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1NXP i.MX 8M Series
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3
4The i.MX 8M family of applications processors based on Arm Corte-A53 and Cortex-M4
5cores provide high-performance computing, power efficiency, enhanced system
6reliability and embedded security needed to drive the growth of fast-growing
7edge node computing, streaming multimedia, and machine learning applications.
8
9Boot Sequence
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11
12Bootrom --> SPL --> BL31 --> BL33(u-boot) --> Linux kernel
13
14How to build
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16
17Build Procedure
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19
20-  Prepare AARCH64 toolchain.
21
22-  Build spl and u-boot firstly, and get binary images: u-boot-spl.bin,
23   u-boot-nodtb.bin and dtb for the target board.
24
25-  Build TF-A
26
27   Build bl31:
28
29   .. code:: shell
30
31       CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make PLAT=<Target_SoC> bl31
32
33   Target_SoC should be "imx8mq" for i.MX8MQ SoC.
34   Target_SoC should be "imx8mm" for i.MX8MM SoC.
35   Target_SoC should be "imx8mn" for i.MX8MN SoC.
36   Target_SoC should be "imx8mp" for i.MX8MP SoC.
37
38Deploy TF-A Images
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40
41TF-A binary(bl31.bin), u-boot-spl.bin u-boot-nodtb.bin and dtb are combined
42together to generate a binary file called flash.bin, the imx-mkimage tool is
43used to generate flash.bin, and flash.bin needs to be flashed into SD card
44with certain offset for BOOT ROM. the u-boot and imx-mkimage will be upstreamed
45soon, this doc will be updated once they are ready, and the link will be posted.
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