We’re happy to release our Ubuntu Bionic image for Nitrogen8M_Mini board. Since this board supports only Wayland graphical backend, the system is simpler than earlier systems with i.MX6, similar to i.MX8M system. We use Weston, the reference Wayland compositor in…
Debian 9.5 Stretch for Nitrogen8M board – October 2018 (kernel 4.9.x)
We’re glad to release our first Debian Stretch image for Nitrogen8M board. Since this board supports only Wayland graphical backend, the system is simpler than earlier systems with i.MX6. We use Weston, the reference Wayland compositor in this system, later…
Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 LTS for Nitrogen8M board – September 2018 (kernel 4.9.x)
We’re glad to release our first Ubuntu Bionic image for Nitrogen8M board. Since this board supports only Wayland graphical backend, the system is simpler than earlier systems with i.MX6. We use Weston, the reference Wayland compositor in this system, later…
Nitrogen8M – Yocto GPU Demo
The latest addition to our Nitrogen family, the Nitrogen8M, based on the NXP i.MX8MQ processor, is now available online. To help further development with this new board we are releasing demos and documentation to help you get started. Here is…
Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 LTS for i.MX6/7 boards – June 2018 (kernel 4.9.x)
In the last month Canonical released a new LTS version of Ubuntu named Bionic. We are glad to offer new images of Ubuntu Bionic for i.MX6 and i.MX7 Nitrogen boards with the current 4.9.x_1.0.0 kernel. Now we changed to XFCE4…
Update Factory for i.MX platforms
Our partner Kynetics released an OTA update solution for IoT platforms named Update Factory. This solution leverages SWUpdate, which we talked about in a previous post, using its Suricatta feature to connect to a nice and easy-to-use web interface to manage all your…
Debian Stretch 9.2 for i.MX6/7 boards – October 2017 (kernel 4.1.15/4.9.x)
As it happens every other year, Debian released a new version of its distribution named Stretch. We are glad to offer new images for i.MX6/7 boards with the current 4.1.15 kernel. As earlier, we used XFCE4 desktop since it offers…
Buildroot 2017.08 for i.MX platforms
Buildroot 2017.08 has just been released and we’re glad to provide new images for it. This release brings some new features that will be discussed in this blog post as well as some news of our own. For the impatient…
Customizing Ubuntu/Debian kernels on i.MX6/7 boards
This post is an update to our previous Ubuntunizing i.MX6 kernels in order to allow you to customize your image. Also I try to give you a guide how to modify and customize the system image on the host PC before installing…
Update on BD-SDMAC WiFi/BT module
We introduced the Silex QCA9377-based BD-SDMAC few months ago and have some updates to provide. First, it is recommended to read our previous blog post which gives all the module details: https://boundarydevices.com/new-silex-wifi-802-11ac-bt4-1-module/ As a reminder, the module is supported in…
