Mainline Yocto BSP Guide

Supported Machines

  • QSRZ Series

  • TXRZ Series

  • QSMP Series

  • TXMP Series

  • TX6 Series

  • TXUL Series

Current Release

Module Series

Kernel Version

  • QSRZ Series

  • TXRZ Series

Linux 5.10.104

  • QSMP Series

  • TXMP Series

  • TX6 Series

  • TXUL Series

Linux 5.10.61

KARO-2022-07-14 Hardknott

What’s New

  • QSRZ: Support added

  • TXRZ: Minor bugfixes and cleanups

KARO-2022-05-10

  • TXRZ: also reprogram bootloader with uuu install script

  • QSMP, TXMP, TX6, TXUL: Move up to 5.10.61 kernel

  • QSMP: Fix pin-conflict in .dtsi file

  • Preliminary support for KARO_BASEBOARD variable

KARO-2022-04-29

  • Add support for TXRZ-G2L0 Renesas RZ/G2L based processor CoM

    • Update Mesa to 21.3.7 for supporting Panfrost Mali GPU driver

  • Fix some NAND filesystem/UBI issues

KARO-2022-03-11

  • Move to Linux 5.10.47

  • Update Poky to hardknott version

  • Use a unified distro layer which shall apply for all our BSPs

Gatesgarth

KARO-2022-03-08

KARO-2021-07-02

  • TX6:

    • fix ethernet link up/link down problem

  • QSMP/TXMP: usb-ohci and sleepmode bugfixes

KARO-2021-06-18

  • STM32 modules: Update to STM Kernel version

  • TXUL: Add missing GPIO_MXC=y to defconfig

KARO-2021-05-06

  • STM32 modules: Double GPU clock speed

  • Fix TX6 nand u-boot: illegal instruction error

KARO-2021-04-12

  • Upgrade to Yocto Release Version: Gatesgarth

  • Upgrade Kernel Version to 5.10.23 LTS

Known Issues

  • QSMP-1510: NAND Programming might fail to boot. Please contact our support.

  • SGTL5000 sound: Only runs if 3.5mm jack was plugged in before booting.

Zeus

KARO-2021-05-18

  • STM32:

    • u-boot: increase RTC & timer accuracy

KARO-2021-03-03

  • TXMP/QSMP:

    • fix ‘Failed to enable usb33d: -110’

    • change start of first GPT partition to 1MiB

KARO-2021-01-20

  • Add Ka-Ro xwayland Distro configuration

  • Make RootFS size configurable

  • Make npm / nodejs usage possible

KARO-2020-12-01

  • QSMP-1510 support

  • Poky layer multivol_ubi support

  • Replaced udev by mdev

KARO-2020-10-21

  • QT5 support with karo-image-qt5 for cross-compilation with QT Creator

Contents

Note

The Image for our NAND modules has grown in size and thus isn’t compatible with our older default NAND partitioning scheme.
Please be aware of that when you try to upgrade to the newer version of the karo minimal rootfs as given by karo-image-minimal.