Cubox

[replabrobin]

Hi Pepedog,

I managed to get my cubox up and running with your rootfs. I did the install to the micro sd before the cubox arrived, but am glad to say it worked right away. I could not get much done with the ubuntu as the console was completely swamped with timing messages (due to lack of a monitor).

Anyhow I would like to compile my own kernel with the video memory reduction built in. I'm not planning to use the cubox fully at present.

I noticed that you have a kernel source in /usr/src. Is it best for me to compile with abs using the linux-cubox 3.4-1 pkg or is there something special about your kernel source?

[pepedog]

The kernel source comes from https://github.com/rabeeh/linux but appears to be Linux 3.5-rc5 which should be ok still.
If you
git clone git://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs.git
cd PKGBUILDs/core/linux-cubox
Modify the PKGBUILD so you uncomment make menuconfig
then you can makepkg and install with pacman

[cyberic]

Did anyone have experience with XBMC on the cubox? The hardware can decode h264, but what about other codecs?
Thanks

[replabrobin]

Hi pepedog, I am trying out the build process and although I can get through the config stage making some reasonable assumptions about stuff that's not present in the PKG config already makepkg is failing with the first attempt at loading eg
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', ' CC init/main.o
ld: unrecognized option '-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro'
ld: use the --help option for usage information
make[1]: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
make: *** [init] Error 2
')

anyone know what this relates to. I guess it must be the latest kernel using something that our toolchain doesn't provide.

[WarheadsSE]

Actually, it is barking at you for '-Wl'

[replabrobin]

I looked in vain for where that string or bits of it eg relro wer present in the src/linux folder, but couldn't find it.

[replabrobin]

I found that set of options in the /etc/makepkg.conf file ie

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro"

and that is present on some other systems as well. What should this be for the cubox? Looking at ld --help I see there aren't any options -W, but that didn't matter on the sheeva.

[slashproc]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pepedog', 'T')he kernel source comes from https://github.com/rabeeh/linux but appears to be Linux 3.5-rc5 which should be ok still.
If you
git clone git://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs.git
cd PKGBUILDs/core/linux-cubox
Modify the PKGBUILD so you uncomment make menuconfig
then you can makepkg and install with pacman

[cyberic]

Hello

The cubox seems to be relly great!
I'd like to know:

Is the rootfs hardfp or softfp?
is the dovefb driver integrated?

Thanks

[WarheadsSE]

1) hardfp, since it is v7
2) .. hmm, define "integrated"