As an early access partner/customer you have received either an Apalis iMX8QM Ixora Starter Kit or an Apalis iMX8QM Evaluation Board Starter Kit. The modules are pre-installed on the respective carrier board including heatsink.
For V1.0A Modules:
The SoM is configured to boot from SD Card. The Starter Kit includes a bootable SD card which has an Yocto/OpenEmbedded built image pre-installed.
The image and corresponding SDK can be downloaded from the following location:
To write the image file to an SD card unmount all partitions of the sdcard and use dd to write the image
sudo umount /dev/<sdcard>?
bunzip2 -c fsl-image-validation-imx-apalis-imx8.sdcard.bz2 | sudo dd of=/dev/<sdcard> bs=4M
sync
The Toradex BSP is based on the NXP L4.9.51 for i.MX 8QuadMax Beta2 BSP. You can find NXP’s BSP documentation here.
For a list of tested features and known issues refer to the README-TORADEX file in the BSP layer.
For V1.0B Modules:
The SoM is strapped to boot from eFuses which are factory fused to boot from eMMC.
The image and corresponding SDK can be downloaded from the following location:
To write the image file to eMMC have a look at the following article on our developer website:
The Toradex BSP is based on the NXP L4.14.78_1.0.0_GA BSP. You can find NXP’s BSP documentation here.
For datasheets have a look here.
On developer.toradex.com are more articles for the Apalis iMX8 available: