Embedded Linux for Olimex i.MX8MP SoM and EVK with the Yocto Project

[@TheSulross]

I live in the states and own an Olimex board aimed at retro computing hobbyist - they are a cool company due the kind of boards they bring out that serve some markets that otherwise are underserved Oh, and for some their boards (like the one I have) these can be purchased in North America from well known online electronics parts retailers - but depends on the specific board if will be so available. Otherwise will have to purchase direct from Olimex and deal with the higher shipping cost, etc.

[@LeonAnavi]

They have several boards for retro computing nowadays. I purchased Neo6502 but I haven't even started with it yet. Which one do you have? I feel your pain regarding shipping fees. Olimex are neighbors so I didn't have to pay high shipping fees for these boards but I know how it goes for board from other vendors...

[@somashekarkiran9991]

Like I have a customised board and I don't know how to build an image for that

[@LeonAnavi]

You will need to create a Yocto/OE machine configuration for your custom board.

[@somashekarkiran9991]

Hlo sir thank you so much for the video. I have doubt if you can reply for this it would be great helpful. Can you explain the briefly how you have build the image. Thank you sir

[@LeonAnavi]

Yes, I have built it using Yocot/OE layers meta-freescale, meta-freescale-3rdparty and meta-freescale-distro. The machine name is olimex-imx8mp-evb and the image is core-image-weston.

[@somashekarkiran9991]

Thank you sir.

[@somashekarkiran9991]

It would be very helpful if you make a video of building the image for a custom board. Thank you so much for the reply and everything and for sharing your knowledge

[@LeonAnavi]

@somashekarkiran9991 you are welcome :)

[@LeonAnavi]

@@somashekarkiran9991 making a custom board capable of running embedded Linux and doing the hardware bring-up takes a huge amount of time and can't be fitted in a short video. Actually for this Olimex SoM I have contributed several bits upstream as part of building the image that you see in the video to meta-freescale, meta-freescale-3rdparty and the downstream Linux kernel fork linux-fslc-imx. You can have a look at my GitHub pull requests to learn more about the details: github.com/Freescale/meta-freescale/pull/2025 github.com/Freescale/linux-fslc/pull/694 github.com/Freescale/meta-freescale-3rdparty/pull/309