Hello Michael,

I am glad to hear that you are making progress with support for i.MX6 devices.
We already have done some work for multi-platform kernel support so I do believe that most things are already in place.

I am copying Igor Grinberg, our Linux team leader. He will support you with the necessary U-boot materials and documentation.

Looking forward to further developments.

Best Regards,
Igor.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Tremer [mailto:michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 12:59 AM
To: Igor Vaisbein
Cc: sig-arm(a)lists.ipfire.org
Subject: IPFire on Utilite

Hello Igor,

although this email is directed to you, I am CC'ing our Special Interest Group ARM mailing list for archiving purposes.

As you know, we are currently working on rebasing IPFire on Linux 3.10 and we are introducing a multiplatform kernel which is supposed to run on a lot of ARM boards including Utilite.

We made progress and solved some very hard to solve grsecurity-related issues in association with Brad, so that we currently have a kernel which boots on a Wandboard Quad - also based on the same Freescale SoC you are using. Some patches for supporting Utilite are already included, so that I have very high hopes, that this kernel will already boot on that hardware as well.

The Utilite I have got, unfortunately comes with an old version of u-boot, which does not support the bootz command that is required to easily boot a multiplatform kernel.
Could you please provide the sources so that we can build a version of u-boot with our requirements? It would also be great if this is a more recent one (don't know if there is development going on behind closed doors).

I also think I remember that Utilite will run the bootloader it can find on the micro SD card, if I don't confuse this with an other device. So that if I want to replace/test my own version of u-boot I don't need to flash the internal one. I cannot find the documentation about this matter any more and I would like to know where the u-boot image needs to be placed in order to be executed.

Thank you very much for your help.

-Michael

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