i.MX 6 U-Boot updates
We’ve just pushed updates to each of our U-Boot source trees to address a pretty critical issue. The memory configuration settings for our SABRE-Lite based design along with Nitrogen6X and...
View ArticleSABRE Lite name change – BD-SL-i.MX6 Built to Freescale SABRE Lite Design
In an effort to align with Freescale marketing and branding strategies, we are formally changing the SABRE Lite product name. The new name will be BD-SL-i.MX6 Built to Freescale SABRE Lite Design. You...
View ArticleTimesys 2013-03 release
Timesys has issued an updated release for our Nitrogen6X and BD-SL-i.MX6 (formerly SABRE Lite) boards. This release is primarily to update the kernel, but the folks at Timesys have also added some new...
View ArticleU-Boot branches for i.MX6 – April 2013
We’ve just swapped around the production and staging branches of our GitHub repository for i.MX6. The old production branch is now in branch production-before-20130402 and the prior staging branch is...
View Articlei.MX6 Android branch r13.4-1
For those of you with access to our Android sources, we’ve recently pushed a new branch (r13.4-1) to our repo manifest. We’re prepping a long-overdue blog post and image for Android that includes full...
View Articlei.MX6 images for branch r13.4-1
As mentioned in our prior post, we’ve updated our sources for Android on our i.MX6 boards to include Freescale’s latest patches and our support for Dual and Single-core variants. If you don’t have...
View ArticleAndroid R13.4-GA for i.MX6 in stages – Stage 4: WiFi and Bluetooth
This post is long overdue, since we began leaking the sources out without proper documentation of what we did to integrate Wi-Fi with our Android build for i.MX6. In this recent post, we discussed how...
View ArticleA very expensive SD card reader/writer using i.MX6
If you’re using our Android sources, we have a script named mksdcard.sh to partition an SD card and copy the output files. This works pretty well when using a removable SD card, but doesn’t address how...
View ArticleSecure boot on i.MX6 Nitrogen6X boards
This is a short post that’s more of a re-tweet and a Thank you note than anything. Dr. V. Kamakoti and the team at the RISE Lab at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras recently configured a...
View ArticleBoot an i.MX6 in 0.58 seconds
This is another post that amounts to a Thank you for sharing. In this case, the thanks go to Alexandre Belloni for sharing some work on Boot time optimization he did at Adeneo Embedded. We became...
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OV5642 auto-focus on i.MX6
Before After Source is here. ‘Nuff said? Probably not. More detail is probably useful. A word of thanks Before the details, I’d first like to thank the folks at Ray Business Technologies for helping...
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Android 4.2.2 (Jellybean) on i.MX6
Freescale recently published a release of the Jellybean version of Android for i.MX6. Weighing in at 247MB, it consists of: 1501 patches 7649967 lines of patch (excluding the kernel and U-Boot) 22...
View ArticleYocto on i.MX6 boards
Q: What is Yocto? A.A set of tools for building embedded Linux systems, or B.A collaborative community of developers who want to bring order to the process of embedded Linux development, or C.An...
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USB Keyboard support in U-Boot
Serial ports have been around for over 40 years and many of us embedded folks don’t leave home without them. In recent years, they’ve been harder to come by though. They’re no longer standard on PCs,...
View ArticleDisplaying a Splash Screen with U-Boot
We’ve recently had several customers contact us asking about using splash screens with U-Boot. We added display support to U-Boot a while back as described here and with it we got a nice Tux logo and...
View ArticleFuse API
The i.MX6 CPU has one-time-programmable (otp) fuses which can be used by SoCs to store various permanent configuration and data. Some common uses include boot configuration, security configuration,...
View Articlei.MX6 Linux kernel 3.0.35-4.0.0
Freescale released a new kernel and userspace libraries for i.MX6 Q/D/DL/S a couple of weeks ago, and we’ve tested it on all of our boards. For the impatient You can grab the kernel from the...
View ArticleU-Boot data cache support
Up until recently, some lingering bugs in the cache handling prevented us from enabling the data cache in U-Boot for our i.MX6 boards. Some work by Andrew Gabbasov and inclusion of a patch that had...
View ArticleFreescale Ubuntu Image with 4.0.0 kernel
The new image combines the Freescale Oneiric image with our 4.0.0 kernel build + modules and bootscripts. Notes Hardware acceleration and HD video playback are installed and working. When using it from...
View ArticleModifying a Linux Image
We’ve created a package that contains all the files you need to use our latest code with any existing linux image. You can download it here Example Use Let’s use it on the latest linaro release as an...
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