From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:19:49 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Building a kernel for i.MX23 (and probably other from the i.MX family) In-Reply-To: <20120307114528.0304fc3d8061b683b66c7230@kinali.ch> References: <20120307114528.0304fc3d8061b683b66c7230@kinali.ch> Message-ID: <20120307141949.1a0e98ef@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello Attila, Le Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:45:28 +0100, Attila Kinali a ?crit : > After you have build LTIB you have to extract the elftosb2 binary > from it (/opt/freescale/ltib/usr/bin/elftosb2) and the imx-bootlets > package (/opt/freescale/pkgs/imx-bootlets-src-10.05.02.tar.gz) Note that I think the Armadeus people were interested in having tools like elftosb2 integrated within Buildroot. It would indeed be really nice to have this in Buildroot, so that users of i.MX systems can easily build images that can run on their targets. > Overall i do not suggest using the i.MX processors for linux based > systems due to very bad support from freescale. I am not very familiar with the i.MX range of processors, but the guys from Pengutronix have done an enormous work in getting support for those processors into the mainline Linux kernel. Though I don't know if their work included support for the i.MX 23. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com