olinuxino A20 micro support?

[xanb]

Hi,

I think there is no official support for olinuxino a20 (micro or lime).
I found this: https://www.olimex.com/forum/index.php?topic=1856.0
and this: http://alarma20.wordpress.com/2013/09/1 ... ino-micro/

but I'm not sure? Is there a planning for supporting it?

What can I follow?

Thanks,

[xanb]

If you follow alarma20 blog and you want to compile natively, you have to install this package but the stage2 dependencies is not be able to installed.

So you only have one exit: unofficial images until this problem will be fix

[krabat]

Indeed the AUR packages needed for the toolchain can't be build since a couple of weeks which is a pity. The problem evolved during a transition to glibc from eglibc which has been abandoned.
The predecessor packages using eglibc still build, though. (eglibc.org providing the source code seemed to have vanished a couple of weeks ago but is online again.) I still have them available, so if you're interested let me know. (Should be possible to fetch them from some mirror, too. Never tried this.)

But I wonder whether it still is necessary to compile U-Boot and kernel your self at all.
Meanwhile there's a package uboot-a20-olinuxino-micro which should be able to boot linux-sun7i on this device.
Also, you could try linux-armv7. This one needs a more recent U-Boot flavour, e. g. custodian u-boot-sunxi which isn't available from the repos afaik. I built it using an eglibc based toolchain some weeks ago and it works well on a Cubietruck. Note that upstream U-Boot switched to Kconfig which involves some minor changes during build.

[DagoRed]

The current way I install ALARM on the A20 is quite easy, there isn't an official image or directions but what I know that works is the following.

Follow the direction for the Cubieboard 2 here: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7 ... bieboard-2
The only deviation from the directions for the Cubieboard 2 is to the boot loader which is already built for the A20 micro here: http://os.archlinuxarm.org/armv7h/alarm/uboot-a20-olinuxino-micro-2014.04-9-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz

There is no need to go off and build anything for the A20 Micro to get it up and running.

[xanb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')ollow the direction for the Cubieboard 2 here: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7 ... bieboard-2
The only deviation from the directions for the Cubieboard 2 is to the boot loader which is already built for the A20 micro here: http://os.archlinuxarm.org/armv7h/alarm ... pkg.tar.xz

[krabat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('xanb', 'B')ut what I have to do with pkg.tar.xz file?