Where to get source and images

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I just started working on a Toradex Apalis TK1 SOM on a custom carrier board.

Linux from “uname -a” is

Linux tegra-ubuntu 3.10.40-g118f97e #48 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 13 00:35:09 PDT 2019 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

Ubuntu is 14.04.6

Boot up messages show this:

  • ****U-Boot 2016.11-2.8.6+g83a53c1c0c (Apr 01 2019 - 09:57:13 +0000)
  • SoC: tegra124
  • Reset cause: POR
  • DRAM: 2 GiB
  • MMC: Tegra SD/MMC: 0, Tegra SD/MMC: 1, Tegra SD/MMC: 2
  • In: serial
  • Out: serial
  • Err: serial
  • Model: Toradex Apalis TK1 2GB V1.2A,
  • No ethernet found.
  • Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
  • Booting from internal eMMC chip…
  • reading tegra124-apalis-v1.2-eval.dtb
  • 54309 bytes read in 18 ms (2.9 MiB/s)
  • reading zImage
  • 5612600 bytes read in 146 ms****

I want to update the Device Tree to enable the eDP. I see the changes necessary here:
Display Output, Resolution and Timings (Linux) | Toradex Developer Center

But I’m not sure how to get source that matched my system for

  • device tree
  • u-boot
  • linux

linux

Where do I go to the source code for this build and also a loadable image? How can I determine which BSP was used? Which cross compiler do I need? I want the loadable image in case the builds I do fail and I need to revert back to what I had.

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Please check this article.

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Hi alex.tx. Thanks your reply. But I still have some confusion.

I looked at the link you provided which details where to get and how to build & install u-boot and kernel, from source and images.

What confuses me is in our own github I have a reference from another engineer to using the following;

Apalis-TK1_LXDE-Image_2.8.6 
branch toradex_tk1_l4t_r21.7 
for linux kernel

Board set up Building Linux from sourcels rocko

For BSP version I select:

T20/T30/TK1 for the TK1

That shows for BSP 2.7/2.8

U-Boot Git Branch 2016.11-toradex

which matches the boot up version

But for the Linux Kernel git branch my github reference info says:

toradex_tk1_l4t_r21.7

which is for BSP 2.8b3 / 2.8b4 / 2.8b5

But for the toolchain, from boot messages I see:

Linux version 3.10.40-g118f97e (charles@caladan14) (gcc version 6.2.1 20161016 (Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11) )

This Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11 which started with BSP 2.7b2.

BSP 2.8 and later switched to

gcc-linaro-7.3.1-2018.05

So my confusion is if the kernel build currently on my board was built with Linaro 6.2-2016.11 which is BSP 2.7x, but my reference info says use BSP 2.8b3. Should I assume BSP 2.8b3 is incorrect?

Thanks,

Eric A.

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Our tables concerning the downstream Linux kernel branch indeed seem a little confusing. But I can assure you that toradex_tk1_l4t_r21.7 is currently the latest available branch to be used for Apalis TK1. As for the toolchain I guess you would need to inquire with whoever this charles@caladan14 that built it. If you would do an official Yocto Project Rocko build it should be built with a later gcc 7.3 instead.