Manufacturing Tool Wizard missing from Eclipse

[JohnKlug]

I installed Kepler on Windows 10 with Java 6.

I copied the Manufacturing Tool Jar into the Java downloads plugins directory.  I copied the entire plugins directory to the C/C++ Eclipse plugins directory.  The Java plugins seem fine.

The Manufacturing Tool appears in the Help, About, Installation Details, Plugins.  It is unsigned, and there is no Provider entry.

When I select File, New, Other, there is no Manufacturing Tool listed under Select A Wizard.  There are Java wizards, and C/C++ Wizards.

I deleted .metadata as the instructions say, but every time eclipse is started, the directory is re-created.

According to this, Java 6 is recommended for Kepler:

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Installation#Eclipse_4.3_.28Kepler.29

According to the manufacturing tool, it can use Eclipse 3.7, 4.2, and 4.3 (Kepler).

[JohnKlug]

File, New, Other does not show MFG Tool.

However, Window, Open Perspective, Other shows MFG Tool.

[jimmychan]

Is it work as the User Guide document said?

[JohnKlug]

I did this:

1. Download the C/C++ Developers edition of Eclipse + Java Developers edition of Eclipse
2. Copy the Manufacturing Tool .jar file into the plugins folder in Java Developers edition
3. Copy the contents of the plugins folder in Java Developers edition
4. Paste the copied files from Step 3 into the plugins folder of the C/C++ Developers edition

This is page 3 of the user guide that came with this MFG Tool.

I copied the plugins as mentioned on page 8.

I started Eclipse, page 9.  I did file-new-other as on page 10.  MFG Tool does not appear.

I will try to do this in Indigo next to see if it makes any difference.

[JohnKlug]

So I tried Indigo and it did not work.  I then installed Kepler Java, and coped the jar for MFG Tool directly into Kepler Java, and still no Wizard.

I noticed that in Indigo, Eclipse Installation Details, that the MFG Tool does not show up, but in Kepler it does.

I can't find anything in the logs about Freescale.

[jimmychan]

The IMX6_L5.1_2.1.0_MFG_TOOL is quite old.
Seems the plugin file .jar cannot be found in other mfgtool newer release.
I would suggest you to use UUU.
The source code can be download here : https://github.com/NXPmicro/mfgtools/releases

For you information, in the Linux User's Guide Chapter 4.2 is talking about how to use UUU.

https://www.nxp.com.cn/docs/en/user-guide/IMX_LINUX_USERS_GUIDE.pdf

[JohnKlug]

https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers/arm-processors/i-mx-applications-proces... 

That is where I looked for mfg tool under Development Hardware.  Note that uuu is not mentioned.

[jimmychan]

After the discussion of internal AE team, to get the working MFG Tool is out of support boundary from 2016. However, we would like to know the main purpose for using Mfgtool plugins? If you just want to flash the images to the board, you can use the mfgtool or uuu directly. If you really wants to integrate the plugin with Eclipse, please let me know. I will go to discuss this with the internal team further. Please tell me the details of your purpose.

Thanks.

[JohnKlug]

If you go here:

https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers/arm-processors/i-mx-applications-proces...

Under "Development Hardware" you will see software that you say is obsolete, and uuu is not mentioned at all.  You should fix your web pages to reflect current solutions.

[jimmychan]

Thanks for your feedback.

The tool on the web page is quite old. I will try to ask the internal team to update it.

Although the tool is old, mfgtool still can be used to program the image to your board. You don't need the plugin for programming the images.

[JohnKlug]

Bear in mind that I am a new user.  The documentation for the MFG Tool explains how to use it using the Eclipse plug-in.

You might want to steer new users to uuu, so they do not waste time on things that do not work.

[jimmychan]

Sorry for the web page direct you to the wrong documentation.

Could you tell me which BSP are you using? (we have Linux and Android BSP)

Any version you want to use?

Please let me know. I will tell you the right documentation(user's guide) to read.

[JohnKlug]

We are using Linux.  I have built Yocto-Zeus.

I started with writing an SD card from my PC.

But for cases that we might build without an SD card, I wanted to be able to boot from USB.  I was able to do this successfully into U-Boot with uuu.

[jimmychan]

I also tried it on both Windows and Linux platform. The file is not work. I will try to ask internal for helping this. I will let you know when I get the reply.

[jimmychan]

Which mfgtool are you using?

[JohnKlug]

IMX6_L5.1.1_2.1.0_MFG_TOOL

We are planning on using the IMX6 with MFG Tool, and I have an IMX6 EK to try to get the software working via USB.

[JohnKlug]

A couple of entries in the log:

com.freescale.mfgtool (2.0.0.201508281506) "com.freescale.mfgtool" [Starting]
...

Id: com.freescale.mfgtool, Version: 2.0.0.201508281506, Location: reference:file:plugins/com.freescale.mfgtool_2.0.0.201508281506.jar