Quick Start Guide

Supported CompuLab machines:

• UCM-iMX8M-Mini – NXP i.MX8M Mini System-on-Module
• MCM-iMX8M-Mini – NXP i.MX8M Mini SMD System-on-Module
• IOT-GATE-iMX8 – Industrial IoT Edge Gateway

Setup Yocto Environment

• Install the repo utility:

mkdir ~/bin
curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
PATH=${PATH}:~/bin

Set environmet varables:

export LREPO=imx_6.6.3_1.0.0-compulab.xml
export CLB_RELEASE=rel_imx_6.6.3_1.0.0

Define COMPULAB_MACHINE environment variable

Machine	Command Line
ucm-imx8m-mini	export COMPULAB_MACHINE=ucm-imx8m-mini IMG_TYPE=imx-image-full
mcm-imx8m-mini	export COMPULAB_MACHINE=mcm-imx8m-mini IMG_TYPE=imx-image-full
iot-gate-imx8	export COMPULAB_MACHINE=iot-gate-imx8 IMG_TYPE=core-image-full-cmdline

Prepare NXP BSP

mkdir compulab-freescale-bsp && cd compulab-freescale-bsp
repo init -u https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-manifest -b imx-linux-scarthgap -m imx-6.6.23-2.0.0.xml

Download CompuLab meta layer

mkdir -p .repo/local_manifests
wget --directory-prefix .repo/local_manifests https://raw.githubusercontent.com/compulab-yokneam/meta-bsp-imx8mm/${CLB_RELEASE}/scripts/${LREPO}

Get entire BSP tree

repo sync

Build

Run CompuLab Linux Yocto Project setup

NOTE	Refer to the NXP Readme for details about how to select a correct backend & distro.

MACHINE=${COMPULAB_MACHINE} DISTRO=fsl-imx-xwayland source compulab-setup-env -b build-${COMPULAB_MACHINE}

Build image

bitbake -k $IMG_TYPE