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Support UDOO boards

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Description

Two board classes:

  • Neo (basic/extended/full variants all using Freescale™ i.MX 6SoloX applications processor with an embedded ARM Cortex-A9 core and a Cortex-M4 Core)
  • Dual/Quad, using a separate Atmel® SAM3X8E

The manufacturer provides a patched Arduino IDE based on the board support package linked below. There are two firmware upload paths for the Neo:

  1. Run udooneo-m4uploader tool on the local Linux core
  2. Run udooclient on developer workstation, which uses a TCP connection to a service that runs m4uploader locally

For the Dual/Quad variants, the bossac tool is used (patched, see repository).

My main interest is in the Neo boards. I'm happy to have a go at writing the support, though I would probably need some help with that.

References

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First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the referenced UDOO arduino-board-package and the two Neo upload paths, including udooneo-m4uploader and udoofota; compare them with the existing PlatformIO board-support structure. Define whether Neo, Dual/Quad, or both are in scope, then verify that the selected boards can build and upload firmware through their supported paths.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
arduino, linux
Domain
build-system, embedded-iot
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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