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alexgg / balena-digi

Balena layer for Digi's ConnectCore system-on-modules and SBCs
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Open nikooiko opened 4 years ago

nikooiko commented 4 years ago

Hello @alexgg, I'm interested in working with ccimx6ulsbcpro-1GB and balena and I was wondering whether this project is active? Should I contribute to this or start a new one from scratch?

alexgg commented 4 years ago

Hi Nikos,

Thanks for your message.

I have been trying to find some time to continue with this support for some time now, so I welcome any contributions especially if they will motivate me to put some time into it.

Balena does not currently support devices with NAND flash, only block devices, so some of the functionality like hostOS updates will not work. But my intention is to fully support BalenaOS on this device, time permitting.

May I ask what type of project will you be using the ccimx6ulsbcpro for? Are you a Balena customer?

Best regards, Alex

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nikooiko commented 4 years ago

I'm using Digi SBC boards for quite some time now for various IoT projects, with upgraded standard yocto Digi builds. Balena's solution sounds very interesting and I'm trying to understand whether it's a viable solution for these boards. If we reach a stable state it will enable me to rapidly create prototypes and integrations (azure, aws etc..).

I might be able to find some time to contribute to this project to reach that stable state. I've already built a ccimx6ulsbcpro firmware, programed a board with it and I'm experimenting with the setup to find issues with it.

If NAND setup creates an issue for now, could we temporarily use the external SD card as a boot device? This can also allow us to use the 256MB variants that might not have enough space for this setup.

alexgg commented 4 years ago

Hi Nikos,

The ConnectCore6UL cannot boot from the SD card, only from internal media. You could boot U-Boot from the internal eMMC, and then have the other partitions on the SD card, but U-boot will only boot from the eMMC.

We should be able to make it work though.

It's just a matter of finding the time,

Regards, Alex

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I'm using Digi SBC boards for quite some time now for various IoT projects, with upgraded standard yocto Digi builds. Balena's solution sounds very interesting and I'm trying to understand whether it's a viable solution for these boards. If we reach a stable state it will enable me to rapidly create prototypes and integrations (azure, aws etc..).

I might be able to find some time to contribute to this project to reach that stable state. I've already built a ccimx6ulsbcpro firmware, programed a board with it and I'm experimenting with the setup to find issues with it.

If NAND setup creates an issue for now, could we temporarily use the external SD card as a boot device?

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nikooiko commented 4 years ago

Well, that doesn't sound very interesting, because I guess that we will face the same problem that you currently face with the lack of NAND support and device updates. The only benefit will be the support of 256MB devices.

pgibson commented 4 years ago

Hi All, any status update on this? I am interested in this as well and deploying Balena on the eMMC.