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Gentoo on the Odroid-U3

Arm cross compiler setup and stuffs

This will set up a way to compile things for arm on your native system (amd64 for me)

emerge dev-embedded/u-boot-tools sys-devel/crossdev
crossdev -S -s4 -t armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi

Building the kernel

This assumes you have kernel sources, I'm testing 3.17-rc2 since they just got support for the odroid-u3 into upstream.

Also, I tend to build without modules, so keep that in mind.

# get the base config (For me on an odroid-u3
ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi- make exynos_defconfig
# change it to add what I want/need
ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi- make menuconfig
# build the kernel
ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi- make -j10

Setting up the SD Card

I tend to be generous, 10M for the bootloader

parted /dev/sdb mklabel msdos y
parted /dev/sdb mkpart p fat32 10M 200M
parted /dev/sdb mkpart p 200M 100%
parted /dev/sdb toggle 1 boot

mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb2

Building uboot

This may differ between boards, but should general look like the following (I hear vanilla uboot works now)

I used the odroid-v2010.12 branch and one thing to note is that if it sees a zImage on the boot partition it will ONLY use that, kinda of annoying.

git clone git://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot.git
cd u-boot
sed -i -e "s/soft-float/float-abi=hard -mfpu=vfpv3/g" arch/arm/cpu/armv7/config.mk
ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi- make smdk4412_config
ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi- make -j1
sudo "sh /home/USER/dev/arm/u-boot/sd_fuse/sd_fusing.sh /dev/sdb"

Copying the kernel/userland

sudo -i
mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
cp /home/USER/dev/linux/arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4412-odroidu3.dtb /mnt/gentoo/boot/
cp /home/USER/dev/linux/arch/arm/boot/zImage /mnt/gentoo/boot/kernel-3.17-rc2.raw
cd /mnt/gentoo/boot
cat kernel-3.17-rc2.raw exynos4412-odroidu3.dtb &gt; kernel-3.17-rc2

tar -xf /tmp/stage3-armv7a_hardfp-hardened-20140627.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/

Setting up userland

I tend to just copy or generate a shadow file and overwrite the root entry in /etc/shadow...

Then set up on when booted

Setting up the bootloader

put this in /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot.txt

setenv initrd_high "0xffffffff"
setenv fdt_high "0xffffffff"
setenv fb_x_res "1920"
setenv fb_y_res "1080"
setenv hdmi_phy_res "1080"
setenv bootcmd "fatload mmc 0:1 0x40008000 kernel-3.17-rc2; bootm 0x40008000"
setenv bootargs "console=tty1 console=ttySAC1,115200n8 fb_x_res=${fb_x_res} fb_y_res=${fb_y_res} hdmi_phy_res=${hdmi_phy_res} root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait ro mem=2047M"
boot

and run this

mkimage -A arm -T script -C none -n "Boot.scr for odroid-u3" -d boot.txt boot.scr

That should do it :D

I used steev (a fellow gentoo dev) and http://www.funtoo.org/ODROID_U2 as sources.

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