Ubuntu Focal Fossa 20.04 LTS Wayland Desktop Environment

Note:

  1. Please refer to here to guide you on how to flash image to SD card.
  2. I-Pi SMARC IMX8M Plus board can also work without SD Card by booting the image into eMMC. For those who want to boot the image in eMMC click here.
  3. Boot the system with the SD card placed in the slot located on the carrier. Once booted, you will see the login screen.
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  1. Ubuntu of different versions (16.04/18.04) is not available for download but has to be compiled by the user himself. Please follow the steps in “build your OS” to do this.

Note: Make sure the boot loader on the carrier board is set according to the SD card or eMMC as you boot
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Usernames and Passwords

  • Two usernames are defined on the system: root, imx8mp
  • password is adlink for 2G modules and adlink123 for 4G modules

After login, you can see the home screen

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The default home screen of Ubuntu 20.04 of I-Pi SMARC IMX8M Plus appears like above. You can also change the background of your home screen.

Supported features & interfaces

  • Linux Kernel version: 5.10.35
  • 2D / 3D Graphics Acceleration which supports Wayland
  • 40 Pin expansion Header with Eclipse MRAA library and Eclipse UPM library which supports C/C++, Python, JAVA and JavaScript
  • SEMA 4.0 (Smart Embedded Management Agent) support the functions such as CPU temperature, voltage monitoring total up time, … etc.
  • 2D / 3D Graphics Acceleration which supports Wayland
  • Support1080p60 H.265, H.264, VP9, VP8 decoder, 1080p60 H.265, H.264 encoder
  • HDMI output with the resolution up to 1920x1080@60Hz
  • 4 x USB 2.0 ports
  • 2 x 10/100 Gb LAN ports
  • USB OTG Serial Gadget supported (baud rate: 115200)
  • CAN FD Bus interface
  • Audio & speaker
  • Raspberry Pi Camera V2.1 (2 Lanes) - SONY iMX219 sensor (Datasheet)

Running glmark2-es2 program to benchmark for GL7000UL with Wayland

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