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Booting from the SD Card
This section describes how to boot the phyBOARD-Pollux with the pre-built images on the included SD card.
Insert the micro SD card into the SD card slot of the board.
Start your favorite terminal software (e.g.
or
) on your host PC and configure it for 115200 baud, 8 data bits, no parity, and 1
Minicom
Tera Term
stop bit (8n1) with no handshake.
Connect the power supply to the power connector (please note the polarity shown in the picture
).
Power Schematic
The console output can be viewed in your terminal window. If everything was done correctly, the login prompt will be shown at the end of the booting
process:
Yogurt Vendor xwayland (Phytec Vendor Distribution) BSP-Yocto-FSL-i.MX8MP-ALPHA1 phyboard-pollux-imx8mp-1
ttymxc1
phyboard-pollux-imx8mp-1 login:
The default login account is
with an empty password.
root
Building the BSP
This section will guide you through the general build process of the i.MX 8M Plus BSP using the phyLinux script.
If you want to use our software without phyLinux and the Repo tool managed environment instead, you can find all Git repositories on:
git://git.phytec.de
Used
repository:
u-boot
git://git.phytec.de/u-boot-imx
Our
version is based on the
and adds only a few patches which will be sent upstream in future releases.
u-boot
u-boot-imx
Used Linux kernel repository:
git://git.phytec.de/linux-imx
Our i.MX 8M Plus kernel is based on the
kernel.
linux-imx
To find out which tag is used for a specific board, have a look at your BSP source folder under:
meta-phytec/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-imx_*.bb
meta-phytec/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx_*.bb
Warning
If you do not have SD card access under
on your host PC then formatting, copying the bootloader, and mounting the root file system on
Linux
an SD card will not be possible.
Note
As this is an alpha build, there will be several changes in both hardware and software. Please ensure that you are using the correct versions of
software and documentation for your board. Please check the
on the PHYTEC website to find the correct information.
Warning
Be aware that with the shipped
a Weston with the
image is started during bootup. When no display is
phytec-qt5demo-image,
phytec-qtdemo
connected, the QTdemo will fail to start but Weston will still run regardless of whether a display is connected or not. This creates load even on a
.
headless system. Disabling Weston and the
is described in section
phytec-qtdemo
