Ubuntu 11.10 for i.MX6

Bluetechnix offers an SD card image for the CM-i.MX6D/Q with Ubuntu version 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot).

• This Ubuntu version is provided by Freescale for its i.MX6 reference boards (ubuntu_oneiric_4.0.0.tgz)
• Our image incorporates boot loader (U-Boot), Linux kernel, and kernel modules from the Bluetechnix i.MX6 Linux BSP.

Screen shot

Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop

Download

Version from 2013-11-06 New!

URL

https://support.becom-group.com/releases/imx/mx6/bsp-2.0.0/

Files

cmimx6dq-ubuntu11.10-sdcard-image-20131106.bin.bz2 (BZIP2-compressed SD card image for CM-i.MX6 Dual/Quad)

cmimx6s-ubuntu11.10-sdcard-image-20131106.bin.bz2 (BZIP2-compressed SD card image for CM-i.MX6 Solo)

Supported hardware

CM-i.MX6 Quad/Dual/Solo V1.1.x

DEV-i.MX6 V1.1.x

These images contain U-Boot and Linux kernel from the v2.0.0 Linux BSP.

Version from 2013-09-10

URL

https://support.becom-group.com/releases/imx/mx6/bsp-1.0.0-xgrade/

File

cmimx6dq-ubuntu11.10-sdcard-image-20130910.bin.bz2 (BZIP2-compressed SD card image)

Supported hardware

CM-i.MX6 Quad V1.0.x

DEV-i.MX6 V1.0.x

These images contain U-Boot and Linux kernel from the v1.0.0 Linux BSP.

Setup instructions

• You need an SDHC card with a minimum size of 4 GB. The image has a size of 4,000,000,000 bytes. We recommend a fast SD card as it expedites I/O operations. See: [1].
• You need a PC with an SD card slot.
• Download the selected image.

Linux instructions

• Decompress the downloaded image: bunzip2 <image>.bin.bz2 (or use any GUI tool to unpack).
• Decompressing will leave you the file <image>.bin.
• Plug in the SD card.
• Find out the SD card block device file, e.g. by entering dmesg after inserting the card. On most PCs, it is either sdx (last letter varies!) or mmcblk6 (number varies!).
• If the automounter automatically mounts the SD card, unmount it. Check with mount.
• Write the image to the SD card (this makes a bit-wise copy): sudo dd if=<image>.bin of=/dev/sdx bs=1M
• To be on the safe side, do a sync.
• The SD card is ready!

Windows instructions

• Decompress the downloaded image with the program of your choice. Note you need an external tool to handle bzip2-compressed files, e.g. 7Zip.
• To program the image to the SD card using a Windows PC, have a look here.

Continue

• Put it in your i.MX6 base board and adjust boot mode settings. For setting the DEV-i.MX6 DIP-switches for SD-boot see here.
• Supply power to your board, and switch it on if necessary.

We recommend to connect

• Wide screen monitor via HDMI cable
• USB mouse
• USB keyboard
• Speakers/Headphone
• Ethernet (If DHCP is available, Ubuntu will use it)
  • If an Ethernet connection is available, the system time in Ubuntu will be synchronized automatically with an NTP server.

Login

User

linaro

Password

linaro

You can gain root privileges by using sudo and entering the user's password.

Serial console

Ubuntu will give you root access automatically on the serial console.

Simply connect to the USB-UART converter on the DEV-i.MX6 board by connecting your PC with connector X27 (Mini-USB).

Welcome to Linaro 12.03 (GNU/Linux 3.0.35-00001-g5bbc63b armv7l)

root@linaro-ubuntu-desktop:~#

Tested features

• Video playback with Totem video player (uses the GStreamer framework, which in turn uses the i.MX6 hardware video processing unit to decode the video)
• Recording from camera ISM-MT9M025 with gst-launch tool and mfw_v4lsrc source plug-in
• USB mouse
• USB keyboard
• USB flash disk
• SATA
• Installation of ROS "Groovy" for Ubuntu ARM: [2]