HummingBoard

HummingBoard is an ARM development board with Freescale i.MX6 (ARMv7 architecture) manufactured by SolidRun. Its technical specifications are similar to SolidRun series of small computers Cubox-i. The following models of the board are available: HummingBoard-i1, HummingBoard-i2, and HummingBoard-i2eX.

=Getting Started=

The following OS image are provided from SolidRun:
 * OPENELEC – A Kodi Media Center
 * Android
 * GeexBox XBMC – A Kodi Media Center
 * Debian Linux by Igor Pečovnik

For more information please visit SolidRun download page.

=Yocto= The following tutorial for build a Linux based distribution for HummingBoard (or Cubox-i) with Yocto is based on this article.

Prepare
git clone -b dizzy git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git cd poky git clone -b dizzy git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-fsl-arm git clone -b dizzy git://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm-extra.git cd poky git clone https://github.com/konsulko/meta-fsl-arm.git git clone -b dizzy git://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm-extra.git source oe-init-build-env
 * Download Poky
 * Download ARM and Freescale layers
 * For Wayland & Weston version 1.5
 * For Wayland & Weston version 1.6
 * Initialize build directory

local.conf
Perform the following modifications of conf/local.conf: MACHINE ??= "cubox-i" PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_rpm" ACCEPT_FSL_EULA = "1" LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST = "commercial" PARALLEL_MAKE ?= "-j 4" BB_NUMBER_THREADS ?= "4" DISTRO_FEATURES_remove = "x11" INHERIT += "rm_work"
 * Change machine type to cubox-i:
 * Append the following additional configurations:
 * Optionally change the following settings to optimize the build depending on the hardware specifications of your build system:
 * Optionally append the following configuration if you are building Wayland and Weston
 * Optionally append the following configuration if you want to save disk space by deleting temporary files after the build

bblayers.conf
Append the following two lines to BBLAYERS at conf/bblayers.conf: /home/test/poky/meta-fsl-arm \ /home/test/poky/meta-fsl-arm-extra \

Build & Run
bitbake core-image-minimal
 * Run the following command to build a minimal image:

bitbake core-image-weston
 * Alternatively, run the following command to build an image with Wayland and Weston:

cd tmp/deploy/images/cubox-i/ umount /dev/sdX* dd if=core-image-weston-cubox-i.sdcard of=/dev/sdX bs=4M conv=fsync
 * The build may take up to several hours depending on the technical specifications of the build system. Grab a cup of coffee and when the image is ready go to tmp/deploy/images/cubox-i/. Replace X with the corresponding letter to a microSD card and copy the image to it using the following commands:

=Tizen=

There are ongoing efforts for porting Tizen:Common and Tizen IVI with Wayland, Weston and Crosswalk on HummingBoard:
 * Building Tizen with Yocto for HummingBoard
 * Building Wayland and Weston on Tizen Device with Freescale i.MX6 SoC

=Useful Resources=
 * Building the kernel and u-boot for the CuBox-i and the HummingBoard
 * Using the CuBox-i with OpenEmbedded/Yocto
 * Building Wayland 1.1.0 and Weston 1.1.1 for i.MX6
 * Porting Tizen to imx6q