[meta-freescale] Yocto image on iMX6 Board (EMB-3500)

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello,

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Yocto user <yoctouser at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is Rohit, I am trying to get yocto wokring on a ARM Board (EMB-3500
> iMX6).

Your e-mail address is a bit is a bit confusing :-(

> The board doesn't support booting from Memory card. So we use the mfgtools
> to flash the image to on board Nand. We have Ubuntu Image which works with
> no issue.
>
> The Ubuntu Image has 3 files,
>
> 1. rootfs.tar.bz2
> 2. u-boot.bin
> 3. uImage
>
> I have build a Yocto iMX6qSabreauto core-image-full-cmdline image, copied
> the "core-image-full-cmdline-imx6qsabreauto.tar.bz2" and
> "uImage-imx6qsabreauto.bin" in place of "rootfs.tar.bz2" and "uImage"
>
> Tried to flash the image to Nand, it fails to boot. I get following error,
>
> MMC read: dev # 3, block # 2048, count 8192 ... 8192 blocks read: OK
> ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 10800000 ...
>    Image Name:   Linux-3.10.17-1.0.0_ga+g232293e
>    Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
>    Data Size:    5264120 Bytes =  5 MB
>    Load Address: 10008000
>    Entry Point:  10008000
>    Verifying Checksum ... Bad Data CRC
> ERROR: can't get kernel image!
>
> I have tried to use the working kernel (Ubuntu - uImage). The kernel loads,
> but the board turns off automatically. I get following message before it
> turn off,
>
> EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs (mmcblk0p1): using internal journal
> EXT3-fs (mmcblk0p1): recovery complete
> EXT3-fs (mmcblk0p1): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode
> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) on device 179:1.
> Freeing init memory: 212K
>
> Any help in fixing this issue is really appreciated.

I am sorry but this board is not supported by our layers so the best
alternative is you to contact your board vendor and ask for them to
add proper Yocto Project support.

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