[fedora-arm] uboot for the Cubieboard2 - not so easy

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/02/2014 06:54 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 08/01/2014 08:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> For me anyway.  I am begining to see how the pieces are suppose to fit together.
>>
>> The installer script is coded for only the Cubietruck, and if you don't capitalize it, the script fixes that.
>>
>> There IS a dtb for the cubieboard2:
>>
>> /run/media/rgm/__boot/dtb-3.16.0-0.rc7.git1.1.fc21.armv7hl/sun7i-a20-cubieboard2.dtb
>>
>> But no .bin supplied.
> Correct.
>
>> I got u-boot-sunxi-cubieboard2.tar.xz from someplace on Jul 24 which has in it:
> That won't work because it is missing the "generic distro support" patches
> Fedora's images rely on.
>
> I've a u-boot tree which supports a lot more allwinner devices then just the
> cubietruck, and does include the generic distro support.
>
> To build this do the following (on an x86 machine)
>
> yum install gcc-arm-linux-gnu
> git clone https://github.com/jwrdegoede/u-boot-sunxi.git
> cd u-boot-sunxi
> git checkout -B next origin/next

# git checkout -B next origin/next
Branch next set up to track remote branch next from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'next'

> make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- Cubieboard2_defconfig
# make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- Cubieboard2_defconfig
   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 127
make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2

Looks like there is something else I need to install...


> make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu-
> sudo dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/FIXME bs=1024 seek=8
>
> Where FIXME is the block device for your sdcard, then umount any
> partitions mounted from the sdcard, sync, and boot your cubieboard2
> with it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>