Porting Ubuntu for the IMXMP with ubuntu 18

[Mawriyo]

I have a development board that I have successfully installed yocto hardknott image to and am currently having issues. I've read the document https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors-Knowledge-Base/Build-Ubuntu-For-i-MX8-Series-Platform/t... and I understand certain linux distro corripsond to certain ubuntu distros. To my understanding This is why I'm not able to access apt-get  as expected. Can anyone tell me which distros I would need to make my board port ubuntu 18 so I can at least apt-get packages properly.

[khang_letruong · Accepted solution]

HI @Mawriyo ,

In recent BSP versions, there's possibility to bitbake Ubuntu based desktop image, but not officially released yet :

$ repo init -u https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-manifest -b imx-linux-gatesgarth -m imx-5.10.9-1.0.0_desktop.xml
$ repo sync
$ MACHINE=imx8mpevk DISTRO=fsl-imx-xwayland source ./imx-setup-release.sh -b build-xwayland
$ bitbake imx-image-desktop

You can try.

Regards,
K

[Mawriyo]

Hey Igor,

I notice this is for the nitrogen board and not IMX8

Thanks,

Maw

[igorpadykov]

one can look at below link for i.MX8

https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors-Knowledge-Base/Build-Ubuntu-For-i-MX8-Series-Platform/t...

Best regards
igor

[Mawriyo]

Hey Igor,

I've gone through that document as mentioned in my original post, but building it is not successful. I think its because of the yocto BSP version I am using which does make sense. I am having issues finding information about porting ubuntu for kernal versions 5.10.X and was wondering if there was another reference on how to do this.

[igorpadykov]

Hi Keny

one can look at boundary devices linux releases

https://boundarydevices.com/ubuntu-bionic-18-04-lts-for-nitrogen8m-board-september-2018-kernel-4-9-x...

Best regards
igor