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From: Rouven Czerwinski <r.czerwinski@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] How to create a board/platform from scratch (specifically iMX8M)
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:13:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bebe64f1196b5c8ada47967093e37d1f1aef3646.camel@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2bb61da1-0b1a-ca5f-0ced-ea9628b94156@ppc-ag.de>

On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 15:05 +0200, Mircea Ciocan wrote:
> Hello everybody, is there a tutorial on creating a configuration for a 
> new board starting from scratch, specifically for the iMX8M MCU ?
> 
> As far as I could find there are no public references on how to do it 
> from scratch, especially u-Boot integration, image creation and so on. 
> If I'm wrong kindly please correct me and point to the documentation.
> 
> Also did anybody ever tried ptxdist with a board holding iMX8M MCU, as 
> far as I can see everything is now Yocto, or buildroot (rarely).
> 
> I think it's also because there are practically no sample configurations 
> for modern ARM MCUs, buildroot for example comes with a number included 
> configurations at least for the NXP EVKs.
> 
> I believe it will be a good idea to include a number of configurations 
> for more popular development/evaluation kits, if not in the main 
> ptxdist, at least as an add-on package, what is the list opinion ?

We have DistroKit for this, which recently gained support for the
i.MX8M CPUs, check it out under [1].

Furthermore there are blogposts on the pengutronix blog, which can be
found at [2].

I agree that a guide should be added to the documentation as well.

Regards,
Rouven 

[1]: https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/DistroKit/
[2]: https://www.pengutronix.de/de/tags/ptxdist.html


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-02 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-02 13:05 Mircea Ciocan
2020-09-02 13:13 ` Rouven Czerwinski [this message]
2020-09-03  6:50 ` Alexander Dahl

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