Tungsten700 SMARC Yocto Kirkstone Release

Published on November 13, 2023

We are pleased to announce a Yocto Release for our new Tungsten700 SMARC! This release is based upon the Mediatek iot-yocto-v23.1 (Kirkstone) release and includes our 5.15 kernel. Below you will find a download link for the image as well as detailed instructions for building including a features set.

Prebuilt Image

You can download the Yocto image from here:

20231214-tungsten-700-smarc-yocto-kirkstone.zip

How to Burn

The .zip archive include all the files to be flashed using fastboot. First you need to enter fastboot mode from U-Boot prompt: => fastboot 0 If you are unable to get into fastboot mode from U-Boot, you can follow the this blog to recover your Tungsten700. Next, unzip image:

~$ unzip *-tungsten-700-smarc-yocto-kirkstone.zip -d Tungsten700-Yocto
~$ cd Tungsten700-Yocto

Finally, flash the image(s): Flash bl2.img to mmc0boot0 partition: ~/Tungsten700-Yocto$ fastboot flash mmc0boot0 bl2.img Flash wic.img to mmc0 partition: ~/Tungsten700-Yocto$ fastboot flash mmc0 rity-demo-image-tungsten-700-smarc.wic.img

Build procedure

This image uses the kirkstone-mtk-v23.1 branch of our yocto-manfiest repository. To build the image, we recommend using a Docker Container so that you can build with a reproducible and stable build environment. Otherwise, you’ll need these packages installed as well as this repo tool that can be installed like this: ~$ sudo apt-get install repo Now we are ready to build the image. First, download the BSP yocto layers:

~$ mkdir ~kirkstone-mtk && cd kirstone-mtk
~/kirkstone-mtk$ repo init -u https://github.com/boundarydevices/yocto-manifest.git -b kirkstone-mtk-v23.1 
~/kirkstone-mtk$ repo sync

Then, setup the environment for building.

~/kirkstone-mtk$ TEMPLATECONF=$PWD/src/meta-boundary/conf source src/poky/oe-init-build-env
~/kirkstone-mtk$ export BUILD_DIR=`pwd`

Finally, set the MACHINE to be tungsten-700-smarc and bitbake rity-demo-image ~/kirkstone-mtk/build$ MACHINE=tungsten-700-smarc bitbake rity-demo-image After some time this should build the same image as above, with the layers being at commits as per the time when repo sync was executed. If you are interested in each project revision at the time of the build, you can find a frozen manifest for those images here. The image file will deploy to tmp/deploy/images/tungsten-700-smarc/rity-demo-image-tungsten-700-smarc.wic.img

Features list

The image built above contains the following components:

Linux kernel 5.15
U-Boot 2022.04
Weston 10.0.2
GStreamer 1.20.6
Mali GPU driver r43p0
Sona MT320 Wi-Fi 6 / Bluetooth 5.3 drivers

The next sub-sections will describe how to test most features.

GPU acceleration

To test GPU you can use glmark2:

root@tungsten-700-smarc:~# glmark2-es2-wayland --fullscreen

Ethernet

Once the eth0 interface is up, you can use iperf3 to check Ethernet performances:

root@tungsten-700-smarc:~# iperf3 -c 192.168.1.60                                                                                                                         
Connecting to host 192.168.1.60, port 5201
[  5] local 192.168.1.13 port 32880 connected to 192.168.1.60 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   938 Mbits/sec    0             sender
[  5]   0.00-10.04  sec  1.09 GBytes   932 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Wi-Fi

You can test Wi-Fi with nmcli as shown below:

root@tungsten-700-smarc:~# nmcli d wifi connect <network_name> password <password>
Device 'wlan0' successfully activated with '796c47ef-fb49-4b9b-9c7f-dc9d7250568f'.
root@tungsten-700-smarc:~# iw wlan0 link
Connected to 9a:dc:97:07:5b:5a (on wlan0)
        SSID: golfcourse
        freq: 5520
        RX: 30561 bytes (215 packets)
        TX: 7899 bytes (63 packets)
        signal: -59 dBm
        rx bitrate: 864.8 MBit/s 80MHz HE-MCS 8 HE-NSS 2 HE-GI 0 HE-DCM 0
        tx bitrate: 720.6 MBit/s 80MHz HE-MCS 7 HE-NSS 2 HE-GI 0 HE-DCM 0

        bss flags:      short-slot-time
        dtim period:    3
        beacon int:     100
root@tungsten-700-smarc:~# ping google.com -Iwlan0                                                                                                                       
PING google.com (216.58.198.206): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.58.198.206: seq=0 ttl=55 time=3.470 ms
...

Bluetooth

You can test bluetooth with hciconfig:

root@tungsten-700-smarc:~# hciconfig hci0 up
root@tungsten-700-smarc:~# hcitool scan
Scanning ...
        4C:BA:D7:64:CB:CD       Iphone

VPU decoding

You can test VPU with gstreamer:

root@tungsten-700-smarc:~# wget http://linode.boundarydevices.com/videos/SKYFALL-4K.mp4
root@tungsten-700-smarc:~# gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=/home/root/SKYFALL-4K.mp4 \
    ! parsebin ! v4l2h264dec ! queue \
    ! v4l2convert output-io-mode=dmabuf-import capture-io-mode=dmabuf ! queue \ 
    ! waylandsink fullscreen=true

If you have any issues, please email support@boundarydevices.com