Switching U-Boot versions on i.MX6
In our earlier post we described the what of the main-line based U-Boot sources for SABRE Lite and Nitrogen6X boards. In this post, we’ll discuss the how. To begin with, there’s the easy piece. We’ve...
View ArticleBoot scripts for main-line U-Boot on i.MX6
As discussed in yesterday’s post on upgrading (and downgrading) U-Boot to the latest version, we’re changing the name of the boot script from 6q_bootscript to 6x_bootscript to reflect the syntax...
View Articlei.MX6 is officially launched
In case you hadn’t heard, Freescale has officially launched the i.MX 6 Series into production: Freescale’s i.MX 6 Series Applications Processors Roar into Production This should end the hassle...
View ArticleWait a second (hopefully less)
It’s amazing how multiple paths often lead to the same place. We’ve been tracking a couple of issues and recently that seem to have the same remedy. For the impatient: If you’re seeing inconsistent...
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Nitrogen6X Metal Enclosure
As discussed previously, one of the primary differences between SABRE Lite and Nitrogen6X is connector placement and orientation. Nitrogen6X has all of the field pluggable connections along one edge of...
View ArticleCompiling latest U-Boot for i.MX6
This is probably old-hat to most readers of this blog, but here are the steps to get and compile the latest U-Boot for i.MX6. Don’t let the nitrogen6x reference below fool you. These work for both...
View ArticleAndroid R13.4-GA for i.MX6 in stages – Stage 3: Customization
In our previous posts on Android R13.4-GA release from Freescale, we discussed how to boot it over NFS, and how to boot it on an SD card, making a handful of changes to the file-system images. What we...
View ArticleAccess to private repositories
As discussed in our previous post on Android Customization, some of the software we’re modifying for SABRE Lite and Nitrogen6X are restricted by licenses. They’re still open-source, but not completely...
View ArticleHDMI CEA mode
This is just a quick note regarding something we found in the Linux kernel last week. After swapping monitors to an LG W2361VG (a 23″ monitor with a DVI input port), I noticed that the screen...
View ArticleThe root password is “Boundary”
This should be the shortest blog post ever. This needs to be said, apparently hasn’t, and the title should say it all. When we have a choice (and we usually do), we set the root password for any...
View ArticleMicrophone input on the SABRE Lite and Nitrogen6x
We just identified a bug in the i.MX6 Linux driver for the SGTL5000 audio codec that could account for some reports of microphone failure. You can see the patch here: sgtl5000.c In English, that 4 is...
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Linaro Precise ALIP on i.MX6
We’ve recently been testing the ALIP (ARM Linux Internet Platform) release from Linaro and just uploaded an image: linaro-precise-alip-20121124-519.tar.gz This platform has many of the things we love...
View ArticleNitrogen6X Bluetooth details
The TiWi R2 module on the Nitrogen6X board contains both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and it seems we haven’t documented the interface to the Bluetooth portion. This short post aims to remedy that. There are...
View ArticleLTIB on i.MX6 without X
Our previous LTIB images for i.MX6 have all been re-packaged versions of the binaries released by Freescale. We just uploaded the first that we actually built ourselves. You can download it from here:...
View Articlei.MX6 Gigabit Ethernet
We’ve recently been doing some digging into Gigabit Ethernet performance issues and questions for our i.MX6 boards and it’s time to publish some of our results. We’ve discovered a number of settings...
View ArticleLatest silicon revision for i.MX6
While testing Gigabit Ethernet as discussed in our last blog post, we found the first measurable differences between silicon revisions on the i.MX6. It also came to our attention that we haven’t...
View Articlei.MX6 options (single, dual core, 2GB DDR)
If you’ve been paying attention to our U-Boot or Linux kernel trees, you’ve probably seen updates adding support for the single and dual-core (Solo, Dual-Lite, and Dual) variants of the i.MX6...
View ArticlePlaying multiple HD videos on i.MX6
This is just a quick post with some details of some gstreamer-fu to decode and play back multiple HD videos using the VPU hardware acceleration on the i.MX6. The command-lines below use the mfw_isink...
View ArticleCross compile i.MX6 kernel using LTIB toolchain
Again, this may be old hat to many, but here’s a quick how-to on getting and cross compiling a kernel from our Github kernel repository. ~/$ git clone git://github.com/boundarydevices/linux-imx6.git...
View ArticleU-Boot updates for i.MX6: Single core, Dual core, 2GB DDR
To follow up on our announcement of single-core, dual-core, and 2GB options on our Nitrogen6X boards, we’ve just pushed a set of code updates to the staging branch of our U-Boot GitHub repository. The...
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