VAR-SOM-MX6 Start Here

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

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 to the debug port, as describe in the quick start guide
When board boots, make sure you see the u-boot prints on your host PC hyper terminal. You will need to type-in commands in the command prompt late in the development stages

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 :

• Start doing applications programming.
  • Hello World
  • Building A QT Hello World
  • Debugging with Eclipse
  • TFTP & NFS
  • Yocto common build errors
• Build Yocto from source code
  • Release Notes
  • Build Yocto from source code
  • Build Linux Kernel from source code
  • Customize linux-variscite
  • Build u-boot from source code
  • Build Wireless drivers out of tree
• Test various interfaces.
  • GPIO
  • Ethernet
  • Camera
  • Audio record/play
  • Can-bus
  • USB Host
  • PCIE
  • eMMC
  • RTC
  • LVDS
  • I2C
  • Wireless LAN
  • Bluetooth
  • Backlight
  • USB OTG as host
  • USB OTG as device
  • SPI
  • SATA
  • External UART
  • HDMI
• Contact Support
  • Support forum
  • support@variscite.com