[clug] ARM devices with complete upstream support

[Chris Smart]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 02:38:33PM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>On 10/27/16 21:37, Chris Smart wrote:
>>On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:09:47PM +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
>>>Every week there's a new cute little ARM device, but almost all use some
>>>ancient fork of the Linux kernel and U-Boot, rendering them less than
>>>ideal (well useless, IMO).
>>>
>>
>>And if anyone's interested on how to build your upstream kernel and U-Boot
>>for Raspberry Pi 2/3, I've just put that on my blog too.
>>
>><https://blog.christophersmart.com/2016/10/27/building-and-booting-upstream-linux-and-u-boot-for-raspberry-pi-23-arm-boards/>
>
>Thanks  Chris,
>
>I thought I should give it a test for my raspi3. I followed the instructions verbatim but it failed (see below).
>I am on f24.
>
>Some nitpicking though:
>
> "Assuming your card is at /dev/sdx (replace as necessary, check dmesg after plugging it in if you’re not sure)"
>  I suggest you remove the "if...". Always check, the cost of a mistake can be catastrophic.
>
>"sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt" should say "sdx1".
>

Thanks, I'll fix that.

>cheers
>
>>-c
>
>$ CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- make rpi_3_defconfig


That's my fault - you should be using rpi_3_32b_defconfig as the
rpi_3_defconfig is 64bit (which I tried to say to avoid).

Can you try that and see how you go? I'll update the blog post.

Cheers,
-c