diff --git a/target/linux/imx/cortexa53/base-files/etc/board.d/02_network b/target/linux/imx/cortexa53/base-files/etc/board.d/02_network
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c6049824e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/imx/cortexa53/base-files/etc/board.d/02_network
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+. /lib/functions/uci-defaults.sh
+
+board=$(board_name)
+
+board_config_update
+
+case "$board" in
+gw,imx8mm-gw72xx-0x|\
+gw,imx8mp-gw72xx-2x|\
+gw,imx8mm-gw73xx-0x|\
+gw,imx8mp-gw73xx-2x|\
+gw,imx8mm-gw7902-0x)
+	ucidef_set_interfaces_lan_wan 'eth1' 'eth0'
+	;;
+gw,imx8mm-gw7901)
+	ucidef_set_interfaces_lan_wan 'lan2 lan3 lan4' 'lan1'
+	;;
+gateworks,imx8mp-gw74xx)
+	ucidef_set_network_device_path "eth0" "platform/soc@0/30800000.bus/30bf0000.ethernet"
+	ucidef_set_network_device_path "eth1" "platform/soc@0/30800000.bus/30be0000.ethernet"
+	ucidef_set_interfaces_lan_wan 'lan1 lan2 lan3 lan4' 'eth1'
+	;;
+esac
+
+board_config_flush
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/target/linux/imx/cortexa53/base-files/lib/preinit/79_move_config b/target/linux/imx/cortexa53/base-files/lib/preinit/79_move_config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a9b9a0f458
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/imx/cortexa53/base-files/lib/preinit/79_move_config
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+. /lib/functions.sh
+. /lib/upgrade/common.sh
+
+move_config() {
+	local board=$(board_name)
+	local partdev
+
+	export_bootdevice && export_partdevice partdev 1 && {
+		mount -o rw,noatime "/dev/$partdev" /mnt
+		[ -f "/mnt/$BACKUP_FILE" ] && {
+			mv -f "/mnt/$BACKUP_FILE" /
+		}
+		umount /mnt
+	}
+}
+
+boot_hook_add preinit_mount_root move_config
diff --git a/target/linux/imx/cortexa53/base-files/lib/upgrade/platform.sh b/target/linux/imx/cortexa53/base-files/lib/upgrade/platform.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..c59a69421a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/imx/cortexa53/base-files/lib/upgrade/platform.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+
+enable_image_metadata_check() {
+	case "$(board_name)" in
+	gw,imx8m*)
+		REQUIRE_IMAGE_METADATA=1
+		;;
+	esac
+}
+enable_image_metadata_check
+
+platform_check_image() {
+	local board=$(board_name)
+
+	case "$board" in
+	gw,imx8m*)
+		return 0
+		;;
+	esac
+
+	echo "Sysupgrade is not yet supported on $board."
+	return 1
+}
+
+platform_do_upgrade() {
+	local board=$(board_name)
+
+	case "$board" in
+	gw,imx8m*)
+		export_bootdevice && export_partdevice diskdev 0 || {
+			echo "Unable to find root device."
+			return 1
+		}
+		v "Updating /dev/$diskdev..."
+		get_image "$@" | dd of="/dev/$diskdev" bs=4096 conv=fsync
+		;;
+	esac
+}
+
+platform_copy_config() {
+	local board=$(board_name)
+	local partdev
+
+	case "$board" in
+	gw,imx8m*)
+		export_partdevice partdev 1 && {
+			v "Storing $UPGRADE_BACKUP on /dev/$partdev..."
+			mount -o rw,noatime "/dev/$partdev" /mnt
+			cp -af "$UPGRADE_BACKUP" "/mnt/$BACKUP_FILE"
+			umount /mnt
+		}
+		;;
+	esac
+}
diff --git a/target/linux/imx/cortexa53/config-default b/target/linux/imx/cortexa53/config-default
index 2076395ee8..026ddf6708 100644
--- a/target/linux/imx/cortexa53/config-default
+++ b/target/linux/imx/cortexa53/config-default
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ CONFIG_CMA_AREAS=7
 # CONFIG_CMA_DEBUG is not set
 # CONFIG_CMA_DEBUGFS is not set
 # CONFIG_CMA_SYSFS is not set
+# CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_BD718XX is not set
 CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS=y
 CONFIG_CONTIG_ALLOC=y
 CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_ARM64=y
@@ -96,9 +97,16 @@ CONFIG_INTERCONNECT_IMX8MN=y
 CONFIG_INTERCONNECT_IMX8MP=y
 CONFIG_INTERCONNECT_IMX8MQ=y
 CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION=y
+CONFIG_MFD_CORE=y
+CONFIG_MFD_ROHM_BD718XX=y
 # CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_PCI is not set
 CONFIG_MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA=y
 CONFIG_NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH=y
+# CONFIG_NET_DSA_MICROCHIP_KSZ8863_SMI is not set
+CONFIG_NET_DSA_MICROCHIP_KSZ9477_I2C=y
+CONFIG_NET_DSA_MICROCHIP_KSZ_COMMON=y
+# CONFIG_NET_DSA_MICROCHIP_KSZ_SPI is not set
+CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_KSZ=y
 CONFIG_NOP_USB_XCEIV=y
 CONFIG_PARTITION_PERCPU=y
 CONFIG_PCI=y
@@ -133,8 +141,11 @@ CONFIG_POWER_RESET=y
 CONFIG_POWER_SUPPLY=y
 CONFIG_QUEUED_RWLOCKS=y
 CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS=y
+CONFIG_REGMAP_IRQ=y
+CONFIG_REGULATOR_BD718XX=y
 CONFIG_REGULATOR_MP5416=y
 CONFIG_REGULATOR_PCA9450=y
+CONFIG_REGULATOR_ROHM=y
 CONFIG_RESET_IMX7=y
 CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED=y
 CONFIG_SOC_IMX8M=y
diff --git a/target/linux/imx/image/bootscript-gateworks_venice b/target/linux/imx/image/bootscript-gateworks_venice
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..062947f27b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/imx/image/bootscript-gateworks_venice
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# distro-config bootscript
+#  - use only well-known variable names provided by U-Boot Distro boot
+#    - devtype - device type script run from (mmc|usb|scsi)
+#    - devnum - device number script run from (0 based int)
+#    - distro_bootpart - partition script run from (0 based int)
+#    - prefix - directory boot script was found in
+#    - kernel_addr_r - address to load kernel image to
+#    - fdt_addr_r - address to load dtb to
+#    - ftdcontroladdr - address dtb is at
+#    - fdt_file{1,2,3,4,5} name of fdt to load
+#    - fdt_overlays - list of fdt overlay files to load and apply
+echo "Gateworks Venice OpenWrt Boot script v1.0"
+
+# determine root device using PARTUUID:
+#  - this avoids any difference beteween uboot's device names/numbers
+#    not matching Linux as device enumeration is not a set API.
+#  - PARTUUID is disk UUID concatenated with partition number
+#    - for MBR disk UUID is unique disk id at offset 440
+#    - for GPT disk UUID is GPT UUID
+#  - for OpenWrt the squasfs rootfs is not readable by U-Boot so we have
+#    a 'boot' partition containing bootscript kernel dtbs followed by the rootfs
+#    partition, therefore we add 1 to the current partition
+setexpr rootpart ${distro_bootpart} + 1 # root on 'next' partition
+part uuid ${devtype} ${devnum}:${rootpart} uuid
+setenv bootargs ${bootargs} console=${console} root=PARTUUID=${uuid} rootfstype=squashfs,ext4,f2fs rootwait
+
+# load dtb (we try fdt_file and then fdt_file{1,2,3,4,5})
+echo "loading DTB..."
+setenv fdt_addr
+setenv fdt_list $fdt_file $fdt_file1 $fdt_file2 $fdt_file3 $fdt_file4 $fdt_file5
+setenv load_fdt 'echo Loading $fdt...; load ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${fdt_addr_r} ${prefix}${fdt} && setenv fdt_addr ${fdt_addr_r}'
+setenv apply_overlays 'fdt addr $fdt_addr_r && fdt resize && for fdt in "$fdt_overlays"; do load ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} $loadaddr $prefix/$fdt && fdt apply $loadaddr && echo applied $prefix/$fdt; done'
+for fdt in ${fdt_list}; do if test -e ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${prefix}${fdt}; then run load_fdt; fi; done
+if test -z "$fdt_addr"; then echo "Warning: Using bootloader DTB"; setenv fdt_addr $fdtcontroladdr; fi
+if test -n "$fdt_overlays"; then echo "Applying overlays"; run apply_overlays; fi
+if test -n "$fixfdt"; then echo "Adjusting FDT"; run fixfdt; fi
+
+# load and boot kernel
+echo "loading kernel..."
+load ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${kernel_addr_r} ${prefix}Image &&
+booti ${kernel_addr_r} - ${fdt_addr}
diff --git a/target/linux/imx/image/cortexa53.mk b/target/linux/imx/image/cortexa53.mk
index d8bf33407b..7458162da3 100644
--- a/target/linux/imx/image/cortexa53.mk
+++ b/target/linux/imx/image/cortexa53.mk
@@ -1,3 +1,30 @@
+define Build/boot-scr
+	rm -f $@-boot.scr
+	mkimage -A arm64 -O linux -T script -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
+		-d bootscript-$(BOOT_SCRIPT) $@-boot.scr
+endef
+
+define Build/boot-img-ext4
+	rm -fR $@.boot
+	mkdir -p $@.boot
+	$(foreach dts,$(DEVICE_DTS), $(CP) $(KDIR)/image-$(dts).dtb $@.boot/$(dts).dtb;)
+	$(CP) $(IMAGE_KERNEL) $@.boot/$(KERNEL_NAME)
+	-$(CP) $@-boot.scr $@.boot/boot.scr
+	make_ext4fs -J -L kernel -l $(CONFIG_TARGET_KERNEL_PARTSIZE)M \
+		$(if $(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH),-T $(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)) \
+		$@.bootimg $@.boot
+endef
+
+define Build/sdcard-img-ext4
+	SIGNATURE="$(IMG_PART_SIGNATURE)" \
+	PARTOFFSET="$(PARTITION_OFFSET)" PADDING=1 \
+		$(if $(filter $(1),efi),GUID="$(IMG_PART_DISKGUID)") $(SCRIPT_DIR)/gen_image_generic.sh \
+		$@ \
+		$(CONFIG_TARGET_KERNEL_PARTSIZE) $@.boot \
+		$(CONFIG_TARGET_ROOTFS_PARTSIZE) $(IMAGE_ROOTFS) \
+		256
+endef
+
 define Device/Default
   PROFILES := Default
   FILESYSTEMS := squashfs ubifs ext4
@@ -13,3 +40,21 @@ define Device/imx8m
   DEVICE_DTS := $(basename $(notdir $(wildcard $(DTS_DIR)/freescale/imx8m*.dts)))
 endef
 TARGET_DEVICES += imx8m
+
+define Device/gateworks_venice
+  $(call Device/Default)
+  FILESYSTEMS := squashfs ext4
+  DEVICE_VENDOR := Gateworks
+  DEVICE_MODEL := i.MX8M Venice
+  BOOT_SCRIPT := gateworks_venice
+  PARTITION_OFFSET := 16M
+  DEVICE_DTS := $(basename $(notdir $(wildcard $(DTS_DIR)/freescale/imx8m*-venice*.dts)))
+  DEVICE_PACKAGES := \
+	kmod-hwmon-gsc kmod-rtc-ds1672 kmod-eeprom-at24 \
+	kmod-gpio-button-hotplug kmod-leds-gpio kmod-pps-gpio \
+	kmod-lan743x kmod-sky2 kmod-iio-st_accel-i2c \
+	kmod-can kmod-can-flexcan kmod-can-mcp251x
+  IMAGES := img.gz
+  IMAGE/img.gz := boot-scr | boot-img-ext4 | sdcard-img-ext4 | gzip | append-metadata
+endef
+TARGET_DEVICES += gateworks_venice