BSP overview
Supported Hardware
Kontron Electronics offers Demo-Kits to get you started quickly with your product and application design. The abilities of your customized hardware can be fitted to your specific needs.
For STM32MP157 hardware, there are Demo-Kits availible with following specs:
** SoCs **
- STMicroelectronics STM32MP157 SOC, dual ARM® Cortex® A7@648 MHz and ARM® Cortex®M4@196 MHz
** Memory **
- 256-512 MB DDR3 RAM
- 2MB QSPI NOR Flash
- 256-512 MB QSPI NAND
- 4GB eMMC
** Interfaces **
- 2 x Ethernet 10/100 MBit/s
- Display: RGB, DSI
- USB Host
- USB OTG
- SD card
- RS232
- RS485
- CAN
- Audio
- 2 x DIO
- 2 x AI
** Power supply **
- 24V supply voltage
See chapter Supported Hardware for detailed information.
Software
The Kontron linux BSP software is based on the widely used Yocto linux distribution and supports the Kontron Demo-Kits. The adaptions for the STM32MP157 SOC are integrated by the specialized Yocto layers of OpenST.
The characteristics of the Kontron BSP are:
- Linux kernel with board and SOC adaptations
- U-Boot bootloader with board and SOC adaptions
- Linux userland based on the Yocto reference distribution with debian package format
- Boot process configruation in extlinux format
- sysvinit init manager
- GStreamer multimedia framework with hardware acceleration (demo integration)
- Qt 5.19 based on eglfs with OpenGL and QML/QtQuick support (demo integration)
For a quick start Kontron provides a VMware Image already preinstalled with all required development tools.