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Angus Ainslie
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Image Builder
=============
Create a bootable SD Card image for the
[
Boundary Devices Nitrogen6max
][
1
]
.
This is the image builder for the Librem5 and related boards:
These are WIP scripts tested on the Nit6QP_MAX.
*
*devkit*
: The
[
Librem 5 Devkit
][
0
]
*
*ec-som*
: Emcraft's
[
i.MX 8M SOM Starter Kit
][
1
]
*
*imx8*
:
[
NXPs IMX8M Evluation Kit
][
2
]
*
*imx6*
: the Bounday Devices
[
Nit6QP_MAX
][
3
]
To build the image for then nitrogen6 run
It supports various distributions (PureOS
*labortory*
and
*purple*
, Debian
*buster*
). Additionally it can add our on commit built CI packages to get
the latest versions of the Librem 5 related sofware.
make
Furthermore it can incoproate different kernel versions:
The resulting image will be named
*imx6.img*
.
*
*latest*
: Fetch the most recently built kernel
*
*ci*
: deprecated, don't use
*
*unstable*
: Pre release kernels (that got some testing)
*
*stable*
: Released kernels (none of them exist yet)
T
o build an image
for the imx8 EVK
So t
o build an image
with all the latest software you'd use:
make BOARD=imx8
The resulting image will be named
*imx8.img*
.
./build-image -T latest -b devkit -d buster+ci
# Creating a bootable SD card
This is only relevant for SD card booting on e.g. the Nitrogen or NXP
boards:
The SD card must be larger than 3G. Replace
<x>
with the SD card device.
sudo dd if=imx6.img of=/dev/sd<x> bs=4M
...
...
@@ -37,4 +46,7 @@ You can run tests against an installed board using
cd tests
TARGET_HOST=<your_board_ip> rake spec:nitrogen6
[
1
]:
https://boundarydevices.com/product/nitrogen6max/
[
0
]:
https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Hardware_Reference.html#librem-5-devkit
[
1
]:
https://www.emcraft.com/products/868
[
2
]:
https://www.nxp.com/support/developer-resources/run-time-software/i.mx-developer-resources/evaluation-kit-for-the-i.mx-8m-applications-processor:MCIMX8M-EVK
[
3
]:
https://boundarydevices.com/product/nitrogen6max/
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