Ubuntu Focal 20.04 LTS for Nitrogen8M and Nitrogen8M Mini boards – August 2020 (kernel 5.4.x)

Ubuntu 20.04 Weston/Wayland Compositor We’re glad to release our first Ubuntu Focal image for Nitrogen8MQ and Nitrogen8M Mini board. Since this board supports only Wayland graphical backend, the system is simpler than earlier systems with i.MX6. We use Weston, the reference Wayland compositor in this system. This image is a console developer image also, it boots to the command prompt. Weston compositor could be started manually or you can set autostart the service, as per your preference. This system contains NXP/Freescale licensed content, so you will need to register on our web-site and log in before you can accept the license agreement and download the images from here: Nitrogen8M board:

• 20200806-nitrogen8mq-5.4.x_2.1.0_ga-focal-en_US-console-weston_aarch64_fastboot_8G.tgz (LABEL : sys-11h)
• ubuntu@focal-dev64:~$ sha1sum -b *img 541fa3360962a84279d684c60be25bc19cf3a217 *gpt_8G.img ee28fb325666e5b91f875946dec4af16747bcff3 *rootfs_8G.simg
• 20200806-nitrogen8mq-5.4.x_2.1.0_ga-focal-en_US-console-weston_aarch64.tar.gz (LABEL : sys-11h)
• ubuntu@focal-dev64:~$ sha1sum -b 20200806*.tar.gz cded55413283cd066f0bbb0ba742d408d6f2f8c6 *20200806-nitrogen8mq-5.4.x_2.1.0_ga-focal-en_US-console-weston_aarch64.tar.gz

Nitrogen8M Mini board:

• 20200806-nitrogen8mm-5.4.x_2.1.0_ga-focal-en_US-console-weston_aarch64_fastboot_8G.tgz (LABEL : sys-0Eh)
• ubuntu@focal-dev64:~$ sha1sum -b *img 541fa3360962a84279d684c60be25bc19cf3a217 *gpt_8G.img 69cd386ec63dcc75996941b0cd1382b42fe76a84 *rootfs_8G.simg
• 20200806-nitrogen8mm-5.4.x_2.1.0_ga-focal-en_US-console-weston_aarch64.img.gz (LABEL : sys-0Eh)
• ubuntu@focal-dev64:~$ sha1sum -b 20200806*.img.gz 58e99442e1eda4d284a926cb89b634f747ec4206 *20200806-nitrogen8mm-5.4.x_2.1.0_ga-focal-en_US-console-weston_aarch64.img.gz

Important ! Before installing this image please check your U-Boot version as it requires U-Boot version 2018.07  to be used. Make sure to visit our wiki if you need to upgrade:

• https://ezurio.com/wiki/u-boot-imx8/ .

You can find the bootscript in the /boot subdirectory now, its named boot.scr. The partition labels are set if you use the fastboot method. If you use your own method please check the boot partition labels, because the fstab boots by label (LABEL=sys-0Ch for example) now. You can use e2label to modify partition label.

Programming the image

Since the Nitrogen8M board has no SD card slot, you need to program this image in the same way as an Android  system: by using fastboot. Please install the following packages on your desktop PC, Debian or Ubuntu :

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install fastboot android-tools-fastboot