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NXP i.MX95

Table of Contents [Sticky]

• Introduction
  • What is i.MX95?
  • Why choosing RidgeRun for your i.MX95 software?
• Carrier Boards
  • Verdin Development Board
    • Yocto Support
      • Setup Yocto Environment
      • Building an image
      • Flashing the Board
      • Getting into the Board
    • Toradex Easy Installer
      • Hardware Setup
      • Installing a pre-built image using GUI
      • Offline Installation of a pre-built image using GUI
      • Re-Installing Toradex Easy Installer
• Torizon OS
  • Overview
  • Installing Torizon OS Pre-Built Image
  • Containers in Torizon OS
  • Torizon Core Builder
  • Customizing an image with Torizon Core Builder
• GStreamer Support
  • Example Pipelines
• Multimedia Support
  • Audio
  • Streaming
    • RTSP Streaming
    • UDP Streaming
  • Video Capture
    • Capture Subsystem
    • Testing Camera Capture
  • Video Processing Unit-VPU
• Neural Processing Unit-NPU
  • eIQ Neutron NPU overview
  • Machine Learning Software Stack
  • Enabling NPU software with Yocto
  • Testing ML demos
• Contact Us

Toradex Easy Installer also offers the possibility to do an offline installation. This could be done with a USB Drive or an SD card. The pre-built image can be saved into either of the devices, and then, the storage device has to be connected to the development board. In this guide, we use an SD card and a Yocto-generated pre-built image. You can check the Yocto Support section to generate one.

To start, insert the SD Card on your host laptop. Run the following command to check if it is connected and where is it mounted:

lsblk

The output may show a lot of partitions from the storage devices on the host. In this case the SD Card has 64GB of storage and we named it TEZI, so it should show as follows:

sda           8:0    1  59.4G  0 disk 
└─sda1        8:1    1  59.4G  0 part /media/$USER/TEZI

The partition is mounted on /media/$USER/TEZI folder. The prebuilt TEZI image generated with Yocto should be extrated to this folder. The tar file containing the image should be named similar to the following:

Verdin-iMX95_Reference-Multimedia-Image-Tezi.tar

It should be located at build/deploy/images/verdin-imx95 in the Yocto Folder. Extract this pre-built image to the SD card. Use these commands:

sudo tar --no-same-owner --strip-components=1 -xvf Verdin-iMX95_Reference-Multimedia-Image-Tezi.tar -C /mnt/$USER/TEZI

sync

If you list the files on the /mnt/$USER/TEZI directory after extracting the tar file, you should see something similar to the following:

image.json          Reference-Multimedia-Image-verdin-imx95.rootfs.bootfs.tar.xz
imx-boot            Reference-Multimedia-Image-verdin-imx95.rootfs.tar.xz
LA_OPT_NXP_SW.html  toradexlinux.png
marketing.tar       u-boot-initial-env-sd
prepare.sh          wrapup.sh

Eject the SD card from the host, and if it is not already on an SD Card adapter, insert it into one and put the Adapter on input X55 on the Verdin Development Board. Turn on the Board, and if the Toradex Easy Installer initial screen does not appear, follow the steps in the Re-Installing Toradex Easy Installer section. If the board does not have an internet connection, TEZI's initial screen should look as follows:

Select the image with one click, then click the install button. After this, follow the same steps previously described on Installing a prebuilt image with Toradex Easy Installer. When the installation is done, reset the board, and it should load the reference image.

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