Re: [RFC] board imx8qxp-mek

[Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>]

Hi Stefano,

On 1/14/26 5:35 PM, Stefano Manni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to add the board imx8qxp-mek from NXP.
> Since the SoC is already supported by barebox, it should be quite
> straightforward
> to add the new board but I need to understand if the starting point is
> u-boot [1]
> or something else.
> 
> Any comment and recommendation is appreciated.

I think you may have been misled by NXP's naming scheme.
barebox indeed has good support for the i.MX8*M*, including
i.MX8MQ, i.MX8MM, i.MX8MN and i.MX8MP.

i.MX8Q (no M!) is a different SoC: It has different CPUs and importantly
for barebox, very different startup than the i.MX8M as its internal
Cortex-M4 (the SCU) is what first boots up in this SoC and one would
first need to teach barebox how to communicate with this process as well
as implement the new boot image format that is required.

AFAIU, the Linux upstream situation for these other i.MX8's is also
worse than for the i.MX8M.

Cheers,
Ahmad

> [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/u-boot/v2026.01/source/board/freescale/
> imx8qxp_mek
> 
> Thank you.
> Best,
> Stefano
> 
> 
> 
> 

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