U-Boot on i.MX6
There are a lot of posts in this blog that describe the state of U-Boot for our i.MX6 boards, but most of them describe the history. They were designed to help the early adopters make transitions as we...
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Boot to Qt
Qt blog A couple of weeks ago, we found out about some work that the folks at Digia are doing for embedded developers. Known as Boot To Qt, this upcoming offering does precisely what many of you need:...
View ArticleLTIB 4.0.0 images
We just uploaded a couple of images of the 4.0.0. release of kernel and LTIB from Freescale that include our latest kernel. There are two images: ltib4-with-x-20130618.tar.gz – This image was built...
View ArticleNew U-Boot Production Version
We’ve recently updated the version of U-Boot that we’re shipping with new boards. Many new features have been added since our last production release including: USB keyboard support Splash Screen...
View ArticleQt4 Demo Image
Get it We’ve created a qt4 demo image using Yocto to build the root filesystem. Grab the the file: yocto-qt4e-demo-image.tar.bz2 Extract it to an SD card and you’re good to go. Notes There is no...
View ArticleMIPI camera support on i.MX6
This is a quick post regarding support for our MIPI 5MPixel camera module for our i.MX6 boards. In brief, support is present in the kernel, but not enabled by default. There are some resource conflicts...
View ArticleWindows Embedded Compact 7 (CE7) support on Nitrogen6X and BD-SL-i.MX6
WindowsCE7 support has been available through Adeneo for the Nitrogen6X and BD-SL-i.MX6 boards for a while now. In conjunction with Adeneo, we’ve taken that BSP and improved a few things: Enhanced HDMI...
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Android Jellybean on i.MX6 with no disclaimers
In our last post about Jellybean on our i.MX6 boards, we had a big, bold disclaimer that this was alpha code. We’ve now spent the time to walk through many of the details and are happy to release...
View ArticleWindows users and unbricking an i.MX device
For a while now, we’ve been planning to update our imx_usb tool to fully support Windows through libusb and Cygwin, but it looks like that isn’t necessary. We recently found out that Freescale has a...
View ArticleGPU acceleration on Freescale Ubuntu
After publishing the Freescale Ubuntu post there was some question about whether it has GPU acceleration. We had originally stated that it did because we didn’t look closely enough at...
View ArticleDebian installer on i.MX6 boards
We’ve had a number of customers asking about Debian in recent weeks using instructions from either the ARMhf or eewiki sites. On each of those sites, the folks are starting with relatively large images...
View ArticleMinor U-Boot Update
We’ve made a few minor changes since the last U-Boot update. Thanks to helpful people on the U-Boot mailing list we confirmed and fixed a problem that was due to faulty documentation. As usual you can...
View ArticleDVI Support on i.MX6 boards
At long last, DVI support is here for our i.MX6 boards. When we built our very first SABRE Lite boards, one of the first things we tested was the HDMI video port, and at that time, most of the monitors...
View Articlei.MX6 HDMI audio
In the past few weeks we’ve had a few customers report trouble with HDMI Audio. After looking into it and talking with the Freescale developer about it, it looks like it boils down to the fact that...
View ArticleU-Boot 2013.07 release
Starting today, we’ll begin shipping a version of U-Boot based on main-line 2013.07. This release is fairly close to main-line U-Boot, but adds support for our Nitrogen6_Lite and other custom boards....
View ArticleTimesys Linux kernel 4.0.0
This post is just a quick note that we’ve been a bit behind Timesys. They’ve been shipping a kernel and userspace based on the 4.0.0 code base since early August, and we’ve only just pulled it in to...
View Articlei.MX6 kernel 4.1.0
If you’ve been watching our Github kernel repository, or if you’ve been following developments in the meta-freescale Yocto mailing list, you may have noticed a new branch named...
View ArticleLinaro Raring images with 4.1.0 kernels for i.MX6
We’ve just uploaded a handful of new images to our cloud storage that combine the latest Linaro builds with our latest kernel (3.0.35_4.1.0). We did this for a few reasons: The kernel used in previous...
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Yocto Dora release (for i.MX6)
In case you missed it, the Yocto Dora branch arrived late on Friday night. Please join me in thanking Otavio and the meta-freescale team for working late and getting this done. The Dora branch...
View Articlei.MX6 3.5.7 alpha release
If you monitor our Github kernel repository, you may have noticed a branch for kernel version 3.5.7 (boundary-imx_3.5.7_1.0.0). Freescale released an alpha version of 3.5.7 a while back, and we’ve...
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