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The Flash-N-Go infrastructure (or FnG infrastructure) is a software product for NXP i.MX Edge devices created by SECO. Consisting of three parts: Flash-N-Go Boot, Flash-N-Go System and Flash-N-Go Update; it provides a convenient way of booting, flashing, testing and updating edge devices. FnG Infrastructure is available on the following series of devices:
Products of the SAN* family of devices with i.MX6: SANTARO, SANTOKA, SANTINO,…
NALLINO with i.MX6ULL
TANARO with i.MX8MM
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Alternatively, the bootselect tool can be used, available modes are regular for normal target OS and alternative for Flash-N-Go System.
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The bootmode switch needs to be held on each boot process. The selection made with |
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It is also possible to use abbreviation such as a for alternative and so on.
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Installation via network
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Our latest releases can be found here (FnG-System) and here (Yocto) |
The common concept of the installation is always similar.
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These concatenating these steps the installation can be done in one-liner commands.
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Our latest releases can be found here (FnG-System) and here (Yocto)The examples below are using our server as an example. Customer can download the file and hosted on their own server if it’s more convenient or in case only local network is available. |
Example 1: Install Yocto Kirkstone 25.0
Set the variable location, then call curl to download it to pipe to sh
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The parameter url of the script should point to the location of the folder where the installation files are located.
Example 2: Install Flash-N-Go System 51
The process is similar to installing the target OS
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FNG="https://secostorage.blob.core.windows.net/seco-ne-public/HMI/Flash-N-Go/FNGSystem/FNGSystem-51.0/seco-mx6/fngsystem-self-update.sh" curl --location "$FNG" | sh -s -- --url="$(dirname "$FNG")" |
Offline installation
It is also possible to install FnG System as well as the target OS offline.
To do that, simply download and copy the installation script as well as the corresponding files to a USB stick. After that, simply boot the device into FnG System, mount the USB stick and directly call the script.
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Security Considerations
The Flash-N-Go System is designed as a management system to install and update target operating systems and change the device configurations. Thus it runs with root privileges. This may be a concern for some scenarios. Therefore some security considerations are necessary.
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