TS-7250-V3 U-boot development

From embeddedTS Manuals
Note: This section is incomplete at this time and is subject to change without warning while the TS-7250-V3 is in Engineering Sampling phase.

We do provide our U-Boot sources, but we do not recommend rebuilding a custom U-Boot binary as it can leave the system in an unbootable state.

If proceeding with building a custom U-Boot, use the "v2020.01-ts" branch from our github repo: https://github.com/embeddedTS/u-boot-imx this can be executed with the following command:

git clone https://github.com/embeddedTS/u-boot-imx.git -b v2020.01-ts u-boot-ts7250v3

When compiling, we recommend using ONLY this cross-compiler, the use of any other compiler may cause issues or may leave the system in an unbootable state! Specifically, we have experienced RAM problems when using a more recent cross compiler to build this version of U-Boot. The tarball can be extracted with the following:

mkdir /opt/toolchains/ts7250v3/
tar -xf tsimx6ul-glibc-gnueabihf-4.9.4.tar.xz -C /opt/toolchains/ts7250v3/

Once the tarball has been properly extracted set up the following variables and run the build script:

export ARCH=arm
export CROSS_COMPILE=/path/to/folder/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-

After the environment variables have been set up as shown above the build is now ready to be executed:

cd /path/to/u-boot-imx
./build-imx6ul.sh ts7250v3