6AO.1.0 Release Notes

= Introduction =

These Release Notes provide instructions for both,
 * Testing the release using a pre-built binary image which can be loaded onto eMMC on EVM board
 * Rebuilding the Android binary image from the Android sources

This software release has been developed and verified in the following software and hardware environment.

NOTE: Same set of software binaries work for both J6, J6 Eco, J6 Entry, and J6 Plus EVMs, only the device tree file (.dtb) is different for different EVMs. Refer to 6AO.1.0_Application_Notes for more details

Release Features
Following new features are enabled/tested for J6 and J6 Eco in this release:
 * Boot: fastboot, QSPI/NOR + emmc boot, Single stage bootloader, USB peripheral boot, HS Boot with FIT model, IPU Loading, Switch to recovery mode
 * Platform: LPAE support, SELinux enforce mode
 * IPC: MessageQ, MmRpc, Late attach support, error recovery : DEH And MMU faults
 * Connectivity: USB2.0/USB3.0 Host, Gadget and dual-role, Dual Ethernet, SD card detect, eMMC HS200 mode, DCAN
 * Power: AVS0, MPU DVFS, ABB
 * Thermal: Governors implemented for MPU (On Die), Monitoring implemented for all on chip sensors
 * Video: 1080p60 MP4/H264/MP2, H264 Video Encode (F2F)
 * Audio: MP3/AAC playback, stereo audio out on McASP, 5.1 Audio on HDMI, Downmix to Stereo on McASP when disconnected, Aux-In, ARM<->DSP Audio Routing, APPE HAL phase-1
 * Display: SGX accelerated UI and touch, DRM/KMS, DSS WB, SGX and DSS simultaneous composition.
 * Camera: Android Camera App with TVP5158 Analog camera on JAMR3, VIP: YUYV/RGB888 format capture, NV12 capture, Interlaced capture, VPE: color conversion, V4L2 M2M, scalar, DEI
 * Radio: HD 1.5 Radio Library (ARM/DSP rendering) and DAB Radio support
 * WiLink8Q: WLAN - Wi-Fi/Wi-Fi
 * Secure boot: Validated in this release on HS device and M-Shield DK Lite v4.5.4 (available in CDDS Only). Customers needing access to the M-Shield DK Lite package should contact their TI representatives.
 * Vehicle: Auto HMI, VehicleHAL with DCAN

Release Limitations
In this release:

=Using the Prebuilt Release Image=

The prebuilt release image can be obtained from here. After you download the binaries, follow the flashing instruction from "Flashing eMMC images" section.

=Rebuilding Android from Sources=

Build PC setup
You need a 64 bit Ubuntu machine for building Android file system.


 * Install Pre-requisite packages for building the Android File System

Follow instructions from official Android page here for setting up the packages required for building Android.


 * Proxy/Firewall

If you are behind proxy/firewall, workaround it using the instructions in. For installing repo make sure you also export https_proxy environment variable.


 * Install latest repo tool

mkdir ~/bin -p sudo apt-get install curl curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo chmod a+x ~/bin/repo


 * Tool Chain for building Kernel and Drivers

The Kernel and Driver sources are built using the Android linux-x86 toolchain for ARM GNU/Linux version. This tool chain can be obtained when you pull the Android code based on the released manifest that will be given.

Android Filesystem Sources
You can get the Android source for this release by doing: cd mkdir -p 6AO.1.0 cd 6AO.1.0 export YOUR_PATH=$PWD mkdir -p mydroid; cd mydroid export MYDROID=$PWD repo init -u git://git.omapzoom.org/platform/omapmanifest.git -b 6AO.x -m RLS_6AO.1.0.xml repo sync

U-Boot Sources
cd ${YOUR_PATH} git clone git://git.omapzoom.org/repo/u-boot.git cd u-boot git checkout 6AO.1.0

Kernel & Driver Sources
cd ${YOUR_PATH} mkdir kernel git clone git://git.omapzoom.org/kernel/omap.git kernel/android-4.4 cd kernel/android-4.4 git checkout 6AO.1.0

Setting up build environment
From your work directory (6AO.1.0 folder): export YOUR_PATH=$PWD export MYDROID=${YOUR_PATH}/mydroid export CROSS_COMPILE=${MYDROID}/prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-linux-androideabi-4.9/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-

Building U-boot sources
Instructions for building x-loader and bootloader

cd ${YOUR_PATH}/u-boot export CROSS_COMPILE=${MYDROID}/prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-linux-androideabi-4.9/bin/arm-linux-androideabi- export ARCH=arm make distclean make dra7xx_evm_config make

Building Kernel
Instructions for building kernel and device tree. Note the new step to build modules.

cd ${YOUR_PATH}/kernel/android-4.4 export CROSS_COMPILE=${MYDROID}/prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-linux-androideabi-4.9/bin/arm-linux-androideabi- export ARCH=arm make mrproper ./ti_config_fragments/defconfig_builder.sh -t ti_sdk_dra7x_android_release make ti_sdk_dra7x_android_release_defconfig make uImage LOADADDR=0x80008000 make dtbs make modules

Building Android Filesystem (AFS)
Instructions for building Android file system. Note that building AFS now requires that you build Kernel and export the Kernel path before starting the build.

cd $MYDROID . build/envsetup.sh lunch full_jacinto6evm-userdebug export KERNELDIR=${YOUR_PATH}/kernel/android-4.4 make -j2 clean make -j2

Preparing eMMC binaries/images
cd $YOUR_PATH mkdir emmc_files cp -v ${MYDROID}/out/target/product/jacinto6evm/*img emmc_files cp -v ${MYDROID}/device/ti/jacinto6evm/fastboot.sh emmc_files cp -v ${MYDROID}/out/host/linux-x86/bin/{simg2img,make_ext4fs,mkbootimg,fastboot,adb} emmc_files cp -v ${MYDROID}/out/host/linux-x86/lib64/{libc++.so,libcutils.so,liblog.so,libselinux.so,libpcre2.so} emmc_files cp -v ${YOUR_PATH}/kernel/android-4.4/arch/arm/boot/zImage emmc_files/kernel cp -v ${YOUR_PATH}/kernel/android-4.4/arch/arm/boot/dts/dra7*.dtb emmc_files cp -v ${YOUR_PATH}/u-boot/MLO emmc_files/GP_MLO cp -v ${YOUR_PATH}/u-boot/MLO emmc_files/ cp -v ${YOUR_PATH}/u-boot/u-boot.img emmc_files

=Flashing eMMC images=

The default setup is to flash MLO and u-boot.img to QSPI and remaining binaries (kernel, dtb file and AFS) to emmc.
 * Instructions are same for J6 and J6 Eco EVM
 * For more info on partitions and flashing refer to "QSPI NOR/eMMC partitions" Application note.

DIP Switch settings
Required DIP switch settings: This configuration corresponds to the following device boot order: SD &rArr; QSPI_1

Flashing procedure
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 3 => env default -f -a => setenv partitions $partitions_android => env save => fastboot 0 cd $YOUR_PATH/emmc_files sudo ./fastboot.sh
 * Copy u-boot.img and MLO files to an SD card (boot partition) and then boot the target board from this external SD card.
 * Connect a USB cable from the Linux PC to the USB3.0 port on board
 * Power on the board and stop the board at u-boot prompt by interrupting with key press
 * Set the right environment variables for Android SDK and save (This step is needed only for fresh flash, for incremental flashing this is optional)
 * Now reset the board and stop again in u-boot
 * Put the board in fastboot mode by typing in below command
 * On the Linux PC which has the emmc images run the fastboot.sh script to flash the binaries
 * NOTE: After the flashing is done, remove the external SD card and reboot the board.

=Application notes/Additional Info= Refer to Application notes page for more info on features of this release, additional boot options, etc...
 * 6AO.1.0_Application_Notes

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