<lunra>
Please note, I'm compiling on an ARM chromebook, so there is no need for the CROSS_COMPILE argument
<mnemoc>
try omiting the CROSS_COMPILE= thing entirely
<lunra>
nope, same thing :(
<mnemoc>
does make oldconfig work?
<lunra>
I'll try from a new shell incase my envvars from Roman's tut are making it not work
<lunra>
make oldconfig breaks it too
<lunra>
should I try a make clean or something?
<lunra>
same thing after a make clean
<mnemoc>
make sun4i_defconfig ?
<lunra>
nope :<
<mnemoc>
smells like you are missing some -dev packages
<mnemoc>
but don't know
<lunra>
I've successfully built sunxi-3.4 before but I'll double check
<lunra>
Thanks for trying! :)
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<richo>
I'm trying to get linux onto an h6 netbook. I don't get anything when I try various images from the interwebs, so I figured I'd work backwards and copy /dev/block/nanda to my SD card, that should boot into android, right?
<techn_>
huihai
<techn_>
plaah
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<richo>
heya
<lunra>
Hmm. I've even tried to set CFLAGS with a -I flag to try to force it to search the include/ directory where linkage.h exists
<mnemoc>
don't try those hacks. the problem must be somewhere else
<lunra>
Doesn't work, but perhaps I'm doing that wrong. I've tried exporting CFLAGS in bash and I've tried it on the make commandline (make ARCH=arm CFLAGS=...). I've tried editing the main Makefile too
<mnemoc>
probably a broken env
<lunra>
At this point I see no problem in resorting to hacks, I just want my wifi to work ._.
<mnemoc>
those hacks will only distract you, and won't solve anything
<lunra>
WHAT. I just ls -l'd it to make sure it was readable... it's a symlink to... source code? That's a thing? How does the computer react?
<mnemoc>
first test you can compile something else
<lunra>
I've compiled linux-sunxi-3.4
<mnemoc>
then test you can compile sunxi-3.4 (which you said you were able before)
<lunra>
sunxi-3.4 seems to be building so far, I'll let it run completely though
<mnemoc>
uhm
<mnemoc>
same working dir?
<richo>
Is this a reasonable place to ask some rookie questions about h6 netbooks?
<mnemoc>
sure
<richo>
so I'm trying to get linux to boot on it
<richo>
so far I'm getting nothing, and the ethernet port doesn't appear to work under android
<lunra>
oops, didn't see the reply. No, it's in a different directory. I've actually used the .zip files provided on github instead of downloading it via git commands
<richo>
so I figured I'd test my assumptions by copying the nand* partitions to the SD card with dd to check that I can boot android from SD
<mnemoc>
lunra: use git clone
<lunra>
OK
<mnemoc>
.zip doesn't support symlinks
<lunra>
OHH
<lunra>
I'm sorry that I didn't mention this earlier!
<lunra>
richo: While this is definitely the place, not many people would know much about the hardware as it seems to be uncommon compared to ie. the MK802 ;). I'm sure somebody will know and be able to help you though :)
<richo>
Thanks. I'll keep playing and hang around
<lunra>
Does anybody know how big a git clone is? I've only got 3G of disk left
<shineworld>
git clone of what ?
<lunra>
linux-sunxi
<shineworld>
a sec
<richo>
you can git clone --depth=n if you don't want the full repo
<richo>
it'll be ~the same size as the unpacked zip, maybe smaller
<lunra>
doesn't it fetch all of the branches at once?
<shineworld>
35 items, totalling 1.0 GB before to be expanded
<mnemoc>
if you already have a working dir with 3.4, switch that one to 3.0
<lunra>
The 3.4 was from the zip too, no idea how that worked
<lunra>
oops, I thought I already said this, but thanks shineworld :D
<mnemoc>
usb drive?
<mnemoc>
that will get you spare space
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<lunra>
Apparently git doesn't like --depth=0. Seems to succeed until it's done counting, where it dies, citing repo corruption
<lunra>
But --depth=1 works
<richo>
depth=0 would be a nonexistant clone
<richo>
the plumbing should probably bail out though, because that makes no sense
<lunra>
yeah, I wasn't sure whether it was a 'search 0 past entries' or 'search 0 entries'
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<libv>
wowon: depending on how far you want to go with this...
<libv>
wowon: adding cabling for uart is advanced stuff, but not impossible if you want to open up the device, identify the testpoints, and solder on a cable
<libv>
this gets you a serial console which will be able to help you out when you are in trouble (as there is no such thing as vga textmode and a bootprompt over that, all you get is serial)
<libv>
wowon: but... if all goes well, you do not need that
<libv>
wowon: you can retrieve the necessary info from android, and then work through the useful part of FirstSteps
<libv>
i almost bought a x360 myself 6 months ago, it simply did not end up being useful enough for the lima driver project to warrant doing so
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<lunra>
yay, the git clone'd tree seems to compile! Thanks mnemoc! And sorry for making the problem hard to diagnose ;)
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* [7]
heard some rumours that something is moving lately wrt. NAND boot
<[7]>
or rather NAND MTD-level access, getting rid of that allwinner FTL
<[7]>
is that already somewhat usable?
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<richo>
I got linux to boot on this netbook! OSX was screwing up the images
<jabjoe1>
I've got a13b base tablet that I'd like to run gnu/linux on. I've got it booting using the current "a13_mid_hwpack" but when I build my own hwpack from "./configure a13_mid" it doesn't boot. Any ideas?
<jabjoe1>
I can get it booting the "testing 3.4" version "a13_mid_hwpack" by I have to turn it on with the micro sdcard in, eject it, the screen powers up, reinsert it, and it boots into Debian.
<jabjoe1>
The same doesn't work on my image though.
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<libv>
jabjoe1: you can always try things the hard way
<libv>
jabjoe1: hi btw
<jabjoe1>
libv: Didn't see you there. Hi. :-)
<jabjoe1>
Isn't the hard way just the easy way manually?
<libv>
yes, but it allows you to poke at the fex directly, and have some control over the kernel config
<jabjoe1>
libv: I think that is what I need I think, but isn't the a13_mid_hwpack released just the hwpack build via the easy automatically every n weeks or what ever?
<focus_it>
hi guys, any idea how I might go about setting up a cross compile environment on my x86 Ubuntu desktop so that it creates exe files for A10? Ideally I'd like it to be eclipse - but failing that command line is just as OK for now