Release Notes 3.0.0 Print

 

 

Overview

This is the Linux BSP (Board Support Package) for the NXP i.MX RT1024 EVK board.

The BSP provides a software development environment for evaluation and development of Linux (uClinux) on the Cortex-M7 processor core of the i.MX RT1024 microcontroller using the NXP i.MX RT1024 EVK board as a hardware platform.

Supported Features

The following list summarizes the features and capabilities of this release of the NXP i.MX RT1024 EVK BSP:

  • Linux:
    • Kernel v.5.15.71;
    • Serial Linux console;
    • Ethernet device driver and Linux TCP/IP networking (ping, NFS, Telnet, FTP, NTPD, etc);
    • Clock driver;
    • pinctrl driver;
    • MMC/SD driver;
    • USB driver;
    • busybox v1.24.2;
    • POSIX pthreads;
    • Hardened exception handling; an exception triggered by a process affects only the offending process;
    • MPU user-level protection support;
    • GPIO device driver.
  • U-Boot firmware:
    • U-Boot 2022.04;
    • Target initialization from power-on / reset;
    • Serial console;
    • Ethernet driver for loading images to the target;
    • Clock driver;
    • pinctrl driver;
    • Device driver for MMC/SD Card;
    • USB driver;
    • Autoboot feature, allowing boot of OS images from the SD Card;
    • Persistent environment in the SD Card for customization of target operation;
    • Sophisticated command interface for maintenance and development of the target.
  • Development tools:
    • Linux-hosted cross-development environment;
    • 11.3 GNU toolchain is used for development of user-space applications;
    • ELF / dynamic linking supported;
    • Hardware FPU enabled in the toolchain and kernel;
    • mkimage tool used by the Linux kernel build process to create a bootable Linux image.

New and Changed Features

The following is a summary of the changes in Release 3.0.0, as compared to Release 2.5.6:

  1. Use hard-float toolchain for Linux user-space.
    ID
    : RM 2901.
  2. USB WiFi does not work with DWA-125 adapter.
    ID
    : RM 6778.
  3. Console becomes unusable in U-Boot if press a key on a keyboard very early when U-Boot just started.
    ID
    : RM 6717.
  4. Disable unused clocks in Linux for IMXRT1024-EVK board.
    ID
    : RM 6714.
  5. Add the hcitool utility to the target root filesystem of the rootfs project.
    ID
    : RM 6781.
  6. gcc 11.3: provide access to the prebuilt shared libraries from buildroot.
    ID
    : RM 6780.
  7. Integrate gcc 11 in uClinux build (user-space component).
    ID
    : RM 6763.

Known Problems & Limitations

This section lists known problems and limitations of this release:

  1. dropbear crashes after exiting from the ssh session to rt1024.
    ID: RM 6769
    Workaround: Restart dropbear by performing the dropbear -R command on the target.
  2. NFS mount is not supported in the BSP.
    ID: RM 6785
    Workaround: None.
  3. gdbserver is not provided.
    ID: RM 6784.
    Workaround: None.
  4. Reboot does not work.
    ID: RM 6768.
    Workaround: Use the reboot -f command.