Re: Image building and deployment to SMARC-sAMX6i

[Dirk Berar <d.berar@stagetec.com>]

Hello Heikki,

thank you for the informations!

Especially the link to the "gpu performance" thread is very interesting
for me, because we're running a javafx project on top of FB based opengl.

I didn't make the step to fido yet. So it's also interesting for me to
hear about your success.

Kind Regards
Dirk

Heikki Sarkanen schrieb:
> Hello Andreas and Dirk,
> 
> Nice to see other SMARC-sAMX6i users. I have also tried to ask
> Kontron official support for FSL Community BSP but without luck yet.
> I hope if there is enough of us so we may get it someday.
> 
> As I have understood there was some intention to add the FSL
> Community BSP support last December:
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2014-December/011842.html.
> But when Otavio asked for some more things like support for master
> branch and U-boot recipe they didn't continue.
> 
> They did some experiments on March with newer meta-fsl-arm master,
> but for some reason they haven't released nothing more than the patch
> for daisy. Maybe the reason for that was this GPU performance gap
> between master(current fido) and dizzy branches:
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2015-March/013135.html.
> I have done my own experiment to rebase their daisy patch on top of
> fido and 3.10.53 kernel. It seems to work pretty well, just waiting
> if Kontron comes up with official patch someday.
> 
> When you get access to their EMD Customer section you will find that
> PDF documentation provided with the patch is pretty good. I have
> found using NFS boot the easiest way to deploy the rootfs and device
> tree to eMMC. It is also well documented by Kontron (chapter 7.5).
> Also they have great support (must go through your HW supplier) for
> their own U-boot fork if you need to change something there. Good
> luck!
> 
> BR, Heikki Sarkanen
> 
> ________________________________________ From:
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> <meta-freescale-bounces@yoctoproject.org> on behalf of Andreas
> Enbacka <andreas.enbacka@gasera.fi> Sent: 08 July 2015 18:53 To: Dirk
> Berar Cc: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org; Otavio Salvador Subject:
> Re: [meta-freescale] Image building and deployment to SMARC-sAMX6i
> 
> Hello Dirk,
> 
> Thank you very much for the detailed steps, it will be of great help.
> I have still to wait for access to the Kontron customer support
> section, will be able to test it out after that.
> 
> Best regards, Andreas
> 
>> 8 jul 2015 kl. 18:27 skrev Dirk Berar <d.berar@stagetec.com>:
>> 
>> Hi Andreas,
>> 
>> I asked Kontron to contribute to the community. Unfortunately they 
>> didn't until today. Poor.
>> 
>> I'll try to give you a little help from my documentation. Do the 
>> following from scratch:
>> 
>> # to install the repo tool (and a bunch of other software) under
>> Ubuntu # 12.04 or 14.04 $ sudo apt-get install phablet-tools
>> 
>> $ mkdir fsl-community-bsp; cd fsl-community-bsp $ repo init -u
>> https://github.com/Freescale/fslcommunity-bsp-platform \ -b daisy
>> 
>> # The Kontron BSP is based on daisy. I also tried dizzy
>> successfully.
>> 
>> # pull the sources $ repo sync
>> 
>> # apply the Kontron Patch for SMARC-sAMX6i $ cd
>> sources/meta-fsl-arm-extra $ patch -p1 <
>> /path/to/smarc-samx6i-support-R01.00.diff
>> 
>> # initialise Yocto Build Environment $ cd ~/fsl-community-bsp $
>> MACHINE=smarc-samx6i . ./setup-environment [build-directory]
>> 
>> # start Yocto Build $ bitbake core-image-full-cmdline
>> 
>> I also tried "core-image-sato" successfully. Interesting, if you
>> have connected a LVDS display.
>> 
>> To flash the Yocto image to the board, use the live media of the
>> Linaro based BSP (Linux_BSP_SMX6 1.2): 
>> http://emdcustomersection.kontron.com/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=1164
>>
>>
>> Good luck
>> Dirk
>> 
>> Otavio Salvador schrieb:
>>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Andreas Enbacka 
>>> <andreas.enbacka@gasera.fi> wrote:
>>>> I am currently trying to build a Yocto image for the
>>>> SMARC-sAMX6i (SMARC evaluation kit from Kontron), and have some
>>>> questions regarding it. First, what reference image recipe is
>>>> suitable for the SMARC-sAMX6i eval kit? And second, what is the
>>>> optimal way to deploy / flash the Yocto image to the board? Any
>>>> information would be greately appreciated.
>>> Kontron is not supported by the FSL Community BSP so the right
>>> place to ask for help is their support channel. Plus, pester them
>>> to add proper support to the community so your turn-key
>>> experience will be nicer next time ;)
>>> 
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