Re: [meta-freescale] Anyone currently working with ADLINK's LEC-iMX6 SMARC module?

On 03/09/25 13:03, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2025, Marco Cavallini via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> 
>> Hi Robert,
>> the system is strongly based on imx6qdlsabresd.conf and that should make your things easy.
>> However consider that you have to integrate 37 patches in your kernel
>> https://github.com/ADLINK/meta-adlink-nxp/blob/zeus/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx_5.4.bbappend
> 
>    hmmmmm ... this might be trickier than i thought. as i believe i
> mentioned, the tarball i was handed that represented a
> several-years-old YP build for this LEC-iMX6 SMARC module on a carrier
> board was based on the Zeus YP release. I wanted to drag this into
> this decade so I started with a walnascar build for imx6qdlsabresd,
> and built a core-image-minimal and that worked fine. (The build was
> just for proof of concept, haven't tried to install it.)
> 
>    But as I look at this tarball and examine ADLINK's nxp layers, the
> support for the lec-imx6-1 target disappears some time ago. It *seems*
> that I'll have to steal some of the kernel stuff from back in the
> Zeus layer. Yuck.
> 
>    My tentative plan is to just go with my current build, try to
> install that on the target, then see what works and what doesn't,
> since I'll want to use a much newer kernel. Is this the right way to
> go about this, given the apparent lack of support for that particular
> SMARC module in the newer YP releases?
> 
> rday


Hi Robert,
I usually like the approach to verify whether everything is working 
before proceeding.
Be careful that Zeus will require an old linux distro on the HOST and 
you may face to a plenty of git repos using 'master' branch that no 
longer exist.

Good luck.

--
Marco