LinRT Multi-FB Mercury BSP demo image Phytec Mira i.MX6Q
LinRT Multi-FB Mercury BSP Release 2.1 for i.MX6 provides a Yocto BSP solution based on FSL Community BSP, and fully adapted for the migration of pSOS or VxWorks Real-Time applications.
The LinRT Multi-FB Mercury BSP offers a solution to upgrade your existing real-time system and the ability to add more functionality using all the capabilities that a recent Linux OS has to offer on i.MX6Solo / DualLite and i.MX6Quad running with a low latency embedded Linux kernel.
The new LinRT Multi-FB Mercury BSP Release 2.1 gives the last CVE vulnerabilities patches for Linux kernel 4.14 and Yocto Thud 2.6.4 for secure systems.
Qt5 Multimedia Demo image for Phytec SBC Mira i.MX6Quad
The Qt5 Multimedia demo image for Phytec Mira SBC i.MX6 Quad is a free download demonstration SD-CARD image, based on linrt-full-multimedia-qt5-image with demo software packages build with LinRT Multi-FB Mercury Yocto BSP for phyCORE® i.MX6Q/DL.
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Demo image installation
Prepare your Linux Host PC station, by installing bmap-tools packages (example for Ubuntu Host) :
$ sudo apt-get update -y $ sudo apt-get install -y bmap-tools
Insert an SD-CARD into the reader, check with dmesg command mounted device path and on Linux console type following command (example for /dev/mmcblk0)
$ sudo bmaptool copy linrt-full-multimedia-qt5-image-demo-phyboard-mira-imx6-3-demo.wic.gz /dev/mmcblk0
For the first boot, connect the HDMI display as primary, and USB mouse for GUI demo.
Connect Mira SBC and your Host PC with an RS232 serial cable and configure your serial terminal client for 115200 baud, 8 data bits, no parity, and 1 stop bit (8n1)
Main features
- Last Yocto Thud 2.6.4 + layers FSL Community BSP
- LinRT Multi-FB Mercury distros based on fsl/poky distro
- Linux-fslc-imx 4.14.2.3.x + PREEMPT-RT (CVE vulnerabilities patches up to 4.14.214)
- Barebox bootloader 2019.11
- Xenomai 3.1 Mercury Core
- Driver imx-gpu-vivante 6.2.4
- Multi FrameBuffer Full HD
- gstreamer-1.0
- imx hardware codec support (NXP GPU/VPU)
Release notes
Mercury MultiFB 2.1 2021-01-28 ============================================================ ============== Changes since Mercury MultiFB 2.0: ------------------------------ --- - linux-fslc-imx_4.14-2.3.x-rt: applying linux-cve vulnerability patches available from linux mainline kernel up to 4.14.214 release - qt5.12.9 -> qt5.12.10 (vendor commit: b0d2d2913ed4c4b6b5b9a19edcb7c8 5cc0dd7904) - Fixes: * general: - libopenVG packages runtime install - psplash rotate display - QtDemo startup artifacts with psplash - Systemd CAN bus service deployment failed * kernel: - Increase SOC operating points for low frequencies - Add LDOs in bypass for CPU core regulators Machines: --------- - Added: * phyboard-nunki-imx6-1
Detailed phyCORE-iMX6_Release_Notes_
Detailed phyFLEX-iMX6_Release_Notes_
Demo image limitations
This SD-CARD demo image is configurated as :
- Tested for Mira i.MX6 Quad SBC (phyboard-mira-imx6-3 BSP Machine)
- No CAN Bus support
- No Wifi support
- No NOR and NAND Flash support
- Framebuffer /dev/fb0 : HDMI Full HD (primary display)
- Framebuffer /dev/fb2 : 10” LVDS 800×640 display with Resistive Touch (G104SN02)
- Framebuffer /dev/fb4 : 7” LCD 800×480 display with Capacitive Touch (AC104)
- Automatic Power down after 15 minutes (needing switch off / switch on power supply to reboot)
For having full features LinRT Multi-FB Mercury Qt5 image for Mira i.MX6 Quad, report to pre-build image and SDK product descriptions [coming soon …]
More LinRT BSP Multi-FB Mercury v2.1 demo Images for i.MX6 here…
