Building Freescale/Embedian’s Yocto BSP Distribution

Eric Lee

version 1.0a, 3/23/2015

Introduction

This document describes how Embedian builds a customized version of Freescale’s i.MX6 official BSP release for Embedian's SMARC-FiMX6 product platform. The approach is to pull from Embedian's public facing GIT repository and build that using bitbake. The reason why we use this approach is that it allows co-development. The build output is comprised of binary images, feed packages, and an SDK for SMARC-FiMX6 specific development.

Freescale makes their i.MX series official bsp build scripts available via the following GIT repository:

git://git.freescale.com/imx/meta-fsl-bsp-release

Freescale community BSP release build script is available via the following repository:

git://git.freescale.com/imx/fsl-arm-yocto-bsp.git

It is this repository that actually pulls in the fsl-bsp-release project to perform the Linux BSP builds for Freescale's i.MX6 ARM Cortext-A9 chips.

Generating SSH Keys

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.

Step 1. Check for SSH keys

First, we need to check for existing ssh keys on your computer. Open up Git Bash and run:

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.

Step 2. Generate a new SSH key

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.

Now you need to enter a passphrase.

Which should give you something like this:

Step 3. Add your SSH key to Embedian Gitlab Server

Copy the key to your clipboard.

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.

Overview of the meta-emb-smarc Yocto Layer

The supplied meta-emb-smarc Yocto compliant layer has the following organization:

Notes on meta-emb-smarc layer content

conf/machine/*

This folder contains the machine definitions for the imx6solosmarc|imx6u1gsmarc|imx6q1gsmarc|imx6q2gsmarc platform and backup repository in Embedian. These select the associated kernel, kernel config, u-boot, u-boot config, and tar.gz image settings.

recipes-bsp/u-boot/*

This folder contains recipes used to build DAS U-boot for imx6solosmarc|imx6u1gsmarc|imx6q1gsmarc|imx6q2gsmarc platform.

recipes-connectivity/lftp/*

This folder adds lftp ftp client for imx6solosmarc|imx6u1gsmarc|imx6q1gsmarc|imx6q2gsmarc platform.

recipes-fsl/images/*

These recipes are used to create the final target images for the devices. When you run Bitbake one of these recipes would be specified. For example, to build the root file system for the imx6q1gsmarc platform:

MACHINE=imx6q1gsmarc bitbake -k imx6q1gsmarc-fsl-image-qt5

recipes-core/init-ifupdown*

This recipe is used to amend device network interfaces

recipes-core/init-sysvinit*

This recipe is used to amend device console interfaces

recipes-devtools/nodejs/*

These recipes build the Node.js Javascript server execution environment.

recipes-kernel/linux/*

Contains the recipes needed to build the imx6solosmarc|imx6u1gsmarc|imx6q1gsmarc|imx6q2gsmarc Linux kernels.

recipes-support/boost/*

Adds Boost to the images. Boost provides various C++ libraries that encourage cross-platform development.

recipes-support/ntp/*

Network time protocol support.

Setting Up the Tools and Build Environment

To build the latest Freescale i.MX6 fsl-bsp-release, you first need an Unbuntu Linux 12.04LTS or Ubuntu 14.04LTS installation. Since bitbake does not accept building images using root privileges, please do not login as a root user when performing the instructions in this section.

Once you have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or Ubuntu 14.04LTS running, install the additional required support packages using the following console command:

$ sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo build-essential chrpath libsdl1.2-dev xterm python-m2crypto bc libsdl1.2-dev

If you are using a 64-bit Linux, then you'd also need to install 32-bit support libraries, needed by the pre-built Linaro toolchain and other binary tools.

$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install curl g++-multilib gcc-multilib lib32z1-dev libcrypto++9:i386 libcrypto++-dev:i386 liblzo2-dev:i386 libusb-1.0-0:i386 libusb-1.0-0-dev:i386 uuid-dev:i386

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If you saw error like the following after running "sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386"

pkg: error: unknown option --add-architecture

make sure the only file present in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/ is "multiarch"

ls /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/

if output is

multiarch

execute the following commands as it is else replace "multiarch" with the name of file present in that directory.

$ sudo sh -c "echo 'foreign-architecture i386' > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch"

The above command will add i386 architecture.

You’ll also need to change the default shell to bash from Ubuntu’s default dash shell (select the <No> option):

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

To get the BSP you need to have 'repo' installed and use it as:

Install the 'repo' utility:

$ mkdir ~/bin $ curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo $ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo $ PATH=${PATH}:~/bin

Download the BSP Yocto Project Environment.

$ mkdir ~/smarc-fsl-bsp-release $ cd ~/smarc-fsl-bsp-release $ repo init -u git://git.freescale.com/imx/fsl-arm-yocto-bsp.git -b imx-3.14.28-1.0.0_ga $ repo sync

Download the Embedian Yocto build script and meta layer.

$ wget ftp://ftp.embedian.com/public/dev/minfs/smarc-fimx6-bsp-release/fsl-smarcfimx6-fido-setup-release.sh
$ chmod 444 fsl-smarfimx6-fido-setup-release.sh
$ cd sources
$ git clone git@git.embedian.com:developer/meta-emb-smarc.git
$ cd ~/smarc-fsl-bsp-release
$ MACHINE=imx6q1gsmarc source fsl-smarcfimx6-fido-setup-release.sh -b imx6q1g-build-qt5fb -e fb

This script will create and bring you to ~/smarc-fsl-bsp-release/imx6q1g-build-qt5fb directory.

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The last line of the above script

$ MACHINE= <machine name> source emb-setup-release.sh <build directory> -e <fb/x11/dfb>

<machine name> is imx6q1gsmarc if your SMARC-FiMX6 is dual or quad core and 1GB DDR3 memory.
<machine name> is imx6q2gsmarc if your SMARC-FiMX6 is dual or quad core and 2GB DDR3 memory.
<machine name> is imx6u1gsmarc if your SMARC-FiMX6 is dual lite core and 1GB DDR3 memory.
<machine name> is imx6solosmarc if your SMARC-FiMX6 is solo core.
"fb" stands for the software GUI layer is on framebuffer directly.
"x11" stands for the software GUI layer is on X11.
"dfb" stand for the software GUI layer is on direct FB (DFB)

The default console debug port is SER3.

In this document, we will use imx6q1gsmarc as the example of machine name. Users need to change different machine name if you have different SMARC card variants.

Building the target platforms

To build Embedian/Freescale Yocto BSP, use the following commands:

$ MACHINE=imx6q1gsmarc bitbake -k imx6q1gsmarc-fsl-image-qt5 or $ MACHINE=imx6q1gsmarc bitbake -k imx6q1gsmarc-fsl-image-gui

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imx6q1gsmarc-fsl-image-gui provides a gui image without QT5.

imx6q1gsmarc-fsl-image-qt5 provides a Qt5 image for X11 and FB backends.

If your machine name is imx6u1gsmarc and your gui image is without QT5 , the following command gives you as an example.
$ MACHINE=imx6u1gsmarc bitbake -k imx6u1gsmarc-fsl-image-gui

The first build takes time.

Once it done, you can find all required images under ~/smarc-fsl-bsp-release/<build directory>/tmp/deploy/images/<machine name>/

You may want to build programs that aren’t installed into a root file system so you can make them available via a feed site (described below.) To do this you can build the package directly and then build the package named package-index to add the new package to the feed site.

The following example builds the minicom program and makes it available on the feed site:

$ MACHINE=imx6q1gsmarc bitbake tcpdump $ MACHINE=imx6q1gsmarc bitbake package-index

Once the build(s) are completed you’ll find the resulting images, rpm and licenses in folder ~/smarc-fsl-bsp-release/<build directory>/tmp/deploy.

deploy/images/<machine name>/*

This folder contains the binary images for the root file system and the Embedian SMARC-FiMX6 specific version of the u-boot, zImage and device tree file. Specifically the images are:

deploy/images/<machine name>/u-boot.imx

This u-boot bootloader binary for SMARC-FiMX6

deploy/images/<machine name>/zImage

The kernel zImage for SMARC-FiMX6.

deploy/images/<machine name>/zImage-imx6q-smarcfimx6.dtb

The device tree binary file for SMARC-FiMX6 Dual and Quad core.

deploy/images/<machine name>/zImage-imx6dl-smarcfimx6.dtb

The device tree binary file for SMARC-FiMX6 Solo and Dual Lite core.

deploy/images/<machine name>/imx6u1gsmarc-fsl-image-gui-imx6u1gsmarc.*

Embedian root file system images for software development on Embedian’s SMARC-FiMX6 Dual Lite core platforms without QT5.

deploy/images/<machine name>/imx6u1gsmarc-fsl-image-qt5-imx6u1gsmarc.*

Embedian root file system images for software development on Embedian’s SMARC-FiMX6 Dual Lite core platforms with QT5.

deploy/images/<machine name>/imx6q1gsmarc-fsl-image-gui-imx6q1gsmarc.*

Embedian root file system images for software development on Embedian’s SMARC-FiMX6 Dual and Quad core platforms without QT5.

deploy/images/<machine name>/imx6q1gsmarc-fsl-image-qt5-imx6q1gsmarc.*

Embedian root file system images for software development on Embedian’s SMARC-FiMX6 Dual and Quad core platforms with QT5.

deploy/images/<machine name>/imx6solosmarc-fsl-image-gui-imx6solosmarc.*

Embedian root file system images for software development on Embedian’s SMARC-FiMX6 Solo core platforms without QT5.

deploy/images/<machine name>/imx6solosmarc-fsl-image-qt5-imx6solosmarc.*

Embedian root file system images for software development on Embedian’s SMARC-FiMX6 Solo core platforms with QT5.

deploy/images/<machine name>/imx6q2gsmarc-fsl-image-gui-imx6q2gsmarc.*

Embedian root file system images for software development on Embedian’s SMARC-FiMX6 Dual and Quad core platforms and 2GB DDR3 without QT5.

deploy/images/<machine name>/imx6q2gsmarc-fsl-image-qt5-imx6q2gsmarc.*

Embedian root file system images for software development on Embedian’s SMARC-FiMX6 Dual and Quad core platforms and 2GB DDR3 with QT5.

deploy/rpm/*

This folder contains all the packages used to construct the root file system images. They are in rpm format (similar format to Fedora packages) and can be dynamically installed on the target platform via a properly constructed feed file. Here is an example of the feed file (named imx6q1g_qt5fb_update.repo) that is used internally at Embedian to install upgrades onto a imx6q1gsmarc QT5 platform directly on framebuffer without reflashing the file system:

[all]
type = rpm-md
baseurl = http://www.embedian.com/smarcfimx6-feed/imx6q1gsmarc/fb/qt5/all
[cortexa9hf_vfp_neon]
type = rpm-md
baseurl = http://www.embedian.com/smarcfimx6-feed/imx6q1gsmarc/fb/qt5/cortexa9hf_vfp_neon
[cortexa9hf_vfp_neon_mx6]
type = rpm-md
baseurl = http://www.embedian.com/smarcfimx6-feed/imx6q1gsmarc/fb/qt5/cortexa9hf_vfp_neon_mx6
[imx6q1gsmarc]
type = rpm-md
baseurl = http://www.embedian.com/smarcfimx6-feed/imx6q1gsmarc/fb/qt5/imx6q1gsmarc

deploy/licenses/*

A database of all licenses used in all packages built for the system.

Setup SD Card

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:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=${DISK} bs=1M count=16

Create Partition Layout:

With util-linux v2.26, sfdisk was rewritten and is now based on libfdisk.

sfdisk

$ sudo sfdisk --version

sfdisk from util-linux 2.27.1

Create Partitions:

sfdisk >=2.26.x

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$ sudo sfdisk ${DISK} <<-__EOF__
1M,48M,0x83,*
,,,-
__EOF__

sfdisk <=2.25

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$ 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
$ sudo mkfs.ext4 ${DISK}p2 -L rootfs
 
for: DISK=/dev/sdX
$ sudo mkfs.vfat -F 16 ${DISK}1 -n boot
$ sudo mkfs.ext4 ${DISK}2 -L rootfs

Mount Partitions:

On some systems, these partitions may be auto-mounted...

$ sudo mkdir -p /media/boot/
$ sudo mkdir -p /media/rootfs/
 
for: DISK=/dev/mmcblk0
$ sudo mount ${DISK}p1 /media/boot/
$ sudo mount ${DISK}p2 /media/rootfs/
 
for: DISK=/dev/sdX
$ sudo mount ${DISK}1 /media/boot/
$ sudo mount ${DISK}2 /media/rootfs/

Install Bootloader

If SPI NOR Flash is not empty

The u-boot.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 zImage, device tree blob and root file systems 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.

Copy u-boot.imx to the boot partition.

~/smarc-fs-bsp-release/<build dir>/tmp/deploy/images/<machine name>/

$ sudo cp -v u-boot.imx /media/boot/u-boot.imx

Fuse u-boot.imx to the SPI NOR flash.

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 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

If SPI NOR Flash is empty

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.

Copy u-boot.imx to the boot partition

~/smarc-fs-bsp-release/<build dir>/tmp/deploy/images/<machine name>/

$ sudo dd if=u-boot.imx of=${DISK} bs=512 seek=2

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If your u-boot hasn't been finalized and still under development, it is recommended to shunt cross the test pin and boot directly from SD card first. Once your u-boot is fully tested and finalized, you can fuse your u-boot to SPI NOR flash.
When TEST# pin of SMARC-FiMX6 is not shunt crossed, it will always boot up from SPI NOR flash. U-boot will read the BOOT_SEL configuration and determine where it should load zImage and device tree blob. When TEST# is shunt crossed (pull low), it will always boot up from SD card.

uEnv.txt based bootscript

Create "uEnv.txt" boot script: ($ vim uEnv.txt)

~/uEnv.txt

#####HDMI######
#optargs="video=mxcfb0:dev=hdmi,1280x720M@60,if=RGB24,bpp=32 consoleblank=0"
#####LVDS#####
#optargs="video=mxcfb0:dev=ldb,if=RGB24,bpp=32 consoleblank=0 fbmem=24M vmalloc=400M"
#####Parallel LCD Setting#####
#optargs="video=mxcfb0:dev=lcd,CLAA-WVGA,if=RGB24,bpp=32 consoleblank=0 fbmem=24M vmalloc=400M"
#####Parallel LCD to CH7055A (VESA Timing Format) Setting #####
#optargs="video=mxcfb0:dev=lcd,768x576M@75,if=RGB24,bpp=32 consoleblank=0"
#optargs="video=mxcfb0:dev=lcd,1280x1024M@60,if=RGB24,bpp=32 consoleblank=0"
#optargs="video=mxcfb0:dev=lcd,640x480M@60,if=RGB24,bpp=32 consoleblank=0"

console=ttymxc4,115200
mmcdev=0
mmcpart=1
image=zImage
loadaddr=0x12000000
fdt_addr=0x18000000
mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk1p2 ro
mmcrootfstype=ext4 rootwait fixrtc
netdev=eth0
ethact=FEC0
ipaddr=192.168.1.150
serverip=192.168.1.53
gatewayip=192.168.1.254
mmcargs=setenv bootargs console=${console} root=${mmcroot} rootfstype=${mmcrootfstype} ${optargs}
uenvcmd=run loadzimage; run loadfdt; run mmcboot

Copy uEnv.txt to the boot partition:

~/

$ sudo cp -v ~/uEnv.txt /media/boot/

Install Kernel zImage

Copy zImage to the boot partition:

~/smarc-fs-bsp-release/<build dir>/tmp/deploy/images/<machine name>/

$ sudo cp -v zImage /media/boot

Install Kernel Device Tree Binary

~/smarc-fs-bsp-release/<build dir>/tmp/deploy/images/<machine name>/

$ sudo mkdir -p /media/boot/dtbs

$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6q-smarcfimx6.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6q-smarcfimx6.dtb

$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6dl-smarcfimx6.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6dl-smarcfimx6.dtb

Note, ~/smarc-fs-bsp-release/<build dir>/tmp/deploy/images/<machine name>

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If you are using LVDS panel, copy the corresponding device tree blob into SD card as follows.

For WVGA (800x480) LVDS panel:
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6q-smarcfimx6-wvga.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6q-smarcfimx6.dtb
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6dl-smarcfimx6-wvga.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6dl-smarcfimx6.dtb

For XGA (1024x768) LVDS panel:
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6q-smarcfimx6-xga.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6q-smarcfimx6.dtb
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6dl-smarcfimx6-xga.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6dl-smarcfimx6.dtb

For WXGA (1366x768) LVDS panel:
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6q-smarcfimx6-wxga.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6q-smarcfimx6.dtb
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6dl-smarcfimx6-wxga.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6dl-smarcfimx6.dtb

For 1080p (1920x1080) LVDS panel:
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6q-smarcfimx6-1080p.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6q-smarcfimx6.dtb
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6dl-smarcfimx6-1080p.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6dl-smarcfimx6.dtb

Install Root File System

Copy Root File System:

Yocto Built Rootfs:

~/smarc-fs-bsp-release/<build dir>/tmp/deploy/images/<machine name>/

$ sudo tar xvfz <filename.tar.gz> -C /media/rootfs

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SMARC-FiMX6 always boots up to SPI flash first. The firmware in SPI flash is factory pre-installed from Embedian. It will read the BOOT_SEL configuration that defined by SMARC specification on your carrier board and load u-boot.bin from the partition one of the device (could be SD card, eMMC, SATA,..etc) that you selected to memory.
Embedian Yocto BSP u-boot will only generated u-boot.bin. If people are interested in knowing u-boot.imx. Please see Linux on SMARC-FiMX6 for details.
MAC address is factory pre-installed at on board I2C EEPROM at offset 60 bytes. It starts with Embedian's vendor code 10:0D:32. u-boot will read it and pass this parameter to kernel.
The kernel modules is included in the Yocto rootfs.

Remove SD card:

$ sync
$ sudo umount /media/boot
$ sudo umount /media/rootfs

Feed Packages

The following procedure can be used on a Embedian SMARC-FiMX6 device to download and utilize the feed file show above to install the tcpdump Ethernet packet analyzer program:

$ smart channel -y --add http://www.embedian.com/smarcfimx6-feed/imx6q1g_qt5fb_update.repo

$ smart update

$ smart install tcpdump

Writing Bitbake Recipes

In order to package your application and include it in the root filesystem image, you must write a BitBake recipe for it.

When starting from scratch, it is easiest to learn by example from existing recipes.

Example HelloWorld recipe using autotools

For software that uses autotools (./configure; make; make install), writing recipes can be very simple:

DESCRIPTION = "Hello World Recipe using autotools"
HOMEPAGE = "http://www.embedian.com/"
SECTION = "console/utils"
PRIORITY = "optional"
LICENSE = "GPL"
PR = "r0"
  
SRC_URI = "git://git@git.embedian.com/developer/helloworld-autotools.git;protocol=ssh;tag=v1.0"
S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
  
inherit autotools

SRC_URI specifies the location to download the source from. It can take the form of any standard URL using http://, ftp://, etc. It can also fetch from SCM systems, such as git in the example above.

PR is the package revision variable. Any time a recipe is updated that should require the package to be rebuilt, this variable should be incremented.

inherit autotools brings in support for the package to be built using autotools, and thus no other instructions on how to compile and install the software are needed unless something needs to be customized.

S is the source directory variable. This specifies where the source code will exist after it is fetched from SRC_URI and unpacked. The default value is ${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${PV}, where PN is the package name and PV is the package version. Both PN and PV are set by default using the filename of the recipe, where the filename has the format PN_PV.bb.

Example HelloWorld recipe using a single source file

This example shows a simple case of building a helloworld.c file directly using the default compiler (gcc). Since it isn’t using autotools or make, we have to tell BitBake how to build it explicitly.

DESCRIPTION = "HelloWorld"
SECTION = "examples"
LICENSE = "GPL"
  
SRC_URI = "file://helloworld.c"
  
S = "${WORKDIR}"
  
do_compile() {
    ${CC} ${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} helloworld.c -o helloworld
}
  
do_install() {
    install -d ${D}${bindir}
    install -m 0755 helloworld ${D}${bindir}
}

In this case, SRC_URI specifies a file that must exist locally with the recipe. Since there is no code to download and unpack, we set S to WORKDIR since that is where helloworld.c will be copied to before it is built.

WORKDIR is located at ${OETREE}/<build directory>/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/<package name and version> for most packages. If the package is machine-specific (rather than generic for the cortexa9hf architecture), it may be located in the imx6q1gsmarc-poky-linux-gnueabi subdirectory depending on your hardware (this applies to kernel packages, images, etc).

do_compile defines how to compile the source. In this case, we just call gcc directly. If it isn’t defined, do_compile runs make in the source directory by default.

do_install defines how to install the application. This example runs install to create a bin directory where the application will be copied to and then copies the application there with permissions set to 755.

D is the destination directory where the application is installed to before it is packaged.

${bindir} is the directory where most binary applications are installed, typically /usr/bin.

For a more in-depth explanation of BitBake recipes, syntax, and variables, see the Recipe Chapter of the OpenEmbedded User Manual.

Setup eMMC

Setting up eMMC usually is the last step at development stage after the development work is done at your SD card or NFS environments. From software point of view, eMMC is nothing but a non-removable SD card on board. For SMARC-FiMX6, the SD card is always emulated as /dev/mmcblk1 and on-module eMMC is always emulated as /dev/mmcblk3. Setting up eMMC now is nothing but changing the device descriptor.

This section gives a step-by-step procedure to setup eMMC flash. Users can write a shell script your own at production to simplify the steps.

First, we need to backup the final firmware from your SD card or NFS.

Prepare for eMMC binaries from SD card (or NFS):

Insert SD card into your Linux PC. For these instructions, we are assuming: DISK=/dev/mmcblk0, "lsblk" is very useful for determining the device id.

For these instruction, we are assuming: DISK=/dev/mmcblk0, "lsblk" is very useful for determining the device id.

$ export DISK=/dev/mmcblk0

Mount Partitions:

On some systems, these partitions may be auto-mounted...

$ sudo mkdir -p /media/boot/
$ sudo mkdir -p /media/rootfs/
 
for: DISK=/dev/mmcblk0
$ sudo mount ${DISK}p1 /media/boot/
$ sudo mount ${DISK}p2 /media/rootfs/
 
for: DISK=/dev/sdX
$ sudo mount ${DISK}1 /media/boot/
$ sudo mount ${DISK}2 /media/rootfs/

Copy zImage to rootfs partition:

~/smarc-fs-bsp-release/<build dir>/tmp/deploy/images/<machine name>

$ sudo cp -v zImage /media/rootfs/home/root

Copy uEnv.txt to rootfs partition:

Copy and paste the following contents to /media/rootfs/home/root ($ sudo vim /media/rootfs/home/root/uEnv.txt)

#####HDMI######
#optargs="video=mxcfb0:dev=hdmi,1280x720M@60,if=RGB24,bpp=32 consoleblank=0"
#####LVDS#####
#optargs="video=mxcfb0:dev=ldb,if=RGB24,bpp=32 consoleblank=0 fbmem=24M vmalloc=400M"
#####Parallel LCD Setting#####
#optargs="video=mxcfb0:dev=lcd,CLAA-WVGA,if=RGB24,bpp=32 consoleblank=0 fbmem=24M vmalloc=400M"
#####Parallel LCD to CH7055A (VESA Timing Format) Setting #####
#optargs="video=mxcfb0:dev=lcd,768x576M@75,if=RGB24,bpp=32 consoleblank=0"
#optargs="video=mxcfb0:dev=lcd,1280x1024M@60,if=RGB24,bpp=32 consoleblank=0"
#optargs="video=mxcfb0:dev=lcd,640x480M@60,if=RGB24,bpp=32 consoleblank=0"

console=ttymxc4,115200
mmcdev=2
mmcpart=1
image=zImage
loadaddr=0x12000000
fdt_addr=0x18000000
mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk3p2 ro
mmcrootfstype=ext4 rootwait fixrtc
netdev=eth0
ethact=FEC0
ipaddr=192.168.1.150
serverip=192.168.1.53
gatewayip=192.168.1.254
mmcargs=setenv bootargs console=${console} root=${mmcroot} rootfstype=${mmcrootfstype} ${optargs}
uenvcmd=run loadzimage; run loadfdt; run mmcboot

Copy device tree blob to rootfs partition:

~/smarc-fs-bsp-release/<build dir>/tmp/deploy/images/<machine name>

$ sudo cp -v zImage-mx6q-smarcfimx6.dtb /media/rootfs/home/root/imx6q-smarcfimx6.dtb
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6dl-smarcfimx6.dtb /media/rootfs/home/root/imx6dl-smarcfimx6.dtb

Note, ~/smarc-fs-bsp-release/<build dir>/tmp/deploy/images/<machine name>

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If you are using LVDS panel, copy the corresponding device tree blob into SD card as follows.

For WVGA (800x480) LVDS panel:
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6q-smarcfimx6-wvga.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6q-smarcfimx6.dtb
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6dl-smarcfimx6-wvga.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6dl-smarcfimx6.dtb

For XGA (1024x768) LVDS panel:
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6q-smarcfimx6-xga.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6q-smarcfimx6.dtb
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6dl-smarcfimx6-xga.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6dl-smarcfimx6.dtb

For WXGA (1366x768) LVDS panel:
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6q-smarcfimx6-wxga.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6q-smarcfimx6.dtb
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6dl-smarcfimx6-wxga.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6dl-smarcfimx6.dtb

For 1080p (1920x1080) LVDS panel:
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6q-smarcfimx6-1080p.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6q-smarcfimx6.dtb
$ sudo cp -v zImage-imx6dl-smarcfimx6-1080p.dtb /media/boot/dtbs/imx6dl-smarcfimx6.dtb

Copy real rootfs to rootfs partition:

$ pushd /media/rootfs

$ sudo tar cvfz ~/smarcfimx6-emmc-rootfs.tar.gz .

$ sudo mv ~/smarcfimx6-emmc-rootfs.tar.gz /media/rootfs/home/root

$ popd

Remove SD card:

$ sync
$ sudo umount /media/boot
$ sudo umount /media/rootfs

Copy Binaries to eMMC from SD card:

Insert this SD card into your SMARC-FiMX6 device.

Now it will be almost the same as you did when setup your SD card, but the eMMC device descriptor is /dev/mmcblk3 now.

$ export DISK=/dev/mmcblk3

Erase SD card:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=${DISK} bs=1M count=16

Create Partition Layout:

$ sudo sfdisk --in-order --Linux --unit M ${DISK} <<-__EOF__
1,48,0x83,*
,,,-
__EOF__

Format Partitions:

$ sudo mkfs.vfat -F 16 ${DISK}p1 -n boot

$ sudo mkfs.ext4 ${DISK}p2 -L rootfs

Mount Partitions:

$ sudo mkdir -p /media/boot/
$ sudo mkdir -p /media/rootfs/
$ sudo mount ${DISK}p1 /media/boot/
$ sudo mount ${DISK}p2 /media/rootfs/

Install binaries for partition 1

Copy uEnv.txt/zImage/*.dtb to the boot partition

$ sudo cp -v zImage uEnv.txt /media/boot/

Install Kernel Device Tree Binary

$ sudo mkdir -p /media/boot/dtbs

$ sudo cp -v imx6q-smarcfimx6.dtb imx6dl-smarcfimx6.dtb /media/boot/dtbs

Install Root File System

$ sudo tar -zxvf smarcfimx6-emmc-rootfs.tar.gz -C /media/rootfs

Unmount eMMC:

$ sync
$ sudo umount /media/boot
$ sudo umount /media/rootfs

Switch your Boot Select to eMMC and you will be able to boot up from eMMC now.

version 1.0a, 3/23/2015

Last updated 2016-04-12

Building Freescale/Embedian’s Yocto BSP Distribution

Introduction

Generating SSH Keys

Step 1. Check for SSH keys

Step 2. Generate a new SSH key

Step 3. Add your SSH key to Embedian Gitlab Server

Overview of the meta-emb-smarc Yocto Layer

Setting Up the Tools and Build Environment

Setup SD Card

Install Bootloader

uEnv.txt based bootscript

Install Kernel zImage

Install Kernel Device Tree Binary

Install Root File System

Copy Root File System:

Feed Packages

Writing Bitbake Recipes

Example HelloWorld recipe using autotools

Example HelloWorld recipe using a single source file

Setup eMMC

Prepare for eMMC binaries from SD card (or NFS):

Copy Binaries to eMMC from SD card:

Install binaries for partition 1

Install Kernel Device Tree Binary

Install Root File System

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