# iMX8M mini evk look alike

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/imx8m-mini-evk-look-alike/2653>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** sumo\
**Created:** [October 12, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/imx8m-mini-evk-look-alike/2653 "2020-10-12T19:17:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dvescovi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/dvescovi/32/287_2.png) [@dvescovi](https://hub.mender.io/u/dvescovi)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/imx8m-mini-evk-look-alike/2653/1 "2020-10-12T19:17:20Z")

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# Board description

iMX8M Mini

I have a a iMX8M mini eval kit and I have the mender demo working. I then tried to take the next step and integrate mender with my iMX8M mini board. The board is almost exactly the same as the evk but it does have a different MACHINE name (imx8mmABC instead of imx8mmevk) I also have most of my local code in a local git repo. I can repo sync from my repo and I can see everything populated in the sources directory including the mender and mender community meta layers and local.conf in my buildABC directory along side my sources directory etc. I normally would just do a “. setup-environment buildABC” and then a bitbake (as per the NXP directions for reentering a previous setup build)… but this does not seem to work after mender integration as it seems to require some other additional initialization.(as seen from errors like core-image-base has no buildable providers) If I go through the . fsl-setup-mender -b imx8mmABC it rewrites my local.conf and bblayers.conf file … which I do not want. If I resync just the local.conf and bblayers.conf back to my original AFTER doing the fsl-setup-mender everything builds as needed without error. Obviously fsl-setup-mender.sh is doing some more environment initialization beyond just updating the local.conf and bblayers.conf. so my question is how can I initialize the mender build environment WITHOUT having it overwrite my already correct local.conf and bblayers.conf file?

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**Author:** ![oleorhagen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/oleorhagen/32/297_2.png) [@oleorhagen](https://hub.mender.io/u/oleorhagen)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 1:31pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/imx8m-mini-evk-look-alike/2653/2 "2020-10-20T13:31:12Z")

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I see the sumo tag, is this specific to sumo?

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**Author:** ![drewmoseley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/drewmoseley/32/47_2.png) [@drewmoseley](https://hub.mender.io/u/drewmoseley)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/imx8m-mini-evk-look-alike/2653/3 "2020-10-20T14:16:49Z")

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Yes. I just submitted a newer integration for this platform but it’s not fully merged yet.

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**Author:** ![dvescovi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/dvescovi/32/287_2.png) [@dvescovi](https://hub.mender.io/u/dvescovi)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/imx8m-mini-evk-look-alike/2653/4 "2020-10-20T14:53:37Z")

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finally was able to re-enter by project after setup by reworking the setup-environment script