DART-MX8M-PLUS Release Notes

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DART-MX8M-PLUS / VAR-SOM-MX8M-PLUS Release Notes

Yocto mx8mp-yocto-kirkstone-5.15.71_2.2.0-v1.3

Release Notes

Based on release Yocto: Poky 4.0, BSP: FSLC 4.0, Linux: lf-5.15.y
Release tag mx8mp-yocto-kirkstone-5.15.71_2.2.0-v1.3
Release manifest kirkstone-5.15.71-2.2.0.xml
Date 12/10/2024
Supported platforms DART-MX8M-PLUS / VAR-SOM-MX8M-PLUS
SOM revision DART-MX8M-PLUS: v1.1 and higher, VAR-SOM-MX8M-PLUS: v1.1 and higher
File System build system Yocto Kirkstone
Recovery SD card link mx8mp__yocto-kirkstone-5.15.71_2.2.0-v1.3__android-13.0.0_1.0.0-v1.1.wic.gz
Recovery SD card SHA256 a3310689f73b3eeef0b6a26b4a8236b89da87d126427eeec323f7e4051a46702
Cortex M7 U-Boot supportMCUXPRESSO_2.13.0_V1.0_DART-MX8M-PLUS
Cortex M7 Linux remoteproc supportMCUXPRESSO_2.13.0_V1.0_DART-MX8M-PLUS

Relevant git Repositories

Source Repository Branch Commit ID
U-Boot https://github.com/varigit/uboot-imx lf_v2022.04_var02 0232ed2a0c744276e7620334da39de1be457e8aa
Kernel https://github.com/varigit/linux-imx lf-5.15.y_var01 a6476f458811e5534ee8a7a1fedde6066eb030b6
meta-variscite-bsp https://github.com/varigit/meta-variscite-bsp kirkstone-var02 4a425efc4bf1de57bc3a58c38b4a681afe706d83
meta-variscite-sdk https://github.com/varigit/meta-variscite-sdk kirkstone f18297974d300079f949667a19c300febf2839b7


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Change Log

Change List Description
Release 1.3
Major Updates
Add support for DART-MX8M-PLUS V2.0 and VAR-SOM-MX8M-PLUS V2.0
Known Issues
install_android.sh does not work on VAR-SOM-MX8M-PLUS v2.0 and DART-MX8M-PLUS V2.0 Android 13.0.0_1.0.0 does not yet support VAR-SOM-MX8M-PLUS v2.0 and will hang early in boot without: https://github.com/varigit/uboot-imx/commit/7cb218c229b62865d79a0a1f327a4f020dc35644.
uboot-imx Updates Click here for a full detailed change list.
Add support for DART-MX8M-PLUS 2.0 See c026054438fa...ea8ea09e38b2
Add support for VAR-SOM-MX8M-PLUS 2.0 See 3d29a0503b1d...73c439d0d6fa
linux-imx Updates Click here for a full detailed change list.
imx8mp-var-dart: add support for DART-MX8M-PLUS 2.0
Add support for VAR-SOM-MX8M-PLUS 2.0 See edc11351df20...513cb1432dc9
meta-variscite-bsp-imx Updates Click here for a full detailed change list.
Add support for VAR-SOM-MX8M-PLUS 2.0 and DART-MX8M-PLUS 2.0 See 09be159d9e94...4a425efc4bf1
Release 1.2
Kernel updates
devicetree: basler: Add support for dual camera on hardware supporting it Dual MIPI-CSI channel is currently available only on DART-MX8M-PLUS due to hardware limitations of Symphony board with VAR-SOM-MX8M-PLUS
Release 1.1 Added Chromium with hardware accelerated graphics / GPU support
Kernel updates
net: phy: adin: Add flag to allow enabling of 1000base-t retrain
net: phy: adin: Add flags to allow disabling of fast link down
Yocto updates
meta-variscite-bsp updates
conf: variscite: add variscite-mirrors for codeaurora
conf: variscite: add variscite-mirrors for https
jailhouse: migrate source from codeaurora to github
meta-variscite-sdk updates
fsl-image-gui-chromium: launch Chromium as non-root user to avoid warning
fsl-image-gui-chromium, weston-init: add launcher for Chromium in weston.ini
images: Add new fsl-image-gui-chromium image recipe
var-mii: Introduce native recipe variant
var-mii: introduce recipe
var-create-yocto-sdcard.sh: add DEFAULT_IMAGE argument
keyctl-caam: migrate source from codeaurora to github
Release 1.0
Initial release Based on FSLC Yocto Kirkstone and NXP Linux kernel 5.15.71_2.2.0
Known Issues
DNS does not work after disabling dnsmasq and configuring NetworkManager DNS Fixed by dnsmasq: enable dbus packageconfig