NXP Semiconductors
UM11558
Getting Started with NXP-based Wireless Modules on i.MX 8M Quad EVK Running Android 10 OS
4.6 Flashing Android 10 image to eMMC
The
Universal Update Utility
(
UUU
) runs on a Windows or Linux OS host and is used to
download images to different devices on an i.MX board.
Download
UUU
Download UUU version 1.3.171 (recommended) or later from
.
Copy
UUU
Copy the uuu binary into the
/usr/bin/
directory and change the permission to executable.
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:/# sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/uuu
UUU
usage
Follow these instructions to use the
UUU
for i.MX 8M Quad:
•
Connect a USB cable from a computer to the USB OTG/TYPE C port on the board
•
Connect a USB cable from the OTG-to-UART port to the computer for console output
•
Open a Terminal emulator program (for example minicom)
•
Set the boot pin to serial download mode (refer to
Section 2.4 "i.MX 8M Quad switch
Execute the command to download the Android 10 images into the eMMC of i.MX 8M
Quad EVK board (
${MY_ANDROID}/out/target/product/evk_8mq/
):
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:/# sudo ./uuu_imx_android_flash.sh -f imx8mq -a
-e -u trusty
4.7 Booting from eMMC
To boot the i.MX 8M Quad EVK board from eMMC, set the boot switch per the settings
given in
Section 2.4 "i.MX 8M Quad switch settings"
.
4.7.1 Setting up the serial console
Follow these steps to setup the serial console and access the i.MX 8M Quad device
terminal:
•
Open the serial console and login into the device
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:/# sudo minicom -s -D /dev/ttyUSBx
•
ttyUSB0
or
ttyUSB01
are the serial devices. The minicom setup configuration is given
below:
A - Serial Device : /dev/ttyUSBx
E - Bps/Par/Bits : 115200 8N1
F - Hardware Flow Control : No
G - Software Flow Control : No
•
Save and exit.
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