Yocto Kirkstone v24.0 Release for Tungsten Platforms

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We are pleased to announce our Yocto Kirkstone v24.0 Release for Tungsten Platforms. This includes our new Tunsgten510 SMARC and our Tungsten700 SMARC. This release is based upon the Mediatek iot-yocto-v24.0 (Kirkstone) release and includes our 5.15 kernel. Below you will find a download link for the images as well as detailed instructions for building including a features set.

Prebuilt Image

You can download the Yocto images from here:

Tungsten510:
- 20241228-tungsten-510-smarc-yocto-kirkstone.zip
Tungsten700:
- 20241228-tungsten-700-smarc-yocto-kirkstone.zip

Changelog 20240916 to 20241228:

fix camera possible NPE
fix microphone input issues
fix DisplayPort driver
add display-dsihdmi overlay
enable OpenCL option for OpenCV

How to Burn

The .zip archive include all the files to be flashed using fastboot.

Connect from your machine a serial-to-USB adapter to the “SERIAL” header and a USB-C cable to “J25” on the carrier board.

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 Tungsten platform.

Next, unzip image:

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

Finally, flash the image(s):

Flash bl2.img to mmc0boot0 partition:

~/Tungsten-Yocto$ fastboot flash mmc0boot0 bl2.img

Flash wic.img to mmc0 partition:

~/Tungsten-Yocto$ fastboot flash mmc0 rity-demo-image-tungsten-*-smarc.wic.img

Build procedure

This image uses the kirkstone-mtk-v24.0 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 kirkstone-mtk
~/kirkstone-mtk$ repo init -u https://github.com/boundarydevices/yocto-manifest.git -b kirkstone-mtk-v24.0
~/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 Tungsten MACHINE 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 main changes with this new v24.0 version are:

Yocto LTS Kirkstone updated to 4.0.17
Linux Kernel updated from 5.15.42 to 5.15.47
Mali GPU driver version in DDK updated from r43 to r48
MediaTek Imgsensor Architecture now supports ISP+RAW sensors
V4L2 Sensor Architecture now supports virtual channels
HDMI-TX now supports CEC and HDCP
SOF (Sound Open Firmware) is supported on Tensilica HiFi DSP
NeuroPilot now supports TensorFlow Lite online inference path

You can find more information about this release on MediaTek release notes:

IoT Yocto v24.0 - 2024 July 1

On the connectivity side, this BSP still includes support for our Sona MT320 Wi-Fi 6 / Bluetooth 5.3 module.

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

Display support

Display configuration can be changed from U-Boot using the display_dtbo variable that can be set to:

display-dp.dtbo: DisplayPort output
display-dsi.dtbo: DSI0 output (with one of our MIPI-DSI displays)
display-dsidp.dtbo: DSI0 + DisplayPort outputs
display-dsiedp.dtbo: DSI0 + eDP outputs
display-dsihdmi.dtbo: DSI0 + HDMI outputs
display-edp.dtbo: eDP output
display-edpdp.dtbo: eDP + DisplayPort outputs
display-edphdmi.dtbo: eDP + HDMI outputs
display-hdmi.dtbo: HDMI ouput (default)
display-hdmidp.dtbo: HDMI + DisplayPort outputs

Camera support

The pre-built image includes support for all the TN Embedded Vision Sensors (TEVS) thanks to their RPi-22 adaptation boards.

First you need to enable the camera device tree overlays from U-Boot:

=> setenv extra_dtbo '#conf-camera.dtbo#conf-camera-tevs-csi0.dtbo'
=> saveenv
=> boot

Then you can configure the media topology as follows:

export MEDIA_DEV=$(v4l2-ctl -z platform:$(basename `find /sys/bus/platform/devices/ -name "*camisp"`) --list-devices | grep media)
declare -a video=(`for i in {0..7}; do media-ctl -d /${MEDIA_DEV} --entity "mtk-cam camsv-$i main-stream"; done | tr "\n" " "`)
media-ctl -d /${MEDIA_DEV} -l "'mtk-cam camsv-0':1 -> 'mtk-cam camsv-0 main-stream':0 [1]"
media-ctl -d /${MEDIA_DEV} -l "'seninf-0':1 -> 'mtk-cam camsv-0':0 [5]"
media-ctl -d /${MEDIA_DEV} -l "'tevs 3-0048':0 -> 'seninf-0':0 [1]"
media-ctl -d /${MEDIA_DEV} -V "'tevs 3-0048':0 [fmt:UYVY8_2X8/1920x1080 field:none]"
media-ctl -d /${MEDIA_DEV} -V "'seninf-0':1 [fmt:UYVY8_2X8/1920x1080 field:none]"
media-ctl -d /${MEDIA_DEV} -V "'mtk-cam camsv-0':1 [fmt:UYVY8_2X8/1920x1080 field:none]"
gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=${video[0]} ! video/x-raw,width=1920,height=1080,format=UYVY ! \
    v4l2convert output-io-mode=dmabuf-import ! waylandsink sync=false

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