BSP Layers and Reference Images for Yocto Project Release

Description: U-Boot doesn't boot on Colibri iMX8QXP

Description: Move to newer mainline U-Boot.

Description: Update graphics to the latest version from NXP.

Description: Some modules may show various kinds of RAM issues (U-Boot failing to boot fit images due to bad hash, random squashfs errors, random kernel panics when BSP is flashed). Closer analysis identified NXP meanwhile having updated the RAM configuration/initialisation side of things. Updating to NXP's latest Register Programming Aid (RPA) v19 seems to fix those issues. Full validation & verification pending...

Description: The downstream kernel gets to old to be used with the new zeus userspace components. Reuse the apalis-tk1 machine name to build a mainline kernel and drop the apalis-tk1-mainline machine.

Workaround: If you need to run the Apalis TK1 with the old downstream kernel use the latest 3.0 Image.

Description: Provide proper vidargs for mainline 5.4 in BSP 4.0.0

Description: [Mainline][U-Boot] Documentation re-work in U-Boot

Description: Add usbhubc to all our images and document its use.

Workaround: An OpenEmbedded recipe already exists which allows adding uhubctl to any custom image.
http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/recipe/85122/

Description: The dsp is an optional silicon feature. Currently, some of the Apalis iMX8 (and maybe Colibri iMX8X) do not have the feature. The device-trees by default enable the DSP in the SoC dtsi. The current driver prints the following message if the DSP is missing, often followed by a kernel oops. | Failed power operation on resource 512 sc_err 3, power_on 1 Change the driver to first detect the existence of a DSP and react accordingly.

Description: The mwifiex_sdio driver goes into an unrecoverable state after firmware of the Wi-Fi chip has crashed.

Workaround: Use mwifiex_sdio driver from backports-5.4.

Description: Update graphics to the latest version from NXP

Description: Update downstream kernel to the latest NXP BSP L4.14.98_2.3.0.

Description: Onboard Bluetooth is not fully validated and documented

Description: Add support for MIPI-CSI

Description: Add SDIO/SD Card Support

Description: Add support for SDIO / SD Card

Description: This issue occurs for transferring 2 to 31 bytes count.

Workaround: Apply fix https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2801b2f5fad3d1e9ea0ac8484584051071065645#diff-4cb745fc6dcd5915b18eb9baa5beee00.

Description: Amend i.MX8 content to https://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/display-output-resolution-and-timings-linux

Description: Support the new product version Apalis iMX8 V1.1A with our embedded Linux BSP.

Description: Add support for DSI to HDMI Adapter

Description: Toradex Easy Installer is supported but not documented

Description: Add UART Support

Description: Add support for Ethernet in bootloader and kernel.

Description: Add support for I2C

Description: Add support for UART

Description: Add support for Analog Audio Mic in

Description: Add support for Analog Audio Line In

Description: Add support for USB Client

Description: Add support for Ethernet

Description: Add support for DVI monitors

Description: Support on-module WiFi is added.

Description: Add support for suspend/resume

Workaround: To avoid crash on suspend, add the boot kernel parameter "clk_ignore_unused".

Description: Add support for CAN

Description: Add and validate WiFi support on Apalis iMX8.

Description: Support initiating power-off, support switching carrier board power-off

Description: Add support for SPDIF Audio

Description: Add support for DDC for HDMI/DVI

Description: Add support for PCIe

Description: Add support for I2C

Description: Add support for Analog Inputs

Description: Add support for Analog Audio Mic in

Description: Add support for Analog Audio Line In

Description: Add support for USB Client

Description: Add support for DVI-D monitors

Description: Initial support for Verdin Development Board 1.0A added

Description: Amend the following page with instructions on how to build for Apalis iMX8 and Colibri iMX8X, including the toolchain to use: https://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/build-u-boot-and-linux-kernel-from-source-code

Description: pixelclk-active = 1 still drives data at CLK in active low

Workaround: Use display resolution timings in kernel-parameters set in u-boot.

Description: U-boot: introduce update_uboot_recovery env wrapper. This should simplify and unify the process of updating u-boot stored in eMMC/NAND for development purposes, putting aside all differences of each SoM (NAND vs eMMC; Tegra vs iMX etc.).

Description: Support on-module Bluetooth

Description: Support for DDC for HDMI/DVI os added.

Description: Support for 2D/3D graphics acceleration is added.

Description: Support for SPI is added

Description: Support for PWM is added.

Description: Support for Analog Inputs is added.

Description: Support for Analog Audio Headphone is added.

Description: Add support for SDIO / SD Card

Description: Support for USB Client is added.

Description: Ethernet works well on Colibri iMX8QXP SoM v1.0b + Colibri Evaluation Board v3.2b with Toradex Linux BSP >= 3.0b2.52

Description: Support parallel RGB displays

Description: Audio codec sgtl5000 doesn't successfully resume after suspending the system.

Description: meta-toradex-demos currently provides /etc/profile. Rework that to take /etc/profile from OE core and put our extension as scripts into /etc/profile.d.

Description: We created the same tool as on i.MX 6 to reboot to recovery mode.

Description: Apalis TK1 dual camera use case crashes when one camera application is stopped and subsequently restarted.

Description: Commit 41ec065f fixed the eCSPI SDMA script type for SPI1-4 only.
Commit df07101e did set the wrong SDMA script type for SPI5. The workaroud SDMA script does NOT work on the SPBA bus, so revert to the correct SDMAa script type for SPI5.

Description: On the Colibri VF50, VF61, T20, T30 and Apalis T30 we will continue maintaining our long-term supported (LTS) BSP 2.8. We are providing updates when there are any HW changes on those platforms, and we will regularly provide critical bug fixes.

Workaround: BSP 2.8 Long Term Support

Description: During bring-up we disabled HS200 as it proved not to be stable but maybe that is just due to the SDHCI stack assuming a wrong signalling voltage of 3.3 volts: root@apalis-tk1:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/ios clock: 52000000 Hz vdd: 7 (1.65 - 1.95 V) bus mode: 2 (push-pull) chip select: 0 (don't care) power mode: 2 (on) bus width: 3 (8 bits) timing spec: 7 (sd uhs DDR50) signal voltage: 0 (3.30 V)

Description: Using GStreamer 1.12 from the OpenEmbedded/Yocto BSP with the MIPI-CSI OV5640 camera driver CONFIG_MXC_CAMERA_OV5640_MIPI_NV stutters (frames seem to be shown not in the correct order).

Description: Boot Apalis iMX8QM V1.0B and later from internal/on-module eMMC instead of an external SD card.

Description: Add support for SATA

Description: Add support for HDA and/or AC97 and/or I2S

Description: Add support for multimedia playback such as Video, Audio, etc.

Description: Add support for DVFS

Description: Add support for PWM

Description: Add support for Ethernet

Description: We decided to remove legacy update tool support from BSP 3.0.

Workaround: Stick to BSP 2.8.

Description: util-linux among others provides taskset for setting a processe's CPU affinity.

Description: The Angstrom distribution was changed to a minimal image provided by Toradex, based on Poky.

Workaround: Use the latest stable BSP 2.8.

Description: Support the new product version [00371001] Apalis iMX8QM 4GB WB V1.0B with our embedded Linux BSP.

Description: 4.4.220 and 4.9.220 which both have a matching RT-patch available.

Description: ADC readings may face a jump behavior due to keeper enabled by default.

Workaround: Disable keeper in ADC pinmuxings.

Description: Update OpenSSL to version 1.1.1d

Description: The on-module Wi-Fi might not resuming after suspend.

Workaround: Re-loading all Wi-Fi related kernel modules may help.

Description: Optional UHS-I SD card support is currently not working on the Colibri iMX6ULL.

Workaround: Fix the device-tree, have a look here: http://git.toradex.com/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?h=toradex_4.14-2.0.x-imx-next&id=7d0f5d6ad4350f0e1a3e10c4635f4bb20c1e63f9

Description: for operating Wi-Fi/BT capable modules with a single antenna please have a look at the following article on our developer website:
https://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/operating-wifibt-capable-modules-with-a-single-antenna

Description: The MCP2515 SPI CAN controller as found on the Colibri Evaluation Board is disabled by default in favour of toradex,evalspi SPIDEV. Let us change this like on the other Colibri modules.

Workaround: Just add Status = "disabled" to the toradex,evalspi device tree node and okay to the MCP2515 one.

Description: We switched from CRDA to direct loading of the Wi-Fi regulatory domain database in-kernel.

Description: If an Android phone is connected to the Colibri iMX6ULL, then an unexpected Linux kernel bug is shown and Bluetooth stops connecting. The only solution is to restart the module.

Description: iptables -L is not supported by our default Linux kernel configuration.

Workaround: A custom Linux Kernel compilation with correct configuration can solve the issue. The correct Linux kernel configuration is e.g. described here:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Iptables

Description: NXP released BSP 4.9.123_2.3.0_ga. Patches for the user space components are in the master branch on meta-freescale. We pulled those into the rocko branch of meta-toradex-nxp.

Description: Wake from suspend is not working on Colibri iMX6ULL 512MB Wi-Fi / Bluetooth IT.

Description: Doing ifdown/ifup may leave Ethernet PHY in an unknown state just permanently blinking preventing any communication. This is caused by an Ethernet PHY power-down without physically powering down resp. rail leaving the PHY in an unknown state which later upon powering it back up fails locking PLL. We may just disable PHY power-down bit (already implemented on Colibri VF50/61) or where possible properly implement powering down resp. rail.

Description: Back feeding on Ethernet rail when Ethernet is powered down.

Description: Generating a legacy update media using Debian Stretch and subsequently updating an Apalis TK1 failed during mounting the root file system.

Workaround: We recommend using the Toradex easy installer on platforms where it is supported. For the legacy update procedure, the easiest is to use one of the supported distributions:
https://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/board-support-package/openembedded-(core)#Prerequisites
Other distributions may have the option metadata_csum enabled per default for mkfs.ext4 (Debian Stretch, Arch, ...). This option is not supported on Linux kernels below 3.18 and generates a kernel panic during boot after the legacy update. As a workaround, one can disable this option in /etc/mke2fs.conf before executing the update.sh script. The ext4 man page also has a list of options with their corresponding supported kernels, which may be helpful to refer to in case of legacy update attempts on more exotic systems.

Description: Image features (e.g. tools-debug or others documented at https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#ref-features-image) do currently not work with the console-tdx-image. The reason is that the image is inheriting from image as opposed to core-image.

Workaround: You may use core-image instead but it might have additional effects.

Description: Modules with NANYA RAM chips assembled may rarely show timing issues leading to non-booting modules or otherwise unstable behaviour. We adjusted the on-die termination settings and fully validated & verified various modules in our temperature chambers.

Description: In OE we build the device trees listed in conf/machine/xxx.conf (build-time variable KERNEL_DEVICETREE) and put them into the image. In the update.sh script we currently also have a variable KERNEL_DEVICETREE with a list of what to put on the update media. We could patch update.sh in OE during image creation time, so that update.sh contains the list from conf/machine/xxx.conf rather than having to maintain that list in both places.

Description: Colibi imx6ull v1.0 supports BT 4.0 and BLE 4.1 Starting with imx6ull v1.1 we support BT\BLE 5.0

Description: The alternate function of the pins in the IOMUXC SNVS is wrongly displayed. These pins are always GPIO. (TAMPER[0-9], BOOT_MODE[0-1]. Fix this.

Description: We have unused pinmuxings for flexcan1 and flexcan2. Unify the pad settings for the two.

Description: The Colibri iMX7 dts files define a flexcan1 node, but the developer webpage https://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/can-(linux) only describe how to enable a (non existing) flexcan2 node. Clean that up. Probably one should add in both places the missing node.

Description: The firmware might behave erratic/crash when loading using U-Boot bootaux command with an elf firmware.

Description: The Linux kernel 4.1.44-2.7.4 may report a wrong i.MX 6 SoC version upon boot:
[ 0.109969] CPU identified as i.MX6Q, silicon rev 0.6

Workaround: The later Linux kernel 4.9.87-2.8.3 does report it correctly:
[ 0.069884] CPU identified as i.MX6Q, silicon rev 1.6
You may find a fix on the toradex_4.1-2.0.x-imx-next branch.

Description: The Colibri iMX6ULL V1.0 and V1.1 HW has no discrete pull ups on the I2C bus to the touch controller. This may lead to unreliable communication with the internal 100k pull ups and the used 80kHz I2C clock.

Description: Apalis TK1 LVDS drive strength settings are hard-coded. Idea is to move those to the device tree as well.

Workaround: For now, settings can be changes in drivers/video/tegra/dc/sor.c file. Function tegra_dc_sor_enable_lvds contains writes to NV_SOR_LANE_DRIVE_CURRENT and NV_SOR_LANE4_DRIVE_CURRENT registers. Registers definitions can be found in the "Tegra K1 Reference Manual".

Description: The i.MX6 ULL's watchdog is used to reset the SoC on reboot. The watchdog is configured to use the SoC's internal reset signal which does not generate a reset pulse on nRESET_OUT. Change the watchdog configuration to use a SoC external HW signal. This will additionally change the 'Reset cause' message from U-Boot from WDOG to POR. Note that the bmode_usb application in Linux no longer works due to the reset cause change. The behaviour in U-Boot has not been changed, the U-Boot command 'bmode usb' works as before.

Description: Forward ported commit 7ad9771527d2 ("apalis-tk1: fix PCIe reset for reliable gigabit Ethernet operation") was never validated. Turns out it does not work and may lead to PCIe gigabit bring-up issues.

Description: When running with HS400 at 100 MHz the Kernel may report eMMC errors such as "mmcblk0: error -84 transferring data" during boot-up. In some cases, it might cause the boot process to fail.

Workaround: Running HS400 at 200 MHz seems to work more stable.

Description: Update to NVIDIA's latest Linux for Tegra aka L4T R21.7 https://developer.nvidia.com/linux-tegra-r217.

Workaround: The Linux kernel changes are already available on the toradex_tk1_l4t_r21.7-next branch. The rest of the integration is already available in the rocko-next branch of our meta-toradex-tegra repository.

Description: Our Yocto Project layer readmes may not be up-to-date.

Workaround: Make sure to use valid combinations e.g. as available as tagged repo meta data:
http://git.toradex.com/cgit/toradex-bsp-platform.git

Description: Unfortunately, starting with BSP 2.8b2 the regular LXDE based demo image root file system reached a size which does no longer easily fit into 256MB of RAM, therefore, failing the legacy update procedure (it may just hang or even crash but definitely fails updating the root file system).

Workaround: Doing the following before 'run setupdate; run update' helps:
setenv fdt_addr_r 0x01000000

Description: Colibri iMX6ULL Crashing After Resuming from Suspend on Iris

Workaround: A patch is available in toradex_4.9-1.0.x-imx-next "arm: imx: gpc: do not poweroff M/F mix in suspend"

Description: Apalis TK1 legacy update is not deploying the v1.2 devicetree.

Workaround: Use Toradex Easy installer or u-boot ums mode.

Description: libsoc is a C library to interface with common peripherals found in System on Chips (SoC) through generic Linux Kernel interfaces. As libsoc supports more and more of our modules we add libsoc support to our regular images.

Description: When the UART with DMA (default) receives a character with framing errors (e.g. due to a break signal) the FIFO can get out of sync. Once out of sync, characters appear delayed only after new characters have been received.

Workaround: Reopen UART in case overruns have been detected (see /proc/tty/driver/fsl-lpuart). Use UART without DMA which handles Framing Errors correctly.

Description: While all other eMMC based Toradex SoMs do support the fatwrite U-Boot command the Colibri iMX7 Dual 1GB currently does not. This is especially sad should anybody try using any legacy update procedure e.g. just for flashing the M4 firmware.

Workaround: For now just use UMS, do it from Embedded Linux user space or use the Toradex Easy Installer with a custom image JSON.

Description: Installing a single backport kernel module to an image at build time fails (e.g. by using IMAGE_INSTALL_append in local.conf).

Workaround: Install all backport kernel modules by using the "backports" package.

Description: OE-Core layer did backport more package splits in the linux-firmware recipe. Due to this the HEAD of the morty branch clashes now with a similar split we did in meta-toradex-bsp-common resulting in a fatal QA error. (Compare with commit 0eaef98) ERROR: linux-firmware-1_0.0+gitAUTOINC+bf04291309-r0 do_package: QA Issue: linux-firmware-sd8887 is listed in PACKAGES multiple times, this leads to packaging errors. [packages-list]

Workaround: Delete the lines PACKAGES_prepend = "\ ${PN}-sd8887 \ " from meta-toradex-bsp-common/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_%.bbappend

Description: Adding perf to all eMMC-based Images which are less space-constrained than raw NAND ones.

Workaround: You may build a custom image including perf according to your requirements.

Description: PCIe enumeration aka "pci enum" U-Boot command may fail in U-Boot due to some I2C/Power management issue.

Description: Support USB 3.0 SuperSpeed on USBO1.

Workaround: Use USB 3.0 SuperSpeed on USBH4 for now. Alternatively, the mainline Linux kernel already supports USB 3.0 SuperSpeed on USBO1 as well as USBH4. You may also use the latest mainline Linux based demo image Apalis-TK1-Mainline_LXDE-Image as can be found at http://developer.toradex.com/files/toradex-dev/uploads/media/Colibri/Linux/Images/.
Such fix/support may now be found in the 2016.11-toradex-next U-Boot and toradex_tk1_l4t_r21.6-next Linux kernel branches of our git repositories.
Please note that one may not switch back to USB device functionality once USB 3.0 SuperSpeed host functionality has previously been used.

Description: Add support for RS485

Description: The scrot recipe source is 404.

Description: The update to rocko (BSP 2.8b1) made automount fail for systems which do not trigger mounting through dbus/udisk2, i.e. which rely on udev rules.

Description: When building 2.8b1 building stress fails with "ERROR: stress-1.0.4-r0 do_fetch: Fetcher failure for URL: 'http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~apw/stress/stress-1.0.4.tar.gz'. Checksum mismatch!".

Workaround: Use 2.8b2 or remove the stress recipe under "meta-toradex-demos/recipes-support/stress/stress_1.0.4.bb" (this will use a fixed version of stress in openembedded-core/meta/recipes-extended/).

Description: In the demo images for BSP 2.8b1 the image viewer gpicview is not installed.

Workaround: Remove adwaita-icon-theme from BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS when building the image with openembedded.

Description: The thermal sensor driver on i.MX 7Solo does not probe successfully. There is no thermal sensor data available.

Description: Currently we use an LXDE/GTK+ based desktop for our demo images targetting modules which provide enough storage. Moving this to a LXQt/Qt5 based desktop. This aids customers who want to start developing a Qt5 based application.

Description: Adding pcie_aspm=off to kernel cmdline may fix problems with PCIe cards on Apalis TK1.

Description: Target is to achieve >2k msg/s (1Mbit/s) on both CAN channels.

Description: After building an image completely successfully, building the same image the next day without any changes leads to an error "do_image_teziimg: Error executing a python function in exec_python_func()".

Workaround: Make an unrelated change in any recipe to force recreation of the rootfs.

Description: Pads not used in U-Boot are accessible via GPIO command. However, SODIMM 169 is currently not available and is driven high at the moment in U-Boot.

Description: Currently, we use an init script which starts X directly and then a Qt demo application. This has some drawbacks, e.g. when one wants to start a touch calibration or the likes. Use some readily available X startup system, e.g. xinit as a better base customers can build upon.

Workaround: Please find a suitable systemd service in the following recipe:
http://git.toradex.com/cgit/meta-toradex-demos.git/tree/recipes-images/images/angstrom-qt5-x11-image.bb?h=rocko#n4

Description: Provide Toradex GPIO tool.

Description: Upstream libusbgx accepted our implementation of OS Descriptor support. However, during review process the configuration schema changed slightly. Update libusbgx to the latest upstream version and use the new configuration format.

Description: The early sample hardware Apalis iMX6 V1.0A/B have a different UART pin-out which require a specific device tree. Starting with 2.8 Beta 1 we no longer provide these device trees.

Workaround: Use an older BSP or forward port the relevant changes between the device tree targeting the later HW vs. V1.0 HW.

Description: Enable "user debug" which enables kernel messages when a user process crashes due to an exception.

Description: Use ISO 8601 date format in the release_date property of the Toradex Easy Installer image JSON descriptor file.

Description: We are currently using 4.11 which is not really an LTS release however we opted to do that because we were relying on it for certain later features for certain Wi-Fi solutions we wanted to support. It may make sense to stabilise on an LTS release for the future.

Workaround: You may find our backports based on Linux kernel 4.14 here: http://git.toradex.com/cgit/backports-toradex.git/log/?h=toradex-4.14

Description: Apalis/Colibri T30 PWM was capped at 12.45kHz. We've increased it to 99.6kHz that can be further divided by integer divider.

Workaround: PWM peripheral input clock value can be increased to a maximum of 48MHz. Valid clock values can be calculated pwm_clk = 408MHz/N, where N=<1 , 128.5> in 0.5 increments

Description: Update our i.MX kernel to the 4.9-1.0.x-imx branch of the FSL community kernel aka linux-fslc-imx which includes NXP's latest 4.9.11 1.0.0 GA release changes.

Description: Update meta-lxde to build the latest LXDE sources. The latest lxpanel release doesn't work with our GTK+3.

Description: Allow for easier OpenEmbedded machine configuration by our customers.

Description: This release is identical to the previous 2.7b4 release and has passed full validation and verification for Apalis T30, Apalis iMX6, Colibri T30, Colibri VF50, Colibri VF61, Colibri iMX6 and Colibri iMX7.

Description: Bring-up Colibri iMX6ULL 512MB WB IT V1.0A.

Description: It would be very convenient to just be able to install NVIDIA's JetPack via Toradex Easy Installer once available for Apalis TK1.

Workaround: For now just stick to the rather cumbersome manual installation procedure: http://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/installing-nvidia-jetpack-with-l4t-on-apalis-tk1

Description: As we juggled around some of the pins the GPIO Tool also needs updating.

Description: Camera support has been greatly improved by an update to the OV5640 driver from our camera partner Antmicro as well as NVIDIA's latest L4T R21.6 update.

Description: Add support for PWM.

Description:
Working on Colibri iMX6ULL 256MB V1.0A, demo image 2.7b4 image:
- U-Boot boot loader
- Environment storage in NAND
- Ethernet
- Framebuffer support
- GPIO from cmdline
- MMC/SD cards
- RAM size auto detection
- Splash Screen
- Toradex Colibri configuration block handling
- UARTA, used for serial console
- USB storage as host on USB host port
- Linux kernel
- Analog input via IIO framework, channel AD0 and AD1
- CAN via MCP2515 on Evaluation Board
- Ethernet
- Ethernet MAC address, optional custom setting from bootloader
- Framebuffer for parallel RGB displays
- Framebuffer console
- GPIOlib /sys/class/gpio
- I2C via /dev/i2c-X
- MMC/SD card mmc0, 4bit wide
- RTC (SoC and I2C)
- Resistive Touch
- SPI
- Splash Screen
- UARTA, used for serial console
- UARTB, UARTC
- Serial number and board revision in /proc/cpuinfo
- SoC unique ID in /sys/bus/soc/devices/soc0/unique_id
- Suspend LP1
- USBH host port
- USB host audio driver
- USB device Ethernet RNDIS
- USB device/host detection aka OTG support on USBC
- Watchdog via /dev/watchdog
- Update
- Legacy update scripts
- Toradex Easy Installer

Not working or not tested:
- U-Boot boot loader
- USB device/host switching
- Linux kernel
- Flexcan, not tested
- IrDA, not supported
- PWM, currently not working, SW issues
- RS485, not tested
- USB WiFi, drivers and firmware not installed
- On-Module Bluetooth/WiFi, not yet implemented
- Linux user-space
- GPIOtool, not yet implemented

Description: While the Apalis PWM3 pin is shared with the Apalis BKL1_PWM pin currently the former does not have the PWM pin muxing activated. Note that exporting PWM3 for raw sysfs access will therefore fail and one has to revert to using the pwm backlight.

Workaround: Change resp. pin muxing in the device tree. You may find a patch on our toradex_tk1_l4t_r21.5-next branch.

Description: Target is to achieve >2k msg/s on both CAN channels.

Description: The kernel does not know about rw,noatime. The string rw by itself is valid, and to pass additional arguments rootflags=noatime can be used. The kernel mounts ext3/ext4 file systems by default ro, hence so far the kernel mounted the rootfs read-only. The init manager systemd then remounts the rootfs after file system checking. This makes sense and does not add measurable boot time. Let the kernel explicitly mount ro on block device based rootfs. The root mount flag noatime is only relevant when re-mounting read-write, hence it needs to be present in /etc/fstab. UBIFS used on raw NAND devices has no user space file checking, hence there is no value to mount it in read-only first. Also mount time for UBIFS is larger, and mounting first read-only and then read-write has higher boot time (300ms, likely due to missing block cache). Let the kernel explicitly mount rw on raw NAND based rootfs. UBIFS has no atime support, hence no root mount flags needed.

Workaround: The change to initially read-only mounted root file system on Apalis TK1 requires the U-Boot emmcargs environment variable to be adjusted to run NVIDIA's JetPack resp. L4T as documented here: http://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/installing-nvidia-jetpack-with-l4t-on-apalis-tk1#Flashing_Latest_Boot_Loader

Description: If an image creates a rootfs which is exactly a multiple of 64 MByte and then if one executes in U-Boot 'run update' the detection that all 64 MByte chunks have been flashed fails and the update never completes. Note that the Toradex Easy Installer is not affected.

Workaround: Check the last rootfs chunk on the update media and create a zero length chunk with incremented number, e.g.: $ ls -l //colibri-imx6/ ... -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 67108864 Jul 12 15:13 root.ext3-106 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 67108864 Jul 12 15:13 root.ext3-107 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 48128 Jul 12 15:13 SPL ... $ touch //colibri-imx6/root.ext3-108

Description: We forgot to actually deploy the new device tree: imx6q-apalis-ixora-v1.1.dtb.

Workaround: Just checkout the Linux kernel sources, build the device trees and copy imx6q-apalis-ixora-v1.1.dtb to the update SD card into the apalis_imx6 folder. Then in U-Boot first 'setenv fdt_file imx6q-apalis-ixora-v1.1.dtb; saveenv' and do a 'run setudpate; run update_fdt'.

Description: Power I2C bus communication speed should be reduced to 100 KHz as our temperature sensor chip LM95245 is not rated for higher speeds.

Description: When migrating from older stable Colibri VF61 BSPs to later BSPs the MCC functionality got replaced by rpmsg. In order to be able to continue running existing eCos or MQX implementations on the M4 core the MCC functionality would be needed. A fix is pushed to the mcc kernel module: https://github.com/toradex/mcc-kmod/commit/083388fa5cce79c239988d61543322d91996aa8d

Description: Use the ext4 file system by default.

Workaround: Please note that if one is updating from an earlier release one may have to manually fix the U-Boot environment to take this into account as mentioned on the community forum at https://www.toradex.com/community/questions/16464/image-27b4-fails-to-mount-rootfs.html

Description: Currently various things may fail or behave strangely on certain modules if the config block is missing. Unify that behaviour by e.g. rather not allowing use of any features (e.g. Ethernet, RNDIS) at all in this case.

Workaround: Use the 'cfgblock create' U-Boot command to restore the config block. Alternatively we implemented similar functionality into our Toradex Easy Installer.

Description: After the RTC has been under-powered, some RTC deliver invalid date/time. The external RTC currently shipped on Toradex evaluation boards has a oscillator fail bit which indicates when RTC does not contain a valid date/time.

Description: Add support for Capacitive Touch Display 7" Parallel V1.0A.

Description: Add support for the CAN feature of the Apalis TK1 module.

Description: The SGTL5000 driver in the Linux Kernel currently only supports one codec. The driver would need amending so that multiple codecs can be used. The issue is the statically created VDDD_LDO regulator.

Workaround: For i.MX based modules update to BSP 2.7b3 or later. With the backport of 'ASoC: sgtl5000: Fix regulator support' into the toradex_4.1-2.0.x-imx this driver limitation has been removed.

Description: USB Gadget schema fails to load on Apalis iMX6 Quad 2GB IT and Apalis iMX6 Dual 512MB modules which leads to RNDIS not working.

Description: There is now an experimental meta-snappy which allows regular Yocto project BSPs to support running Ubuntu Core snaps. Integrate this in our regular demo images.

Description: After the RTC has been under-powered, some RTC deliver invalid date/time. The external RTC currently shipped on Toradex evaluation boards has a oscillator fail bit which indicates when RTC does not contain a valid date/time.

Description: Trying to sdboot from an ext4 rootfs fails due to us defaulting to ext3. While the downstream T20/T30 L4T kernel has issues with ext4 later TK1 L4T should work just fine with it.

Workaround: Just change the sdargs to ext4 as follows: setenv sdargs 'ip=off root=/dev/mmcblk1p2 rw rootfstype=ext4 rootwait'

Description: Wakeup on CAN does not work in suspend mode with FlexCAN with 4.1.39 kernel.

Description: Depending on its DVFS state right before hardware reset the Apalis/Colibri T30 module may hang during a subsequent boot. Software reset seems not affected.

Workaround: Either power-cycle or make sure you are running at a higher DVFS state upon hardware reset. A fix for this called 'apalis/colibri_t30: improve vdd core pmic handling' may be found on our U-Boot 2016.11-toradex-next branch.

Description: As on our T30 designs there is a hardware over-temperature shut-off directly via PMIC we should check whether we could at least have an over temperature message shortly before that (e.g. 5 deg C).

Description: Bring-up digital audio interface DAP1.

Description: We changed our versioning scheme. Our BSP demo image packages are now e.g. called Apalis-iMX6_LXDE-Image_2.7b2-20170410.tar.bz2. The Linux kernel will report e.g. the version number 4.1.39-2.7.2+gba2f75f and U-Boot will report e.g. 2016.11-2.7.2+g60021a4. Details about the versioning can be found here: https://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/toradex-software-versioning-convention

Description: Systemd may hang upon first boot due to certain services like run-postinsts and opkg-configure triggering a configuration reload later causing dynamic device services like the dev-ttyS0 one to hang.

Workaround: A fix has been implemented in our -next branch.

Description: Colibri T20 modules may draw more power be it during regular operation or in suspend.

Workaround: This issue is related to the 'Module May Hang During Boot if HDMI is not Connected' one whose fix can be found on the tegra-next branch of our linux-toradex Linux kernel repository: http://git.toradex.com/cgit/linux-toradex.git/log/?h=tegra-next

Description: The udev rule /etc/udev/rules.d/hdmi.rules which should take care of this now fails with exit code 1. It looks like the RUN part of that rule should be reworked into its separate unit file to be spawned using SYSTEMD_WANTS.

Workaround: Manually call xrandr to get the desired effect.

Description: CPU and GPU thermal throttling is not working which can be seen from /sys/kernel/debug/tegra_throttle/ being empty.

Workaround: Find the fix on our -next branch.

Description: Recently Ångström switched to using the gcc 6 compiler in their 2016.12 aka morty branch. Update meta-angstrom to latest in order for us to also make use of the Linaro gcc 6 compiler.

Description: With our unified (Linux/WEC) SPL in place we need a way to tell what version of SPL thereof is installed.

Description: Bitbake for some time checks what other packages a package depends on by e.g. examining the output of ldd of a binary or examining used interpreters in scripts. So RDEPENDS are only needed for non obvious packages, e.g. such which get dynamically linked in code or packages providing data. Cleanup our layers.

Description: Don't output anything on the debug console unless there is a fatal error. This has been implemented by two defines. The following disables console output in the regular program flow and is enabled in all our configurations: CONFIG_SPL_SILENT_CONSOLE=y The following disables all output on the console and may be enabled by the customer requiring a custom built U-Boot CONFIG_SPL_DISABLE_CONSOLE

Description: Most of our SoC have a manufacturer defined unique and not alterable number. It's documented here: http://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/soc-unique-id-linux

Description: Colibri T20 modules may hang during boot if HDMI is not connected.

Workaround: The fix for this issue may be found here: http://git.toradex.com/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?h=tegra&id=943dd8a82f13c2e31a7f243bb15ae64edf45b7fa

Description: The frame buffer boot configuration integration via kernel command line is still missing.

Workaround: The LVDS configuration is currently hard-coded here: http://git.toradex.com/cgit/linux-toradex.git/tree/arch/arm/mach-tegra/panel-c-lvds-1366-14.c?h=toradex_tk1_l4t_r21.5#n322

Description: At this point the Linux suspend to memory and standby power states are supported ("mem"/"standby"). The standby mode uses a low power run state, whereas suspend to memory makes use uses the SoCs deep sleep mode (DSM). Wakeup from external GPIO as well as internal RTC have been verified working.

Description: Test low-power/suspend modes.

Description: With the move to morty all SysV initscripts have been installed which caused interference. This got fixed by finally getting rid of all SysV remnants.

Description: Using keypad driver causes kernel freeze on iMX7

Workaround: Use the generic GPIO driven matrix keyboard driver

Description: Include linuxptp in BSP image

Description: Prepare mainline kernel based machine with noueveau and wayland for Apalis TK1.

Description: The gpio-tool will allow to override pin muxing functionality and test GPIO input/output functionality.

Description: The gpio-tool will allow to override pin muxing functionality and test GPIO input/output functionality at runtime.

Description: Our current PEX 8605 errata workaround violates the PCIe clock and reset specification should no PCIe switch be present as e.g. the case on Ixora.

Description: Our current update procedure reads the rootfs payload in pre split files of 64 MB size. The number of chunks is limited to 89 resulting in a maximum size of 5.5 GB.

Workaround: - use the ums command in U-Boot to export the modules eMMC as a mass storage device. - deploy a minimum rootfs and install the 'big' payload after booting into Linux

Description: Updates our downstream U-Boot to 2016.11. This also includes a newer UBI/UBIFS stack which fixes issues such as "Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi0:rootfs' errno=-22" when using UBI fastmap in U-Boot.

Description: The Colibri iMX7 SODIMM 45 wake-up configures an internal pull-up while other modules use pull-down. Also some carrier boards use a external pull-down resistor. Configure an internal pull-down resistor on the pin do be consistent with carrier boards and other modules.

Description: Currently our update.sh script limits the partition size to around 8GB by default so even after our automatic resizing only 8GB of the 16GB of available eMMC space can be used.

Workaround: Manually modify the EMMC_SIZE calculation for apalis-tk1 in our update.sh script. Our upcoming Toradex Easy Installer will no longer suffer from this limitation.

Description: Closing the touch device while the touchscreen locks the closing task and leads to a task blocked kernel message.

Description: Add support to use signals from the K20 companion MCU connected to the MXM connector as GPIOs. Basic support will be non-interrupt safe (may sleep) and the latency will be similar to regular SPI GPIO expanders.

Description: Migrate the kernel used on our i.MX 6 based products to be based on the 4.1-2.0.x-imx branch of the FSL community kernel aka linux-fslc-imx which does already include NXP's latest 4.1.15 2.0.0 GA release changes.

Description: When connecting the module using USB device connection, the module provides an IP address via it's own DHCP server. The DHCP server uses DHCP Option 3 (Router) to announce itself as router which can lead to internet connection interruption on the host.

Description: OE migrated the sato image to GTK+ 3. This includes pcman-fm with its libfm. As lxpanel is using libfm we have to follow here or provide our own pcman-fm/libfm recipes. If we move to GTK+ 3 I guess we should do it with all GTK+ based software. e.g all of lxde/lxdm (which may have some issues), the GPIOconfig tool and tegrastats-gtk.

Description: U-Boot SPL will greatly improve overall system boot flexibility.

Description: So far U-Boot writes a BCB (Boot Configuration Block) crafted in a way to work around errata e9609. This also requires the U-Boot to be written in a way which only uses 3/4 of a page (implemented by the writeboot command). This mode has a drawback in practice: It cannot detect bad blocks marked with the usual bad block marker. Colibri iMX7 V1.1B and later do not suffer errata e9609. In order to overcome the limitations of the work-around, new U-Boot version will write the BCB in a new format which allows detecting bad block markers and use complete pages. This also allows to write the boot loader using standard nand write commands.

Description: Add FlexCAN support.

Description: As that whole source mirror stuff has been introduced rather haphazardly whoever did that also failed maintaining/updating it since V2.5 e.g. http://sources.toradex.com/V2.5/. The wohle process around this is currently unclear.

Workaround: http://git.toradex.com/cgit/meta-toradex-demos.git/commit/?h=jethro&id=a6c6fa422e9cf9586e0eb8aba40e0460513edf58

Description: Support Apalis UART4.

Workaround: Use UART1, UART2 or UART3 for now. Alternatively the mainline Linux kernel already supports all 4 UARTs.

Description: VisionWorks demo achieves 10FPS on Apalis TK1 & 30FPS on Jetson TK1. Please identify the cause and resolve it.

Workaround: Fixed by a combination of Norrin soctherm and Laguna cl-dvfs just like used on Jetson TK1: http://git.toradex.com/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?h=toradex_tk1_l4t_r21.5&id=3c204d1590b9fcead7169c7f066f6918bcbde55f

Description: Bring-up type specific CSI-2 camera interfaces.

Workaround: http://git.toradex.com/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?h=toradex_tk1_l4t_r21.5&id=4311e45350ad9199a62e5f37b211cee7de4dfb19

Description: Changing the default settings of multiplexed pins of the camera input allows saving up to 100mW of power.

Description: Using Colibri iMX7S freezes when using Viola. Could be a boot rom issue.

Workaround: Disable SNVS RTC in the device tree.

Description: When booting the M4 core using U-Boot (m4boot) rpmsg seems not to work (the kernel module loads but the initial test message does not seem to arrive/be recognized at the FreeRTOS side).

Workaround: Use the remoteproc method to boot the M4 core.

Description: BL_ON GPIO control is currently missing.

Description: Even if a USB controller is in peripheral mode, loading the USB Gadget schema fails with "Failed to start Load default USB gadget schema g1.schema.".

Workaround: Remove the command (ExecStartPost) copying the serial-number to the USB Gadget configuration in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/usbg.service.

Description: Our latest kernel is missing RS485 handling e.g. to use the RTS (CTS) output to control a RS485 transmitter.

Workaround: You may find the following commit from our older Linux kernel 3.10.17 as deployed in our embedded Linux BSP V2.4 Beta 1 (May 18, 2015) useful: http://git.toradex.com/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit?h=toradex_imx_3.10.17_1.0.0_ga&id=82cf64948ddab0360fab876ee321b6191ed7258a

Description: Automatic USB Device/Host Detection will allow to use the USB port as either Device or Host (OTG). Note: The current default on the USB client port (USBC, OTG) is to be USB host. The reason for this default is that the Colibri iMX7S modules only provide this USB port, and USB host is typically used more often than client.

Workaround: If USB device is preferred as default set the device tree "dr_mode" property of the "usbotg1" node to "peripheral".

Description: As OE moves to GCC-6 we should provide our U-Boot and Kernel sources in a way that they can be built with gcc 6. This would allow customers taking our BSP and using it with a later Yocto project release.

Description: A bug in our GPIO Config Tool prevents the Apalis iMX6Q MXM Pin 130 to be accessible.

Description: The use of fdt_fixup should be unified across all our modules and document.

Description: Separate the 'one size fits all' meta-toradex layer into BSP layers by SoC vendor and a software layer for the demo images.

Description: The native-mode property for i.MX 7 display timings is not working.

Description: This release is identical to the previous V2.6 Beta 2 release and has passed full validation and verification for Apalis T30, Apalis iMX6, Colibri T30 and Colibri iMX6.

Description: u-boot reads the chip temperature and doesn't continue to boot if it's above 80°C. That doesn't make sense for industrial temperature range modules.

Description: Despite removing the conflicting UART2 Linux freezes on startup.

Workaround: None.

Description: The labels on special keys such as caps lock, enter or tab are missing.

Workaround: A fix is already available on the V2.6-next Meta-Toradex branch.

Description: Gstreamer may freeze when generating its initial database on some modules resulting in the following error message: (gst-plugin-scanner:683): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type 'GstImxCompositorPad'

Workaround: The following gets you around this: mv /usr/lib/libgstimxcompositor.so.0.12.0 /usr/lib/libgstimxcompositor.so.0.12.0.orig gst-inspect-1.0 mv /usr/lib/libgstimxcompositor.so.0.12.0.orig /usr/lib/libgstimxcompositor.so.0.12.0 Alternatively one may uninstall libgstimxcompositor0 as follows: opkg remove --force-depends libgstimxcompositor0

Description: With the change to the DRM based Display Controller driver display timings are taken from a the Simple Panel driver. The Simple Panel driver does not include timings for the Fusion Capacitive Multi-Touch Displays currently.

Workaround: None.

Description: Support Vybrid's internal 10/100MBit hardware L2 Ethernet switch.

Workaround: Use Linux Ethernet bridging support.

Description: On some modules in certain temperature ranges Ethernet might not work after suspend or after bringing down the network interface. The LED constantly blinks and receive/transmit errors might be reported. No frames can be received or sent in this state.

Description: A low percentage of modules don't boot reliably because of the bootrom not handling the eMMC correctly. This leads to non booting modules. Using reset solves the problem, a power-cycle mostly works too.

Workaround: Using different i.MX6 fusing options and eMMC configurations seems to solve the problem. For the time being you may evaluate this as described in the following article on our developer website: http://developer.toradex.com/software-resources/arm-family/linux/linux-booting#eMMC_Fast_Boot_Mode_ApalisColibri_iMX6

Description: Use long-term supported Linux kernel release 4.4.

Description: When using the unexport functionality through the GPIO sysfs interface, the pin keeps the last configured state. The typical expecation is that the pin is being disabled (set to Hi-Z).

Workaround: Set the GPIO as input before unexport.

Description: The USB host (USBH) bus disconnects all devices after resuming from LPSTOP (suspend-to-memory) low-power mode.

Workaround: Use unbind before entering suspend and (re)bind the driver after suspend. This method has been implemented as a systemd service (usb-resume.service). Alternatively, use standby mode instead.

Description: Vybrid's display controller (DCU) has more capabilities then currently being supported by the frame buffer driver. Implement a Linux DRM driver to support all the features of the DCU and leverage the advanced interfaces provided by the Kernel (KMS/DRI).

Workaround: Use the DCU frame buffer driver to provide display output.

Description: This version is identical to the previous beta version V2.5 beta 3.

Description: We are currently chasing a strange race condition/sequencing issue concerning eMMC seen on certain Colibri iMX6 modules. An affected module will continue to boot off the regular eMMC user area while our update scripts will update the one located in the boot area which may lead to quite some confusion/inconsistencies.

Workaround: Just manually enter the following from within U-Boot for now and you should be fine again:
Colibri iMX6 # mmc partconf 0 1 1 0
More information about this is available here: http://developer.toradex.com/software-resources/arm-family/linux/linux-booting#eMMC_Hardware_Boot_Area_Partitions_ApalisColibri_iMX6_and_ApalisColibri_T30

Description: Move the machine support of the i.MX 6 based modules into the community driven meta-fsl layer. <machine>.conf, U-Boot and Linux recipes are now available in meta-fsl-arm-extra starting with the OE 'jethro' release.
Note: The V2.5 BSPs which are based on the OE 'fido' release have the Toradex i.MX 6 machine support still in meta-toradex.

Description: Various UBIFS errors reported by Linux kernel especially while booting. Some errors might lead to root file system not being mountable.

Description: Upon boot after a watchdog reset the U-Boot boot loader gets stuck in SPL. Only a full power-cycle will recover the system.

Workaround: Our stable Embedded Linux BSP V2.3 from 20150320 does not exhibit this issue.

Description: Full UBIFS root file system can lead to a system which is not able to mount the root file system anymore.

Workaround: Take measures to avoid the root file system completely running out of space.

Description: Rarely after about 500 software reboot cycles the module locks up during boot.

Workaround: Just power-cycle again.

Description: Add CSI Camera Support

Description: The PMIC RTC does not meet the expected accuracy.

Workaround: If possible use the external RTC provided by the carrier board.

Description: Currently DDR3L RAM is running at 533MHz. Further optimisations to achieve 800MHz speeds are required.

Description: Use long-term supported Linux kernel release 4.1.

Description: Support standby and suspend-to-RAM for newer (mainline) Kernel versions. True suspend-to-RAM (self-refresh) only works with newest hardware revision 1.2.

Description: Support Framebuffer in U-Boot to provide graphical output at bootloader time.

Description: Support the Kernels SoC bus which makes sure SoC peripherals are exported within a sub-directory in sysfs. That also allows to export SoC information such as Type and unique ID through sysfs.

Description: The current software AC97 driver supports audio playback and touch. It needs to be extended with receive capabilities to support analogue audio capture as well.

Description: GPIO support in U-Boot

Description: Use Analog Camera Adapter (ACA, formerly ACM) as Video Source.

Description: Using UART on Vybrid without DMA can lead to boot freezes when characters have been received during startup.

Workaround: Enable DMA mode to avoid this problem completely or avoid character transmission to the module during startup.

Description: Exporting of GPIOs using the sysfs interface fails with "Invalid argument". This is due to lack of GPIO pinmux configurations in the device tree. Currently, only few pins have pinmux information for GPIO use.

Workaround: The device tree needs to be extended to provide the pinmux for the required GPIOs.

Description: Support upgrade through USB device capabilities using the DFU device class.