This application note explains how to build the Linux BSP from the git repositories.

1. Linux Host Requirements

Linux host requirements are as follows: Ubuntu 20.04 with the recommended amount of free space of at least 250 GB.

2. Setting Up Linux Host

1. Prepare the Linux host for the build:

   $ sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib \ build-essential chrpath socat cpio python python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect \ xz-utils debianutils iputils-ping libbz2-dev libz-dev python2.7 dfu-util libusb-1.0.0-dev $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash # Say "No" to not use "dash" as the default system shell. $ wget https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo $ chmod 755 repo $ sudo cp repo /usr/local/bin/

2. Clone the build script:

   $ git clone -b imx-6.1.22-vb https://github.com/voxelbotics/meta-vb-imx8mp.git

3. Checkout an appropriate release tag (e.g. 1.1.14-446):

   $ cd meta-vb-imx8mp $ git checkout 1.1.14-446

4. Create directories for the Yocto cache and downloads:

   $ sudo mkdir -p /home/cache/CACHE/6.1.22/sstate-cache $ sudo mkdir -p /home/cache/CACHE/6.1.22/downloads $ sudo chmod 777 /home/cache/CACHE/6.1.22/sstate-cache /home/cache/CACHE/6.1.22/downloads

3. Building Images

Run the build script to build the release images:

4. Building a Specific Release

In the above example, the script will build from the 1.1.14-446 release tag in the source repositories https://github.com/voxelbotics/meta-vb-imx8mp , https://github.com/voxelbotics/linux-imx , https://github.com/voxelbotics/u-boot-imx.

If you would like to build from the top-of-the trunk of the imx-6.1.22-vb development branches, run the script as below:

5. Understanding Build Artifacts

After the build, the resultant build artifacts will be located in the build-desktop/ directory: