Windows 10 IOT

HI Sean,

I am working on document that dictates the process for doing this for the MaaXBoard. I am hoping to have it available soon.

-Josh

Hi Josh

Thanks for that, we have ordered a couple of boards today and hope that it will be a good replacement for the Raspberry pi.

Cheers

Sean

Hi Sean,

Great to hear! For my own curosity, mind me asking why the interest in Win10 IOT core vs a linux based distro?

-Josh

Hi Josh

We have been developing UWP apps in C# for Windows IOT for a few years now and want to move to a platform that is better supported in the future, seems Microsoft has given up on the newer Raspberry pi boards.

NXP seem to be supporting BSP's for i.MX 6, i.MX 7, and i.MX 8M family boards.

Windows IOT allows us to launch a single application in a controlled Kiosk mode as such, without having to go for Windows 10 IOT Enterprise.

Sean

jafoste4

Hi Josh

We received the two boards we ordered today, great turn around seeing a lot of deliveries are delayed.due to the coronavirus.

Nice little board and Booted up Linux image with no issues.

Do you have a time line on when a FFU will be available for Windows IOT?

I do not want to hassle you but is it likely to be weeks or months?

Thanks

Sean

Hi Sean,

I just finished reviewing the win 10 document successfully. Just waiting on approval for posting. Should be available by end of next week!

-Josh

Hi Josh

Great news and look forward to trying it out when ready and giving you feedback.

All the best

Sean

Hi Sean,

I received approval for posting over the weekend. It will be posted on E14 by EOW.

In the mean time you can get it from here if you wish to get started sooner https://avtinc.sharepoint.com/:b:/t/ET-Downloads/EZy9kZdstDNCkt_9_mdgHawBDlQdJZWbNFmnd0F4ArsX5Q

Thanks!

Josh

Hi Josh

Brilliant work !

Will download it tonight and take a look, hopefully I should find some time tomorrow to try it out and will get back to you.

Best regards

Sean

Hi Josh

Well that was not too bad and VS created FFU with no errors.

Sorry to say though that it does not boot.

Burnt FFU onto SD card using Windows Dashboard.

All partitions created as expected.

Place the SD card into the Maaxboard and power up, green LED flashes once and then nothing

Do you guys have a FFU that has already been created that I can test?

Best regards

Sean

Just had another go on a different machine.

Clean install of VS 2017 and installed all the extras.

Builds great and outputs FFU file, but still no boot.

Have attached build log. and also uploaded to our server here http://ukcnc.net/MaaxBoard_iMX8M_2GB_TestOEMInput.xml.Release.ImageApp-log.zip

Best

Sean

Hi Sean,

I am currently looking into this.

Wil get back to you.

-Josh

Hi Sean,

I am currently looking into this.

Wil get back to you.

-Josh

Hey Sean,

Just  a heads up, im still working on this. I beleive its an issue with the uefi shell adn bootloader not being wrote by the image tool. Hopeing to have a resolution by EOW.

-Josh

Thanks Josh

Looking forward to a update when you have got is sorted.

Best

Sean

Hi Josh

Any updates on this?

Best

Sean

Another shout out to Josh !

Any updates, would be great to start using the MaaXboard to test with hats we have here and our IOT code.
Really do not want to roll back to using the Raspberry pi 2/3

Hi Sean,

I had to request a colleagues help on this issue. I am hopful to get it available to you this week. I am currently asking for an update on any progress. I'll let you know where we are on it come tomorrow.

Thanks for being patient!

-Josh

Hi Sean,

I got this back from my colleague today.

"

I have been able to fix the boot issue, and pushed the new bootloader bits onto the github repo.

I have identified on my board that the following sequence need to be applied before powering up the board :

• Insert SDCard
• Plug HDMI cable
• Plug the power plug USB C Cable
• Plug the Ethernet cable

And when powering down I have to remove the power cable and also the HDMI cable before being able to restart the board.

Also if the green led, located close to the 3 switches, is not on then for sure the platform won’t boot.

The First boot is pretty long and consecutive boots are much more shorter.

"

I will be testing the new commit myself this evening.

-Josh

Hi Josh

Sorry to say that getting errors on the two computers that successfully compiled before with the new merge from Github.

Even deleted local repository and re cloned to make sure it was clean. But compile errors.

Is there a link to a FFU that you guys have compiled that I can download to test.

Best

Sean

Cleaned down Visual Studio again and got it to compile.

FFU created and works !

No apps run as all compiled for ARM and not ARM64 so now got to work out in Visual Studio how to get ARM64 to appear.

But at least it is up and running.

Thanks Josh !

Best

Sean

Forgot to say, if anyone wants the FFU to try, then let me know and will upload to one of our servers

Hi Josh

Managed to change VS to compile our applications to ARM64 and all compile and load onto the Maaxboard under Windows 10 IOT.

GPIO serial port does not enumerate and a view display quirks.

I know it is early days, so think we will leave using the Maaxboard till things are more along the way.

Best

Sean