Hi,
I have a couple of ARM devices that I bought quite a while back and want to put them into use. I am not sure if this is the best linaro list but I could not see another that seemed appropriate.
I have a Utilite Version 1 device and a IFC6410 device that I want to get working with Linaro.
I am a C/C++/x86 programmer.
Also I am familiar with the Linux Kernel from 2.4/6 days, and have run personal Fedora servers for over 7 years. Now I want to replace my HP DL 140 G3's with the ARM based servers.
I built a Kali release for the Utilite some time ago which was quite straight forward and then tried unsuccessfully to backport it to Debian.
So what I want to know is two things basically
a) can Linaro run on the Utilite Version 1, is the uBoot stuff different from the version 2 and is there kernel support for the version 1
b) It there an easy HOWTO to put the distro together onto an uSDCard for the Utilite
c) It there an easy HOWTO to put the distro together onto an uSDCard for the IFC6410
Hope you can point me in the right direction.
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron Gray
+++ Aaron Gray [2016-01-25 23:14 +0000]:
Hi,
I have a couple of ARM devices that I bought quite a while back and want to put them into use. I am not sure if this is the best linaro list but I could not see another that seemed appropriate.
I have a Utilite Version 1 device and a IFC6410 device that I want to get working with Linaro.
I am a C/C++/x86 programmer.
Also I am familiar with the Linux Kernel from 2.4/6 days, and have run personal Fedora servers for over 7 years. Now I want to replace my HP DL 140 G3's with the ARM based servers.
I built a Kali release for the Utilite some time ago which was quite straight forward and then tried unsuccessfully to backport it to Debian.
So what I want to know is two things basically
a) can Linaro run on the Utilite Version 1, is the uBoot stuffdifferent from the version 2 and is there kernel support for the version 1
Linaro is not a distro ;-) Although it does put out quite a lot of images. Did you have a particular one in mind?
Here is a page on installing Debian which may be helpful (I know nothing of the Utilite) https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/CompuLab/PC-Utilite/wheezy
It may well have got rather easier since that was written. Other imx6 boards are somewhat supported in jessie, although most seem to need a custom kernel: https://boundarydevices.com/debian-installer-on-i-mx6/
b) It there an easy HOWTO to put the distro together onto anuSDCard for the Utilite
c) It there an easy HOWTO to put the distro together onto anuSDCard for the IFC6410
Hope you can point me in the right direction.
The above links may help.
Wookey
Looking at https://releases.linaro.org/debian/boards/snapdragon/latest/
I can see I need boot-qcom-apq8064-cm-qs600-qcom-snapdragon-20151210-20.img.gz https://releases.linaro.org/debian/boards/snapdragon/latest/boot-qcom-apq8064-cm-qs600-qcom-snapdragon-20151210-20.img.gz and qcom-apq8064-cm-qs600.dtb https://releases.linaro.org/debian/boards/snapdragon/latest/qcom-apq8064-cm-qs600.dtb for the Utilite but not sure if it supports the Version 1 devices ?
I am really not sure what to do with all the files to make a distro with them and Jessie though I have an idea what they are and am used to x86 Linux ISO's.
Help !
On 26 January 2016 at 01:37, Wookey wookey@wookware.org wrote:
+++ Aaron Gray [2016-01-25 23:14 +0000]:
Hi,
I have a couple of ARM devices that I bought quite a while back and want to put them into use. I am not sure if this is the best linaro list but I could not see another that seemed appropriate.
I have a Utilite Version 1 device and a IFC6410 device that I want to get working with Linaro.
I am a C/C++/x86 programmer.
Also I am familiar with the Linux Kernel from 2.4/6 days, and have run personal Fedora servers for over 7 years. Now I want to replace my HP DL 140 G3's with the ARM based servers.
I built a Kali release for the Utilite some time ago which was quite straight forward and then tried unsuccessfully to backport it to Debian.
So what I want to know is two things basically
a) can Linaro run on the Utilite Version 1, is the uBoot stuffdifferent from the version 2 and is there kernel support for the version 1
Linaro is not a distro ;-) Although it does put out quite a lot of images. Did you have a particular one in mind?
Here is a page on installing Debian which may be helpful (I know nothing of the Utilite) https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/CompuLab/PC-Utilite/wheezy
It may well have got rather easier since that was written. Other imx6 boards are somewhat supported in jessie, although most seem to need a custom kernel: https://boundarydevices.com/debian-installer-on-i-mx6/
b) It there an easy HOWTO to put the distro together onto anuSDCard for the Utilite
c) It there an easy HOWTO to put the distro together onto anuSDCard for the IFC6410
Hope you can point me in the right direction.
The above links may help.
Wookey
Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
Ah I am getting Page Not Found on a lot of the links on the 'latest' directory.
https://releases.linaro.org/debian/boards/snapdragon/16.01/
Seems okay though
On 26 January 2016 at 11:40, Aaron Gray aaronngray.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Looking at https://releases.linaro.org/debian/boards/snapdragon/latest/
I can see I need boot-qcom-apq8064-cm-qs600-qcom-snapdragon-20151210-20.img.gz https://releases.linaro.org/debian/boards/snapdragon/latest/boot-qcom-apq8064-cm-qs600-qcom-snapdragon-20151210-20.img.gz and qcom-apq8064-cm-qs600.dtb https://releases.linaro.org/debian/boards/snapdragon/latest/qcom-apq8064-cm-qs600.dtb for the Utilite but not sure if it supports the Version 1 devices ?
I am really not sure what to do with all the files to make a distro with them and Jessie though I have an idea what they are and am used to x86 Linux ISO's.
Help !
On 26 January 2016 at 01:37, Wookey wookey@wookware.org wrote:
+++ Aaron Gray [2016-01-25 23:14 +0000]:
Hi,
I have a couple of ARM devices that I bought quite a while back and want to put them into use. I am not sure if this is the best linaro list but I could not see another that seemed appropriate.
I have a Utilite Version 1 device and a IFC6410 device that I want to get working with Linaro.
I am a C/C++/x86 programmer.
Also I am familiar with the Linux Kernel from 2.4/6 days, and have run personal Fedora servers for over 7 years. Now I want to replace my HP DL 140 G3's with the ARM based servers.
I built a Kali release for the Utilite some time ago which was quite straight forward and then tried unsuccessfully to backport it to Debian.
So what I want to know is two things basically
a) can Linaro run on the Utilite Version 1, is the uBoot stuffdifferent from the version 2 and is there kernel support for the version 1
Linaro is not a distro ;-) Although it does put out quite a lot of images. Did you have a particular one in mind?
Here is a page on installing Debian which may be helpful (I know nothing of the Utilite) https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/CompuLab/PC-Utilite/wheezy
It may well have got rather easier since that was written. Other imx6 boards are somewhat supported in jessie, although most seem to need a custom kernel: https://boundarydevices.com/debian-installer-on-i-mx6/
b) It there an easy HOWTO to put the distro together onto anuSDCard for the Utilite
c) It there an easy HOWTO to put the distro together onto anuSDCard for the IFC6410
Hope you can point me in the right direction.
The above links may help.
Wookey
Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Looking at https://releases.linaro.org/debian/boards/snapdragon/latest/
I can see I need boot-qcom-apq8064-cm-qs600-qcom-snapdragon-20151210-20.img.gz and qcom-apq8064-cm-qs600.dtb for the Utilite but not sure if it supports the Version 1 devices ?
The Utilite 1 is based on iMX processor. the Utilite 2 is using Qualcomm APQ8064. The Linaro images are intended for APQ8064, so they won't work on Utilite1.
I am really not sure what to do with all the files to make a distro with them and Jessie though I have an idea what they are and am used to x86 Linux ISO's.
As said previously, Linaro is not a 'distro'. We are building reference images for a certain number of platforms (based on SoC from our members generally). Our images are based of existing distro (Debian, Android, .. ).
If you want to look at how we are making our images, you can inspect our Jenkins build jobs. For example the image that you are looking at (Debian/Jessie for Snapdragon) is made using this script:
https://git.linaro.org/ci/job/configs.git/blob/HEAD:/lt-qcom-debian-images.y...
It should give you an idea about what it takes to create such images. It is not very difficult to make your own Debian images, assuming that you have a working kernel tree for your platform. All the tools/scripts we use to make our images are publicly available.
cheers
Hi Nicolas,
The Utilite 1 is based on iMX processor. the Utilite 2 is using Qualcomm APQ8064. The Linaro images are intended for APQ8064, so they won't work on Utilite1.
Great I had suspected that the Utilite version 1 was not supported, thank you for verifying that.
I am really not sure what to do with all the files to make a distro with them and Jessie though I have an idea what they are and am used to x86 Linux ISO's.
As said previously, Linaro is not a 'distro'. We are building reference images for a certain number of platforms (based on SoC from our members generally). Our images are based of existing distro (Debian, Android, .. ).
If you want to look at how we are making our images, you can inspect our Jenkins build jobs. For example the image that you are looking at (Debian/Jessie for Snapdragon) is made using this script:
https://git.linaro.org/ci/job/configs.git/blob/HEAD:/lt-qcom-debian-images.y...
hopefully should be enough for me to get into things. And I will be able to get a an up to date Utilite 1 image.
Then maybe contribute a build job script for it ?
It should give you an idea about what it takes to create such images. It is not very difficult to make your own Debian images, assuming that you have a working kernel tree for your platform. All the
I have managed to build a working Kali (Jessie based) distro for it from instructions.
tools/scripts we use to make our images are publicly available.
Great !
Many thanks,
Aaron
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