CompuLab - FreeScale i.MX6 CPU

[Pete Wright]

On 03/06/14 11:10, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 15:11 -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
>>
>> On 03/04/14 23:17, Özkan KIRIK wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am interested with CompuLab Utilite Standart board. (
>>> http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-models )
>>> I saw that over SVN, FreeBSD has i.MX6 cpu support.
>>> What about drivers of this board?
>>>
>>> Does HDMI and NICs works?
>>>
>>> Can you suggest a cheap and two ethernet arm board that FreeBSD works.
>>>
>>
>>
>> hey there Ozkan - I am hacking on getting this working in my minimal
>> spare time.  there are a couple major issues i've run into:
>>
>> 1) not really full featured u-boot environment, no usb boot support for
>> example
>>
>> 2) flaky microSD support (had to try out several different cards to find
>> a working one from sandisk)
>>
>> 3) network stack w/in u-boot has been unstable (unable to tftpboot
>> images due to timeouts)
>>
>> the board does have some potential though - but it is not plug-and-play
>> at this point.  having said that - the up side is there is ton's of
>> opportunity to make an impact on getting support for this device working
>> in the freebsd-arm community :)
>>
>> cheers,
>> -pete
>>
> 
> It's really strange that you should have such problems with u-boot.  I
> don't experience anything like that with the Wanboards, the network and
> sdcard support seems solid.  That's both in the u-boot that came with
> the boards and in the ones I build myself from source.  The Utilite
> u-boot should be using all the same code as the Wandboards for that
> stuff, it's all generic imx6 support code with just a few lines of
> board-specific stuff in u-boot.
> 

it is certainly possible that my network instability may be due to
pebkac - i hope it is.  once linux boots on the device the interfaces
seem to work as expected, no error counts on the interfaces when doing
tests.

i am blocking some time out tomorrow to get back hacking on this and
will hopefully be able to post some notes to the wiki.

-pete

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Pete Wright
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