We are pleased to announce a new Kirkstone Boot2Qt Qt6 Release for our Nitrogen8 family of SBCs and SOMs based on i.MX 8 processors! This release uses the latest Qt-6.4.1 and includes our latest 5.15 kernel.
Below you will find the download links for the images and toolchains as well as detailed instructions for the build.
Prebuilt Images
You can download the Boot2Qt Yocto images from here:
- For Nitrogen8M platform:
- For Nitrogen8M Mini platform:
- For Nitrogen8M Plus platform:
You can download the Boot2Qt Linux toolchains from here:
- For Nitrogen8M platform:
- For Nitrogen8M Mini platform:
- For Nitrogen8M Plus platform:
You can download the Boot2Qt Windows toolchains from here:
- For Nitrogen8M platform:
- For Nitrogen8M Mini platform:
- For Nitrogen8M Plus platform:
Instructions on how to use the QBSP toolchain in your Qt application development can be found here.
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How to Flash
You can program the SW to eMMC using the instructions below:
programming-emmc-on-i-mx-platforms
You can also program the SW to SD Card or USB Stick via zcat and dd under Linux:
~$ zcat *boundary-image*.wic.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
In addition, you can use the balenaEtcher utility to flash the eMMC, SD Card or USB stick via Windows or Linux:
Build procedure
This image uses the 6.4.1 branch of the meta-boot2qt repo, which uses Qt version 6.3.0.
This image uses the kirkstone branch of our boundary-bsp-platform repository.
To build the image, we recommend using a Docker Container so that you can build with a reproducible and stable build environment. Otherwise, you’ll need these packages installed as well as this repo tool that can be installed like this:
~$ sudo apt-get install repo
Then create your build directory and initialize the environment.
~$ mkdir ~/b2qt6_kirkstone && cd b2qt6_kirkstone ~/b2qt6_kirkstone$ repo init -u https://github.com/boundarydevices/boundary-bsp-platform -b kirkstone -m b2qt.xml ~/b2qt6_kirkstone$ repo sync
Then, setup the environment for building. For this image we will be building the boundary-b2qt distro for the target machine
~/kirkstone$ MACHINE=<MACHINE> DISTRO=boundary-b2qt . setup-environment-b2qt build
Finally, build the Boundary Boot2Qt Embedded Qt6 Image and Linux Toolchain (boundary-b2qt-embedded-qt6-image and meta-toolchain-b2qt-embedded-qt6-sdk). This can be done building the boundary-meta-b2qt-embedded-qbsp.
~/b2qt$ bitbake boundary-meta-b2qt-embedded-qbsp
Note: You can just build the Qt6 image by running “bitbake boundary-b2qt-embedded-qt6-image”.
To build a toolchain for Windows platforms add the following line to local.conf:
SDKMACHINE = "x86_64-mingw32"
If you are interested in each project revision at the time of the build for the prebuilt images, you can find a frozen manifest for those images here.
The image file will deploy to tmp/deploy/images/{MACHINE}/boundary-b2qt-embedded-qt6-image-{MACHINE}.wic.gz.
The Linux toolchain will deploy to tmp/deploy/qbsp/boundary-meta-b2qt-embedded-qbsp-x86_64-{MACHINE}-6.4.1.qbsp.
The Windows toolchain will deploy to tmp/deploy/qbsp/boundary-meta-b2qt-embedded-qbsp-x86_64-mingw32-{MACHINE}-6.4.1.qbsp.
Demo examples
We can run demos using the toolchain with qt creator. Below are a few examples of Qt6.4.1. demo applications running on our Nitrogen8M Plus. Note that we are downloading the prebuilt demos from our linode server so that you can test without the toolchain.
root@localhost:~# wget http://linode.boundarydevices.com/coffee root@localhost:~# appcontroller coffee [ 116.615345] sec_mipi_dsim_get_pms: bit_clk=415800000 415800000 ref_clk=51975000, p=5, m=40, s=0, lanes=4 [ 116.651963] pix_to_delay_byte_clocks:pix_cnt = 5, byte_clock = 51975000, pixelclock = 69300000, n=4 [ 116.661070] pix_to_delay_byte_clocks:pix_cnt = 1408, byte_clock = 51975000, pixelclock = 69300000, n=1056 [ 116.670678] pix_to_delay_byte_clocks:pix_cnt = 1410, byte_clock = 51975000, pixelclock = 69300000, n=1058 [ 116.681572] sec_mipi_dsim_config_dphy:bit_clk=420, prepare=3 zero=18 post=9 trail=4 hs_prepare=4 hs_zero=5 hs_trail=6 lpx=3 hs_exit=5 [ 116.694606] sec_mipi_dsim_config_clkctrl: bit_clk=415800, clkctrl=91f80003 qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: signal not found in QProcess "FB_MULTI_BUFFER" "2" "QTWEBENGINE_DISABLE_SANDBOX" "1" "QT_IM_MODULE" "qtvirtualkeyboard" "QT_QPA_EGLFS_FORCE888" "1" "QT_QPA_EGLFS_FORCEVSYNC" "1" "QT_QPA_EGLFS_KMS_ATOMIC" "1" "QT_QPA_EGLFS_KMS_CONFIG" "/etc/kms.conf" "QT_QPA_PLATFORM" "eglfs" "WAYLAND_DISPLAY" "/run/wayland-0" "/usr/share/examples/demos/coffee/coffee" QList() QML debugging is enabled. Only use this in a safe environment.
Qt Quick 3D – Particles 3D Testbed Example
root@localhost:~# wget http://linode.boundarydevices.com/particles3d root@localhost:~# appcontroller particles3d qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: signal not found in QProcess "FB_MULTI_BUFFER" "2" "QTWEBENGINE_DISABLE_SANDBOX" "1" "QT_IM_MODULE" "qtvirtualkeyboard" "QT_QPA_EGLFS_FORCE888" "1" "QT_QPA_EGLFS_FORCEVSYNC" "1" "QT_QPA_EGLFS_KMS_ATOMIC" "1" "QT_QPA_EGLFS_KMS_CONFIG" "/etc/kms.conf" "QT_QPA_PLATFORM" "eglfs" "WAYLAND_DISPLAY" "/run/wayland-0" "/usr/share/examples/quick3d/particles3d/particles3d" QList() QML debugging is enabled. Only use this in a safe environment.
root@localhost:~# wget http://linode.boundarydevices.com/quicknanobrowser root@localhost:~# appcontroller quicknanobrowser qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: signal not found in QProcess "FB_MULTI_BUFFER" "2" "QTWEBENGINE_DISABLE_SANDBOX" "1" "QT_IM_MODULE" "qtvirtualkeyboard" "QT_QPA_EGLFS_FORCE888" "1" "QT_QPA_EGLFS_FORCEVSYNC" "1" "QT_QPA_EGLFS_KMS_ATOMIC" "1" "QT_QPA_EGLFS_KMS_CONFIG" "/etc/kms.conf" "QT_QPA_PLATFORM" "eglfs" "WAYLAND_DISPLAY" "/run/wayland-0" "/usr/share/examples/webenginequick/quicknanobrowser/quicknanobrowser" QList() QML debugging is enabled. Only use this in a safe environment. Sandboxing disabled by user. qt.webenginecontext: GL Type: egl Surface Type: OpenGLES Surface Profile: NoProfile Surface Version: 3.1 QSG RHI Backend: OpenGL Using Supported QSG Backend: yes Using Software Dynamic GL: no Using Multithreaded OpenGL: yes Init Parameters: * application-name quicknanobrowser * browser-subprocess-path /usr/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess * disable-features ConsolidatedMovementXY,InstalledApp,BackgroundFetch,WebOTP,WebPayments,WebUSB,PictureInPicture * disable-speech-api * enable-features NetworkServiceInProcess,TracingServiceInProcess * enable-threaded-compositing * in-process-gpu * no-sandbox * use-gl egl
Display support
Please make sure your platform includes the latest U-Boot:
This version of U-Boot supports the display configuration, allowing to use any of the following displays:
- HDMI display (up to 4k, 1080p recommended)
- 7″ 1280×800 BD070LIC2
- 10″ 1280×800 BD101LCC2
If you have any issues, please email support@boundarydevices.com
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