Colibri iMX8X Module

• SoM: https://www.toradex.com/computer-on-modules/colibri-arm-family/nxp-imx-8x

• Carrier board: https://www.toradex.com/products/carrier-board/colibri-evaluation-board

Quick Start

• Build the ARM trusted firmware binary

• Get scfw_tcm.bin and ahab-container.img

• Build U-Boot

• Load U-Boot binary using uuu

• Flash U-Boot binary into the eMMC

• Boot

Get and Build the ARM Trusted Firmware

Download the imx-atf repository:

$ git clone -b lf_v2.6 https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-atf.git

Compile it with an aarch64 toolchain:

$ make PLAT=imx8qx bl31 -C imx-atf

Get scfw_tcm.bin and ahab-container.img

Download imx-seco firmware and extract it:

$ wget https://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/NMG/MAD/YOCTO/imx-seco-5.8.7.bin
$ sh imx-seco-5.8.7.bin --auto-accept

Copy the following firmware to the U-Boot folder:

$ wget https://github.com/toradex/i.MX-System-Controller-Firmware/raw/master/src/scfw_export_mx8qx_b0/build_mx8qx_b0/mx8qx-colibri-scfw-tcm.bin
$ cp ../imx-atf/build/imx8qx/release/bl31.bin .
$ cp ../imx-seco-5.8.7/firmware/seco/mx8qxc0-ahab-container.img mx8qx-ahab-container.img

Build U-Boot

$ make colibri-imx8x_defconfig
$ make u-boot-dtb.imx

Load the U-Boot Binary Using UUU

Get the latest version of the universal update utility (uuu) aka mfgtools 3.0:

https://github.com/nxp-imx/mfgtools/releases

Put the module into USB recovery aka serial downloader mode, connect the USB device to your host and execute uuu:

sudo ./uuu u-boot/u-boot-dtb.imx

Flash the U-Boot Binary into the eMMC

Burn the u-boot-dtb.imx binary to the primary eMMC hardware boot area partition and boot:

load mmc 1:1 $loadaddr u-boot-dtb.imx
setexpr blkcnt ${filesize} + 0x1ff && setexpr blkcnt ${blkcnt} / 0x200
mmc dev 0 1
mmc write ${loadaddr} 0x0 ${blkcnt}

As a convenience, instead of the last three commands, one may also use the update U-Boot wrapper:

> run update_uboot