Release Notes 3.0.3 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
    • 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;
    • 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 3.0.3, as compared to Release 3.0.1:

  1. Support LCD display in U-Boot and Linux, without touch.
    ID:     RM 6861.
  2. Support LCD display touch in Linux.
    ID:     RM 6918.
  3. Support LPSPI (SD Card via LPSPI interface).
    ID:     RM 6916.
  4. Support LVGL GUI in Linux.
    ID: RM 6919.
  5. Port CONFIG_ARM_V7M_NO_UNALIGN_TRP patch to the new kernel baseline.
    ID:     RM 6933.
  6. Develop Emcraft's LVGL demo.
    ID:     RM 6937.
  7. Migrate to HZ_1000.
    ID:     RM 6939.
  8. Сan't resolve symbol by the ldso interpretator.
    ID:     RM 6943.
  9. Kernel crash when booting from SD Card.
    ID:     RM 6895.

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. gcc 11.3: gdbserver crashes when attempting to start remote debugging.
    ID:     RM 6821.
    Workaround: None.