NXP i.MX9x OpenBMC BSP Layer (meta-nxp)

This is the NXP i.MX9x Board Support Package (BSP) Yocto layer for enabling OpenBMC on NXP i.MX 9X series SoCs, including i.MX91, i.MX93, i.MX943 & i.MX95. These SoCs are ARM-based platforms with external DDR and support a large set of peripherals of NXP.

More information about the NXP IMX 9 Application Processors can be found at: here.

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1. Layer Dependencies

This layer is applicable for OpenBMC github project:

• https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc

This layer depends on the following OpenBMC/Yocto layers:

• meta
• meta-phosphor
• meta-openembedded (meta-oe, meta-networking, meta-python)
• meta-security

This repository also includes NXP-specific sublayers:

• meta-common (shared BSP content such as meta-imx-bsp)
• meta-imx91
• meta-imx93
• meta-imx943
• meta-imx95

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2. NXP Kernel / Dependent Trees

The BSP integrates the NXP Linux kernel:

- NXP Kernel Tree :
  URI: https://github.com/nxp-imx/linux-imx
  branch: lf-6.12.y
  tag: lf-6.12.49-2.2.0

Additional dependent components included:

- NXP U-Boot:
  URI: https://github.com/nxp-imx/uboot-imx
  branch: lf_v2025.04
  tag: lf-6.12.49-2.2.0

- NXP ARM Trusted Firmware / ATF:
  URI: https://github.com/nxp-imx/uboot-imx
  branch: lf_v2.12
  tag: lf-6.12.49-2.2.0

- NXP System Manager / SM:
  URI: https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-sm
  branch: master
  tag: lf-6.12.49-2.2.0

- NXP OEI:
  URI: https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-oei
  branch: master
  tag: lf-6.12.49-2.2.0

- NXP mkimage:
  URI: https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-mkimage
  branch: lf-6.12.49-2.2.0
  tag: lf-6.12.49-2.2.0

- Optional secure boot and platform-specific firmware overlays

This layer also depends on:

URI: git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
layers: meta
branch: master
revision: HEAD

URI: https://github.com/openbmc/meta-phosphor
branch: master
revision: HEAD

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3. Supported Machines

This layer currently supports:

• evb-imx91
• evb-imx93
• evb-imx943
• evb-imx95

Each SoC family has its own sublayer with machine definition under:

meta-nxp/meta-imx91/conf/machine
meta-nxp/meta-imx93/conf/machine
meta-nxp/meta-imx943/conf/machine
meta-nxp/meta-imx95/conf/machine

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4. Basic Build Instructions

Get the Yocto Source Code:

git clone https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc.git
cd openbmc
git checkout -b walnascar origin/walnascar
git clone https://github.com/nxp-imx-support/meta-nxp-openbmc.git meta-nxp

Set-up build environment for selected machine:

. setup evb-imx93
# or evb-imx91 / evb-imx943 / evb-imx95

Build the image:

bitbake obmc-phosphor-image

If any package fails, you can build that package separately by using below command:

bitbake -c clean <Package_NAME>; bitbake <Package_NAME>

Note: "wic" image will be available at "tmp/deploy/images/<board_name>" path.

5. Directory Structure

meta-common        Shared BSP code (kernel notes, meta-imx-bsp, licenses)
meta-imx91         SoC-specific machine + recipes
meta-imx93         SoC-specific machine + recipes
meta-imx943        SoC-specific machine + recipes
meta-imx95         SoC-specific machine + recipes

recipes-bsp        Bootloader, ATF, skiboot, low-level BSP
recipes-core       Core OS modifications (udev, etc.)
recipes-example    Example recipes
recipes-kernel     Kernel recipes and config
recipes-phosphor   Platform-level phosphor services (gpio, host, images, etc.)
recipes-support    Misc supporting libraries
scripts            Helper scripts (console, state, service control)
wic                WIC image layout per SoC

For detailed per-directory modifications, see recipes.txt.

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