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Title       : 	Olimex OlinuXino A20 LIME2 mainline 4.0.0 kernel, u-boot and debian rootfs image building tutorial
Author      : 	Remy van Elst
Date        : 	21-03-2015
URL         : 	https://raymii.org/s/articles/Olimex_OlinuXino_A20_Lime2_Kernel_3.19_uBoot_Debian_7_image_building.html
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![olimex][1]

This is a guide to build a linux image with Debian and the mainline 4.0 kernel
for the Olimex A20-Lime2 board, from scratch. By default it comes with an 3.4
kernel with binary blobs and patches from Allwinner. Recently the mainline
kernel has gained support for these boards, you can now run and use the mainline
kernel without these awfull non-free binary blobs.

I have an Olimex A10 LIME board for which I've made a minimal image, see [this
page for details][2]. It is a very awesome and powerfull ARM dev board with open
source hardware. I like it so much that I decided to also get the A20.

The Olimex A20-LIME2 is the big brother of the A10. The [Olimex Olinuxino A20
LIME2][3], an open source hardware ARM (Allwinner A20) dual core based dev board
with 160 GPIO's, 1,2 GHz/1 GB RAM, 2 USB 2.0 ports, 1 esata port, 1 hdmi port,
USB-OTG, 1 gbit lan (not via the usb bus) and more of those nice features. The
price is even more awesome, the device costs 45 euro's, add 5 euro's and you
have yourself a nice black case. It consumes very little power, combined with
all the features a perfect dev / tinkerboard.

[Olimex][4] sponsored a board for me to create the image, I would like to thank
them very much for them.

The difference with the A10-LIME is the dual core ARM processor, 1 GB of ram
instead of 512 and gigabit networking.

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This tutorial is inspired by the build scripts of Igor Pecovnik,
[www.igorpecovnik.com][6]. They've made a script which does this all for you in
one easy go. If you just want an image and do not want to learn anything or
experience the fun, enjoyment and fullfillment of doing it yourself you can use
it.

### Kernel 4.0 and Allwinner

Allwinner has done a code dump of the 3.4 kernel with specifics for their
devices. 3.4 is quite an old kernel nowdays. If you run your Olimex (or other
ARM) board as a server you might want to upgrade to a more recent kernel. This
will have a few benefits, speed and newer features for example.

There are a few downsides, mostly driver and hardware support. For example, if
you need graphical output (hdmi) or sound it will not work with the 4.0 kernel.

The 4.0 kernel does have basic support so you can run the A20-Lime2 as a server
and use the GPIO's without problems.

This tutorial is easily adaptable to newer kernels, other distributions or other
boards. The instructions are largely the same.

You can read more about the Linux Sunxi project on their, excellent, wiki and
website: [https://linux-sunxi.org][7].

If you want to build an image with the 3.4 kernel provided by Olimex/Allwinner,
you can read my [tutorial on it][8].

We are building the 4.0.0-rc4 version of the kernel, when 4.0 will be released
this guide will be updated so that the commands and such are up to date.

This tutorial was tested on Ubuntu 14.04.

### Install packages

Install the required packages for building the bootloader, kernel and rootfs:

    
    
    apt-get install debconf-utils pv bc lzop zip binfmt-support bison build-essential ccache debootstrap flex gawk gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf lvm2 qemu-user-static u-boot-tools uuid-dev zlib1g-dev unzip libusb-1.0-0-dev parted pkg-config expect gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi libncurses5-dev git vim screen
    

Also create a few working directories. We're working in `/root/Lime-Debian/`.

    
    
    mkdir -p /root/Lime-Debian/output/
    cd /root/Lime-Debian/
    

### U Boot Bootloader

U-boot, or universal boot is the bootloader used by ARM and other embedded
devices. It is similar to GRUB or LILO however much smaller. We'll be building
it from source for the Olimex A20 LIME2 board.

Get the code:

    
    
    git clone https://github.com/RobertCNelson/u-boot /root/Lime-Debian/output/u-boot
    cd output/u-boot
    

Start the compile for the A20. See below if you have another board. I have 12
cores in my machine so I use `-j12`, if you have more or less cores, change the
number to that, `-j8` for example.

    
    
    make -s CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- clean
    make -j12 A20-OLinuXino-Lime2_defconfig CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-
    make -j12 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-
    

When the compile is finished we create a tar archive of the u-boot binary:

    
    
    tar cPfz /root/Lime-Debian/output/u-boot/lime2_next_u-boot_4.0.0-rc4.tgz u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
    

Go back to the working directory:

    
    
    cd /root/Lime-Debian/
    

I'm building this for the Olimex A20 Lime2. To find all device targets from the
`linux-sunxi` project, clone the u-boot repo from Hans de Goede:

    
    
    git clone https://github.com/jwrdegoede/u-boot-sunxi.git -b sunxi
    

And use the following command inside the `u-boot-sunxi` folder:

    
    
    grep sunxi boards.cfg | awk '{print $7}'
    

Find your board model and add `_config` to the make command, like so: `make
CROSS_COMPILE arm-linux-gnueabihf $target_config` line.

### Build the mainline kernel

First get the code. Do note that this is quite a lot of code so the clone might
take some time.

    
    
    git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git /root/Lime-Debian/output/linux-mainline
    

We also need the `sunxi-tools`. This is some code specific for the Allwinner
boards. Allwinner uses the `sunxi` codename for their boards. The A10 is the
`sunxi-4i`, the A20 is the `sunxi-5i` and so on.

Clone that git repo as well:

    
    
    git clone https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-tools.git /root/Lime-Debian/output/sunxi-tools
    

Navigate to the kernel folder:

    
    
    cd /root/Lime-Debian/output/linux-mainline/
    

Start the compile. First we clean:

    
    
    make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- clean 
    

Download a default kernel config for the sunxi boards:

    
    
    wget -O /root/Lime-Debian/output/linux-mainline/.config https://raymii.org/s/inc/software/olimex/linux-sunxi-next.config.txt
    

If you want to make changes to the default kernel config, you can now do a `make
menuconfig`:

    
    
     make -j12 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- menuconfig
    

You can for example remove all kinds of drivers. If you are not going to use a
firewall, you can leave out netfilter. Or networking entirely if you want.

We start the compile of the uImage (u-boot bootloader image) and the kernel
modules:

    
    
    make -j12 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- all zImage modules_prepare    
    

You might get a compiler error about it being to old or buggy. This is a bug and
has been fixed upstream. Remove that message for now with the following patch.
Open the following file:

    
    
    vim /root/Lime-Debian/output/linux-mainline/arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c
    

Remove the version check:

    
    
    #if (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 3)
    #error Your compiler is too buggy; it is known to miscompile kernels.
    #error Known good compilers: 3.3, 4.x
    #endif
    #if GCC_VERSION >= 40800 && GCC_VERSION < 40803
    #error Your compiler is too buggy; it is known to miscompile kernels
    #error and result in filesystem corruption and oopses.
    #endif
    

We then start the debian package building of the kernel. We don't use threading
here. Change my name and email address, otherwise it will seem like I've built
your debian kernel packages:

    
    
    make -j1 deb-pkg KDEB_PKGVERSION=1.5 LOCALVERSION=-lime2 KBUILD_DEBARCH=armhf ARCH=arm 'DEBFULLNAME=Raymii' DEBEMAIL=olimex@kernel.raymii CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-
    

Create a folder for the kernel deb packages:

    
    
    mkdir -p /root/Lime-Debian/output/kernel
    

Create a tar archive of the kernel, headers, libc and other packages and place
it in the folder:

    
    
    cd ..
    tar -cPf /root/Lime-Debian/output/kernel/4.0.0-rc4-lime2-next.tar linux-headers-4.0.0-rc4-lime2_1.5_armhf.deb linux-image-4.0.0-rc4-lime2_1.5_armhf.deb linux-libc-dev_1.5_armhf.deb
    

If you need to save some space, you can now remove the packages from the working
directory:

    
    
    rm linux-headers-4.0.0-rc4-lime2_1.5_armhf.deb linux-image-4.0.0-rc4-lime2_1.5_armhf.deb linux-libc-dev_1.5_armhf.deb
    

### Bootstrap Debian

We've built a kernel and we've built a boot loader. The only thing left now is
to build a root filesystem and put it all together.

The root filesystem defines what distribution you run. I choose to set up
Debian, but you can also get Ubuntu or for example Arch.

We are building the root filesystem (rootfs from now on) in an image. We mount
the image as a loopback device, that is easier to work and build in. First
create some folders:

    
    
    mkdir -p /root/Lime-Debian/output/rootfs /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/ /root/Lime-Debian/output/kernel
    

Go in to the build folder:

    
    
    cd /root/Lime-Debian/output/
    

Create an empty image. The size in my case is 1.2 gigabytes, you can specify a
larger or smaller image if you want. 512MB is a safe lowest choice.

    
    
    dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/Lime-Debian/output/rootfs/wheezy.raw bs=1M count=1200 status=noxfer
    

Mount the image as loop device:

    
    
    losetup /dev/loop0 /root/Lime-Debian/output/rootfs/wheezy.raw
    

We will a DOS partition table and 2 ext4 partitions. Other tutorials might
specify a FAT based partition for the bootloader, we don't need that because we
are using mainline u-boot and mainline kernel which both support ext4 and do not
need a FAT boot partition anymore.

Create the DOS partition table:

    
    
    parted -s /dev/loop0 -- mklabel msdos
    

Create the ext4 partition for booting:

    
    
    parted -s /dev/loop0 -- mkpart primary ext4 2048s -1s
    

Update the partition table:

    
    
    partprobe /dev/loop0
    

We detach the loop device and mount it again at a different offset to create the
ext4 filesystem:

    
    
    losetup -d /dev/loop0
    losetup -o 1048576 /dev/loop0 /root/Lime-Debian/output/rootfs/wheezy.raw
    mkfs.ext4 /dev/loop0
    

We do a performance tweak on the filesystem:

    
    
    tune2fs -o journal_data_writeback /dev/loop0
    

This basically means that data may be written to the disk before the journal.
The data consistency guarantees are the same as the ext3 file system. The
downside is that if your system crashes before the journal gets written then you
may loose new data, the old data may magically reappear. This is still better
than ext2 because file system integrity is maintained, so the file system is at
least consistent even after an unclean shutdown. In other words, you may loose
data, but you won't have corrupt data.

We give the filesystem a name:

    
    
    e2label /dev/loop0 lime2
    

And we mount it in our working directory:

    
    
    mount -t ext4 /dev/loop0 /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/
    

We can now start the debian bootstrap. The following command will start a basic
debian bootstrap for the ARM board, to our freslhy mounted image:

    
    
    debootstrap --include=openssh-server,debconf-utils --arch=armhf --foreign wheezy /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/
    

Copy the `qemu-arm-static` binary to the image folder:

    
    
    cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/usr/bin/
    

We need to do this because this is required for the next steps of the image
build bootstrapping. That next step is the so called second stage of the
bootstrap. You need to execute that in a chroot on the image.

The chroot will use the qemu binary to make it look like it is an ARM system.

    
    
    chroot /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard /bin/bash -c '/debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage'
    

This might take a while. When it is finished we set up a few mounts for `/proc/`
and `/sys/` and such:

    
    
    mount -t proc chproc /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/proc
    mount -t sysfs chsys /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/sys
    mount -t devtmpfs chdev /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/dev
    mount -t devpts chpts /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/dev/pts
    

Place a `sources.list` file for the apt package manager.

    
    
    vim /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/etc/apt/sources.list
    

Contents:

    
    
    deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
    
    deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
    
    deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
    

You can change the `ftp.nl.` part to your country code to get a faster mirror.

Set up the system locale language variables and update the sources in the image:

    
    
    LC_ALL=C
    LANGUAGE=C
    LANG=C
    chroot /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard /bin/bash -c 'apt-get -y update'
    

Change the `inittab` file to not clean the first `tty` and not start up 6 other,
unneeded `tty's`. We do want to statup a serial console for UART access:

    
    
    sed -e 's/1:2345:respawn:\/sbin\/getty 38400 tty1/1:2345:respawn:\/sbin\/getty --noclear 38400 tty1/g' -i /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/etc/inittab
    sed -e s/3:23:respawn/#3:23:respawn/g -i /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/etc/inittab
    sed -e s/4:23:respawn/#4:23:respawn/g -i /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/etc/inittab
    sed -e s/5:23:respawn/#5:23:respawn/g -i /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/etc/inittab
    sed -e s/6:23:respawn/#6:23:respawn/g -i /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/etc/inittab
    echo T0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100 >> /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/etc/inittab       
    

Install the locale package in the image:

    
    
    chroot /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard /bin/bash -c 'apt-get -y -qq install locales'
    

Set the locale to `en-US.UTF-8` and generate the locales:

    
    
    sed -i 's/^# en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/' /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/etc/locale.gen
    chroot /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard /bin/bash -c 'locale-gen en_US.UTF-8'
    chroot /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard /bin/bash -c 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=POSIX update-locale'
    

Install a few more packages in the VM. You can leave out the ones you don't
like. Remember you can also remove them later on.

    
    
    chroot /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard /bin/bash -c 'apt-get -y install automake bash-completion bc bridge-utils build-essential cmake curl dosfstools evtest figlet fping git haveged hddtemp hdparm  htop i2c-tools ifenslave-2.6 iperf ir-keytable iw less libbluetooth-dev libbluetooth3 libtool libwrap0-dev libfuse2 libnl-dev libssl-dev lsof makedev module-init-tools mtp-tools nano ntfs-3g ntp parted pkg-config pciutils pv python-smbus rfkill rsync screen stress sudo sysfsutils toilet u-boot-tools unattended-upgrades unzip usbutils wget'
    

Set the timezone in the image:

    
    
    cp /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/etc/localtime
    

Set the root password in the image:

    
    
    chroot /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard /bin/bash -c '(echo olimex;echo olimex;) | passwd root'
    

If you want, you can set the expiry date of the root password to 0, that means
that the first time you boot the image you need to set a new root password:

    
    
    chroot /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard /bin/bash -c 'chage -d 0 root'
    

Setup `/etc/fstab` in the image:

    
    
    echo '/dev/mmcblk0p1  /           ext4    defaults,noatime,nodiratime,data=writeback,commit=600,errors=remount-ro        0       0' > /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/etc/fstab
    

On the first boot of the image you need to regenerate the SSH host keys.
Otherwise all boards with this image will have the same SSH host keys. You can
place the following in `/etc/rc.local`. On this image build that is `/root/Lime-
Debian/output/sdcard/etc/rc.local`.

    
    
    if [[ ! -f /var/lib/firstboot_ssh_host_keys ]]; then
        rm -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host*
        ssh-keygen -t dsa -N "" -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
        ssh-keygen -t rsa -N "" -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
        ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -N "" -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
        touch /var/lib/firstboot_ssh_host_keys
    fi
    

Also add the following to `/etc/rc.local` to enable `irq` on the second core on
the lime2:

    
    
    echo 2 > /proc/irq/$(cat /proc/interrupts | grep eth0 | cut -f 1 -d ":" | tr -d " ")/smp_affinity
    

The above is NOT a command. Don't execute it, copy and paste it in
`/etc/rc.local`.

Set a default hostname of the board:

    
    
    echo lime2 > /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/etc/hostname
    

Set a default hosts file:

    
    
    vim /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/etc/hosts 
    

Contents:

    
    
    127.0.0.1   localhost lime2
    ::1         localhost lime2 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
    fe00::0     ip6-localnet
    ff00::0     ip6-mcastprefix
    ff02::1     ip6-allnodes
    ff02::2     ip6-allrouters
    

### Installing the kernel in the rootfs image

We've built a few nice kernel packages. To install these in the root fs image we
need to execute a few more steps. We also do some more changes to setup kernel
module loading, cpu frequency and network settings.Module loading:

    
    
    echo 'hci_uart gpio_sunxi rfcomm hidp bonding spi_sun7i' > /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/etc/modules
    

The actual kernel install in the image is actually quite easy. We mount the
`/tmp/` folder of the image over our actual compile machine's `/tmp/` folder. We
place the packages we've built earlier in `/tmp/`, then chroot in the image and
install them.

The bind mount is required because the paths need to be correct. You don't want
to overwrite your compile machine's kernel with a ARM specific kernel. It will
probably not boot anymore afterwards.

    
    
    rm -rf /tmp/kernel
    mkdir -p /tmp/kernel
    cd /tmp/kernel
    tar -xPf /root/Lime-Debian/output/kernel/4.0.0-rc4-lime2-next.tar
    mount --bind /tmp/kernel/ /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/tmp
    chroot /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard /bin/bash -c 'dpkg -i /tmp/*.deb'
    

Once the kernel is installed in the chroot we can build some kernel header
scripts:

    
    
    chroot /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard /bin/bash -c 'cd /usr/src/linux-headers-4.0.0-rc4-lime2 && make scripts'
    

We are going to build and setup a new device tree. This is, as said earlier, the
hardware layout of the board needed for the bootloader.

    
    
    rm -rf /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/boot/dtb/4.0.0-rc4-lime2.old
    vim /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/boot/boot-next.cmd
    

Contents:

    
    
    setenv bootargs console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait panic=10
    ext4load mmc 0 0x49000000 /boot/dtb/4.0.0-rc4-lime2${fdtfile}
    ext4load mmc 0 0x46000000 /boot/vmlinuz-4.0.0-rc4-lime2
    env set fdt_high ffffffff
    bootz 0x46000000 - 0x49000000
    

We use this boot command file to create the binary form if it, the boot script
file:

    
    
    mkimage -C none -A arm -T script -d /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/boot/boot-next.cmd /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/boot/boot.scr
    

Download some linux firmware files and unzip these on the rootfs image:

    
    
    wget -O /root/Lime-Debian/linux-firmware.zip https://raymii.org/s/inc/software/olimex/linux-firmware.zip
    unzip /root/Lime-Debian/linux-firmware.zip -d /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/lib/firmware
    

This contains firmware binary blobs for the network card and some wifi drivers.

### Finishing up the rootfs

You can do any other changes to the image you want from in the chroot. You can
start an interactive chroot with the following command:

    
    
    chroot /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard /bin/bash 
    

When you are done, unmount the extra partitions:

    
    
    umount -l /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/dev/pts
    umount -l /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/dev
    umount -l /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/proc
    umount -l /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/sys
    

Unmount the image:

    
    
    umount -l /root/Lime-Debian/output/sdcard/
    

Detach the loop device:

    
    
    losetup -d /dev/loop0
    

### Install the bootloader

We are going to install the bootloader on the image. We mount and attach the
loop device without the special offset we gave earlier:

    
    
    cd /root/Lime-Debian/
    
    tar xvfz /root/Lime-Debian/output/u-boot/lime2_next_u-boot_4.0.0-rc4.tgz
    
    losetup /dev/loop1 /root/Lime-Debian/output/rootfs/wheezy.raw
    
    dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/loop1 bs=1024 seek=8 status=noxfer
    

We detach the loop device again:

    
    
    losetup -d /dev/loop1
    

### Packing it up

We are going to create a zip file with the image and the md5sum of the image for
easy shipping. Copy the image and create the md5sum:

    
    
    mv /root/Lime-Debian/output/rootfs/wheezy.raw /root/Lime-Debian/output/Lime2_Debian_1.5_wheezy_4.0.0-rc4.raw
    
    cd /root/Lime-Debian/output/
    
    md5sum Lime2_Debian_1.5_wheezy_4.0.0-rc4.raw > Lime2_Debian_1.5_wheezy_4.0.0-rc4.md5
    

Create a zip file of the two files:

    
    
    zip Lime2_Debian_1.5_wheezy_4.0.0-rc4.zip Lime2_Debian_1.5_wheezy_4.0.0-rc4.md5 Lime2_Debian_1.5_wheezy_4.0.0-rc4.raw
    

And that's it. You now have a fully working image for the Olimex a20-Lime2. You
can copy and distribute the zipfile anywhere you like.

### Installing the image

To install the image on your SD card, we take the zip file and extract it, so
that we have the `Lime2_Debian_1.5_wheezy_4.0.0-rc4.raw` file. We use `dd` to
put it on our SD card, which is at device `/dev/mmcblk0`:

    
    
    dd if=Lime2_Debian_1.5_wheezy_4.0.0-rc4.raw of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M
    

Put the SD card in the machine and boot it up. You can hook up UART to your
machine or wait for the board to get DHCP. The SSH server will start up and you
can login using your set root password.

The first boot might take a little longer since it will regenerate the host keys
for the device.

   [1]: https://raymii.org/s/inc/img/A20-OLinuXino-LIME.jpeg
   [2]: https://raymii.org/s/articles/Olimex_A10-OLinuXino-LIME_minimal_debian_7_image.html
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