Archlinux ARM for Firefly-rk3288

linjc

I am so exciting when I see the post of Archlinux on Firefly-rk3288 from tlgimenes, It is cool!!
I search in internet about Archlinux and I found that Archlinux arm can run smooly in raspberrypi. So It may work well in Firefly-rk3288. I try to do it, and share my note here. I should say thanks to tlgimenes here, because his post help me a lot.
there is my note
1.flash the official firmware of ubuntu to the board
2.download the miniroot from here and flash linux-boot-miniroot.img to boot partition.
3.reboot the board and enter the miniroot mode

1. miniroot#

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4.in official firmware, /dev/mmcblk0p5 is file system of ubuntu, so  make it to ext4 and mount to /mnt

1. miniroot# mkfs.ext4 -E nodiscard /dev/mmcblk0p5
   
2. miniroot# mount /dev/mmcblk0p5 /mnt/

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5.connect to ethernet and download the archlinux package, you can download it from their official web too.

1. miniroot# udhcpc
   
2. miniroot# wget –P /mnt http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-veyron-latest.tar.gz

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6.uncompress

1. miniroot# cd /mnt/
   
2. miniroot# tar -xzf ArchLinuxARM-veyron-latest.tar.gz

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7.change root to archlinux and add a user

1. miniroot# chroot /mnt/
   
2. [root@miniroot /]# useradd -m -s /bin/bash firefly
   
3. [root@miniroot /]# passwd firefly

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8.change the hostname

1. [root@miniroot /]# vi /etc/hostname

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9.change the service of serial

1. [root@miniroot /]# cp /lib/systemd/system/serial-getty\@.service /lib/systemd/system/serial-getty@ttyS2.service
   
2. [root@miniroot /]vi /lib/systemd/system/serial-getty@ttyS2.service （change the "%i.device" to "%i"）
   
3. [root@miniroot /]# systemctl enable [email]serial-getty@ttyS2.service[/email]

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note: the newest code change the ttyS2 to ttyFIQ0, so I change it to ttyFIQ0 in my firmware.
10.You can start archlinux now

1. [root@miniroot /]# exit
   
2. miniroot# boot /mnt: /lib/systemd/systemd

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11.You can login using the user you just add, and I use firefly

1. Arch login: firefly
   
2. Password

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12.Enter root mode, and the root password of archlinux is "root"

1. [firefly@Arch ~]$ su
   
2. Password:
   
3. [root@Arch firefly]#

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13.Start network service

1. [root@Arch firefly]# systemctl enable dhcpcd.service
   
2. [root@Arch firefly]# systemctl start dhcpcd.service

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14.Update the system

1. [root@Arch firefly]# pacman –Syu

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Note: you should input "N" here, or you will clear all what you do just now

1. >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
   
2. A new kernel version needs to be flashed onto /dev/mmcblk0p5.
   
3. Do you want to do this now? [y|N]
   
4. N

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15.Install sudo

1. [root@Arch firefly]# pacman -S sudo

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edit the profile, and add the user permission

1. [root@Arch firefly]# visudo
   
2. firefly ALL=(ALL) ALL

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16.add wifi
tlgimenes run the wifi by using libhybris, here is a simple way. I copy the file /system/ from official firmware of ubuntu to archlinux.

1. [root@Arch firefly]# cp -r /path/system/ /

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copy the script to archlinux

1. [root@Arch firefly]# cp wifi-on.sh /usr/local/bin/
   
2. [root@Arch firefly]# cp wifi-off.sh /usr/local/bin/

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edit the service file of systemd

1. [root@Arch firefly]# vi /lib/systemd/system/wifi-on.service

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start the wifi service when system start

1. [root@Arch firefly]# systemctl enable wifi-on.service

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17.add bluetooth
install bluez

1. [root@Arch firefly]# pacman -S bluez
   
2. [root@Arch firefly]# pacman -S bluez-utils

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add profile (you can get the file from my firmware, here I put my files in u-disk, and mount in /media/)

1. [root@Arch firefly]# cp /media/bluetooth-brcm /etc/default/bluetooth-brcm

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add the bluetooth script

1. [root@Arch firefly]# cp /media/do-brcm-patchram-plus.sh /usr/local/bin/

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start the bluetooth service

1. [root@Arch firefly]# systemctl enable bluetooth-brcm-firmware.service
   
2. [root@Arch firefly]# systemctl enable bluetooth.service

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18.you should resize the partition of file system, when your system start first, I run a script service when system start here

1. [root@Arch firefly]# touch /firstboot
   
2. [root@Arch firefly]# vi /usr/local/bin/first-boot.sh
   
3. [root@Arch firefly]# chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/first-boot.sh
   
4. [root@Arch firefly]# vi /lib/systemd/system/rc.local.service （you can get the file from my firmware）

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enable the service

1. [root@Arch firefly]# systemctl enable rc.local.service

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19.You can remove some file useless, such as the software package what you installed:

1. [root@Arch firefly]# rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*

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20.pack the firmware
I reboot the board and enter miniroot (I insert the u-disk and mount to /media/ here):

1. miniroot# mount /dev/mmcblk0p5 /mnt/
   
2. miniroot# mkdir /media
   
3. miniroot# mount /dev/sda /media/
   
4. miniroot# dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/linuxroot.img bs=1M count=1024
   
5. miniroot# mkfs.ext4 -F -L linuxroot /media/linuxroot.img
   
6. miniroot# mkdir tmp
   
7. miniroot# mount -o loop /media/linuxroot.img /tmp/
   
8. miniroot# cp -a /mnt/* /tmp/
   
9. miniroot# umount /tmp/
   
10. miniroot# umount /media/
    
11. miniroot# umount /mnt/

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Now, the linuxroot.img is the file system of archlinux.
21.pack to a update.img
I change the AndroidTool, and you can copy the files include linuxroot.img，linux-boot.img，resource.img，misc_zero.img  to the direction rockdev/Image/ then run the script mkupdate.bat, the update.img will create in rockdev/
22. if you want auto enter your archlinux and don not want enter miniroot, you can change these:

1. miniroot# editenv
   
2. root=/dev/mmcblk0p5:
   
3. init=/sbin/init
   
4. #ethaddr=00:11:22:33:44:55
   
5. #fbset_args="-a -nonstd 1 -g 1920 1080 1920 1080 32 -rgba 8/0,8/8,8/16,8/24"
   
6. #fbset_args="-a -nonstd 4 -g 1280 720 1280 720 16 -rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0"
   
7. autoboot=1
   
8. miniroot# saveenv
   
9. miniroot# reboot –f

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I just transplanted a basic archlinux file system, if you want to make a perfect system, you also need to install a lot of software, I hope you can share it with everyone, just like tlgimenes, thank you very much.


If you find the wrong place, please tell me.


google driver:archlinux firmware: https://drive.google.com/file/d/ ... Tg/view?usp=sharing

baidu disk:
archlinux firmware link: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1bomaoVH password: mpfk
archlinux+xfce firmware link: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1numvXrV password: g82u

zhansb

nice job

totoy

Thanks you very much for your job

tlgimenes

Nice Job !!

Hope people will use these nice tips I just can't duplicate it here at home because I don't have a serial debugging cable, but if you do, I think this is a better solution than my previous one. By the ways, did you manage to make miniroot boot not only using the debug serial port but using the VGA port instead ?

I'm also still trying to figure out a way of using libhybris or any other way of having Mali accelerated openGL ES working on X/Wayland under Arch and writing a comprehensive tutorial on how to do it, like you just did with the Arch installation.

If anyone  have already done it or have a hint on how doing it, please let me know

cheers \o/