Freescale i.MX6Q Sabre Lite Board

     i use the mfg tools to run the linux 3.035imagine on the board ,but default value of my U-boot is wrong ,.i want to know the right value

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Hopefully I'm one of the ones picked for testing this device. I'm very excited about it and can't wait to provide a review.

Thank you and good luck to everyone.

At first glance this appears to be a pretty nice platform for BIT (Built in Test) and  equipment status monitoring.

Steve

I've managed to setup Ubuntu 12.04 to develop with Energy Micro EFM32  MCU using Eclipse IDE + CodeSourcery toolchain. I have not tried directly with STM32, but I could see it mentionned during the installation procedure in Eclipse.

Marc, I'd be interested in hearing what IDE/Toolchain you used for the STM32 under Linux.  If this needs to be taken off-list, my email is n5kzw_at_arrL_dot_net.

Wow, a Freescale i.MX6Q Sabre Lite Board; what dangerous stunts can I do with that? Having 15+ years of Linux experience and I got the Raspberry Pi (512MB) as my 'retirement gift', what more can I do with a Freescale board. I remember, back in 2010, when I started working embedded with Atmel 8051 and Microchip PIC and before Atmel AVR, a Freescale engineer kept hinting me about their products. Well, Freescale wasn't in my reach, so I taught myself Arduino theory, building a board w/o ever having an Arduino board. A year ago, the Freescale i.MX SBC was on my wish list, but that was a year ago. Now, I'm building my own Linux kernels for my RasPi while my Android Fleet collects dust in jealousy.

Before got the Raspberry Pi as my 'retirement gift', I didn't know what a SBC was nor did I know what I could do with a Raspberry Pi. And then, when I finally received it, I resumed doing the things (kernel development, driver development) that I was doing 15 years ago when I started with Linux.

I got the STM32-F4 Discovery board as part of a blogging road test program. Within 92 hours after receiving that board, I had the ability to develop embedded ARM apps in LINUX. However, I had to abort in under 2 weeks due to technical reasons.

As for the GPIO pins, I'm still programming microcontrollers, left and right; there's no need for me to do the same thing with Raspberry Pi or Freescale i.MX6Q Sabre Lite Board.

As I write this comment, my Android OS development interests is not as strong as a year ago. Maybe, if I were to get this Freescale i.MX6Q Sabre Lite Board as part of a Road Test, my Android OS development interests might be rekindled.

It cracks me up when people use the PI's following and documentation as an excuse to choose it over another SBC. I can see this if your completely new to embedded hardware, but for those of us that know a little bit about whats going on its fairly easy to see you dont need a ton of documentation for an SBC. As long as the thing comes with drivers for all its hardware and expansion busses its absouletly no different to write software for than a regular PC, except mybe your cross compiling your code. If I can use a windows box, I can use an AMD based SBC... If you know how to compile a kernel for an android phone your already 80% of the way to knowing the PI! All those programming tutorials out there that are written for the PI and arent specifically targeted at using its gpio pins, should work just fine with this freescale system, just omit the -arm11 switch off the gcc command line.

What erks me about SBC's is when there are no drivers supplied for things like its i2c bus, and there is a huge lack of documentation about the hardware. Thats when an SBS becomes a huge pain and you have to fall back on the CPUs data sheet.

I agree with you Robert, the thing is the RasPi has over all these SBC is the price and the amount of I/O pins. The AMD Geode GX is a little power hourse that crushs the RasPI in speed/memory, but like you said lacking in the GPIO department and a price tag of 200 us dollars. Another problem is the huge following and backing the RasPi has, Don't get me wrong it is a decent little SBC. But the Fact that it isn't fully open hardware and other issuse is a huge turn off and for those reasons I see why and how it isolates developers. I think it's gonna take some time before another SBC be it Freescale i.MX6Q Sabre Lite Board, AMD Geode GX or an open hardware SBCs like the Cubieboard  "dethrowns" it.

As far as I can tell this thing doesnt break out any I/O besides i2c/CAN? I could really use a board like this for vision processing but its pretty useless if theres no fast general I/O pins.

I keep seeing more and more of the SBC's hitting the market, most of them just obliterate a RasberryPI in every area, like this one, except they dont break out any I/O pins. I feel like this is isolating a huge amount of developers especially on a place like element14. I doubt when most of us see this thing we say, Wow I want to make a set top media computer with it......

I recently saw a new AMD SBC, its just awesome to see such a lower power high speed x86 in a form factor like this, it also lacked GPIO, but had i2c/spi/dac/adc/pwm outputs.

Although something like an mcp30218 could be attached to either of these board to, give a few gpio pins via the i2c bus.