New Release: Debian Buster v1.1 for i.MX 8QuadMax modules

Release date: 5/6/2020

Variscite is pleased to inform about the Debian Buster release v1.1 for its i.MX 8QuadMax modules.

Modules: VAR-SOM-MX8, SPEAR-MX8

Release: var-som-mx8-debian-recovery-sd.v11

Details:

• Filesystem:
  Debian Buster
• Linux kernel:
  Variscite imx_4.14.98_2.0.0_ga_var01release (based on official NXP release imx_4.14.98_2.0.0_ga, which is based on Linux 4.14.98).
• U-Boot:
  Variscite imx_v2018.03_4.14.98_2.0.0_ga_var01 release (based on official NXP release imx_v2018.03_4.14.98_2.0.0, which is based on U-Boot v2018.03).

Noteworthy updates:

Release v1.1

U-Boot updates:

• Support for reading DRAM size from the EEPROM
• SPL support
• usb: storage: Limit transfer size to 120 kiB

Kernel updates:

• fix missing/wrong parameters for pwm0-7 nodes
• Debian Build Updates:
• Update imx-mkimage build target to support u-boot spl build to bootloader
• WiFi bugfixes for occasional kernel dump during reboot

Release v1.0

• imx-gpu-sdk 5.3.0 demos
• Initial Debian Buster release with Docker support

External Information
Developers info: VAR-SOM-MX8, SPEAR-MX8