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Paul Beesleyf3653a62019-05-22 11:22:44 +01001NXP i.MX 8M Series
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4The i.MX 8M family of applications processors based on Arm Corte-A53 and Cortex-M4
5cores provide high-performance computing, power efficiency, enhanced system
6reliability and embedded security needed to drive the growth of fast-growing
7edge node computing, streaming multimedia, and machine learning applications.
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9Boot Sequence
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12Bootrom --> SPL --> BL31 --> BL33(u-boot) --> Linux kernel
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14How to build
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17Build Procedure
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20- Prepare AARCH64 toolchain.
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22- Build spl and u-boot firstly, and get binary images: u-boot-spl.bin,
23 u-boot-nodtb.bin and dtb for the target board.
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25- Build TF-A
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27 Build bl31:
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29 .. code:: shell
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Mark Dykesef3a4562020-01-08 20:37:18 +000031 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make PLAT=<Target_SoC> bl31
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33 Target_SoC should be "imx8mq" for i.MX8MQ SoC.
Jacky Baia6177002019-03-06 17:15:06 +080034 Target_SoC should be "imx8mm" for i.MX8MM SoC.
Jacky Bai9bd2f842019-11-28 13:16:33 +080035 Target_SoC should be "imx8mn" for i.MX8MN SoC.
Jacky Bai07ed02c2020-06-03 14:28:45 +080036 Target_SoC should be "imx8mp" for i.MX8MP SoC.
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38Deploy TF-A Images
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41TF-A binary(bl31.bin), u-boot-spl.bin u-boot-nodtb.bin and dtb are combined
42together to generate a binary file called flash.bin, the imx-mkimage tool is
43used to generate flash.bin, and flash.bin needs to be flashed into SD card
44with certain offset for BOOT ROM. the u-boot and imx-mkimage will be upstreamed
45soon, this doc will be updated once they are ready, and the link will be posted.