CROSS-COMPILING

Installing a distro for ARM. The distro is CRUX, the target is an Odroid C2. The device will appears as "/dev/mmcblk0" (with "/dev/mmcblk0p1" and "/dev/mmcblk0p2" as the partitions) in the target machine, but it can be seen as "/dev/sdX" in your x86 computer.

CROSS COMPILATION TOOLS

Installing GCC cross compilation tools (for the X86 machine, not target ARM). Includes binutils.

OPTION 1: From repository (Devuan example)
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi
OPTION 2: Proportioned by odroid

wget http://odroid.in/guides/ubuntu-lfs/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi.tar.xz
tar -Jxf arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi.tar.xz

Name of "CROSS_COMPILE" variable will change depending on the choosen option. This guide assumes from repository and therefore will equal to "CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi-"

PARTITIONING

Clear the section for the bootloader
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M count=8
Enter fdisk
fdisk /dev/sdX
Help
m
Create new MBR partition table
o
Create boot partition
n
Make primary partition
p
Choose partition number
1
Assign start of boot partition at the end of the bootloader space
3073
Assign end of boot partition
+128M
Change display units to cylinders
u
Create root partition
n
Make primary partition
p
Choose partition number
2
Assign start of boot partition at the end of the bootloader space (default cylinder)
131
Assign end of boot partition (default) by pressing ENTER
Change display units back to sectors
u
Show the partitions
p
If you agree save and exit
w
If you disagree delete a partition and start from that partition
d
or exit without saving
q
Make root filesystem
mkfs.<ROOT_FILESYSTEM> /dev/sdX2
Make boot filesystem according to supported bootloader (only "mkfs.vfat")
mkfs.<BOOTLOADER_FILESYSTEM> /dev/sdX1

BOOTLOADER

Minimum 3072 bytes free at the start of the drive and before the boot partition.

VERSION 1: Compile bootloader yourself

git clone https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot.git -b odroidc2-v2015.01
cd u-boot
make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi- odroidc2_defconfig
make -j4
cd boot

VERSION 2: Download and extract the binary

wget http://odroid.in/guides/ubuntu-lfs/boot.tar.gz # http://dn.odroid.com/S905/BootLoader/ODROID-C2/c2_boot_release_ubuntu.tar.gz
tar -zxvf boot.tar.xz
cd boot

Flash bootloader

chmod +x sd_fusing.sh
./sd_fusing.sh /dev/sdX

Notice the target is the device NOT any partition
Set resolution by editing file root/boot/boot.ini
Might want to comment-out the display-autodetect option

MOUNTING

Mount root filesystem
mount /dev/sdX2 /mnt
Create boot directory
mkdir /mnt/boot
Mount boot filesystem
mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/boot

BOOT PARTITION

Must be FAT32 and 64 MB minimum.

Clone kernel repo to destination "odroidc2-kernel-folder"
git clone --depth 1 --single-branch https://github.com/hardkernel/linux.git --branch odroidc2-v3.16.y odroidc2-kernel-folder
Enter destination folder
cd odroidc2-kernel-folder
OPTION 1: Make kernel config (oneliner)
make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi- odroidc2_defconfig
OPTION 2: Make kernel config

export ARCH=arm64
export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi-
make odroidc2_defconfig

Refine configuration
make menuconfig

COMPILING KERNEL

Compiling devicetree blobs to destination "INSTALL_DTBS_PATH=/mnt/boot/dtbs/meson64_odroidc2.dtb"
make -j 4 ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi- INSTALL_DTBS_PATH=/mnt/boot/dtbs/ dtbs
Compiling kernel to destination "INSTALL_PATH=/mnt/boot/Image"
make -j 4 ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi- INSTALL_PATH=/mnt/boot/ Image
Compiling the modules to destination "INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/mnt/"
make -j 4 ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi- INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/mnt/ modules_install
Compiling firmware to destination "INSTALL_FW_PATH=/mnt/lib/firmware/"
make -j 4 ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi- INSTALL_FW_PATH=/mnt/lib/firmware/ firmware_install
Compiling kernel C headers to destination "INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/mnt/usr/"
make -j 4 ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi- INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/mnt/usr/ headers_install

ROOT PARTITION

Can be the rest of the disk.

Download CRUX image
wget -c http://resources.crux-arm.nu/files/devel-test/3.3/crux-arm-rootfs-3.3-64b-RC2.tar.xz
Extract CRUX image
aunpack crux-arm-rootfs-3.3-64b-RC2.tar.xz

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