[meta-freescale] Questions on adapt yocto to a custom board

[Daiane Angolini]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:52 AM,  <andrea at perpic.it> wrote:
> Hello everybody,

Hi

>
> It's some day that I'm surfing the net looking for the answer to my
> question, I don't find any useful information because it looks to me
> that all the solutions in in some way tricks and not clean solutions.
>
> My case:
> I have an IMX53 custom board that is similar to loco but I added some
> gpio and other function due to my application needs. (I think this
> situation is common for everybody that produces dedicated hardware also
> for other processors.)
>
> For adding complexity... All the documentation I can see on the net is
> related OR to LTIB OR to IMX6 that uses a different kernel version so
> files are in different locations or with different names.
>
> Finally my question:
> What is the best way for deal with a new hardware?

Start with DDR script, go to u-boot development, go to kernel bring up.


> Adapt all the file from (u-boot / kernel) of the more similar board for
> adapt to my needs or create a new board?

For u-boot case, use mainline and add your board in the latest stable
(or upstream it)

For kernel, I prefer to not comment. There are several possible ways to go.

>
> case 1: I think it's simples because what is already working continue to
> work but I expect less flexibility because if I need to have a variant
> of that board I need to manage two different layers depends on the board
> I need to compile.
>
> case 2: create a new u-boot / kernel configuration for my board.
> I expect more difficult at the beginning, find the right files to copy,
> build the new versions of the firmware etc. Also every new changes on
> the original board will be lost if I don't change them in my new files

In case you have the original board, it can be used as a benchmark
during your bringup work.

If you don't have the original board. I'm not sure if the 2 cases are different.


> What do you usually do?
> What do you think are the problems with case 1 and case 2?
>
> Are you aware of any guide that I can follow for case 1 and / or case 2?
> I am thinking about... iomux, flexcan initialization...

Have you read already the Porting guide for i.MX6? During the bringup,
i.mx53 and i.mx6 is not ~that much~ different. Read that document and
follow that guidelines to your board. If you don't know where to find
it, let me know.


Daiane
>
> Any input will be appreciated
> thank you for reading the long post
> best regards
> Andrea
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