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1*************************** 2Freescale i.MX8QM MEK board 3*************************** 4 5This file documents the Buildroot support for the NXP i.MX8QM MEK board. 6 7You will find a reference to the board on nxp.com: 8https://www.nxp.com/design/development-boards/i.mx-evaluation-and-development-boards/i.mx-8quadmax-multisensory-enablement-kit-mek:MCIMX8QM-CPU 9 10You can also find the get started guide here: 11https://www.nxp.com/document/guide/get-started-with-the-i.mx-8quadmax-mek:GS-iMX-8QM-MEK 12 13Build 14===== 15 16First, configure Buildroot for the i.MX8QM MEK board: 17 18$ make freescale_imx8qmmek_defconfig 19 20Build all components: 21 22$ make 23 24You will find in output/images/ the following files: 25 - ahab-container.img 26 - bl31.bin 27 - boot.vfat 28 - fsl-imx8qm-mek.dtb 29 - Image 30 - imx8-boot-sd.bin 31 - mkimg.commit 32 - mx8qm-mek-scfw-tcm.bin 33 - mx8qm-val-scfw-tcm.bin 34 - mx8qm-a0-ddr4-scfw-tcm.bin 35 - mx8qm-a0-mek-scfw-tcm.bin 36 - mx8qm-a0-val-scfw-tcm.bin 37 - mx8qm-ddr4-scfw-tcm.bin 38 - rootfs.ext2 39 - rootfs.ext4 40 - rootfs.tar 41 - sdcard.img 42 - u-boot-atf.bin 43 - u-boot.bin 44 - u-boot-hash.bin 45 46Create a bootable SD card 47========================= 48 49To determine the device associated to the SD card have a look in the 50/proc/partitions file: 51 52 cat /proc/partitions 53 54Buildroot prepares a bootable "sdcard.img" image in the output/images/ 55directory, ready to be dumped on a SD card. Launch the following 56command as root: 57 58 dd if=output/images/sdcard.img of=/dev/<your-sd-device> 59 60*** WARNING! This will destroy all the card content. Use with care! *** 61 62For details about the medium image layout, see the definition in 63board/freescale/common/imx/genimage.cfg.template_imx8. 64 65Boot the i.MX8QM MEK board 66========================== 67 68To boot your newly created system: 69- insert the SD card in the SD slot of the board; 70- Configure the boot switch as follows: 71SW2: OFF OFF ON ON OFF OFF 72- put a micro USB cable into the Debug USB Port and connect using a terminal 73 emulator at 115200 bps, 8n1; 74- power on the board. 75 76Enjoy! 77