[meta-freescale] u-boot fslc support for imx8

[Kevin Lannen]

Hi all,


I am trying to use mender on an i.MX8M system-on-module to handle over-the-air updates. I ran into issues with the meta-fsl-bsp-release which uses the imx-uboot that is too old.


Is there work being done on upstreaming the i.MX8M bsp from meta-fsl-bsp-release into the meta-freescale layer? If so when is that likely to be available?


I am happy to help out with some testing on it and to help out with the upstreaming if someone could give me some guidance on where to start with it. I am pretty new to Yocto so this could be good for me to learn about.


Thanks,


Kevin Lannen

[Daiane Angolini]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:59 PM Kevin Lannen <***@patroness.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I am trying to use mender on an i.MX8M system-on-module to handle over-the-air updates. I ran into issues with the meta-fsl-bsp-release which uses the imx-uboot that is too old.
>
>
> Is there work being done on upstreaming the i.MX8M bsp from meta-fsl-bsp-release into the meta-freescale layer? If so when is that likely to be available?
>

There are patches on patchwork (for example [1]) but I understand they
are still being reviewed.

[1] https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/153411/


Daiane
>
> I am happy to help out with some testing on it and to help out with the upstreaming if someone could give me some guidance on where to start with it. I am pretty new to Yocto so this could be good for me to learn about.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Kevin Lannen
>
> --
> _______________________________________________
> meta-freescale mailing list
> meta-***@yoctoproject.org
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
--

[Kevin Lannen]

Thanks for pointing me to those patches Daiane.


It looks like those patches all apply to u-boot-imx which is at version 2017.03 still. Is anyone doing any work to bring i.MX8 support to the u-boot-fslc so that a newer u-boot version such as 2017.11 can be used?


Thanks,


Kevin



________________________________
From: ***@gmail.com <***@gmail.com> on behalf of Daiane Angolini <***@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 7:55:57 AM
To: Kevin Lannen
Cc: meta-freescale Mailing List
Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] u-boot fslc support for imx8

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:59 PM Kevin Lannen <***@patroness.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I am trying to use mender on an i.MX8M system-on-module to handle over-the-air updates. I ran into issues with the meta-fsl-bsp-release which uses the imx-uboot that is too old.
>
>
> Is there work being done on upstreaming the i.MX8M bsp from meta-fsl-bsp-release into the meta-freescale layer? If so when is that likely to be available?
>

There are patches on patchwork (for example [1]) but I understand they
are still being reviewed.

[1] https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/153411/


Daiane
>
> I am happy to help out with some testing on it and to help out with the upstreaming if someone could give me some guidance on where to start with it. I am pretty new to Yocto so this could be good for me to learn about.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Kevin Lannen
>
> --
> _______________________________________________
> meta-freescale mailing list
> meta-***@yoctoproject.org
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale

[Daiane Angolini]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:39 PM Kevin Lannen <***@patroness.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for pointing me to those patches Daiane.
>
>
> It looks like those patches all apply to u-boot-imx which is at version 2017.03 still. Is anyone doing any work to bring i.MX8 support to the u-boot-fslc so that a newer u-boot version such as 2017.11 can be used?
>

I don't think there is someone working on this already.

And u-boot-fslc is 2018.07, which already supports the EVK board [1]

http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=tree;f=arch/arm/mach-imx/mx8m;h=9563bfdf067ad23af59b298fa8a4f729631122e8;hb=8c5d4fd0ec222701598a27b26ab7265d4cee45a3

Daiane
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: ***@gmail.com <***@gmail.com> on behalf of Daiane Angolini <***@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 7:55:57 AM
> To: Kevin Lannen
> Cc: meta-freescale Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] u-boot fslc support for imx8
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:59 PM Kevin Lannen <***@patroness.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > I am trying to use mender on an i.MX8M system-on-module to handle over-the-air updates. I ran into issues with the meta-fsl-bsp-release which uses the imx-uboot that is too old.
> >
> >
> > Is there work being done on upstreaming the i.MX8M bsp from meta-fsl-bsp-release into the meta-freescale layer? If so when is that likely to be available?
> >
>
> There are patches on patchwork (for example [1]) but I understand they
> are still being reviewed.
>
> [1] https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/153411/
>
>
> Daiane
> >
> > I am happy to help out with some testing on it and to help out with the upstreaming if someone could give me some guidance on where to start with it. I am pretty new to Yocto so this could be good for me to learn about.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Kevin Lannen
> >
> > --
> > _______________________________________________
> > meta-freescale mailing list
> > meta-***@yoctoproject.org
> > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
--

[Fabio Estevam]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Daiane Angolini <***@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think there is someone working on this already.
>
> And u-boot-fslc is 2018.07, which already supports the EVK board [1]
>
> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=tree;f=arch/arm/mach-imx/mx8m;h=9563bfdf067ad23af59b298fa8a4f729631122e8;hb=8c5d4fd0ec222701598a27b26ab7265d4cee45a3

Not really. mx8mq evk is not supported in mainline U-Boot yet.
--

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:39 PM Kevin Lannen <***@patroness.com> wrote:
> It looks like those patches all apply to u-boot-imx which is at version 2017.03 still. Is anyone doing any work to bring i.MX8 support to the u-boot-fslc so that a newer u-boot version such as 2017.11 can be used?

The iMX8 support is being worked on the mainline mailing list of
U-Boot. Once it lands on mainline, we will adopt it ;-)

I am reviewing the patches and applying whatever is possible now to
port the i.MX8 support to meta-freescale. It still needs some love as
we try to clean up as much as possible the BSP when adding support for
it on the community side.

--
Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems
http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br
Mobile: [phone] Mobile: [phone]
--