After many weeks of deep testing, GuruCE iMX6 BSP release 2391 is ready! This release adds some great new features, like High Assurance Boot and 100% flicker-free transition from bootloader splash to the CE desktop or your application, new drivers for displays, touch controllers, and RTCs, and many code improvements and fixes.

The release notes contain the full list of changes.

A picture is worth a million words, so imagine what a video can do...

For this release we have created a video showing how easy it is to work with our BSP and just how much functionality is included out-of-the-box:

Video table of contents

00:18 - SetWINCERoot
00:52 - BSP installation
01:12 - BSP structure
02:10 - OS Design Build Configurations
03:30 - BSP Catalog
06:30 - Change board and make catalog selections
07:58 - Board specific header file
09:28 - Reducing size of kernel image
11:27 - Processor specific catalog items
11:48 - Configuring hive-based registry and TexFAT
12:05 - Enabling & configuring High Assurance Boot
12:20 - Generating HAB certificates and keys
14:15 - Building the OS Design to generate HAB signed bootloader and kernel images
14:32 - Building a bootloader for the NXP Manufacturing Tool
15:00 - Configuring the NXP Manufacturing Tool
16:25 - Flashing the bootloader to SPI NOR Flash using Visual Studio
16:57 - Stopping Windows Mobile Device Connectivity services to allow download and debug over USB Serial
17:30 - Using CEWriter to flash bootloader, kernel and splash images to an SD card
18:58 - Configuring the bootloader
19:13 ---- Setting up the primary display
19:23 ---- Setting up the secondary display
19:29 ---- Setting up mirroring of the primary display on the secondary display
19:35 ---- Configuring Ethernet
19:48 - Checking HAB and burning fuses
21:31 - Booting to the CE desktop on a Nitrogen6X board
22:08 - Pocket CMD over UART (CLI, Command Line Interface)
22:15 - Included utilities
23:18 - CE Remote Desktop
23:52 - Switching between WEC7 and WEC2013
24:28 - Tiny OS Design (small headless configuration)
24:45 - Production Quality TEMPLATE driver, SDK and application code
25:50 - Configure the bootloader for download and KITL debug over USB Serial
26:56 - Setting breakpoints in driver source
27:12 - Preparing Visual Studio for driver debug and development
27:48 - Inspecting variable at runtime
28:18 - Unloading, modifying, rebuilding and loading drivers at runtime, without having to rebuild and download the entire kernel image

Our promise

We will keep improving our iMX6 BSP, adding new features and we will be supporting our customers for many years to come, long after the end of Microsoft's extended support end date of 10 October 2023.

Even though the GuruCE i.MX6 BSP is already the best performing, 100% OAL stable and most feature-rich i.MX6 BSP on the market today, there are always things to improve or fix and new features to implement.

As always; if you want us to add some particular functionality, need any customization, driver or application development: contact us and we'll make it happen.

Don't forget to check our Testimonials page to see what some of our customers have to say about the GuruCE i.MX6 BSP.

Don't believe the hype? Try it yourself!

We've got free downloadable evaluation kernels for the Element14 RIoTboard, the Boundary Devices SABRE-Lite, Nitrogen6X and Nitrogen6_VM, the Device Solutions Opal6 (all variants), the Digi ConnectCore6, the NXP SDP (DualLite & Quad), the SDB-QP (QuadPlus), the NXP MCIMX6ULL EVK (ULL), the Toradex Colibri and the Variscite VAR-SOM_MX6 (Dual/Quad) Starter Kit.and more.

GuruCE website: https://guruce.com
iMX6 landing page: https://guruce.com/imx6
Latest iMX6 BSP release: https://guruce.com/imx6/latest