VAR-SOM-MX6 Ubuntu Linaro Alip-20151215

VAR-SOM-MX6 Ubuntu Linaro Alip-20151215

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Ubuntu Linaro ALIP is a small distribution used for bringing up ARM boards.The ALIP image emphasis is on small size, rebuildability, cross-buildability and enough packages to usefully exercise a new board, including graphics and media. Currently ALIP is based on LXDE (Lubuntu), with lightdm, X11 and chromium as the default graphic applications. Variscite extend the Linaro Ubuntu Alip to support our i.MX6 System On a Modules. Also we added accelerated graphics and GSTreamer with all Freescale/NXP i.MX6 extensions.

• Ubuntu 15.04
• Lxde 0.5.0-4
• armhf 32

linaro-vivid-alip-20151215-714.packages in the FTP site contain a complete pacakage version description.

Note:
The work on this wiki is still in progress. The software is Done. We will continue to update and improve. Please send any feedback to support@variscite.com

Program

General

• First Time? Start Here <---
• Support forum
• Using NAND Flash recovery rescue SD-Card

Programming

• Hello World 'C' application
• Building A QT Hello World
• Debugging with Eclipse
• TFTP & NFS

Build

Build Ubuntu Linaro Alip, Linux and u-boot

• Release Notes
• Supported hardware and features
• Set Development Environment
• Build Ubuntu Alip NFS development system
• Burning Ubuntu binaries to NAND/eMMC via Ethernet TFTP
• Create Ubuntu Alip Bootable SDCARD
• Flash Ubuntu Alip to NAND/eMMC from bootable SDCARD
• Customize linux-variscite

Howto

HOW-TO Test and use an Interface

• 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
• Video steaming - Playback/Capture

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