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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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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