Any got Fedora on Freescale i.MX53QS?

[William Henry]

Hi,

I was looking over at Linaro.org and saw them recommend Freescale's i.MX53 Quick Start board [1]

Then I looked at the list of ARM boards with Fedora 18 and the Remix list and didn't see Freescale mentioned. Anyone done any Fedora work on that board?

Their Code Warrior setup for their boards is nice. So I was considering one of these boards. Thoughts?

Regards, 
William

[1] http://www.linaro.org/engineering/getting-started/low-cost-development-board...

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:18 PM, William Henry  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was looking over at Linaro.org and saw them recommend Freescale's i.MX53
> Quick Start board [1]
>
> Then I looked at the list of ARM boards with Fedora 18 and the Remix list
> and didn't see Freescale mentioned. Anyone done any Fedora work on that
> board?
>
> Their Code Warrior setup for their boards is nice. So I was considering
> one of these boards.  Thoughts?

The imx53 is rather old these days and not overly cheap compared to some of
the other boards on the market now days. In fact pretty much all the boards
listed on the Linaro site are some what long in the teeth.

We did support a IMX kernel which supported imx51 and imx53 chipsets but I
never had a report of whether it worked or not on those boards.

The imx SoCs are now able to be supported in the unified kernels but there
was an issue that stopped us from enabling it in 3.8, I'm aiming to have it
enabled as part of 3.9 but it's not there yet.

What sort of device are you looking for?

The new BeagleBone due out this month should be nice and cheap and we plan
to support it sooner rather than later.

If you particularly want an iMX device I would suggest an iMX6 device:

A couple of dev boards.
http://www.wandboard.org/

The following is quad core iMX6 (use discount code (FVKIWVAG)
http://www.geekbuying.com/item/Unii-GK802-Fresscale-i-MX6-Quad-Dure-Cortex-A...

Peter

[William Henry]

Thanks Peter,

The iMX6 device looks sweet for a home computer! I might look into one of those.

But I'll also take a longer look at the new BeagleBone and may wait for it. I had been looking at the Beagleboard-XM.

Willaim

----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:18 PM, William Henry < [e-mail] > wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was looking over at Linaro.org and saw them recommend Freescale's i.MX53
> > Quick Start board [1]
> > Then I looked at the list of ARM boards with Fedora 18 and the Remix list
> > and
> > didn't see Freescale mentioned. Anyone done any Fedora work on that board?
> > Their Code Warrior setup for their boards is nice. So I was considering one
> > of these boards. Thoughts?
> The imx53 is rather old these days and not overly cheap compared to some of
> the other boards on the market now days. In fact pretty much all the boards
> listed on the Linaro site are some what long in the teeth.
> We did support a IMX kernel which supported imx51 and imx53 chipsets but I
> never had a report of whether it worked or not on those boards.
> The imx SoCs are now able to be supported in the unified kernels but there
> was an issue that stopped us from enabling it in 3.8, I'm aiming to have it
> enabled as part of 3.9 but it's not there yet.
> What sort of device are you looking for?
> The new BeagleBone due out this month should be nice and cheap and we plan to
> support it sooner rather than later.
> If you particularly want an iMX device I would suggest an iMX6 device:
> A couple of dev boards.
> http://www.wandboard.org/
> The following is quad core iMX6 (use discount code (FVKIWVAG)
> http://www.geekbuying.com/item/Unii-GK802-Fresscale-i-MX6-Quad-Dure-Cortex-A...
> Peter

[lists]

Just a FYI, as a posted some time ago on this list, there is a bug in the Beagleboard XM in the USB hub chip. A patch needs to be used fix the kernel. (I believe I had tried Fedora 17.) I don't have the link handy, but can dig it up later if my email can't be found in the archive. In any event, the Beagleboard XM will lock up without this patch.

I was able to persuade opensuse to make a patched kernel for me to verify that the patch works. The patch will be in the factory opensuse 12.3 release. I still have the Beagleboard XM handy to test Fedora should someone make a test image for me. (Compiling kernels is a bit beyond my skill set. OK, way beyond my skill set. ;-) ) My Beagleboard XM is worse than most, so I can see if it fails in a day or less.

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[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:04 PM,  wrote:
> Just a FYI, as a posted some time ago on this list, there is a bug in the
> Beagleboard XM in the USB hub chip. A patch needs to be used fix the
> kernel. (I believe I had tried Fedora 17.) I don't have the link handy, but
> can dig it up later if my email can't be found in the archive. In any
> event, the Beagleboard XM will lock up without this patch.

I don't remember that, if you could dig it out that would be great.
> I was able to persuade opensuse to make a patched kernel for me to verify
> that the patch works. The patch will be in the factory opensuse 12.3
> release. I still have the Beagleboard XM handy to test Fedora should
> someone make a test image for me. (Compiling kernels is a bit beyond my
> skill set. OK, way beyond my skill set. ;-) ) My Beagleboard XM is worse
> than most, so I can see if it fails in a day or less.

What kernel version are they shipping in 12.3 factory for the beagle
device? I have a XM myself that I've been testing with.

Peter
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[lists]

I managed to track down the patch.

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/stable-kernel/blob/v3.7.x/patches/omap_sprz...

I don't know offhand what rev opensuse uses of the kernel.

The deal with the bug is it takes a while for the hub to fail. I've run it as much as a day before it failed. Because the ethernet uses the usb hub, the only way to analyze the problem is via the serial port.  But to make it fail, you need to flog the ethernet or usb.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Robinson 
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 22:08:52 
To: 
Cc: William Henry; 
Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] Any got Fedora on Freescale i.MX53QS?

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:04 PM,  wrote:
> Just a FYI, as a posted some time ago on this list, there is a bug in the
> Beagleboard XM in the USB hub chip. A patch needs to be used fix the
> kernel. (I believe I had tried Fedora 17.) I don't have the link handy, but
> can dig it up later if my email can't be found in the archive. In any
> event, the Beagleboard XM will lock up without this patch.

I don't remember that, if you could dig it out that would be great.
> I was able to persuade opensuse to make a patched kernel for me to verify
> that the patch works. The patch will be in the factory opensuse 12.3
> release. I still have the Beagleboard XM handy to test Fedora should
> someone make a test image for me. (Compiling kernels is a bit beyond my
> skill set. OK, way beyond my skill set. ;-) ) My Beagleboard XM is worse
> than most, so I can see if it fails in a day or less.

What kernel version are they shipping in 12.3 factory for the beagle
device? I have a XM myself that I've been testing with.

Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Henry 
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> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 15:22:10
> To: Peter Robinson
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] Any got Fedora on Freescale i.MX53QS?
>
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[Robert Nelson]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:33 PM,   wrote:
> I managed to track down the patch.
>
> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/stable-kernel/blob/v3.7.x/patches/omap_sprz...
>
> I don't know offhand what rev opensuse uses of the kernel.
>
> The deal with the bug is it takes a while for the hub to fail. I've run it
> as much as a day before it failed. Because the ethernet uses the usb hub,
> the only way to analyze the problem is via the serial port. But to make it
> fail, you need to flog the ethernet or usb.

One problem with that patch, it will break boot on all omap34xx/35xx
based systems. (aka BeagleBoard A/B/Cx's, igepv2's, overo's, etc
boards) that share the same kernel image as the xM..

Main thread on the issue/patch is here:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg64931.html

Regards,