Build problems

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Build problems

khumarahn opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

Hi, I tried to follow the linux building instructions in https://github.com/OLIMEX/DIY-LAPTOP/blob/master/SOFTWARE/A64-TERES/scripts/readme.md

I am not an expert at all. I have a few comments/questions:

I guess that "Getting source code" section needs to be updated with the new location. Why is arm trusted firmware not mirrored in olimex repo?
There is a requirement for gcc-4.7-arm-linux-gnueabihf toolchain, seems that it is only used in u_boot-new. Can somebody comment? Why armhf when everything else is aarch64? Why gcc-4.7? It does not seem to be needed upstream.
./build_uboot.sh fails with
./build_uboot.sh: line 29: ../sunxi-pack-tools/bin/update_boot0: No such file or directory
I updated sunxi-pack-tools with the newer https://github.com/longsleep/sunxi-pack-tools, and it worked.

(EDIT):

I had to install dos2unix https://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/dos2unix.html, and also fakeroot, which weren't mentioned in the instructions. Though, I am not on ubuntu where they may come by default.

Alexey Korepanov · Answer 1 · Sat Oct 28 2017 22:12:04 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Also,

./make_simpleimage.sh teres.img 1000 ./linux-a64-3.10.104-1.tar.xz fails with

Creating teres image teres.img of size 1000 MiB ...   
Using Kernel from ./linux-a64-3.10.104-1.tar.xz ...    
20+0 records in
20+0 records out
20971520 bytes (21 MB, 20 MiB) copied, 0.0116583 s, 1.8 GB/s
48+0 records in                           
48+0 records out                           
49152 bytes (49 kB, 48 KiB) copied, 0.00029765 s, 165 MB/s
960+0 records in                                           
960+0 records out                                      
983040 bytes (983 kB, 960 KiB) copied, 0.002399 s, 410 MB/s 
50+0 records in                                   
50+0 records out                                                  
52428800 bytes (52 MB, 50 MiB) copied, 0.0262658 s, 2.0 GB/s      
mkfs.fat 4.0 (2016-05-06)                                 
Total number of sectors (102400) not a multiple of sectors per track (63)!
Add mtools_skip_check=1 to your .mtoolsrc file to skip this test

Here I am not sure what's going on. Is it safe to add mtools_skip_check=1 to .mtoolsrc?

Dimitar Gamishev · Answer 2 · Mon Oct 30 2017 01:49:36 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi Alexey, since we need 32 bit SPL/boot0 to get u-boot running/64 bit compiler exeeds 32k size of boot0/, we must use 32 bit compiler. Did you clone proper sunxi-pack-tools branch /this branch is forked from longsleep, as working/. Best regards, Dimitar

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On 28 Oct 2017 17:12, "Alexey Korepanov" ***@***.***> wrote: Also, - ./make_simpleimage.sh teres.img 1000 ./linux-a64-3.10.104-1.tar.xz fails with Creating teres image teres.img of size 1000 MiB ... Using Kernel from ./linux-a64-3.10.104-1.tar.xz ... 20+0 records in 20+0 records out 20971520 bytes (21 MB, 20 MiB) copied, 0.0116583 s, 1.8 GB/s 48+0 records in 48+0 records out 49152 bytes (49 kB, 48 KiB) copied, 0.00029765 s, 165 MB/s 960+0 records in 960+0 records out 983040 bytes (983 kB, 960 KiB) copied, 0.002399 s, 410 MB/s 50+0 records in 50+0 records out 52428800 bytes (52 MB, 50 MiB) copied, 0.0262658 s, 2.0 GB/s mkfs.fat 4.0 (2016-05-06) Total number of sectors (102400) not a multiple of sectors per track (63)! Add mtools_skip_check=1 to your .mtoolsrc file to skip this test Here I am not sure what's going on. Is it safe to add mtools_skip_check=1 to .mtoolsrc? — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#6 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABrmZV3tnvQtPtEc_3j1mHmcTz0biNaKks5swzY1gaJpZM4QJ7yO> .

Alexey Korepanov · Answer 3 · Mon Oct 30 2017 04:01:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

ok, thanks for the explanation about the 32 bit compiler. I hope that the requirement for the old gcc-4.7 can be lifted at some point.

I didn't quite understand you about sunxi-pack-tools. I couldn't make work the version from here https://github.com/OLIMEX/DIY-LAPTOP/tree/master/SOFTWARE/A64-TERES/sunxi-pack-tools
(error is in the first post). Maybe it needs to be updated with a newer one from longsleep's repo?

Dimitar Gamishev · Answer 4 · Mon Oct 30 2017 04:06:30 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi Alexey, i agree with you, i also finding some typos in this instructions. I will do my best to fix it tomorrow. Thank you.

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Alexey Korepanov · Answer 5 · Sun Nov 05 2017 20:35:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Something else missing in the instructions:

# cat /etc/udev/hwdb.d/teres_kbd.hwdb 
evdev:input:b0003v15BAp003C*
  KEYBOARD_KEY_7006f=brightnessdown
  KEYBOARD_KEY_70070=brightnessup

Dimitar Gamishev · Answer 6 · Tue Nov 07 2017 04:03:41 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Readme is up to date, and i think everything should work as expected.