[meta-freescale] Freescale Yocto Question - Building imx6dl-riotboard

[Daiane Angolini]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 4:00 PM,  <Eric.Zaluzec at emerson.com> wrote:
> Thanks Daiane, maybe I am getting ahead of myself with the questions.
> Under the FSL Community BSP's "Support Board List", I see the "imx6dl-riotboard / RIotboard / i.MX6S / meta-fsl-arm-extra".
> http://freescale.github.io/doc/release-notes/2.1/index.html#supported-boards
> Is this imx6dl-riotboard BSP and machine configuration file the one that can run on the RIoTboard evaluation platform found on http://riotboard.org/ ?

Yes. I don't have the board so I haven't tested it in a while. Please
test and let us know.

Daiane

> If it is not, do you have reference or a web URL for the one RIoTboard that you support?
>
> Regards,
> -Eric Zaluzec
> (Eric.Zaluzec at Emerson.com)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: angolini at gmail.com [mailto:angolini at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Daiane Angolini
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 11:20 AM
> To: Zaluzec, Eric [NETPWR/AL]
> Cc: meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] Freescale Yocto Question - Building imx6dl-riotboard
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 3:12 PM,  <Eric.Zaluzec at emerson.com> wrote:
>> Greeting,
>>
>> I have a quick question concerning the imx6dl-riotboard machine
>> configuration file, maintained by the Yocto Freescale community.
>>
>> We have an upcoming project for which we are considering a i.MX6 Dual
>> Lite processor. But since there are no Dual Lite evaluation boards, at
>> this time, we were provided an i.mx6 solo RIoTboard to use for initial
>> testing, by Avnet and NXP distributors.
>>
>>
>>
>> First off, thank you for providing up-to-date Yocto build repositories
>> and documentation! This makes kicking-off a new Yocto BSP Project much simpler!
>> Cheers.
>>
>> I read the Freescale Yocto User Guide here:
>> http://www.bcmcom.com/CustomerDL/AR6MX/Yocto/Freescale_Yocto_Project_U
>> ser's_Guide.pdf I then read the  RIoTboard Yocto build guide here:
>> https://www.element14.com/community/community/designcenter/single-boar
>> d-computers/riotboard/blog/2014/09/22/riotboard-yocto-part1-getting-st
>> arted
>>
>> Using both resources, I successfully built a Yocto image and was able
>> to install onto my RIoTboard.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Now, using Yocto, I would like to build a RIoTboard image with a fido
>> or krogoth branch of Yocto, to make use of the updated packages &
>> bitbake recipes, like boost and java, These versions are dependencies
>> to my metadata layer’s packages.
>>
>> I went to the fsl-arm-yocto-bsp git repository site and found the
>> imx-4.1-krogoth branch:
>> http://git.freescale.com/git/cgit.cgi/imx/fsl-arm-yocto-bsp.git/?h=imx
>> -4.1-krogoth
>>
>>
>>
>> I followed the User Guide steps, but this time cloned the
>> imx-4.1-krogoth branch. I noticed the riotboard.conf machine
>> configuration file no longer existed, but a imx6dl-riotboard machine
>> was present in the meta-fsl-arm-extra & meta-freescale-3rdparty
>> metadata layers. I successfully built an image with this machine conf
>> file, but then realized that it was ‘dl’ (Dual Lite?) and would not
>> boot with the solo RIoTboard that I was using.
>>
>>
>>
>> Question :
>>
>> Are there any branches on for the fsl-arm-yocto-bsp repository that
>> are fido/jethro/krogoth compatible, that include the riotboard solo
>> machine configuration file?
>> http://git.freescale.com/git/cgit.cgi/imx/fsl-arm-yocto-bsp.git
>>
>> If not, is it possible for users, like me, to base a riotboard solo
>> machine conf file off the imx6dl-riotboard machine and create a
>> successful BSP image? Or are these unavoidable conflicts?
>>
>>
>>
>> The critical piece here is not necessarily having a v4.1 kernel but
>> just the use of the updated package recipes & the dependency to custom
>> packages trying to be installed & tested on the riotboard!
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help, suggestions, or feedback would greatly be appreciated! Right
>> now I am just tinkering with learning about the riotboard machine conf
>> file to see if I can port it to the imx-4.1-krogoth branch.
>>
>
> I'm not sure you're going to be able to use imx-4.1-krogoth branch with the riot board. Please, take a look at [1]
>
> We have support for one riot board, double check if this is what you are looking for.
>
> [1] http://freescale.github.io/doc/release-notes/2.1/index.html#the-differences-between-project-name-and-freescale-release-name
>
>
> Daiane
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Eric Zaluzec
>> (Eric.Zaluzec at Emerson.com)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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