Compatibility of DART-MX8M Mini with VAR-SOM-IMX8M Mini

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Hello,
I am trying to get balena OS to run in the VAR-SOM-IMX8M Mini Variscite board. As far as I understand the software is shared between this board and the DART-MX8M Mini, which is already supported by balena. However when I flash the DART image into the VAR-SOM I can only find the device and I am not able to ssh into it.

Should this work? If not is balena planning to add support for the VAR-SOM-MX8M Mini? If not how easy is it to add custom support for this board?

Thank you in advance

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Hi David, thanks for reaching out. The short answer is you can certainly build support for a board, and it’s easier if it’s a board that is similar to one we already support, like in your case. There is information on the process here: balenaOS - Docs

Once you have an image successfully built, you can also submit a PR into our OS repo, and we can include support for the board…allowing others to benefit and use that hardware to! Hope that helps, thanks!