Build Yocto for IMX8MM - ADLINK/meta-adlink-nxp GitHub Wiki

1. Set up a build host environment:

1.1 Recommended Hardware for the host

  • Intel Core-i7 Processor (>= 4 cores)
  • at least 8GB of Memory
  • at least 500GB Disk sapce
  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64bit or later version for Yocto Project Build
  • High-speed network connectivity

 1.2 Essential host Packages are required to be installed on your host :

$ sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib build-essential chrpath socat cpio python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect xz-utils debianutils iputils-ping python3-git python3-jinja2 libegl1-mesa libsdl1.2-dev pylint xterm zstd liblz4-tool curl git python-is-python3

Note:

Please Don't use the root account to build Yocto. it might cause unpredictable errors.


  1.3 "Google repo" packages is required to be installed on your host :

$ mkdir ~/bin (this step may not be needed if the bin folder already exists)
$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
$ export PATH=${PATH}:~/bin

1.4 Before star to build the source, please make sure that git is set up properly with the commands below:

$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
$ git config --global user.email "Your Email"
$ git config --list

2. Fetch the source from the git location as below:

2.1 please create the working directory. we're creating "imx8mm-yocto-bsp" .

$ mkdir imx8mm-yocto-bsp 
$ cd imx8mm-yocto-bsp

2.2 Start to download the source and build with the command below.

For kirkstone

$ repo init -u https://github.com/ADLINK/adlink-manifest -b lec-imx-yocto-kirkstone -m adlink-lec-imx8mm-yocto-kirkstone_1v0.xml
$ repo sync
$ MACHINE=lec-imx8mm DISTRO=fsl-imx-wayland source adlink-imx-setup-release.sh -b <build_dir>

2.3 Build the image

$ bitbake imx-image-multimedia

2.4 Image is generated as core-image-weston-xxx.wic.bz2 in <build_dr>/tmp/deploy/images/lec-imx8m/, use below command to unzip

$ bunzip2 -dk -f imx-image-multimedia-xxx.wic.bz2

3. Next action to deploy the image

ADLINK - computer on Module

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