IMX6ULL‐TINY‐SOM - eaglelinuxplatform/meta-calixto-nxp GitHub Wiki

1. Host System Requirements

Yocto releases tested on Host machine versions

Yocto	Host
Scarthgap	`Ubuntu 20.04`

Please ensure you have git installed in your host machine.

sudo apt-get install git

Setting up the Repo utility

mkdir ~/bin

curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo

chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

Create a work directory

cd /home/${USER}/

mkdir calixto-yocto-bsp && cd calixto-yocto-bsp

Install the Calixto Linux BSP repo

repo init -u https://github.com/eaglelinuxplatform/calixto-manifest -b scarthgap -m cs-imx-6.6.52-2.2.0.xml

Download the Yocto Project Layers

 repo sync

Install packages required for building the images

 sudo ./install_prerequisites.sh

Note

Select distro and machine from the table and use it in the following commands

`distro`	Description
`fsl-imx-fb`	Frame Buffer graphics - no X11 or Wayland
`fsl-imx-wayland`	Pure wayland graphics
`fsl-imx-xwayland`	wayland graphics and X11

`machine`	Description
`imx6ull-tiny256`	i.MX6ULL Processor,256MB DDR3L RAM,Tiny SOM family
`imx6ull-tiny512`	i.MX6ULL Processor,256MB DDR3L RAM,Tiny SOM family
`imx6ull-tiny1024`	i.MX6ULL Processor,1024MB DDR3L RAM,Tiny SOM family

Configure the distro and machine. Create a build directory for the BSP build

DISTRO=<distro> MACHINE=<machine> source calixto-setup-release.sh -b build_dir

Setup the environment

cd calixto_workdir

source setup-environment build_dir

Note

Select image from the table and use it in the following commands.

`image`	Description	Supported Distros
`core-image-minimal`	A Small image that only allows a device to boot	fsl-imx-fb, fsl-imx-wayland, fsl-imx-xwayland
`core-image-base`	A console-only image that fully supports the target device hardware	fsl-imx-fb, fsl-imx-wayland, fsl-imx-xwayland
`core-image-sato`	An image with Sato, a mobile environment and visual style for mobile devices	fsl-imx-xwayland
`imx-image-core`	An i.MX image with i.MX test applications to be used for Wayland backends	fsl-imx-fb, fsl-imx-wayland, fsl-imx-xwayland
`fsl-image-machine-test`	An FSL Community i.MX core image with console environment - no GUI interface	fsl-imx-fb, fsl-imx-wayland, fsl-imx-xwayland
`imx-image-multimedia`	Builds an i.MX image with a GUI without any Qt content	fsl-imx-fb, fsl-imx-wayland, fsl-imx-xwayland
`imx-image-full`	Builds an opensource Qt 6 image with Machine Learning features	fsl-imx-fb, fsl-imx-wayland, fsl-imx-xwayland

Run bitbake command to initiate the build process

bitbake <image>

Yocto generated images will be in the following directory

ls /home/${USER}/calixto-yocto-bsp/<build_dir>/tmp/deploy/images/<machine>

Check whether following images are in the Output Image Location :

Components	Images
Example of Bootloader	`u-boot-sd-2024.04-r0.imx`
Example of kernel	`zImage--6.6.52+git0+6922991185-r0-imx6ull-tiny512-20250409052808`
Example of dtb	`imx6ull-calixto-tiny.dtb`
Example of rootfs	`core-image-minimal-imx6ull-tiny512.rootfs-20250409052808.tar.zst`

Follow the steps described in the link to create bootable SD Card for IMX6ULL TINY SOM

Root Username	root