We’re happy to announce the availability of a new product in our i.MX6 family. The Nitrogen6_MAX is a high-end version with 4GiB of RAM, dual-channel LVDS, on-board eMMC, and full mPCIE support for the most demanding applications. Based on your…
Timesys 2013-03 release
Timesys has issued an updated release for our Nitrogen6X and BD-SL-i.MX6 (formerly SABRE Lite) boards. This release is primarily to update the kernel, but the folks at Timesys have also added some new features to the demo for a better…
Playing multiple HD videos on i.MX6
This is just a quick post with some details of some gstreamer-fu to decode and play back multiple HD videos using the VPU hardware acceleration on the i.MX6. The command-lines below use the mfw_isink gstreamer element to display the output…
Linaro Precise ALIP on i.MX6
We’ve recently been testing the ALIP (ARM Linux Internet Platform) release from Linaro and just uploaded an image: linaro-precise-alip-20121124-519.tar.gz This platform has many of the things we love about Ubuntu without the bloat of the Unity package. Instead, it includes…
Android R13.4-GA for i.MX6 in stages – Stage 3: Customization
In our previous posts on Android R13.4-GA release from Freescale, we discussed how to boot it over NFS, and how to boot it on an SD card, making a handful of changes to the file-system images. What we didn’t do…
Audio output selection under Linux on i.MX6
Our i.MX6 boards (Sabre Lite and Nitrogen6X) are the first boards we’ve produced with completely separate output channels (HDMI and SGTL5000), and we’ve been mostly ignoring the question of how to configure this until now. Under Ubuntu, the “Sound” control…
