i.MX6 Video acceleration on Ubuntu Raring (and Debian)
When we recently posted Linaro Raring images for i.MX6, we were surprised at the number responses regarding hardware acceleration, and especially video acceleration. For a long time now, we’ve been...
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Jellybean 4.3 Beta on i.MX6
To make sure you have the best tools available, Freescale has released a Beta version of Jellybean 4.3, and we’ve updated our sources to use it. There are some nice new features, including the Cactus...
View Articlei.MX6 Linux kernel 3.10.9
As mentioned in our previous post about Linux kernel 3.5.7, Freescale has released an alpha version of an i.MX kernel based on 3.10.9. We’ve taken a first pass at testing this out and adding support...
View Articlei.MX6 Main-line (ish) Linux kernel
As promised in yesterday’s post about kernel version 3.10.9, this post contains a table of functionality present on kernel based primarily on the main-line linux-next tree from 2013-11-05. The updates...
View Articleu-boot-2013-10-release/
Beginning today, we’ll start shipping boards with a new release of U-Boot, aligned with the 2013.10 release from main-line. A binary package is available here: u-boot-production.tar.gz If you extract...
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Second release of Jellybean 4.3 Beta on i.MX6
How’s this for timing? We just pushed a new release of the Jellybean 4.3 Beta, and immediately received a hint that the GA (General Availability) release is available. This binary release contains some...
View ArticleAndroid Beta Build Breakage
The boundary-imx_jb4.3_1.0.0-beta branch of the Android repository has been broken for a few days, and there’s a fix here: commit 09dd646d In English, this patch addresses a screw up in the original...
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Rapping up Raring
To tie a string around our post about the Linaro Raring images and the post showing how to accelerate video, we’ve put together an image based on Linaro latest Raring ALIP that contains GPU...
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Android Jelly Bean 4.3 GA on i.MX6
In November’s image of the 4.3 Beta Android Jelly Bean image, we mentioned that the General Availability (GA) version was close to release, and we promised images. These images are now on-line:...
View ArticleLineo/Timesys Fast Boot on i.MX6
The folks over at Timesys and their partner, Lineo Solutions have been busy innovating. As a showcase of their Boot Time Optimization Services, they put together a demonstration of a very fast boot on...
View ArticleU-Boot 2013.10 Release 2 for i.MX6
Beginning today, we’ll start shipping a new release of U-Boot on our i.MX6 boards. You can grab a package of binaries from the usual place: u-boot-production.tar.gz The previous set of binaries is also...
View Articlei.MX6 Linux kernel 3.10.17 – Beta
In case you didn’t catch it in the Freescale git repository or on the Meta-Freecale mailing list, Freescale has released a beta version of Linux 3.10.17 for i.MX6, and we’ve added support for it into...
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U-Boot 2014.01
We’re about to start shipping U-Boot version 2014.01 in production on our i.MX6 boards. This release contains over 68000 new lines of code, so we won’t go through all of the details, but wanted to...
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1280×800 displays
We recently started offering a couple of new 1280×800 LCD panels with capacitive touch and have been behind in describing how to integrate them with our Nitrogen6X, Nitrogen6X-SOM, and BD-SL-i.MX6...
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Bluetooth on Jellybean
Bluetooth logo We’ve just uploaded a new Android Jellybean image containing Bluetooth support on Nitrogen6X. Thanks to the efforts of Marc Mulcahey at Levelstar, the TiWi-BLE module is now functional....
View ArticleYocto with kernel 3.10.17-beta
Since publishing our post on kernel version 3.10.17-beta, we’ve had a number of requests for an easy-to-test image. The following link contains an easy-to-test image based on the fsl-image-gui image in...
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Nitrogen6_MAX – i.MX6 with all the extras
We’re happy to announce the availability of a new product in our i.MX6 family. The Nitrogen6_MAX is a high-end version with 4GiB of RAM, dual-channel LVDS, on-board eMMC, and full mPCIE support for the...
View ArticleU-Boot 2014.04 release for i.MX6
We’re about to start shipping U-Boot version 2014.04 in production on our i.MX6 boards. This release contains over 66000 new lines of code but for most of our customers, these are largely structural...
View ArticleCross compiling kernels (2014 edition)
A while back, we posted some notes about how to cross compile an i.MX6 kernel using the LTIB toolchain. Fast forward to the middle of 2014 and these are a bit dated. In particular: LTIB should be...
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Jellybean for i.MX6 Nitrogen6 Max
We’ve just uploaded a new image of Android Jellybean for our BD-SL-i.MX6, Nitrogen6x, and for the first time, our new Nitrogen6 Max board. This will be a lengthy post because it covers the details of...
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