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!

! colspan="910" | XELK version

|-

|Release number

|2.3.1

|3.0.1

|3.5.0

|4.0.0

|-

|Maintenance

|Major

|Maintenance

|Major

|-

|Released

|~~Planned~~Released|Released

|-

|Release date

|October 2016

|November 2017

|~~Q3 2018~~April 2019|August 2019

|-

|'''Release notes'''

|[[#XELK 2.3.1 | Ver 2.3.1]]

|[[#XELK 3.0.1 | Ver 3.0.1]]

|[[#XELK 3.5.0 | Ver 3.5.0]]

|[[#XELK 4.0.0 | Ver 4.0.0]]

|-

|Axel Ultra: CS030713B Axel Lite: CS335013A

|Axel Ultra: CS030713B Axel Lite: CS335013A Axel Lite: CS335013C

|Axel Lite: CS335013A Axel Lite: CS335013C

|{{pageoldid|AxelEVB-Lite|2970}} [[:Category:Dacu | Dacu]]

|{{pageoldid|AxelEVB-Lite|2970}} [[AxelEVB-Lite|AxelEVB-Lite rev.A]] [[:Category:Dacu | Dacu]]

|{{pageoldid|AxelEVB-Lite|2970}} [[AxelEVB-Lite|AxelEVB-Lite rev.A]] [[:Category:Dacu | Dacu]] [[:Category:SBC-AXEL | SBCX]]

|2013.04-xelk-2.3.1

|2016.03-xelk-3.0.2

|2016.03-xelk-3.5.0

|2017.03-xelk-4.0.0

|-

|3.10.17-xelk-2.2.0

|3.10.17-xelk-2.3.1

|4.1.15-xelk-3.0.0

|4.9.11-xelk-4.0.0

| valign="top" | SPI NOR Flash (boot) UART debug (2-wire) USB Host USB OTG SD/MMC1 CAN Touch screen controller EMAC SATA HDMI LVDS0 NAND RTC I2C SPI Video Input (MIPI) PCIe [[ConfigID_and_UniqueID | ConfigID]] Splash screen (U-Boot) [1]

| valign="top" | SPI NOR Flash (boot) UART debug (2-wire) USB Host USB OTG SD/MMC1 CAN Touch screen controller EMAC SATA HDMI LVDS0 NAND RTC I2C SPI Video Input (MIPI) PCIe [[ConfigID_and_UniqueID | ConfigID]] Splash screen (U-Boot) [1] SPL boot[2]| valign="top" | SPI NOR Flash (boot) UART debug (2-wire) USB Host USB OTG SD/MMC1 CAN Touch screen controller EMAC SATA HDMI LVDS0 NAND RTC I2C SPI Video Input (MIPI) PCIe [[ConfigID_and_UniqueID | ConfigID]] Splash screen (U-Boot) [1] SPL boot[2]

|-

|NXP/Freescale BSP version

|L3.10.17-1.0.3

|L4.1.15-2.0.0

|L4.9.11_1.0.0

|Qt 5.3.2

|Qt 5.6.2

|Qt 5.6.2|Qt 5.9.8

|-

|Build System

|Yocto Dora (1.5)

|Yocto Krogoth (2.1)

|Yocto Morty (2.2)

|

|Kitkat 4.4.2

|Marshmallow 6.0.1

|

[1] Splashscreen on LVDS0

[2] U-Boot SPL version

====Downloadable binary images====

*bootscript: <code>boot.scr</code>

U-boot file <code>u-boot.imx</code> must be stored into first raw sector of the SD card using <code>dd</code> command}} {{ImportantMessage|text=Since '''XELK-3.5.0''' U-boot performs 2-stage bootloader providing two files: SPL and u-boot.img.

Both two files must be stored into SD card using <code>dd</code> command}}

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| Device tree (DualLite processor) || [[mirror:axel/xelk-3.0.1/xelk-3.0.0_imx6dl-xelk-l.dtb|imx6dl-xelk-l.dtb]] || [[mirror:axel/xelk-3.0.1/xelk-3.0.0_imx6dl-sbcx-cb0012.dtb|imx6dl-sbcx-cb0012.dtb]] || [[mirror:axel/xelk-3.0.1/xelk-3.0.0_imx6dl-sbcx-cb0013.dtb|imx6dl-sbcx-cb0013.dtb]]

|}

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|-

! Image !! colspan="3" |XELK version 3.5.0 (QUAD/DUAL LITE)

|-

| Platform || colspan="2" style="text-align: center" |XELK / SBCX

|-

| U-Boot SPL || colspan="1" style="text-align: center" |[[mirror:axel/xelk-3.5.0/xelk-3.5.0_mx6qdlaxel_spi_SPL|SPL (boot from NOR)]] || colspan="1" style="text-align: center" |[[mirror:axel/xelk-3.5.0/xelk-3.5.0_mx6qdlaxel_nand_SPL|SPL (boot from NAND)]]

|-

| U-Boot img || colspan="1" style="text-align: center" |[[mirror:axel/xelk-3.5.0/xelk-3.5.0_mx6qdlaxel_spi_u-boot.img| img (boot from NOR)]] || colspan="1" style="text-align: center" |[[mirror:axel/xelk-3.5.0/xelk-3.5.0_mx6qdlaxel_nand_u-boot.img|img (boot from NAND)]]

|}

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|-

! Image !! colspan="5" |XELK version 4.0.0

|-

| Platform || XELK rev.A || SBCX rev.B || SBCX rev.B

|-

| Carrier Board [[ConfigID_and_UniqueID | ConfigID]]|| 0001 || 0012 || 0013

|-

| LCD panel || colspan="5" style="text-align: center" | Ampire 800 x 480 7" LVDS 262K colors (RGB666) (AM-800480STMQW-TA1 or AM-800480SETMQW-TA1H)

|-

| Touchscreen || colspan="1" | resistive || colspan="1" | resistive || colspan="1" style="text-align: center" | capacitive

|-

| bootscript || colspan="1" style="text-align: center" |[[mirror:axel/xelk-4.0.0/boot.scr|boot.scr]] || colspan="4" style="text-align: center" |[[mirror:axel/xelk-4.0.0/boot.scr|boot.scr]]

|-

| U-Boot SPL || colspan="1" style="text-align: center" |[[mirror:axel/xelk-4.0.0/xelk-4.0.0_mx6qdlaxel_spi_SPL|SPL (Quad - boot from NOR)]] || colspan="4" style="text-align: center" |[[mirror:axel/xelk-4.0.0/xelk-4.0.0_mx6qdlaxel_nand_SPL|SPL (DualLite - boot from NAND)]]

|-

| U-Boot || colspan="1" style="text-align: center" |[[mirror:axel/xelk-4.0.0/xelk-4.0.0_mx6qdlaxel_spi_u-boot.img|img (Quad - boot from NOR)]] || colspan="4" style="text-align: center" |[[mirror:axel/xelk-4.0.0/xelk-4.0.0_mx6qdlaxel_nand_u-boot.img|img (DualLite - boot from NAND)]]

|-

| Linux kernel || colspan="5" style="text-align: center" |[[mirror:axel/xelk-4.0.0/xelk-4.0.0_uImage|uImage]]

|-

| Device tree (Quad processor) || [[mirror:axel/xelk-4.0.0/xelk-4.0.0_imx6q-xelk-l-2.0.0.dtb|imx6q-xelk-l-2.0.0.dtb]] || [[mirror:axel/xelk-4.0.0/xelk-4.0.0_imx6q-sbcx-cb0012.dtb|imx6q-sbcx-cb0012.dtb]] || [[mirror:axel/xelk-4.0.0/xelk-4.0.0_imx6q-sbcx-cb0013.dtb|imx6q-sbcx-cb0013.dtb]]

|-

| Device tree (DualLite processor) || [[mirror:axel/xelk-4.0.0/xelk-4.0.0_imx6dl-xelk-l.dtb|imx6dl-xelk-l.dtb]] || [[mirror:axel/xelk-4.0.0/xelk-4.0.0_imx6dl-sbcx-cb0012.dtb|imx6dl-sbcx-cb0012.dtb]] || [[mirror:axel/xelk-4.0.0/xelk-4.0.0_imx6dl-sbcx-cb0013.dtb|imx6dl-sbcx-cb0013.dtb]]

|}

* VirtualBox virtual machine (.OVA archive)

* Based on Lubuntu 1214.04 LTS (64-bit version)

* Pre-installed VirtualBox Guest Additions

* LXDE desktop environment

* Boot disk with the distro and pre-configured basic Linux services:

** TFTP: with base directory <code>/srv/tftp/</code>** NFS: configured through the <code>/etc/exports </code> file

* Secondary disk containing source code and tools:

** Bootloader (u-boot) source tree cloned from DAVE Embedded Systems public git repository

|Linux

|git@git.dave.eu:dave/axel/linux-2.6-imx.git

|/home/dvdk/~~xelk~~axel/linux~~-2.6-imx~~

|-

|U-Boot

|git@git.dave.eu:dave/axel/u-boot-imx.git

|/home/dvdk/~~xelk~~axel/u-boot~~-imx~~

|-

|Yocto BSP

|git@git.dave.eu:dave/axel/axel-bsp.git

|/home/dvdk/~~xelk~~axel/axel-bsp

|-

|}

dvdk@dvdk-vm:~$ cd /home/dvdk/~~xelk~~axel/linux~~-2.6-imx~~/dvdk@dvdk-vm:/home/dvdk/~~xelk~~axel/linux~~-2.6-imx~~$ git fetch origin

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=== XELK 4.0.0 ===

* Release date: ~~N.A.~~08/2019* Status: ~~Working In Progress~~Released

* NXP Linux BSP: L4.9.11-1.0.0

* Supported carrier boards: AxelEVB-Lite on Dacu, SBCX

* Updated Yocto version

* Updated Qt version

==== Known Limitations ====

The following table reports the known limitations of this XELK release:

{| class="wikitable"

|-

!Issue

!Description

|-

|NAND Samsung

|NAND Model K9F4G08U0D not detected in u-boot

|-

|}

=== XELK 3.5.0 ===

* Release date: 04/2019

* Status: Released

* NXP Linux BSP: L4.1.15-2.0.0

* Supported carrier boards: AxelEVB-Lite on Dacu, SBCX

==== Notes ====

{{ImportantMessage|text=NXP iMX6 silicon revision 1.4 limited the u-boot binary size (due to bug fix in bootrom code). This required the switch to u-boot SPL version (first and second stage).}}

* Major change to u-boot SPL version

* Updated u-boot version

=== XELK 3.0.1 ===

Then copy the kernel, dtb and boot.scr into the SD card first partion (the FAT one) and boot XELK with the new images.

===Host setup===

As stated previously, XELK host tools are based on a [[Managed_Virtual_Machine_(MVM)|Managed Virtual Machine]]. As indicated [[Axel_Embedded_Linux_Kit_(XELK)#XELK_microSD_Layout|here]], microSD card delivered along with XELK includes basic version of MVM that is the default option.

Please follows the README file on the SD card to extract the ''*.ova'' archive and to install the MVM.

It is also worth remembering that access to git repositories is required to download target source code. To enable it, please refer to [[Accessing_DAVE_Embedded_Systems_restricted_git_repositories|this page]].

{{ImportantMessage|text=The MVM provides the tools required to build [[Building_U-Boot_(XELK)|U-boot]] and [[Building_Linux_kernel_(XELK)|Linux kernel]]. It does not include the tools required to run Yocto build system instead.}}

XELK MVM can be downloaded [https://cloud.dave.eu/ws-reserved-area-xelk/XELK-3.0.1 here]. For accessing XELK Reserved area please contact our [mailto:sales@dave.eu sales department]

===Target configuration for the development stage (<code>net_nfs</code>)===

{{ImportantMessage|text=The default XELK Virtual Machine network configuration is using NAT: this allows to accessing external network (i.e. Internet) using the host computer's networking connection.

For software development using <code>net_nfs</code> with tftp/nfs protocols, please configure your VM network interface in ''Bridge mode'' (see below)}}

During the development stage, the target is usually connected via Ethernet LAN to the host machine and is configured to:

*retrieve binary images (i.e. Linux kernel) via TFTP protocol

*mount the development root file system via NFS protocol. This root file system is physically in the file system of the host machine as depicted [[Deploying_Embedded_Linux_Systems#The_development_environment|here]]. An example of ''Bridge mode'' configuration for DIVELK can be found [[Booting_from_NFS_(XELK) | here]]

In DAVE Embedded Systems development kits, this configuration is generally denoted as <code>net_nfs</code>. U-Boot bootloader supports this configuration. Some U-Boot environment variables are needed to set it up. They are detailed [[Booting_Linux_Kernel#Configuration_net_nfs|here]].

For more details about TFTP and NFS servers on host side, please refer to this [[Setting_up_tftp_and_nfs|page]].

===Target configuration for standalone boot===

Please refer to [[Standalone_boot_(XELK)|this page]].

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