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Hi,

 

We are considering adding an AI Accelerator for our board (i.MX8, yocto).

Do you support yocto OS?
Is there any reference design or example that runs Metis on yocto platform?

 

Thanks,

Afik

Hi Afik,

Thanks for the question!

Currently we officially support Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 10/11 and server. 

While there’s nothing useful I can say about official Yocto support, the SBC does run on a Yocto based BSP (Board Support Package), as you can see in our webshop.

Are you opposed to running inside docker? Our Arduino Portenta X8 host also runs a Yocto based OS, where I’ve run Voyager and Metis through docker (video).

 

What is the application that you’re working on?


Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply!

My application involves real-time video processing (detection, tracking, etc.).

It also requires very fast boot (and therefore minimal kernel).

So Dockers doesn’t seem like a great option for us, and they are also not supported out-of-the-box on my yocto release.

 

Thanks,

Afik


Hi Afik,

Real time video processing is where we shine!
As I said before, we don’t have native Yocto support for the portenta at the moment. Docker can start automatically at boot as found here, but I can’t say anything about the speed of container startup.

I’d love to hear which solution you went with!


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