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==Preparation== | ==Preparation== |
Revision as of 17:03, 24 October 2008
This page is about running a (ARM EABI) Debian distribution at BeagleBoard. BeagleBoard will boot the (ARM EABI) Debian distribution from SD card. To prepare the SD card and install (ARM EABI) Debian on it, QEMU on host PC will be used, following Aurélien Jarno's excellent Debian on an emulated ARM machine howto.
Note: Debian armel deb's are compiled for armv4t, this allows debian to support a larger number of arm devices with a single port, at only the sacrifice of speed. For a more optimized and faster system checkout: Mojo Project (armv5el & armv6el-vfp editions). The OMAP3530 on the Beagle Board is armv7-a. See Handhelds Mojo (ARM) at BeagleBoard (formerly known as Ubuntu (ARM)) page, too.
Contents
QEMU
Install QEMU on your host PC. This assumes that your host PC is running Debian as well. If not, install QEMU the way your host PC distribution uses.
apt-get install qemu
Note: If your debian armel image crashes while fscking the partition, rebuild qemu from trunk.
Format SD Card
You will need a 1GB SD card or greater.
Standard System : ~455MB + Desktop environment (GNOME) : ~2.9GB
Starting with an empty SD card and using gparted, create:
50 MiB Primary Partition, fat32 Leave remaining space for the Debian-Installer
Preparation
Create a working directory to keep your files organized.
mkdir debian-armel cd debian-armel/ wget ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-armel/current/images/versatile/netboot/initrd.gz wget ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-armel/current/images/versatile/netboot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-versatile
Install Debian
To install (ARM EABI) Debian inside QEMU:
sudo qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-versatile -initrd initrd.gz -m 256 -hda /dev/sdX -append "root=/dev/ram mem=256M"
Note: root/sudo access is required to access /dev/sde directly & verify /dev/sdX with fdisk -l
Partition disks, default settings should work for most: Guided - use the largest continuous free space
Running Debian
sudo qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-versatile -m 256 -hda /dev/sde -append "root=/dev/sda2 mem=256M"
Note: Time will be incorrect.
sudo apt-get install ntpdate ntpdate pool.ntp.org
Install default deb packages for linux-image & linux-headers.
Stable 2.6.26 wget http://www.rcn-ee.com/deb/lenny/2.6.26-lenny-oer64/linux-image-2.6.26-lenny-oer64_oer64_armel.deb wget http://www.rcn-ee.com/deb/lenny/2.6.26-lenny-oer64/linux-headers-2.6.26-lenny-oer64_oer64_armel.deb sudo dpkg -i *.deb Testing 2.6.27-rc's (Stable enough to autobuild lenny/sid/mojo chroot's) Although you'll need a later uboot version (irq33 error) wget http://www.rcn-ee.com/deb/lenny/v2.6.27-rc7-e1c49d7-oer14/linux-image-2.6.27-rc7-beagle-oer14_1.0beagle_armel.deb wget http://www.rcn-ee.com/deb/lenny/v2.6.27-rc7-e1c49d7-oer14/linux-headers-2.6.27-rc7-beagle-oer14_1.0beagle_armel.deb
Note: It's easier to download these straight to the sd card after you've mounted the SD card to copy uImage to the FAT partition.
Stop QEMU and remount SD card to copy uImage to FAT partition:
cd /media/disk-1/ Stable 2.6.26 wget http://www.rcn-ee.com/deb/lenny/2.6.26-lenny-oer64/uImage-4.2-v2.6.26-lenny-oer64 mv uImage-4.2-v2.6.26-lenny-oer64 uImage Testing 2.6.27-rc's wget http://www.rcn-ee.com/deb/lenny/v2.6.27-rc7-e1c49d7-oer14/uImage-v2.6.27-rc7-e1c49d7-oer14 mv uImage-v2.6.27-rc7-e1c49d7-oer14 uImage or (future versions will ship with out uImage, once in a deb repo) dpkg -x linux-image* ./temp mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x80008000 -e 0x80008000 -n "Linux" -d ./temp/boot/vmlinuz-* ./uImage rm -rfd temp
Beagleboard
Insert SD Card and power up Beagleboard.
Boot
Using a terminal program, stop u-boot and add these commands:
setenv bootcmd 'mmcinit; fatload mmc 0:1 0x80300000 uImage; bootm 0x80300000' setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=2 rootfstype=ext3 ro video=omapfb:vram:2M,vram:4M' boot
To force the Beagleboard to always boot the sd card image:
setenv bootcmd 'mmcinit; fatload mmc 0:1 0x80300000 uImage; bootm 0x80300000' setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=2 rootfstype=ext3 ro video=omapfb:vram:2M,vram:4M' saveenv boot
Note: 'rootwait' only works with newer kernels, for 2.6.22.18-omap3 use 'rootdelay=2', otherwise this error:
VFS: Cannot open root device "mmcblk0p2" or unknown-block(2,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: 1f00 512 mtdblock01f00 512 mtdblock0 (driver?) 1f01 1920 mtdblock11f01 1920 mtdblock1 (driver?) 1f02 128 mtdblock21f02 128 mtdblock2 (driver?) 1f03 5120 mtdblock31f03 5120 mtdblock3 (driver?) 1f04 254464 mtdblock41f04 254464 mtdblock4 (driver?)
2.6.27+'s now require lcd parameters at boot time, bootargs options, (defaults to 1024x768@60)
video=omapfb:vram:2M,vram:4M,mode:1280x720@60,vxres=1280,vyres=720 Modes: 640x480@60""800x600@60""1024x768@60""1280x720@60"480p60""576p50""720p50""720p60""1080p24""1080p25""1080p30",
Upgrading u-boot (2.6.27's and later)
Using gparted, create a new 50MB Primary fat32 Parition on blank SD card.
wget http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/u-boot.bin cp u-boot.bin /media/disk
uboot
mmcinit fatload mmc 0 0x80200000 u-boot.bin nand unlock nand ecc sw nand erase 80000 160000 nand write.i 0x80200000 80000 160000 reset
Debian on Beagleboard
Debian on BeagleBoard uses the following configuration:
- Console log = Serial Terminal
- User Console = HDMI port + usb (keyboard, mouse, etc)
If you want to log in with the serial port, you will have to add to /etc/inittab
S:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 ttyS2
And if you want to log in as root on the serial port, add ttyS2 to /etc/securetty.
Xorg
Modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Option "UseFBDev" "true" Driver "fbdev" EndSection
Note: 'fbdev' is normally *slow* since it completely relies on the system cpu to update the framebuffer. Once the video processing core's driver is released this will no longer be an issue.
Current Issues
- Swap disabled: change /dev/hda5 -> /dev/mmcblk0p5 in /etc/fstab (artifact of qemu install to /dev/hdaX)
- RTC seems to be not enabled: use ntpdate when ethernet works, or issue date MMDDHHMMYYYY
Building a Native Debian Kernel with QEMU
Install Dependencies
apt-get install git-core kernel-package fakeroot build-essential curl libncurses-dev
u-boot
wget -nc http://beagleboard.googlecode.com/files/u-boot_beagle_revb.tar.gz tar -xf u-boot_beagle_revb.tar.gz cd u-boot/ make CROSS_COMPILE= distclean make CROSS_COMPILE= omap3530beagle_config make CROSS_COMPILE= tools
Add /tools/ to $PATH
PATH=/home/<user>/u-boot/tools:"${PATH}"
Linux Kernel
git clone git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git cd linux-omap-2.6/ git checkout -b beagle <tag>
Patch Kernel as you see fit
patch -p1 < ../patches/*.patch
Setup Kernel .config
make CROSS_COMPILE= distclean make CROSS_COMPILE= omap3_beagle_defconfig
Create Debian linux-image* & linux-headers* Package
make-kpkg --cross_compile - clean CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=1 fakeroot make-kpkg --cross_compile - --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers
Create U-boot uImage
make CROSS_COMPILE= uImage
Issues:
Debian's gcc-4.3 will fail to build a bootable uImage, so use gcc-4.2 as gcc thru 'update-alternatives'
Debian Lenny based Auto Builder
Auto builds lenny, sid, and mojo's uImage, linux-image and linux-headers's in approprate schroot's.