Help Re. Recommended Linux Distribution for libcamera Development for i.MX8

[w.robertson at cairnwater.com]

Hi all,

Any advice you could give on getting started using libcamera on the 
Debix Model A would be wonderful. With fresh Ubuntu Desktop 24.10 and 
Raspberry Pi OS images written to an SD card (Using the RPi imager) the 
Debix Model A won't start to boot and with the Debix Ubuntu distribution 
it boots but I get an error when I try to install the dependencies 
needed to rebuild the kernel.

My Debix Model A doesn't have the 2 switches to select boot source so I 
think it boots from SD only and doesn't have on-board eMMC

I suspect from the NXP i.MX documentation that with vanilla Ubuntu I'm 
missing the BSP but I'm not sure.

I've been trying to follow libcamera Getting Started but it doesn't say 
which distribution is used:

https://libcamera.org/getting-started.html

I'd be enormously grateful for any advice.

Will

On 2025-01-17 21:02, w.robertson at cairnwater.com wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Which Linux distribution is recommended for libcamera development using 
> the Debix Model A (NXP i.MX 8M) board?
> 
> I've been trying using the Debix Model A Ubuntu distribution (Ubuntu 
> 22.04) from https://debix.io/Software/downloadn.html but running into 
> problems when I try to do a kernel rebuild using the procedure here 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/BuildYourOwnKernel and was wondering if 
> I'd be better using vanilla Ubuntu or Debian?
> 
> Thank you for your help!
> 
> Will