| NXP i.MX 8M Series |
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| The i.MX 8M family of applications processors based on Arm Corte-A53 and Cortex-M4 |
| cores provide high-performance computing, power efficiency, enhanced system |
| reliability and embedded security needed to drive the growth of fast-growing |
| edge node computing, streaming multimedia, and machine learning applications. |
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| Boot Sequence |
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| Bootrom --> SPL --> BL31 --> BL33(u-boot) --> Linux kernel |
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| How to build |
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| Build Procedure |
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| - Prepare AARCH64 toolchain. |
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| - Build spl and u-boot firstly, and get binary images: u-boot-spl.bin, |
| u-boot-nodtb.bin and dtb for the target board. |
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| - Build TF-A |
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| Build bl31: |
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| .. code:: shell |
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| CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make PLAT=<Target_SoC> bl31 |
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| Target_SoC should be "imx8mq" for i.MX8MQ SoC. |
| Target_SoC should be "imx8mm" for i.MX8MM SoC. |
| Target_SoC should be "imx8mn" for i.MX8MN SoC. |
| Target_SoC should be "imx8mp" for i.MX8MP SoC. |
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| Deploy TF-A Images |
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| TF-A binary(bl31.bin), u-boot-spl.bin u-boot-nodtb.bin and dtb are combined |
| together to generate a binary file called flash.bin, the imx-mkimage tool is |
| used to generate flash.bin, and flash.bin needs to be flashed into SD card |
| with certain offset for BOOT ROM. the u-boot and imx-mkimage will be upstreamed |
| soon, this doc will be updated once they are ready, and the link will be posted. |