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New Release: Yocto Zeus v1.1 for DART-MX8M modules

Wednesday, 25 Nov 2020

Release date: 11/25/2020

Variscite is pleased to inform about the Yocto Zeus v1.1 release for the DART-MX8M System on Module.

Modules: DART-MX8M

Release: zeus-fsl-5.4.24-mx8mq-v1.1

Details:

  • Filesystem:
    Yocto Zeus (based on official NXP release L5.4.24_2.1.0).
  • Linux kernel:
    Variscite imx_5.4.24_2.1.0_var01 branch (based on NXP branch imx_5.4.24_2.1.0, which is based on Linux 5.4.24).
  • U-Boot:
    Variscite imx_v2020.04_5.4.24_2.1.0_var01 branch (based on NXP branch imx_v2020.04_5.4.24_2.1.0, which is based on U-Boot v2020.04).

Noteworthy updates since v1.0:

  • Kernel: Added driver for Thermal Monitoring Unit (tmu)
  • Kernel: Updated VDD_GPU voltage – this solves GPU instability issues seen on a small percentage of SOMs
  • Kernel: Added mcp251xfd kernel documentation
  • Updated Bluetooth/Wi-Fi firmware for bc43xx to 8.2.0.16
  • imx-atf: Fixed the suspend/resume hang issue on iMX8MQ rev. B0 SOCs

 

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