Preparing the microSD card to boot the board
You can prepare your microSD card to boot using U-Boot.
For descriptions of the boot processes, see Boot using U-Boot
.
Pre-built image
After you have unzipped the BSP, a prebuilt QNX IFS image is available in the BSP's /images directory.
This prebuilt IFS image is generated by the BSP make utility, and is configured for the various BSP device drivers already on your system. When you build the BSP, this image is overwritten with a new QNX IFS file that gets generated by the BSP build process, so you may want to make a copy of it for future reference. If you forget to make a backup copy of this image, you can simply extract the BSP from the ZIP file (.zip archive) again to recover the original prebuilt IFS. Before you can put the boot image on the microSD card, you must prepare the microSD card to be bootable. For more information, see the Prepare a bootable microSD
in this chapter.
Preparing to boot using U-Boot
- Insert your bootable microSD card into your host computer if you haven't done so. For more information about boot microSD card, see the
Prepare a bootable microSD
section in this chapter. - On your host computer, download the boot-adas-j722s-evm.tar.gz file from the https://www.ti.com/tool/download/PROCESSOR-SDK-LINUX-J722S/11.00.00.08 page from the Texas Instruments website.
- Extract the boot-adas-j722s-evm.tar.gz file on your computer. You should see the following files:
376010 May 20 04:36 tiboot3.bin 376010 May 20 04:36 tiboot3-j722s-hs-evm.bin 376010 May 20 04:36 tiboot3-j722s-hs-fs-evm.bin 376010 May 20 04:36 tiboot3-j722s-hs-fs-evm-j722s-evm-k3r5-2025.01+git-r0_tisdk_6_edgeai_5.bin 1059859 May 20 04:36 tispl.bin 1235643 May 20 04:36 u-boot.img 940 May 20 04:36 uEnv.txt 14 May 20 04:36 version
- From a Command Prompt (Windows) or terminal (Linux), copy the extracted files from the boot-adas-j722s-evm.tar.gz file to the microSD card.
For Linux hosts:
cd extracted_directory cp * location_of_microsd
For a Windows host:
cd extracted_directory copy * drive:\
- Copy the QNX IFS for this BSP to the microSD card with the name qnx-ifs if you want to boot the QNX OS directly from the microSD card. For Linux hosts:
cd $BSP_ROOT_DIR/images cp ifs-j722s-evm.raw mountpoint/qnx-ifs
For a Windows host:
cd $BSP_ROOT_DIR\images copy ifs-j722s-evm.raw drive:\qnx-ifs
- Copy the psdk_linux_9.2_k3-j722s-evm.dtb to the microSD card.
For Linux hosts:
cd $BSP_ROOT_DIR/prebuilt/usr/lib cp psdk_linux_9.2_k3-j722s-evm.dtb mountpoint
For a Windows host:
cd $BSP_ROOT_DIR\images copy psdk_linux_9.2_k3-j722s-evm.dtb drive:\