need it, so this kernel configuration can't support rootfs udev dynamic /dev/ nodes and all /dev/ nodes must be created before boot up at rootfs. Start main application at the first time after the kernel boots up. As normal boot up procedure, the init process will handle sysinit script firstly, this script will do some initialization and preparation for most of the user process, But this script normally will be executed for about 1~5 seconds, so now try do main application before the sysinit, while the necessary preparation of main application will be handle by this application internally. See below example for MIPI camera overly on LVDS screen: /etc/inittab ::once:/unit_tests/mxc_v4l2_overlay.out -iw 640 -ih 480 -it 0 -il 0 -ow 1024 -oh 768 -ot 0 -ol 0 -r 0 -t -1 -d 0 -fg -fr 30 ::once:/etc/rc.d/rcS ::once:/sbin/getty -L ttymxc0 115200 vt100 # GENERIC_SERIAL Test result of fast boot on Sabresd board for MIPI camera overly on LVDS screen: The main application be executed from the board be powered up is about 958ms.    Running Bootloader [0.356417 0.356417] [ 0.046637] _regulator_get: get() with no identifier [ 0.958425  0.602008] starting pid 21, tty '': '/unit_tests/mxc_v4l2_overlay.out -iw 640 -ih 480 -it 0 -il 0 -ow 1024 -oh 768 -ot 0 -ol 0 -r 0 -t -^@ [0.969609 0.011184] starting pid 22, tty '': '/etc/rc.d/rcS' [0.973368 0.003759] g_display_width = 1024, g_display_height = 768 [0.977540 0.004172] g_display_top = 0, g_display_left = 0 [0.980927 0.003387] starting pid 23, tty '': '/sbin/getty -L ttymxc0 115200 vt100 ' [1.048454 0.067527] Mounting /proc and /sys [1.089526 0.041072] Setting the hostname to freescale [1.116635 0.027109] Mounting filesystems [1.527320 0.410685] sensor chip is ov5640_mipi_camera [1.530627 0.003307] sensor frame size is 640x480 [1.533482 0.002855] sensor frame format is UYVY [1.640221 0.106739] frame_rate is 30 [1.642249 0.002028] [1.642270 0.000021] frame buffer width 0, height 0, bytesperline 0 [1.989728 0.347458] [1.990761 0.001033] arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Freescale MAD -- Linaro 2011.07 -- Built at 2011/08/10 09:20) 4.6.2 20110630 (prerelease) [2.001161 0.010400] root filesystem built on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:43:24 +0800 [2.006249 0.005088] Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. [2.009394 0.003145] [2.009531 0.000137] freescale login: Please see below fast boot video. I also attached sample code for U-boot and kernel for your reference. Patch code based on L3.0.35_12.09.01_GA.

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

How to Test Yocto for i.MX6 i.MX Yocto Project: How Can I Collaborate on the Freescale Yocto Project? i.MX Yocto Project: How Can I Build the Freescale Yocto Images using bitbake? i.MX Yocto Project: How Can I Build the Freescale Yocto Images using hob? i.MX Yocto Project: What Can I Do if I Run Into a Compilation Error? i.MX Yocto Project: Are There Prebuilt Images Available? i.MX Yocto Project: How Can I Quicken the Compilation? i.MX Yocto Project: how can I conserve disk space during builds? i.MX Yocto Project: How do I add an existing package to an image? i.MX Yocto Project: Can I use a virtual machine to build? i.MX Yocto Project: How can I build an image with (latest) mainline kernel? i.MX Yocto Project: How can I (quickly) modify a package' source code and test it? i.MX Yocto Project: How can I find out the packages include on an image? i.MX Yocto Project: How can I compile the kernel manually? i.MX Yocto Project: How can I patch the kernel? i.MX Yocto Proyect: How can I create a new Layer? i.MX Yocto Project: How can I contribute to the community? i.MX Yocto Project: Where can I see current  BSP issues? i.MX Yocto Project: Where are the mainstream repositories hosted? Tutorials: Yocto Training - HOME http://www.slideshare.net/OtavioSalvador/yocto-training-in-english - Great tutorial created by the Community's maintainer (there is also a Portuguese version) i.MX Yocto Project: Freescale Yocto Project Tutorial - It covers some basic developing tasks Others: Useful bitbake commands i.MX Yocto Project: ltib versus bitbake

Android Power Debug and Optimization Introduction Android Power Management on i.MX Overview How to do power optimization for Android on i.MX How to check high power consumption on i.MX How to debug suspend/resume problems on i.MX Introduction This document describes i.MX Android power issues debug and power consumption optimization. Android Power Management on i.MX Overview What Power Manager introduced by Android • Early Suspend    It is allow drivers like LCD, keypad backlight, touch-screen, gsensor, to be notified when user-space writes to /sys/power/request_state to indicate that the user visible sleep state should change. These drivers will act as like Linux stand suspend() to let these devices entry in suspend for better battery life. •Late Resume    Late resume is matching with early suspend. It will resume the devices suspended during early suspend after the Stand Linux resume finished •Wake Locks     Wake locks are used by applications, services, kernel drivers to request CPU resources. A locked wakelock, depending on its type, prevents the system from entering suspend or other low-power states. It as a core member in android power management architecture from framework to kernel What introduced by i.MX to enhance the power framework BusFreq Support High bus, Low power audio bus and Low bus totally 3 system bus working points. Switching between these 3 bus mode according clock flags automatically. DDR running frequency will change according bus mode changing (highest 528/400MHz and lowest at 24MHz for MX6DQ/DL). CPUFreq The CPU frequency scaling device driver allows the clock speed of the CPUs to be changed on the fly. Once the CPU frequency is changed, the GP voltage will be changed to the voltage value. Enhance the default interactive governor for better performance on SDHC/GPU etc. System Power Profile Service and App (just for MX6DQ/DL) Support 3 profiles currently: Normal mode, Power Saving Mode and Performance Mode to get much better balance between performance and power consumption. Profiles can be customized according customers’ HW /MD design, including: CPU running max freq, trigger temperature, CPU running minimal freq, running cpu LDO bypass mode           i.MX6X has built-in LDO module, but also allows you to use external LDO suppliers. SW will provide the configuration using external LDO or internal LDO. How to do power optimization for Android on i.MX Suspend Mode All devices enter in suspend or low power Config GPIO PADs as High Z or input mode (depending on HW design,FSL provide Ref code) Cut off LDOs which no modules need (depending on HW design, FSL provide Ref code) DDR enter in self-refresh mode (FSL done) Config DDR IO Float pin to reduce the DDR IO consumption (FSL done) ARM core entry stop mode (WFI) (FSL done) All PLLs will cut off, just 32KHZ sleep clock living (FSL done) Notify the PMIC entry in standby to save some power (FSL done) User Idle Mode Optimization on device driver for WiFi, 3G, BT, screen brightness modules, etc., to save some power Let some device/GPIOs entry in suspend mode/low power mode Active power saving profile to reduce some system power loading. GPU 2D/3D auto entry in Stop/Standby mode if no activity needs update. (FSL done) Enable CPUFreq reduce ARM CORE power consumption (FSL done) Busfreq scanning to let system work at lower Freq to save power (FSL done) Audio/Video Playback Mode Optimization on device driver for WiFi, 3G, BT, screen brightness modules, etc., to save some power Let some device/GPIOs entry in suspend mode/low power mode Disable HW 3D acceleration for some Apps such as System UI, Music Player, etc., to save some power when System in IDLE or music playing mode. Enable CPUFreq and SOC WAIT mode, decrease CPU Freq/Voltage to save power for ARM CORE when no there is no task need cpu to handle(FSL done) Busfreq scanning will set bus work at low power audio bus mode to save some power (FSL done for audio case) DDR enter in self-refresh mode (FSL done for audio case) Reduce the screen brightness will save some power (for video case) VPU clock auto-gating to save power on SOC domain (for video case, FSL done) GPU 2D/3D auto-gating to save some power on SOC domain (FSL done) Try VDOA+IPU to bypass GPU in video playback(not comment for Android platform, pure Linux environment using this method, for it has some limitation such as the input/output size limit), this can save some power on DDR domain. How to check high power consumption on i.MX Idle Audio/Video Playback high power consumption Check the CPUFreq and  Bus_freq is enabled           cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor           cat /sys/devices/platform/imx_busfreq.0/enable Check whether the system bus working poing   For MX6Q:           cat /sys/kernel/debug/clock/osc_clk/pll2_528_bus_main_clk/periph_clk/mmdc_ch0_axi_clk/rate   For MX6DL/SL:           cat /sys/kernel/debug/clock/osc_clk/pll2_528_bus_main_clk/pll2_pfd_400M/periph_clk/mmdc_ch0_axi_clk/rate Check CPU Loading and Interrupt(cat /proc/interrupts) Check clock tree carefully to see which clocks arenot gated off  but no any modules need them.            powerdebug –d  -c SUSPEND MODE high power consumption Make sure all device entries are in suspend mode Make sure the system entry in DSM(measure the voltage &current of VDDARM_CAP, VDDSOC_CAP,DDR_1V5, VDD_HIGH…)      Some tips help to locate the problems Add debug message in device drivers which may lead high power consumption Enable PM debug in kernel Catch the waveform from these modules which may impact the high power consumption Remove devices from the board or do H/W rework to exclude some H/W problems How to debug suspend/resume problems on i.MX System could not entry in suspend mode Check below settings has been disabled: GPS has been disabled Don't connect USB cable to the board (adb will hold a wake lock) RIL will hold a wake lock if RIL failed to initialize (logcat -b radio) Setting->Application->Developer options->stay awake (stay awake not set) Check all wake locks which holed by kernel have been released          echo 15 > /sys/module/wakelock/parameters/debug_mask Check all user wake locks have been releaed          echo 15 > /sys/module/userwakelock/parameters/debug_mask System hang when resume or suspend Enable PM debug system to get more info about PM in kernel     make menuconfig  enable the PM debug sys [*] Power Management support                                                           [*]   Power Management Debug Support                                                           [*]     Verbose Power Management debugging Add no_console_suspend to the boot option for kernel         This makes the system print more useful info before entry in suspend Check the PMIC_STBY_REQ signal. Measure the VDDARM_IN Using Trace32 or ICE to locate the problem. Using RAMCONSOLE to dump the kernel log after reboot. Kernel resume back from suspend  but Android not    This is usually because of the wrong key layout file Use tool to get power key scan code        getevent  Correct the Keylayout         system/usr/keylayout/****.kl Correct the scandcode with your power key report value to Match the POWE key

NFS and TFTP Boot 1  Introduction This document explains the required steps to boot Linux Kernel and mount a NFS on your target. 2 Requirements A functional Yocto environment (Images generated for your target). Your preferred target.  (SABRE-AI, SABRE-SD) 1 Ethernet Cable 1 Micro USB cable USB to Serial converter depending on your target features. 3 Yocto Folders When you develop your Linux kernel and Root File System with Yocto, different folders are created and each folder contains different information. {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/deploy/images/ {TARGET}/  This directory contains the output images, like Kernel, U-Boot and the File System in a tar file. This directory will be used to fetch the kernel and device tree blob file only. {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/sysroot/{TARGET}/  This folder contains all the development files used to generate our Yocto images. Here we can find all the dynamic libraries and headers used for development. This folder is used as parameter for cross-compilation. {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/work/{TARGET}-poky-linux-gnueabi/{IMAGE}/1.0-r0/rootfs This folder contains the uncompressed rootfs of our target. This folder will be used as entry in the host NFS server. 4 IP Address and Network Setup This section covers how to boot Linux that mounts the root file system (RFS) over the network. Remember that in this scenario, the RFS exists on the laptop hard drive, and the kernel that runs on the target board will mount the RFS over Ethernet. This setup is used for developing and debugging Linux applications. It allows for applications to be loaded and run without having to re-boot the kernel each time. First some packages on your host need to be installed: # apt-get install xinetd tftp tftpd isc-dhcp-server nfs-kernel-server portmap For development, it is best to have a static IP setup for the board and Linux environment. This way U-Boot options won’t change between reboots as you get a new IP address as you would using DHCP. 4.1 Linux Host Setup This section describes how to setup a static IP in your Linux host environment. This is not required but will allow the IP address of your virtual host system to remain unchanged. Because u-boot parameters use specific IP addresses, this step is recommended because u-boot parameters may need to be updated in the future to match your virtual IP address if it should ever change. You could take the existing IP address and make it static, but you would lose the Internet connection in your virtual machine. Instead we want to make use of the virtual environment and add a secondary Ethernet port that is tied to your wired Internet connection, while keeping the original Ethernet port which can use the wireless connection on your laptop. In the Linux virtual environment, type sudo ifconfig and note that you should have one Ethernet adapter (eth0). The other item listed (lo) is a virtual port for loopback mode. Shutdown the Linux virtual machine In VMware Player, go to Edit virtual machine settings. And add a Bridged Network Adapter, choosing only the wired Ethernet port. And click on OK.  See below for example: Start up the Linux VM. Open a terminal and type: sudo ifconfig You should have a new entry (eth1). This is the new Ethernet port you created in the virtual machine, and it is bridged to your wired Ethernet port. This is the port we want to make a static IP address. To set eth1 to a static IP, open /etc/nework/interfaces sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces Add the following to set eth1 to your desired IP address. auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.0.100      <-- Your HOST IP netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.1 Save the file Restart eth1 sudo ifdown eth1 sudo ifup eth1 4.2 Target Setup We need to setup the network IP address of our target. Power On the board and hit a key to stop the U-Boot from continuing. Set the below parameters: setenv serverip 192.168.0.100 <-- This must be your Host IP address setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.102  <-- This must be your target IP addres setenv ip_dyn no The path where the rootfs is placed in our host has to be indicated in the U-Boot: setenv nfsroot /home/usuario/fsl-release-bsp/buildimx6q/tmp/work/imx6qsabresd-poky-linux-gnueabi/fsl-image-gui/1.0-r0/rootfs setenv image zImage setenv fdt_file uImage-imx6q-sabresd.dtb setenv netargs 'setenv bootargs console=${console},${baudrate} ${smp} root=/dev/nfs ip={ipaddr} nfsroot=${serverip}:${nfsroot},v3,tcp' 4.3 TFTP and NFS Configuration Now configure the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server and Networked File System (NFS) server. This is how U-Boot will download (via TFTP) the Linux kernel, and then the kernel will mount (via NFS) its root file system on the computer hard drive. 4.3.1 TFTP Setup Next setup the TFTP server. The following commands show that we are logged in as root (#). If you are not root ($) then precede each instruction with “sudo”. Edit /etc/xinetd.conf gedit /etc/xinetd.conf Add and save the following lines in the file service tftp { socket_type = dgram protocol = udp wait = yes user = root server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd server_args = -s {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/deploy/images/ {TARGET}/  disable = no } Notice that {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/deploy/images/ {TARGET}/   has to be written as absolute path. Restart the xinetd service service xinetd restart Test that TFTP is working tftp localhost tftp> get {An Image found in the tftp folder} tftp> quit 4.3.2 NFS Setup Edit the /etc/exports file gedit /etc/exports Add the path where the rootfs is found in your host. {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/work/{TARGET}-poky-linux-gnueabi/{IMAGE}/1.0-r0/rootfs *(rw,no_root_squash)                                                                 NOTE:      {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/work/{TARGET}-poky-linux-gnueabi/{IMAGE}/1.0-r0/rootfs may work most of the times,        but it is recommended to untar the {IMAGE}.bz2 in an exported           folder keeping using sudoand keeping the chmod of each file.     3. Restart the NFS service sudo service portmap stop sudo service nfs-kernel-server stop sudo service portmap start sudo service nfs-kernel-server start 5 Host Final Configuration and Booting Linux over NFS In your host, under the images folder {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/deploy/images/ {TARGET}/ create the below links ln -s zImage_imx_v7_defconfig zImage      2. In U-boot type the below command:                run netboot After a pair of minutes you should get a Linux working system on your target.

Build the tool chain image. It generates the toolchain that will be installed on your host machine and used to build any source code: $ bitbake meta-toolchain It does take some time to build. Why to create a toolchain? Yocto is not intended to be used to package development. Yocto is a linux distribution creator. It´s intended to be a image builder, a rootfs creator. (please, see more about "what is yocto" here and here) So, yocto itself should not be used to "develop" a new package. Although, Yocto can help creating a environment for development like meta-toolchain or Eclipse ADT. Go HOME Go Task #6 - Customize the image

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.

The init file is a key component of the Android boot sequence. It is a program to initialize the elements of the Android system.  Unlike Linux, Android uses its own initialization program. This Android init program processes 2 files, and it executes the commands it finds in both programs. These programs are: ‘init.rc’ and ‘init<machine name>.rc’ (this machine name is the name of the hardware that Android is running on). What does each program contain?: init.rc provides the generic initialization instructions init<machine name>.rc provides specific initialization instructions init<machine name>.rc is imported by the init.rc program. What is the syntax of these .rc files? The android init language consists of 4 classes of statements: Actions, Commands, Services and Options. Actions and Services declare new sections. All the commands or options belong to the section most recently declared. Actions and Services have to have unique names. If a second Action or Service has the same name of a previous one, it is ignored. Actions Actions are sequences of commands. They have a trigger which is used to determine when the action should occur. Actions take following form. On <trigger> <command> <command> <command>… Services Services are programs which init launches and (optionally) restart when it exists Services take the following form. Service <name> <patchname>  [argument] <option> <option>… Options Options are modifiers to services. These affect how and when init runs a service. Critical This is a device-critical service. If it exits more than four times in four minutes, the device will reboor into recovery mode. Disabled This service will not automatically start with its class. It must be explicitly started by name. Setenv <name> <value> Set the environment variable <name> to <value> in the launched process. User <username> Change to username before executing this service. Currently defaults to root. Group <groupname> [<groupname>] Change to groupname before executing this service. Oneshot Do not restart the service when it exists Class <name> Specify a class name for the service. All services in a named class may be started or stopped together. Onrestart Execute a command when service restarts Triggers Triggers are strings which can be used to match certain kinds of events and used to cause an action to occur. Boot This is the first trigger that will occur when init starts (after /init.conf is loaded) Commands: Exec <path> [<arguments>] Fork and execute a program (<path>). This will block until the program completes execution. Export <name> <value> Set the environment variable <name> equal to <value> in the global environment. Ifup <interface> Bring the network interface <interface> online. Import <filename> Parse and init config file, extending the current configuration. Hostname <name> Set the host name Chdir <directory> Change working directory Chmod <octal-dmoe> <path> Change file access permissions Chwon <owner> <group> <path> Change file owner and group Chroot <directory> Change process root directory Class_start <serviceclass> Start all services of the specified class if they are not already running. Class_stop <serviceclass> Stop all services of the specified class if they are currently running. Domainname <name> Set the domain name Enable <servicename> Turns a disabled service into an enabled one. Insmod <path> Install the module at <path> Mkdir <path> Create a directory at <path> Mount <type><device><dir> Attempt to mount the named device at the directory. Restorecon <path> Restore the file named by <path> to the security context specified in the file_contexts configuration. Setcon <securitycontext> set the current process security context to the specified string. Setenforce 0|1 Set the SELinux system wide enforcing status. 0 = permissive. 1 = enforcing. Setprop <name><value> Set system property <name> to <value> Setrlimit <resource><cur><max> Set the rlimit for a resource Setsebool <name><value> Set SELinux Boolean <name> to <value> Start <service> Start a service Stop <service> Stop a service Symlink <target><path> Create a symbolic link at <path> with the value <target> Trigger <event> Trigger an event. Used to queue an action from another action Wait <path> Poll for the existence of the given file and return when found. Write <path> <string> Open the file at <path> and write a string to it. Examples How to run a script: service my_service /data/test   class main   oneshot Here we are declaring the service named 'my service' with location in /data/test. It belongs to the main class and will start along with any other service that belongs with that class and we declare that the service wont restart when it exits (oneshot). Change file access permissions: chmod 0660   /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/tasks Here we are changing access permissions in path /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/tasks Write a string to a file in a path: write  /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate   1 Create a symbolic link: symlink  /system/etc /etc Here we are creating a symbolic link to /system/etc -> /etc Set a specific density of the display: setprop ro.sf.lcd_density 240 Here we are setting a system property of 240 to ro.sf.lcd_density Set your watchdog timer to 30 seconds: service watchdog /sbin/watchdogd 10 20 class core We are petting the watchdog every 10 seconds to get a 20 second margin Change file owner: chown root system /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq The new owner being 'root' from the group 'system'

Synchronize your source code Create your local branch Why should I create a local branch? Choose your board Start to build Synchronize your source code Source code you have is one week old now. So, first step is synchronize it. $ repo sync‍‍‍ Create your local branch $ repo start <new branch name> --all‍‍‍ Why should I create a local branch? If you change *any* source code (for choosing another preferred kernel, for example) and want to sync again, or use master instead of dylan, you may be able to rebase or sync your source code, even with changes. Or you found a bug, fixed that, and want to send a patch to community. Example of a system with 2 branches: zeus and new_feature (the asterisk shows the current branch)    $ repo branches * new_feature | in all projects zeus | in all projects‍‍‍ Choose your board The following command display the usage, with a list of all supported machines, all supported community distros and examples of Poky's distro: $ source setup-environment build‍ Usage: MACHINE=<machine> DISTRO=<distro> source setup-environment <build-dir> Usage: source setup-environment <build-dir> <machine> machine name <distro> distro name <build-dir> build directory The first usage is for creating a new build directory. In this case, the script creates the build directory <build-dir>, configures it for the specified <machine> and <distro>, and prepares the calling shell for running bitbake on the build directory. The second usage is for using an existing build directory. In this case, the script prepares the calling shell for running bitbake on the build directory <build-dir>. The build directory configuration is unchanged. Supported machines: apalis-imx6 ccimx6ulsbcexpress ccimx6ulsbcpro cgtqmx6 cm-fx6 colibri-imx6 colibri-imx6ull colibri-imx7 colibri-vf cubox-i imx233-olinuxino-maxi imx233-olinuxino-micro imx233-olinuxino-mini imx233-olinuxino-nano imx6dl-riotboard imx6qdl-variscite-som imx6q-dms-ba16 imx6qsabrelite imx6sl-warp imx6ul-pico imx7d-pico imx7s-warp m28evk m53evk nitrogen6sx nitrogen6x nitrogen6x-lite nitrogen7 nitrogen8m pcm052 tx6q-10x0 tx6q-11x0 tx6s-8034 tx6s-8035 tx6u-8033 tx6u-80x0 tx6u-81x0 ventana wandboard imx23evk imx25pdk imx28evk imx51evk imx53ard imx53qsb imx6qdlsabreauto imx6qdlsabresd imx6slevk imx6sllevk imx6sxsabreauto imx6sxsabresd imx6ulevk imx6ullevk imx7dsabresd imx7ulpevk imx8mmevk imx8mqevk imx8qmmek imx8qxpmek ls1012afrwy ls1012ardb ls1021atwr ls1043ardb ls1046ardb ls1088ardb ls1088ardb-pb ls2080ardb ls2088ardb lx2160ardb mpc8548cds p1020rdb p2020rdb p2041rdb p3041ds p4080ds p5040ds-64b p5040ds t1024rdb-64b t1024rdb t1042d4rdb-64b t1042d4rdb t2080rdb-64b t2080rdb t4240rdb-64b t4240rdb Supported Freescale's distros: fslc-framebuffer fslc-wayland fslc-x11 fslc-xwayland Available Poky's distros: poky-altcfg poky-bleeding poky poky-tiny Examples: - To create a new Yocto build directory: $ MACHINE=imx6qdlsabresd DISTRO=fslc-framebuffer source setup-environment build - To use an existing Yocto build directory: $ source setup-environment build ERROR: You must set MACHINE when creating a new build directory. ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ An example of command line to setup the build environment is (read and answer if you accept EULA or not): MACHINE=imx8mmevk DISTRO=fslc-wayland source setup-environment build‍ (...) Do you accept the EULA you just read? (y/n) y EULA has been accepted. Welcome to Freescale Community BSP The Yocto Project has extensive documentation about OE including a reference manual which can be found at: http://yoctoproject.org/documentation For more information about OpenEmbedded see their website: http://www.openembedded.org/ You can now run 'bitbake <target>' Common targets are: core-image-minimal meta-toolchain meta-toolchain-sdk adt-installer meta-ide-support Your build environment has been configured with: MACHINE=imx8mmevk SDKMACHINE=i686 DISTRO=fslc-wayland EULA= ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Now, you are in new created build directory. Your default build/conf/local.conf file can looks like: MACHINE ??= 'imx8mmevk' DISTRO ?= 'fslc-wayland' PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= 'package_rpm' EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES ?= "debug-tweaks" USER_CLASSES ?= "buildstats image-mklibs image-prelink" PATCHRESOLVE = "noop" BB_DISKMON_DIRS ??= "\ STOPTASKS,${TMPDIR},1G,100K \ STOPTASKS,${DL_DIR},1G,100K \ STOPTASKS,${SSTATE_DIR},1G,100K \ STOPTASKS,/tmp,100M,100K \ ABORT,${TMPDIR},100M,1K \ ABORT,${DL_DIR},100M,1K \ ABORT,${SSTATE_DIR},100M,1K \ ABORT,/tmp,10M,1K" PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-qemu-system-native = " sdl" CONF_VERSION = "1" DL_DIR ?= "${BSPDIR}/downloads/" ACCEPT_FSL_EULA = "1"‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ For the current list of supported board, take a look on FSL Community BSP Release Notes 2.4 (Draft document) documentation Or, see the FSL Community BSP  Release Notes Start to build There are a huge list of images available. Some images includes more packages than others, you can see a list of FSL Community BSP images with description here. The list of supported images from Yocto Project (with description) is here. When an image has more packages included, it takes longer to build. Another way to list all the images you have installed in your metadata is: $ find ../sources -name *image*‍‍   For the goal of this training, any image is good, but a suggestion is presented in next command line: (make sure you are still in build directory) $ cd build $ bitbake core-image-base‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Note (Sept2019): Required disk space for build image is ~31GB Go to Yocto Training - HOME Go to Task #1 - Download the source code Go to Task #3 - The build result

You already know. Your source code is one week old now, so please, update it (or should I say 'sync' it?)! Get used to update your BSP layers. Recipe Is the name of file that determinates how a package should act. For example, the version, where it is the mainstream repo, how to build, install, link. etc. Kernel For meta-fsl-arm the kernel recipes are under meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux (take a look here meta-fsl-arm - Layer containing Freescale ARM hardware support metadata) For meta-fsl-arm, there are 3 kernel recipes: linux-fslc_3.8.bb  --> kernel mainline (from kernel.org) linux-imx_2.6.35.3.bb  --> kernel from FSL, for imx5x and imx28 linux-imx_3.0.35.bb --> kernel from FSL for imx6 Take the linux-imx for imx6 as an example meta-fsl-arm - Layer containing Freescale ARM hardware support metadata The recipe determinates: what´s the compatible machine for this linux version (mx6) what´s the commit ID for the head of this code (SRCREV) (MX6DL and MX6SL have different source code) what´s the patches for the mx6 boards (SRC_URI). In order to see where the source code is cloned from, you need to go to .inc file meta-fsl-arm - Layer containing Freescale ARM hardware support metadata SRC_URI = "git://git.freescale.com/imx/linux-2.6-imx.git \            file://defconfig \ " it´s from git.freescale.com. In addition, there is a defconfig file added on SRC_URI. There is a defconfig file for every board, on every Linux revision. Some defconfigs are shared for more than one board (for example, every mx6 board), and some Linux version are not compatible for some boards (for example, imx53 is only compatible with 2.6.35). During a bitbake linux-imx, a temp folder will be created under build/tmp/armv7-imx6....../linux-imx, with code from git, patches and defconfig. Then bitbake takes that defconfig and configure the kernel, built it, and deploy it. So, in order to change the kernel configuration (make menuconfig) you must replace your defconfig file from meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-3.0.35/mx6 How to change kernel configuration Create the new defconfig Copy it to meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-3.0.35/mx6 (or the right folder for your board/kernel) $ bitbake -c cleansstate linux-imx $ bitbake linux-imx (if you want only the kernel image) $ bitbake fsl-image-gui (if you want to generate a complete image using the new kernel) How to make menuconfig with yocto $ bitbake -c menuconfig linux-imx will generate a config file on tmp/work/imx6qsabresd-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-imx/3.0.35-r33.10/git/.config The complete step by step to change the kernel configuration $ bitbake -c menuconfig linux-imx (change anything) $ cp tmp/work/imx6qsabresd-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-imx/3.0.35-r33.10/git/.config ../sources/meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-3.0.35/mx6/defconfig $ bitbake -c cleansstate linux-imx $ bitbake fsl-image-gui The uImage will be under tmp/deploy/image In order to replace only uImage binary into one ready sdcard: $sudo cp tmp/deploy/image/uImage-imx6-XXX.bin /media/user/Boot imx6/uImage Kernel Mainline - kernel.org In order to use kernel mainline instead of linux-imx. Please add the following code to your conf/local.conf PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-fslc" Make sure the desired board is supported by kernel.org. In order to take and build kernel mainline manually, please see https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-95017 Final points It´s not a simple task, I know. Yocto is not the best tool for use to develop and customize kernel during development stage. It is easier to use an external toolchain (bitbake meta-toolchain). Once the kernel development, or customization, is done, the changes can be integrated in the Yocto so it is managed for production use. I like to have a copy of kernel source code cloned on my machine directly from git.freescale.com, then I can re-configure it, rebuild it, apply some patches, make changes, and build it manually - any way I want it. So, I only change kernel using yocto when I know the bug and I know how to fix it, and I have the patch. (and this is the way I like to work) Although this is how to configure (and even patch) kernel (if you want to patch kernel, follow the example in the recipes) If you face any error, please, let me know. I tested the steps and it worked, but I´m using an Ubuntu machine, not a virtual machine (and I´m not sure how -c menuconfig will act in a virtual machine). Go to Yocto Training - HOME Go to Task #4 - Deploy and test

Important: If you have any questions or would like to report any issues with the DDR tools or supporting documents please create a support ticket in the i.MX community. Please note that any private messages or direct emails are not monitored and will not receive a response.   This is a detailed programming aid for the registers associated with i.MX 8/8X DDR initialization.  For more details, refer to the i.MX 8/8X main DDR tools page: https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors-Knowledge-Base/i-MX-8-8X-Family-DDR-Tools-Release/ta-p/1121519   To reduce the number of attachments, older RPAs may be found in the attached zip file. Note: Devices with 17-row addresses (R0-R16) are not supported by this SoC.  ***IMPORTANT: For SCFWv1.7.0 and later, you must use the following RPA versions or later: MX8QXP_C0_B0_LPDDR4_RPA_1.2GHz_v16 MX8DualX_C0_B0_LPDDR4_RPA_1.2GHz_v16 MX8QuadXPlus_DualXPlus_C0_B0_DDR3L_RPA_v22 MX8DualX_C0_B0_DDR3L_RPA_v20 Older versions of the RPA are not aligned to SCFWv1.7.0 and later.  If trying to use an older version of an RPA with SCFWv1.7.0, it will cause the SCFW not to boot.  The offending lines in the DCD output are as follows: For MX8QXP/DualX: DATA 4 0xff190000 0x00000CC8 /* DRC0 bringup */ If the user wishes to use an older RPA with SCFW 1.7.0 and later (not recommended), then the above lines must be removed from older RPA DCD file outputs.  In addition, wrapping these lines are "#ifndef SCFW_DCD", "#else", and "#endif" preprocessor commands.  These should be removed as well.  For example of MX8QXP: [remove] #ifndef SCFW_DCD [remove] -/* For 1200MHz DDR, DRC 600MHz operation */ [remove] DATA 4 0xff190000 0x00000CC8 /* DRC0 bringup */ [remove] #else <keep code as is> [remove] #endif

For long I looked for a working tutorial to build Qt5 with YOCTO (Yocto Training - HOME) both the libraries for the board image and also a toolchain to build Qt5 applications for the board. See the full tutorial here: Building Qt5 using yocto on Wandboard - Wandboard Wiki The Tutorial is written for the Wandboard that also uses an i.MX6 CPU but you can adapt the tutorial for most of the boards of the i.MX6 family I think - in my case it worked with the i.MX6 SABRE AI without problems. You only have to adjust the sysroot and maybe also the toolchain-path because the wiki entry is a little bit older Ask your questions for this topic - maybe I can help.