Toradex Easy Installer Issue Tracker

Description: Image installation might fail with the "Too few blocks for viable filesystem" error on eMMC based SoMs.

Description: Tezi is very slow, to the point that installation could actually fail with timeout on low-end module variants

Workaround: Disconnect any HDMI monitor and use VNC.

Description: This adds the halt and poweroff commands to the TEZI rootfs. Due to the simple init used the tools need to bypass init and directly direct call the kernel systemcalls. I.e. they need to be called with the `-f` parameter.

Description: The NAND bad block table is getting corrupted at every boot because of a configuration mismatch between U-Boot (using OOB data for bad blocks) and Linux (using an in-band table at the end in the last 2 NAND blocks). This could potentially cause data loss in case a bad block is reused and the error is not recoverable with ECC.

Workaround: Set `CONFIG_SYS_NAND_USE_FLASH_BBT=y` in U-Boot configuration.

Description: Support for PID8 naming scheme when assembly version >25 (parsing)

Description: Change EULA dialog acceptance button label to "I Accept"

Description: Improve tezictl timeout handling ans status reporting

Description: Improve message in case an image requires an updated version of Toradex Easy Installer

Description: Toradex Easy Installer does not write u-boot-initial-env on NAND modules, instead U-Boot starts with default environment after the installation.

Description: Toradex Easy Installer fails to start if configuration block is missing

Description: Support the second Ethernet interface of Verdin iMX8M Plus, with the PHY located on the carrier board. It is exposed through the connector X35, for Ethernet_2, from the Verdin Development Board.

Description: Security labels do not get written to the target file system if they are in place in a tar file.

Description: Unfortunately, ancient wrong default U-Boot environment compiled into the fw-utils aka fw_printenv/fw_setenv is leaking into freshly installed images of all i.MX 8 series based modules which may have various disastrous effects leading up to and including complete boot hangs.

Description: Add support for Apalis iMX8QXP 2GB ECC IT V1.1B.

Description: Add support for Apalis iMX8QP 2GB WB V1.1B.

Description: Add support for Colibri iMX8QXP 2GB WB IT V1.0D.

Description: Add support for Colibri iMX8DX 1GB WB V1.0D.

Description: Add support for Apalis iMX8QM 4GB IT V1.1B.

Description: Add support for Verdin iMX8M Mini DualLite 1GB V1.1A.

Description: Some modules may show various kinds of RAM issues (U-Boot failing to boot fit images due to bad hash, random squashfs errors, random kernel panics when BSP is flashed). Closer analysis identified NXP meanwhile having updated the RAM configuration/initialisation side of things. Updating to NXP's latest Register Programming Aid (RPA) v19 seems to fix those issues. Full validation & verification pending...

Workaround: Until this fix is officially released please use a recent nightly build. Note: You are looking for something like apalis-imx8/tezi/tezi-run/oedeploy/Apalis-iMX8_ToradexEasyInstaller_2.0b6-nightly-<date>.zip.
https://artifacts.toradex.com:443/artifactory/tezi-oe-prerelease-frankfurt/thud/nightly/

Description: RNDIS networking is not functional on Colibri iMX6ULL

Description: NAND is not working on Colibri iMX7S in 2.0b4 release.

Workaround: Use stable Tezi release 1.8.

Description: Images in the Feed list may be shown more than once.

Workaround: Restart Easy Installer or delete the contents in /var/volatile/ from a console and press refresh.

Description: The Toradex Easy Installer 1.8, when flashed to the eMMC of a 0039 Colibri iMX7D 1GB (eMMC) V1.1B, is not working correctly as the ConfigBlock is not properly read.

Workaround: `setenv variant -emmc` in U-Boot before booting (it's not possible to save the variable change).

Description: On the serial console the Toradex Easy Installer reports bogus/confusing version information: TDX_VER_ID="Colibri-iMX7_ToradexEasyInstaller_2.0b7-nightly-20201104" Instead of Colibri-iMX7_ToradexEasyInstaller_2.0b7-nightly-20210323 which is what I am running!

Description: Installer doesn't start automatically on Apalis TK1

Description: The "Erase Flash (c)" button on the Easy Installer does not preserve the NAND flash erase counters in /sys/class/ubi/ubi0/max_ec.

Description: Support optional flashing artifacts using a property in the image descriptor.

Description: During installation of BSP V2.6 directly from the Toradex Easy Installer U-Boot the following error message is shown but otherwise ignored by the installation procedure: Unknown command 'patch_ddr_size' - try 'help' As a consequence only 256MB of RAM will be available.

Workaround: Just manually execute the patch_ddr_size command once U-Boot from BSP V2.6 is installed. For existing production programming scenarios we do recommend to first separately update just U-Boot only (e.g. doing run setupdate; run update_uboot; reset) in order to make sure any further production programming scripting will proceed as before.

Description: Support flashing WinCE splash screen.

Description: There is a hard-coded ext3 message somewhere in the Qt Tezi UI.

Description: Currently images and files inside an image can be selected to be compatible with a product ID(s) using the "supported_product_ids" property. It should be also possible to filter by product revision.

Description: Recovery mode might not work if there is a USB hub between the Colibri iMX7 and the PC.

Workaround: Remove the USB hub, connect the Colibri directly to the PC.

Description: Refreshing images sometimes does not reload the image description files.

Workaround: Restart the Toradex Easy Installer. Manually clear the Qt Network disk cache using "rm -rf /tmp/data8/".

Description: Especially on the lower end module the user interface over RDP feels slow. The mouse cursor and UI elements updates slowly and sometimes get even stuck.

Description: Restoring config block on Toradex Easy Installer 2.0b1 on module with raw NAND is not functional.

Description: If you attempt to install BSP 2.6 or later on an older Apalis iMX6 V1.0A, V1.1A, V1.1B (Apalis iMX6Q 2GB IT before 2017-05-30 only) or Colibri iMX6 V1.0A module for the very first time it will not work, as prior to the Easy Installer version 2.0b4 we used to fuse them directly in that application. Later modules we since fuse in production.

Workaround: If you have one of the listed modules contact Toradex.

Description: Flashing images using Windows is not working for Apalis T30 and Apalis TK1.

Description: This is by design: Toradex Easy Installer merges the variable currently in the environment with the variables in the supplied text file. This is taken care of on the BSP side #58122.

Workaround: To delete a variable, add a variable with the same name but without a value (e.g. test=). Alternatively, erase the flash before flashing a new image to make sure only the variables in the supplied text file are set in the environment.

Description: If the Toradex Easy Installer is used with network only there is no way to provide a custom HTTP server to fetch the images from. Use a DHCP option to provide a HTTP image server.

Description: Normally prepare and wrap-up scripts execute only relatively short migration type tasks. Toradex Easy Installer therefor calls the scripts with a timeout of 30s. However, the scripts can be useful for various applications, such as flashing the complete image using a script itself. For this type of application a longer timeout is required. The timeout should be a configuration option in the JSON file.

Description: The Toradex Easy Installer 1.3 may fail bringing-up USB properly showing the following error on the serial debug console:
usb usb1-port1: cannot reset (err = -32)

Workaround: Just power-cycle and try again. Plugging the device in after boot may also help.

Description: Currently a whole copy of the licenses is installed instead of a manifest only.

Description: When using the wrapup script to write into its storage medium (e.g. for log files, etc) and issuing a reboot thereafter, the medium should be first unmounted to avoid data corruption. A suggested way to unmount the medium wherefrom the wrapup script is executed is to create a delegate script in memory and exec it from the same wrapup. This approach doesn't seem to work, as umount will complain the resource is busy.

Description: Error downloading image list. Intermittently, shown upon boot. Alternatively, if clicking on Feeds (f) too quick while it is still loading stuff this error is also always shown.

Description: Having Wi-Fi support makes it easier for evaluation purposes.

Workaround: Duplicate

Description: On the Colibri Evaluation Board V3, a USB 3.0 device plugged in at boot time is not accessible after boot. Furthermore, the device seems to influence the on-board USB hub in a way that any USB port 1-4 won't work anymore.

Workaround: Plug the USB 3.0 flash drive after startup or use a USB 2.0 flash drive.

Description: Currently the existence of the Toradex Config Block is used to determine whether a valid BCB (boot configuration block) is present. Technically, those are two separate things. It is possible to erase the flash and only write the Troadex Config Block from U-Boot, in which case the Toradex Easy Installer will assume that there is a valid BCB. This sequence leads to a unbootable module.

Description: Currently, the DHCP client used in Toradex Easy Installer does not provide a hostname. So even when using a DHCP server with DNS integration it will not be possible to ping the Toradex Easy Installer by hostname/FQDN.

Workaround: Use server discovery using zeroconf technologies or use a custom local DNS Server which resolves tezi.toradex.com to a local image server.

Description: Add support for filesystem_type: "swap", so that a swap partition can be setup during an Easy Installer installation.

Description: Distroboot from USB Stick/SD Card may allow you to load Toradex Easy Installer into a Toradex SoM without the need of going through recovery mode, which involves exposing a USB OTG interface and using a computer.
While this seems easier, due to limitations on the SoC vendors BSP - such as the SCU firmware - it is not a maintainable feature and therefore not supported by Toradex.

Workaround: Keep in mind that Toradex Easy Installer is a production programming tool, not meant to be used as an update tool. If you need to update the full OS image for devices on the field and still insist on using it, make sure that your hardware design is aware of the requirements for entering recovery mode. Alternatively, consider adopting an OTA solution: for instance, if you are using Torizon, consider adopting Torizon OTA.

Description: Add new Feed: pressing numbers selects/unselects servers (even in input field).

Description: To allow using Toradex Easy Installer on carrier boards which use non Colibri/Apalis standard functionality the Toradex Easy Installer should make sure to not mux/use any non-essential pin.

Description: To validate integrity of the image a checksum for each file getting written to the flash should be stored in the image description file.

Description: Due to a combination of hardware and software architecture issues it is currently not easily possible to clone the same output to HDMI and parallel RGB.

Description: Use the new Toradex versioning scheme.

Description: Add support for Apalis iMX8X 1.1A

Description: Support Toradex Capacitive Touch Display 10.1"

Description: Support LVDS Screen in Toradex Easy Installer

Description: Currently the Toradex Easy Installer downloads every image.json references in a image list just to check whether the image is compatible with the module at hand. This does not scale well as we add support for more and more modules. Introduce a image list format which states which modules a particular image is for.

Description: When using RNDIS to download an image list from a custom server in a host, tezi silently fails.

Description: Assess and generalize recovery mode handling. Make sure upon recovery mode detection the default U-Boot environment is used rather than the one stored in flash to avoid any bad side-effects. Once U-Boot proper is running automatically start USB fastboot to allow for downloading further parts like e.g. the Toradex Easy Installer ITB.

Workaround: The downstream bring-up i.MX 8/8X/8MM U-Boot already behaves like that and maybe consulted for guidance.