Release Notes 3.0.4 Print

 

Overview

This is the Linux BSP (Board Support Package) for the NXP i.MX RT1050 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 RT1050 microcontroller using the NXP i.MX RT1050 EVKB board as a hardware platform.

Supported Features

The following list summarizes the features and capabilities of this release of the NXP i.MX RT1050 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;
    • I2C driver;
    • MMC/SD driver;
    • LCD display and touch support;
    • USB High Speed driver (Host and Gadget modes);
    • (PAID ADD-ON) QSPI Flash driver;
    • (PAID ADD-ON) ADC driver;
    • (PAID ADD-ON) CAN bus driver;
    • (PAID ADD-ON) LPSPI driver;
    • (PAID ADD-ON) Support LVGL GUI;
    • busybox v1.35.0;
    • 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 v2022.04;
    • 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;
    • LCD display support;
    • 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;
    • Debugging user-space applications with cross-GDB;
    • 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 3.0.4, as compared to Release 3.0.3:

  1. Add splash screen bmp file to the imxrt1050 u-boot sources tree.
    ID:     RM 6955.
  2. Integrate the GDB patches to buildroot.
    ID:     RM 6957.
  3. Set scheduling mode to the "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)".
    ID:     RM 6960.
  4. Fix bug: Termination of the gdbserver program leads to segmentation fault.
    ID:     RM 7001.
  5. Network is not configured automatically when booting from QSPI Flash.
    ID:     RM 7031.
  6. Fix bug: Support for I2C is not full in imxrt1050 BSP (I2C2-I2C4 missing).
    ID:     RM 7038.
  7. Fix bug: The next command does not work in gdb 11.2.
    ID:     RM 7052.
  8. Set scheduling mode to the “Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)” in rootfs_flash project for imxrt1050 BSP.
    ID:     RM 7057.
  9. Fix bug: Mount /tmp as the TMPFS file system in the rootfs_flash project.
    ID:     RM 7061.

Known Problems & Limitations

This section lists known problems and limitations of this release:

  1. None.