Table of Contents

Entry Page

Third-Party Add-Ons

Board Support Packages

Product URL list

TQ product page TQMLX2160A

Starterkit

Hardware

Onboard I2C devices

TQMLX2160A / MBLX2160A

I2C bus TQMLX2160A
I2C1 0x11
System Controller
0x1F
Temperature Sensor
0x48
SEC
0x50
Customer EEPROM
0x51
RTC
0x57
TQ Manufacturing EEPROM
SYSC_I2C 0x40
CPLD
0x4B
Temp. Sensor
0x4c
Temp. Sensor
0x50
EEPROM
0x60
Voltage Monitoring
0x68
Clock Generator
I2C bus MBLX2160A
I2C1 0x04
PMC Controller
0x20
GPIO Expander
0x68
Clock Generator
0x6A
Clock Generator
I2C5 0x20
GPIO Expander
0x21
GPIO Expander
0x22
GPIO Expander
0x44
USB Hub
0x70
I2C Multiplexer
Connected to X35 and X37
PCIe1
Connected to X36
PCIe2
I2C6 0x19
XFI1 Retimer
Connected to X8
QSFP
0x1B
XFI2 Retimer
Connected X9
QSFP
0x20
CAUI4 Retimer 1
0x21
CAUI4 Retimer 2
0x70
I2C Multiplexer
Connected to X16 and X17
mPCIe
Connected to X29
QSFP28
PMC_I2C 0x40
Current Sense
0x41
Current Sense
0x44
Current Sense
0x45
Current Sense
0x50
EEPROM

U-Boot

U-Boot

Supported Features
Buildsystem BSP Revision Remarks
TQ Product Chip Interface Function 0009 0010
TQMLX2160A LX2160A eSDHC eMMC / SD-Card
TQMLX2160A LX2160A Ethernet RGMII
TQMLX2160A LX2160A XFI 10G
TQMLX2160A LX2160A CAUI4 100G
TQMLX2160A LX2160A FlexSPI Octal SPI NOR Flash 2 devices
TQMLX2160A LX2160A I2C1 Bus access
TQMLX2160A LX2160A PCIe Host
TQMLX2160A LX2160A UART1 RS232 Default console
TQMLX2160A LX2160A USB XHCI USB 3.0/2.0
Host
USB Storage Device

Kernel

Operating System

Linux

Supported Features
Feature BSP Revision Remarks
TQ Product Chip Interface Function 0009 0010
TQMLX2160A LX2160A EC1 RGMII
LX2160A EC2 RGMII
LX2160A eSDHC eMMC / SD-Card
LX2160A FlexCAN0 CAN
LX2160A FlexCAN1 CAN
LX2160A FlexSPI Octal SPI NOR Flash 2 devices
LX2160A GPIO
LX2160A I2C1 Bus Access See onboard I2C devices
LX2160A I2C5 Bus Access See onboard I2C devices
LX2160A I2C6 Bus Access See onboard I2C devices
LX2160A PCIe Host Available on MBLX2160A connector:
X35/X36 - PCIe x4
X37 - PCIe x8
X16 - mPCIe x1
X17 - mPCIe x1
Depending on SerDes configuration
LX2160A SerDes1
LX2160A SerDes2
LX2160A SerDes2
LX2160A UART1 TTL Default console
LX2160A USB1 TUSB8041I
LX2160A USB2 Host X38
LX2160A Device X38
MBLX2160A

Yocto BSP Version Matrix

BSP Version Matrix

TQ.ARM.BSP Revision ci-meta-tq release Yocto Project / Poky Release U-Boot Linux Kernel
0023 4.0.20 - Kirkstone kirkstone tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a 2019.04
0022 4.0.10 - Kirkstone kirkstone tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a 2019.04
0021 4.0.10 - Kirkstone kirkstone tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a 2019.04
0020 4.0.10 - Kirkstone kirkstone tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a 2019.04
0019 4.0.10 - Kirkstone kirkstone tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a 2019.04
0018 4.0.10 - Kirkstone kirkstone tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a 2019.04
0017 4.0.10 - Kirkstone kirkstone tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a 2019.04
0001 4.0.10 - Kirkstone kirkstone tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a 2019.04
BSP Revision meta-tq release Yocto Project / Poky Release Target machine1) U-Boot Linux Kernel
0010 4.0.10 - Kirkstone kirkstone tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a 2019.04 LSDK-20.04-V5.4-update-290520
0009 3.0 - Zeus zeus tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a 2019.04 LSDK-20.04-V5.4-update-290520

Yocto Changelog

BSP Version History

Rev.0010

BSP

  • Update to Yocto Kirkstone 4.0.10
  • Add support for more TQMLX2160a CPU and memory variants in meta-tq

Rev.0009

  • Initial BSP release

Yocto Images

Target Machine: tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a

System Image

Boot device Symlink File
SD Card/eMMC tq-image-generic-tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a.wic tq-image-generic-tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a-<build_timestamp>.rootfs.wic

Bootstream (Bootloader) Binary

Boot Device Symlink File
SD Card/eMMC u-boot.bin u-boot-tfa-2019.04-r0.bin

Linux Kernel Binary

Symlink File
Image Image--5.4-r0-tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a-<build_timestamp>.bin

Devicetree Binarys

Symlink Description
fsl-lx2160a-mblx2160a.dtb default device tree blob for TQMLX2160A on MBLX2160A

RootFS Images

Symlink File
tq-image-generic-tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a.ext4 tq-image-generic-tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a-<build_timestamp>.rootfs.ext4
tq-image-generic-tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a.tar.gz tq-image-generic-tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a-<build_timestamp>.rootfs.tar.gz
tq-image-generic-tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a.ubi tq-image-generic-tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a-<build_timestamp>.rootfs.ubi
tq-image-generic-tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a.ubifs tq-image-generic-tqmlx2160a-mblx2160a-<build_timestamp>.rootfs.ubifs

Yocto Deployment

Device assignment

Device assignment:
mmcdev 0 = eMMC
mmcdev 1 = SD Card

Yocto specific command Update eMMC

1. Run the following commands in the Uboot shell to create update script:

 
setenv root_loop 'setenv start 24000 && setenv r1 $rootblks16 && while itest $r1 -gt 0; do if itest $r1 -gt 0x100000; then setenv count 0x100000; else setenv count $r1; fi && mmc dev 0 && mmc read $loadaddr $start $count && mmc dev 1 && mmc write $loadaddr $start $count && setexpr start $start + $count && setexpr r1 $r1 - $count; done; setenv r1; setenv start; setenv count'
 
setenv install_firmware '  echo Root FS... && run root_loop'
setenv install_mbr_emmc 'echo MBR...; mmc dev 0; mmc read $loadaddr 0 1; mmc dev 1; mmc write $loadaddr 0 1'
setenv install_uboot_emmc 'echo U-Boot...; mmc dev 0; mmc read $loadaddr 800 1800 mmc dev 1; mmc write $loadaddr 800 1800'
setenv install_uboot_env_emmc 'echo U-Boot environment...; mmc dev 0; mmc read $loadaddr 2800 1800; mmc dev 1; mmc write $loadaddr 2800 1800'
setenv install_ddr_fw 'echo DDR Firmware...; mmc dev 0; mmc read $loadaddr 4600 4000; mmc dev 1; mmc write $loadaddr 4000 4000'
setenv install_fw_part 'echo Firmware Partition...; mmc dev 0; mmc read $loadaddr 8600 18600; mmc dev 1; mmc write $loadaddr 8600 18600'
setenv install_rootfs 'echo Root FS...; run root_loop'

uboot command to start netboot

=> run netboot
1)
i.e. value for MACHINE variable