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Trusty Ubuntu for i.MX6 boards
Since our Linaro Raring release in December of last year, we’ve been publicly quiet about updated images, but working hard in the background to make the next release(s) more full-featured and more...
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Android KitKat pre-release for i.MX6
At long last, we’re happy to announce that we have a pre-release image of Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) available for download. It’s a pre-release because there are a few things left to do, and quite a few...
View ArticleU-Boot 2014.04 update release
We just posted an update to our production U-Boot to include support for the Nitrogen6 Max board. This release is still based on U-Boot 2014.04 from up-stream and consists mainly of additional (custom)...
View ArticleU-Boot USB Mass Storage gadget
Thanks to the efforts of many in the U-Boot community, the upcoming v2014.07 release of U-Boot for our boards will include a new feature: the USB Mass Storage Gadget, or ums. Since this feature adds a...
View ArticleU-Boot 2014.07 release for i.MX6 boards
The U-Boot 2014.07 update release was our shortest-lived U-Boot release ever, since v2014.07 was quite easy to integrate and provides a significant new feature. The official release from the main-line...
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Ubuntu Trusty for i.MX6 boards – September 2014
We’ve just uploaded a new image of Ubuntu Trusty for our i.MX6 boards that contains some nice new features that deserve some explanation. Since the the initial release contains proper packaging, you...
View ArticleHDMI input for i.MX6 boards via MIPI
This has been under radar a while, but we have a pretty cool adapter with an HDMI to MIPI bridge (Toshiba TC358743XBG) and software to use it on our i.MX6 boards. This video shows it running on the...
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Android Kitkat Second release for i.MX6 boards
In our previous pre-release there were still lots of things untested, and we hadn’t yet ported to the Nitrogen6_Lite board. We’ve done a lot more testing, and are ready to release another image that’s...
View ArticleCrank Software’s Storyboard
For U/I tools, a picture may be worth 1000 words, but a video is better. Check out the latest demo of Crank’s Storyboard Suite running on our BD-SL-i.MX6 (SABRE Lite) board: You simply can’t do that...
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Dizzy release of Yocto
If you didn’t catch the announcement on the meta-freescale mailing list, or the one on i.MX Community, the Yocto 1.7 release (code name Dizzy) is now officially out for Freescale-based boards and it’s...
View Articleroot equals what?
The upcoming 3.10.31 release of the Linux kernel for our i.MX6 boards will be introducing a slight incompatibility regarding the naming of SD card devices. Because of this, the root= clause in the...
View ArticleWhat’s a board (and where are the knobs)?
What exactly do we mean by the word board? While we sometimes use the word to refer to a printed circuit board with a specific configuration, we also use the term to mean something less concrete. This...
View Articlei.MX6 Device Tree customization
Starting with the release of Linux 3.5.7, a new feature known as Device Trees has fundamentally changed the way that boards are represented by the kernel. The “C” modules used in earlier kernels has...
View ArticleCommonly replaced peripherals
In our "What’s a board?" post, we described various ways that a board could be customized, and in the follow up " i.MX6 Device Tree customization", we showed how we created variants of our boards that...
View ArticleUbuntu Trusty December 2014 release
It’s the middle of December and time for an updated image with Ubuntu 14.04 (code name Trusty) for our i.MX6 boards. It’s also time that we pushed a console-only image for those using our boards in...
View ArticleProtected: Qt for Device Creation
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View ArticleBoot flash access from Linux
Every so often, we’re asked about accessing the Boot ROM (flash) from Linux. Sometimes it’s related to the question of upgrading U-Boot. Other times the question surrounds changing U-Boot environment...
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Cellular modems on i.MX6 boards under Ubuntu
We’ve had lots of customers ask about cellular modem support on our i.MX6 boards, and in the past, have mostly just shrugged. Since most cell modems are USB or PCIe devices, configuration is a software...
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Timesys Expands i.MX6 board support to include Nitrogen6_MAX
Timesys has expanded its LinuxLink offering for the popular Freescale i.MX6 Series processor to include support for the Boundary Devices Nitrogen6_MAX. This offering expands the already supported...
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Wifi Hotspot on i.MX6 boards (through cellular or ethernet)
Our i.MX6 Nitrogen6x and especially Nitrogen6_Max boards have great connectivity options and can be useful in server applications as well as the more typical client uses. In this post, we’ll describe...
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