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[opensuse-arm] Attempt to run KIWI on unsupported architecture 'armv8l'
by Dirk Müller 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

Hi, this is a known OBS bug, asked the admins to deploy a fix shortly. Greetings, Dirk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] Turris Omnia (prototype) enablement report
by Andreas Färber 06 Nov '16

06 Nov '16

Hello, This weekend I've had the opportunity to test openSUSE on a prototype of CZ.NIC's Indiegogo-funded Turris Omnia router [1]. In a FOSDEM 2016 talk a prototype had already been shown to the public, whereas this was the first time we could peek at the current software environment of a running prototype ourselves and provide some early third-party distro feedback to its creators. Known for being overly critical and aiming at perfect solutions, let me say in advance that the Armada 385 mainline kernel support looks quite good already, needing only the Turris Omnia Device Tree [2] apparently. Turris Omnia's U-Boot [3] is quite usable but will need a little more love before we can benefit from new features such as UEFI boot support (both upstream where it's not yet using the distro defaults [4] and downstream for deriving a clean new turris_omnia_defconfig). I'm confident that most of the functional limitations I observed can be fixed until the final board version ships to backers. That said, here's a quick how-to I would've added to the Wiki [1] if it let me... == Manual installation == As of 2016-03-18, the prototype's U-Boot does not yet support XHCI, so that the two USB ports cannot be used for booting. That leaves eMMC and mSATA as local boot options. === Building an upstream kernel === Use mvebu_v7_defconfig and enable CONFIG_BTRFS_FS. === Installation to USB === As of 2016-03-18, the prototype's U-Boot does not yet support XHCI and therefore does not recognize any USB devices on either of the two USB ports. Still you can place your rootfs onto USB. As of 2016-03-18, the prototype's kernel has USB drivers built as modules and no initrd, so you cannot directly boot a USB rootfs with it. An easy solution is to build an upstream kernel yourself with those drivers built-in and to copy it to the eMMC's /boot directory (e.g., zImage-next). Note: In linux-next.git next-20160318 kernel only USB 3.0 devices work. Partition your USB disk with GPT or MBR. Create a partition for the rootfs and extract an [http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv7hl/tumbleweed/images/openSUSE-Tumbl… openSUSE-Tumbleweed-JeOS.armv7-rootfs.armv7l-Current.tbz] tarball. Then boot similar to this (derived from bootargs and mmcboot variables): setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda1 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait rw' btrload mmc 0 0x01000000 boot/zImage-next @ btrload mmc 0 0x02000000 boot/dtb @ bootz 0x01000000 - 0x02000000 Note: As always, "/dev/sda1" is unsafe as it may become, e.g., /dev/sdb1 when an mSATA SSD or a second USB storage device is connected. You could save those commands in a U-Boot environment variable, otherwise you will need to re-type them on each boot. === Installation to mSATA === Unless you have another device with mSATA port, you may find it difficult to set up the SSD. As of 2016-03-18, the prototype's OpenWrt kernel did not recognize a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 120 GB mSATA card (while U-Boot's scsi scan does). As workaround you can compile an upstream kernel (cf. [[#Building_an_upstrea_kernel|above]]), copy it under a new name to /boot on the eMMC (e.g., zImage-next) and boot OpenWrt with this new kernel (derived from mmcboot variable): btrload mmc 0 0x01000000 boot/zImage-next @ btrload mmc 0 0x02000000 boot/dtb @ bootz 0x01000000 - 0x02000000 Now that you have a /dev/sda device for the mSATA SSD, you may find that OpenWrt does not come with parted, fdisk or gdisk tools for partitioning this device. One solution is to boot into openSUSE Tumbleweed, where you can easily install those tools, from USB (cf. [[#Installation_to_USB|above]]): setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sdb1 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait rw' btrload mmc 0 0x01000000 boot/zImage-next @ btrload mmc 0 0x02000000 boot/dtb @ bootz 0x01000000 - 0x02000000 >From inside openSUSE verify that /dev/sda is your mSATA card and partition it using gdisk (zypper in gptfdisk). Format your new partition and extract a JeOS rootfs tarball. For now just copy zImage-next and dtb over. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt tar xvjf [http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv7hl/tumbleweed/images/openSUSE-Tumbl… openSUSE-Tumbleweed-JeOS.armv7-rootfs.armv7l-XXX.tbz] -C /mnt cp /boot/zImage-next /mnt/boot/zImage-next cp /boot/dtb /mnt/boot/armada-385-turris-omnia.dtb ln -sf zImage-next /mnt/boot/zImage ln -sf armada-385-turris-omnia.dtb /mnt/boot/dtb Boot similar to this: setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda1 rootfstype=btrfs rootwait rw' setenv fdtfile armada-385-turris-omnia.dtb scsi scan btrload scsi 0:1 0x01000000 boot/zImage-next btrload scsi 0:1 0x02000000 boot/dtb/$fdtfile bootz 0x01000000 - 0x02000000 It's beginning to look much more like openSUSE, just lacking an openSUSE kernel still. === Installation to eMMC === In theory you can also replace OpenWrt with openSUSE, optionally backing it up as btrfs snapshot. To do so you'll need to boot from some other root device such as USB or mSATA. mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt btrfs subvolume snapshot /mnt/@ /mnt/root-pre-opensuse rm -rf /mnt/@/* tar xvjf [http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv7hl/tumbleweed/images/openSUSE-Tumbl… openSUSE-Tumbleweed-JeOS.armv7-rootfs.armv7l-XXX.tbz] -C /mnt/@ cp /boot/zImage-next /mnt/@/boot/zImage-next cp /boot/dtb /mnt/(a)/boot/armada-385-turris-omnia.dtb ln -sf zImage-next /mnt/@/boot/zImage ln -sf armada-385-turris-omnia.dtb /mnt/@/boot/dtb Then on next boot you should boot into openSUSE automatically. === openSUSE kernel === Unlike mvebu_v7_defconfig, the openSUSE kernels build drivers as modules whenever possible. To boot you will need additional driver modules in a ramdisk. There's two easy ways to create such an initrd file. Either use Kiwi (as done for our JeOS SD card images) or boot into the system once without modules and have the initrd be created by dracut. If you zypper up or zypper dup the system for the first time, chances are a new kernel-default package gets installed and generates an initrd; you can force this the easy way by reinstalling the package (zypper in -f kernel-default) or figure out the lengthy dracut command line. Try to boot it like this: setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda1 rootfstype=btrfs rootwait rw' scsi scan btrload scsi 0:1 0x01000000 boot/zImage btrload scsi 0:1 0x02000000 boot/dtb/armada-385-turris-omnia.dtb btrload scsi 0:1 0x03000000 boot/initrd bootz 0x01000000 0x03000000:$filesize 0x02000000 This resulted in: Kernel image @ 0x1000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x6f2d78 ] Wrong Ramdisk Image Format Ramdisk image is corrupt or invalid ''To be investigated - U-Boot lacking CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD?'' This is blocking creation of a JeOS disk image. Cheers, Andreas [1] https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Turris_Omnia [2] https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/openwrt/tree/test/target/linux/mvebu/file… [3] https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/turris-omnia-uboot/commits/omnia [4] http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=include/configs/db-88f6820-gp.h;h… -- SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton; HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] Support for /dev/gpiomem is missing on Tumbleweed for Raspberry Pi 1B (armv6l)
by Freek de Kruijf 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

On the Tumbleweed system for the Raspberry Pi 1B (armv6l) support for the device /dev/gpiomem is missing. It provides access to GPIO registers by a normal user. Otherwise only root is allowed to access these registers via /dev/mem It is available on Tumbleweed for the Raspberry Pi 2B (armv7l). I searched build.opensuse.org for the software of its driver but failed to find it. -- fr.gr. member openSUSE Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] Kernel:HEAD for armv7l disabled
by Oscar C 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

Jeff, Do you know why kernel-default from Kernel:HEAD project is not built for armv7? I have some patches to try and I need to apply them on the current branch. Thanks! -- Cheers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] What's faster for compiling the kernel?
by Oscar C 19 Jun '16

19 Jun '16

Hi, I want to compile a new kernel for ARM. I have a Intel Celeron and a imx6 quad board. Which do you think will be faster, qemu on the x86_64 or native ARM? Thanks! -- Cheers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] Tumbleweed Raspberry Pi2 i2c-tools not work
by Денислав Радославов 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

After two months (first report for this bug -forum and mailing list), bcm2835 modules working fine, but i2c-tools again not working. Missing packages python-smbus is big problem. Have ready packages, Is it so hard to be ported to Tumbleweed arm? After command sudo i2cdetect -y 1 , result is - Error: Could not open file `/dev/i2c-1' or `/dev/i2c/1': No such file or directory . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] How to make a version of the packet python-RPi.GPIO for the Raspberry Pi 1B available?
by Freek de Kruijf 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Using the source of RPi.GPIO-0.6.2 I managed to build a version which is usable on a Raspberry Pi 1B with Tumbleweed (armv6l). The problem with Tumbleweed is that it provides a device /sys/class/gpio/gpiochip298, where the software of version 0.6.2 expects /sys/class/gpio/gpiochip0 I made it more general, so it supports all values for 0 and 298 between 0 and 999. I have a system running with this software, which seems stable. However repeatedly stopping and starting the program using this software fails. Only a reboot cures the problem. So it is limited usable. At least one can stick with openSUSE. -- fr.gr. member openSUSE Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] Use of cpan on Raspberry Pi 1 B armv6l has unsatisfied requirements
by Freek de Kruijf 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

In order to use the cpan utility in a Raspberry Pi 1B system with Tumbleweed I needed to install the packages make and gcc. This means that the package perl, which provides /usr/bin/cpan, needs to have requirements for these packages. I entered a bug report about this https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=984594 -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] Use of cpan on Raspberry Pi 1 B armv6l has unsatisfied requirements
by Freek de Kruijf 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

In order to use the cpan utility in a Raspberry Pi 1B system with Tumbleweed I needed to install the packages make and gcc. This means that the package perl, which provides /usr/bin/cpan, needs to have requirements for these packages. I entered a bug report about this https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=984594 -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] Re: JFYI: armv7l kernel for Leap 42.2
by Michal Marek 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

On 2016-06-13 13:58, Dirk Müller wrote: > Hi Michal, > > Where can I find the upload script? For the record, the script is here: https://gitlab.suse.de/kernel/kbuild.git, bin/bs-upload-kernel and lib/SUSE/MyBS.pm. However, even after fixing it, the armv7hl scheduler seems to ignore the project. I get no armv7hl results in Devel:Kernel:openSUSE-42.2 in the IBS. Michal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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