1 Toradex Apalis i.MX6 Computer on Module
6 The Apalis iMX6 is a small form-factor Computer on Module that comes
7 in both quad core and dual core versions based on Freescale i.MX6Q and
8 Freescale i.MX6D SoCs respectively. The Cortex A9 quad core and dual
9 core CPU peaks at 1 GHz for commercial temperature variant, while the
10 industrial temperature variant has a peak frequency of 800 MHz.
12 https://www.toradex.com/computer-on-modules/apalis-arm-family/freescale-imx-6
14 It supports two carrier boards:
16 Apalis Evaluation Board
17 https://www.toradex.com/products/carrier-boards/apalis-evaluation-board
20 https://www.toradex.com/products/carrier-boards/ixora-carrier-board
27 $ make toradex_apalis_imx6_defconfig
29 Compile everything and build the rootfs image:
36 The board only boots from its internal flash memory eMMC, so the
37 bootloader image should be copied to it, following the procedures
38 described in Toradex website.
40 http://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/flashing-linux-on-imx6-modules
42 Buildroot prepares a "sdcard.img" in output/images/ with the kernel
43 image, device tree and a root filesystem, ready to be dumped on an SD
46 $ dd if=output/images/sdcard.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
48 To boot from the SD card, you should change the U-Boot
49 environment. Since U-Boot is running from internal eMMC, you will need
50 to access its command line prompt and manually set the necessary
51 variables to boot from the external SD card. For convenience, you can
52 use uEnv.txt provided in output/images/ as a reference to create the
53 necessary U-Boot variables to boot from the SD card.