BSP
"BSP" means Board Support Package.
Requirements
These three steps are only required if you are planning to create your own hwpack or configure kernel on an x86 PC running Linux and will install all packages required. (Tested and working on Linux Mint 13/14, Ubuntu 12.04/12.10/13.04)
Note: On Debian (wheezy) / Ubuntu 13.10 (saucy) onwards, uboot-mkimage package is removed, mkimage command is included in u-boot-tools package.
apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install build-essential u-boot-tools uboot-mkimage gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf \ libusb-1.0-0-dev git wget fakeroot \ kernel-package zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config
The git project is available at https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-bsp
To download it:
git clone git://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-bsp.git
Usage
hwpack
Installation
Build an SD-card from a hwpack and a root FS
./scripts/sunxi-media-create.sh [device] [hwpack] [rootfs]
Update an SD-card from a hwpack
./scripts/sunxi-media-create.sh [device] [hwpack] norootfs
Create your own hwpack
./configure # to list all currently supported boards ./configure <selected board> make
Kernel
Change kernel configuration
# Following command calls 'make menuconfig' with correct O= parameter make linux-config
rootfs images
Rootfs images can be downloaded from Linaro's site:
In addition, Ubuntu Core is a rootfs image for Ubuntu, available at
Read more about the Ubuntu Core rootfs images for armhf at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core
For example the latest Linaro nano is:
- https://releases.linaro.org/13.04/ubuntu/quantal-images/nano/linaro-quantal-nano-20130422-342.tar.gz
LiveSuit image
Requires 64bit linux.
sunxi-bsp supports generating Android and Linux LiveSuit images. You can generate Linux LiveSuit image by following next steps.
./configure # to list all currently supported boards ./configure <selected board> make linux # generate kernel and modules wget <rootfs.tar.gz> make livesuit ROOTFS=<rootfs.tar.gz>
Flash and boot. Kernel modules can be found on nanda (FAT partition).