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Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: imaad on May 22, 2016, 05:07:23 PM

Title: Run TinyCore on iMX6
Post by: imaad on May 22, 2016, 05:07:23 PM

Hi,

I hava a SOM board from Toradex, Colibri iMX6. I want to make TinyCore to run on this board.
I have tried to use an old version from GK802 dCore but it's not working.
What are the steps to running up TinyCore on others boards ?
Have anybody already ported TinyCore on others boards ?

Thank you for informations and suggestions,

Title: Re: Run TinyCore on iMX6
Post by: bmarkus on May 23, 2016, 01:37:07 AM

Quote from: imaad on May 22, 2016, 05:07:23 PM

I hava a SOM board from Toradex, Colibri iMX6. I want to make TinyCore to run on this board.
I have tried to use an old version from GK802 dCore but it's not working.

Just saying doesn't work doesn't help to give answer. Please more specific.

Title: Re: Run TinyCore on iMX6
Post by: imaad on May 23, 2016, 06:15:15 AM

I think that fist step is to run up the bootloader. So, how the Colibri iMX6 is different from GK802 I suppose that boot up sequence, some hardwares devices and routing peripheral are different.
For this reason I have replaced the u-boot.imx from GK802 with u-boot.imx for Colibri iMX6.
At this stage the board boot up correctly but it doesn't load the kernel and filesystem. I guess that I need to make same modification in the bootloader.

I don't know if I must rebuild the kernel but normally it must work without rebuild because the iMX6 is an ARM ARMv7 Cortex A9 architecture.

I will try to run up TinyCore on this board and put some more informations,videos and explications.
All others suggestions are welcome.