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Eric Lee
version 1.0a, 1/15/2017
This document describes how to build and deploy Android Marshmallow on the SMARC-FiMX6. It is based on NXP's IMX6_M6.0.1_2.1.0-ga ANDROID release.
In order to download u-boot and kernel from Embedian. We recommend you use SSH keys to establish a secure connection between your computer and Embedian Gitlab server. The steps below will walk you through generating an SSH key and then adding the public key to our Gitlab account.
First, we need to check for existing ssh keys on your computer. Open up Git Bash and run:
$ cd ~/.ssh $ ls # Lists the files in your .ssh directory |
Check the directory listing to see if you have a file named either id_rsa.pub
or id_dsa.pub
. If you don't have either of those files go to step 2. Otherwise, you already have an existing keypair, and you can skip to step 3.
To generate a new SSH key, enter the code below. We want the default settings so when asked to enter a file in which to save the key, just press enter.
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@example.com" # Creates a new ssh key, using the provided email as a label # Generating public/private rsa key pair. # Enter file in which to save the key (/c/Users/you/.ssh/id_rsa): [Press enter] $ ssh-add id_rsa |
Now you need to enter a passphrase.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): [Type a passphrase] Enter same passphrase again: [Type passphrase again] |
Which should give you something like this:
Your identification has been saved in /c/Users/you/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /c/Users/you/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: 01:0f:f4:3b:ca:85:d6:17:a1:7d:f0:68:9d:f0:a2:db your_email@example.com |
Copy the key to your clipboard.
$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAABDAQABAAABAQDQUEnh8uGpfxaZVU6+uE4bsDrs/tEE5/BPW7jMAxak 6qgOh6nUrQGBWS+VxMM2un3KzwvLRJSj8G4TnTK2CSmlBvR+X8ZeXNTyAdaDxULs/StVhH+QRtFEGy4o iMIzvIlTyORY89jzhIsgZzwr01nqoSeWWASd+59JWtFjVy0nwVNVtbek7NfuIGGAPaijO5Wnshr2uChB Pk8ScGjQ3z4VqNXP6CWhCXTqIk7EQl7yX2GKd6FgEFrzae+5Jf63Xm8g6abbE3ytCrMT/jYy5OOj2XSg 6jlxSFnKcONAcfMTWkTXeG/OgeGeG5kZdtqryRtOlGmOeuQe1dd3I+Zz3JyT your_email@example.c om |
Go to Embedian Git Server. At Profile Setting --> SSH Keys --> Add SSH Key
Paste your public key and press "Add Key" and your are done.
The objective of this document is to guide SMARC-FiMX6 Android developers to obtain Android Marshmallow sources, setting up host environment, compilation and deployment.
This document contains instructions for:
EVK-STD-CARRIER and SMARC-FiMX6.
The host development environment for Android is based on Ubuntu and Debian, please install Ubuntu version 14.04 64bit LTS http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop or Debian 8.4 64bit https://www.debian.org/releases
Do not use other Ubuntu or Debian releases, than recommended above. |
$ sudo apt-get -y install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential zip curl zlib1g-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib $ sudo apt-get -y install libc6-dev-i386 lib32ncurses5-dev x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev lib32z-dev ccache libgl1-mesa-dev libxml2-utils $ sudo apt-get -y install xsltproc unzip mtd-utils u-boot-tools lzop liblzo2-2 liblzo2-dev zlib1g-dev liblz-dev uuid uuid-dev android-tools-fsutils |
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk |
Update the default Java version by running:
$ sudo update-alternatives --config java $ sudo update-alternatives --config javac |
The build machine should have at least 50GB of free space to complete the build process. |
Go to NXP's website, download IMX6_M6.0.1_2.1.0_ANDROID_SOURCE_BSP (filename: android_M6.0.1_2.1.0_source.tar.gz) and put into your ~/downloads directory.
$ cd ~/downloads $ tar xvfz android_M6.0.1_2.1.0_source.tar.gz |
$ mkdir -p ~/android/smarcfimx6/m_601_210_build $ cd ~/android/smarcfimx6/m_601_210_build $ mkdir ~/bin $ curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo $ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo $ export PATH=~/bin:$PATH $ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-6.0.1_r22 $ repo sync -j4 |
$ mkdir -p ~/android/smarcfimx6/m_601_210_build/bootable/bootloader $ cd ~/android/smarcfimx6/m_601_210_build/bootable/bootloader $ git clone git@git.embedian.com:developer/smarc-t335x-uboot.git uboot-imx $ cd uboot-imx $ git checkout smarc-m6.0.1_2.1.0-ga $ cd ~/android/smarcfimx6/m_601_210_build $ git clone git@git.embedian.com:developer/smarc-fsl-linux-kernel.git kernel_imx $ cd kernel_imx $ git checkout smarc-m6.0.1_2.1.0-ga |
$ cd ~/android/smarcfimx6/m_601_210_build $ source ~/downloads/android_M6.0.1_2.1.0_source/code/M6.0.1_2.1.0/and_patch.sh **** Invoke ". and_patch.sh" from your shell to add following functions to your environment: ****-- c_gotop: Changes directory to the top of the tree ****-- c_patch: Recover working tree to base version and then applying FSL android patch $ c_patch ~/downloads/android_M6.0.1_2.1.0_source/code/M6.0.1_2.1.0 imx_M6.0.1_2.1.0 If everything is OK, "c_patch" generates the following output to indicate the successful patch: ************************************************************* Success: Now you can build android code for FSL i.MX platform ************************************************************* |
$ cd ~/android/smarcfimx6 $ git clone http://git.embedian.com/developer/smarc-fimx6-android.git embedian $ cd embedian $ git checkout smarc-m6.0.1_2.1.0-ga $ cd ../ $ embedian/install |
$ cd ~/android/smarcfimx6/m_601_210_build $ source build/envsetup.sh $ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 $ export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin/:$PATH $ lunch smarc_mx6-eng or $ lunch smarc_mx6-user |
smarc_mx6-user creates a production version of the Android Marshmallow. smarc_mx6-eng creates an engineering version of the Android Marshmallow. Development mode enable and development tools are available on target. |
When you switch your target MMC device you need to remove the fstab file. This will guarantee that the make system will copy the right one into target.
$ rm out/target/product/smarc_mx6/recovery/root/fstab* out/target/product/smarc_mx6/root/fstab* |
$ make -j4 BUILD_TARGET_DEVICE=sd 2>&1 | tee build1-1.log |
When running Android from an SD card, the eMMC will be detected and presented as an SD card storage. |
$ make -j4 BUILD_TARGET_DEVICE=emmc 2>&1 | tee build1-1.log |
All images will be created under out/target/product/smarc_mx6 directory.
Image | Description |
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boot-<name1>-<name2>.img | Boot image that contains zImage, device tree blob and ramdisk |
recovery-<name1>-<name2>.img | Recovery image that contains zImage, device tree blob and ramdisk |
system.img | Android system image file. |
u-boot-<defconfig>.img | Bootloader |
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U-Boot boots from on-module SPI NOR flash, and the rest of the Android images will be loaded from SD card or on-module eMMC.
To flash u-boot into on-module SPI NOR flash. First, you need to prepare for a new SD card and insert into your Linux host PC. The u-boot-<defconfig>.imx is pre-installed in SPI NOR flash at factory default. SMARC-FiMX6 is designed to always boot up from SPI NOR flash and to load other Android images based on the setting of BOOT_SEL. If users need to fuse their own u-boot or perform u-boot upgrade. This section will instruct you how to do that.
For these instruction, we are assuming: DISK=/dev/mmcblk0, "lsblk" is very useful for determining the device id.
$ export DISK=/dev/mmcblk0 |
Erase SD card:
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Create Partition Layout:
With util-linux v2.26, sfdisk was rewritten and is now based on libfdisk.
$ sudo sfdisk --version sfdisk from util-linux 2.17.1 |
Create Partitions:
$ sudo sfdisk ${DISK} <<-__EOF__ 1M , 48M , 0x83 ,* ,,,- __EOF__ |
$ sudo sfdisk --in-order --Linux --unit M ${DISK} <<-__EOF__ 1 , 48 , 0x83 ,* ,,,- __EOF__ |
Format Partitions:
for : DISK=/dev/mmcblk0 $ sudo mkfs.vfat -F 16 ${DISK}p1 -n boot for : DISK=/dev/sdX $ sudo mkfs.vfat -F 16 ${DISK} 1 -n boot |
Mount Partitions:
On some systems, these partitions may be auto-mounted...
$ sudo mkdir -p /media/boot/ for : DISK=/dev/mmcblk0 $ sudo mount ${DISK}p1 /media/boot/ for : DISK=/dev/sdX $ sudo mount ${DISK} 1 /media/boot/ |
Copy u-boot-<defconfig>.imx to the boot partition.
$ sudo cp -v u-boot-<defconfig>.imx /media/boot/u-boot.imx |
Fuse u-boot.imx to the SPI NOR flash.
Insert the SD card that you just made into EVK-STD-CARRIER SD card slot. Stop at U-Boot command prompt (Press any key when booting up). Copy and Paste the following script under u-boot command prompt.
U-Boot# mmc rescan; mmc dev; load mmc 0:1 0x10800000 u-boot.imx; sf probe; sleep 2; sf erase 0 0xc0000; sf write 0x10800000 0x400 80000 |
In some cases, when SPI NOR flash is erased or the u-boot is under development, we need a way to boot from SD card first. Users need to shunt cross the TEST# pin to ground. In this way, SMARC-FiMX6 will always boot up from SD card.
Insert the same SD card into your host Linux PC.
Copy u-boot.imx to the SD card.
$ sudo dd if=u-boot-<defconfig>.imx of=${DISK} bs=512 seek=2 |
Insert the SD card into EVK-STD-CARRIER. Stop at U-Boot command prompt (Press any key when booting up). Copy and Paste the following script under u-boot command prompt.
U-Boot# mmc rescan; mmc dev; load mmc 0:1 0x10800000 u-boot.imx; sf probe; sleep 2; sf erase 0 0xc0000; sf write 0x10800000 0x400 80000 |
Prepare for the othe SD card that is differmt from the one for bootloader. Insert into your Linux host PC
$ cd ~/android/smarcfimx6/m_601_210_build/out/target/product/smarc_mx6/ $ cp ~/android/smarcfimx6/m_601_210_build/emb-mksdcard.sh . $ sudo ./emb-mksdcard.sh -f <name1>-<name2> /dev/sdX;sync |
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First, make sure the images that you built is for eMMC (use BUILD_TARGET_DEVICE=emmc when built Android).
Setup eMMC for Android is a bit complex, but trivial. There are a couple of ways to achieve it.
NXP/Freescale provides with a way to boot up, partition, format, and program images into eMMC. User can go to NXP's website to download mfgtool and follow their guide to achieve it. We will leave it to users if you would like to use this method to set up your eMMC. Make sure that the FORCE_RECOV# pin has to be shunt to Ground when using this tool.
The second way that we also recommend is to make a bootable Ubuntu 14.04 SD card for SMARC-FiMX6. User go to our Linux Development Site to learn how to make a bootable Ubuntu 14.04 SD card. An pre-built images can be downloaded from our ftp site. Users can download those images and follow the "Setup SD card" section from our Linux development site. Once it done, you can copy the emb-mksdcard.sh scipt and all Android images into your home directory. Follow exactly what you did for SD card, but now, eMMC device will be emulated as /dev/mmcblk3.
$ sudo ./emb-mksdcard.sh -f <name1>-<name2> /dev/mmcblk3;sync |
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Power off and set BOOT_SEL to OFF ON ON and you will be able to boot up your Android from on-module eMMC.
$ sudo ./emb-mksdcard.sh -np /dev/mmcblk3 |
Once you have your on-module eMMC partitioned and formated.
On your Linux host PC, you need to install Android tools.
$ sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot |
Connect the device with host PC at fastboot mode:
On the Host PC:
$ sudo fastboot flash boot out/target/product/smarc_mx6/boot-<name1>-<name2>.img $ sudo fastboot flash recovery out/target/product/smarc_mx6/recovery-<name1>-<name2>.img $ sudo fastboot flash system out/target/product/smarc_mx6/system.img $ sudo fastboot reboot |
Shunt LID# pin to ground will enter Android Recovery mode.
For generating "OTA" packages, use the following commands:
$ cd ~/android/smarcfimx6/m_601_210_build/ # if Android for SD card $ make -j4 BUILD_TARGET_DEVICE=sd otapackage 2>&1 | tee build1-1.log # if Android for eMMC $ make -j4 BUILD_TARGET_DEVICE=emmc otapackage 2>&1 | tee build1-1.log |
$ out/host/linux-x86/bin/adb sideload out/target/product/smarc_mx6/smarc_mx6-ota-<data>-<image-id>.zip |
Reboot the device.
Real example name for OTA package: out/target/product/smarc_mx6/smarc_mx6-ota-20170114-smarcfimx6dq-wvga.zip |
When you perform changes to the kernel, you may build boot.img solely instead of building the whole Android.
$ cd ~/android/smarcfimx6/m_601_210_build/ $ source build/envsetup.sh $ lunch smarc_mx6-user (or smarc_mx6-eng) $ make bootimage |
Setup the toolchain path to point to arm-eabi- tools in prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-eabi-4.8/bin
$ export ARCH=arm $ export CROSS_COMPILE=~/android/smarcfimx6/m_601_210_build/prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-eabi-4.8/bin/arm-eabi- |
Change directory to U-Boot
$ cd ~/android/smarcfimx6/m_601_210_build/bootable/bootloader/uboot-imx |
Execute following commands:
$ make distclean $ make smarcfimx6_quad_1g_ser3_android_defconfig $ make -j4 |
Note1: If the board is SMARC-FiMX6-Q-2G or SMARC-FiMX6-D-2G, use If the board is SMARC-FiMX6-Q-1G or SMARC-FiMX6-D-1G, use If the board is SMARC-FiMX6-U-1G, use If the board is SMARC-FiMX6-S, use Note 2: "ser3" stands for console debug port. In this example, we uses SER3 as debug port. If user uses SER0 as your debug port, make change to "ser0" instead. Same as SER1 and SER2. Note 3: The SMARC-FiMX6 module always boot up from the onboard SPI NOR flash. The factory default will be u-boot.imx pre-installed. In some cases when the SPI NOR flash is empty or needs to be upgraded. Users can shunt crossed the TEST# to ground. In this way, the SMARC-FiMX6 module will boot up to carrier SD card, if TEST# pin is shunt crossed. The u-boot.imx image are the same, the difference is how you flash u-boot.imx. This will be explained in the "Setup Bootloader" and "Setup SD card" section. |
It will generate u-boot.imx file.
$ cd ~/android/smarcfimx6/m_601_210_build/kernel_imx $ make distclean $ make smarcfimx6_android_defconfig $ make -j4 uImage LOADADDR=0x10008000 $ make -j4 modules |
This will generate the uImage (kernel image) in the kernel/arch/arm/boot folder
version 1.0a,1/15/2017
Last updated 2017-01-25