VAR-SOM-MX6 Start Here

VAR-SOM-MX6 - First Time? Start Here.

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Step One: Read Documentations

Please download and read the development kit documentation.

• VAR-SOM-MX6 Kit
• DART-MX6 Kit
• VAR-SOM-SOLO Kit

NOTE:
Make sure you read the Quick Start Guide.

Step Two: Development Environment

Set up your development environment.

• Setting Development Environment

Step Three: Power Up

Power up the board.
You should have the serial cable connected.
You should also see the u-boot output on the serial.

IMPORTANT:
Don't continue without the serial console operating.

Step Four: NAND recovery SDCARD

Create Yocto bootable SDCARD and flash it to your card.

• Create NAND recovery
• Recover Nand Flash
  • Insert the SD card into the SD/MMC slot of the custom board
  • Press and hold the boot-select button (or switch to MMC), power-off and power-on the board
  • The board will automatically boot into Linux from SD-Card
  • Flash from command line
• Switch to NAND (or don't push the boot-select button) and power up your board.

Step Five: What next?

Your next step can be one of three:

• Start doing applications programming.
• Build Yocto from source code
• Test various interfaces.