Re: odroid hc1 on debian?
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> are people in SBC community actively working on that, or is it just a
> possible option?
No experience with that, but I hear RedHat and ARM are pushing it,
especially for ARMv8.
> DONE: odroid-hc1 is a compute node computer - network, sata, cpu, ram,
> serial console for debugging. No graphics (well, the CPU contains some GPU
> but no wires/connectors, thus supporting it is optional).
You could use the GPU for compute with OpenCL/Vulkan/etc.
Unfortunately, since it is Mali, the reverse engineering projects were
abandoned a while back but revived recently:
http://limadriver.org/
https://github.com/yuq/mesa-lima
https://github.com/yuq/linux-lima
> TODO: I wasn't sure thus even send an email to debian-kernel: is
> linux-firmware repo only for firmware uses by the driver, or do they accept
> firmware for u-boot too? Is one big repo for everything the desired state or
> many small packages? Any blueprint? Any good legal direction to get odroid
> to do the necessary license declaration etc?
linux-firmware is a Linux upstream project, not a Debian one.
I think it is only for firmware loaded by Linux drivers, not sure.
I don't know if there is an equivalent u-boot blobs repo.
In Debian, linux-firmware is split into multiple packages.
fwupd is only for upgrading firmware resident in internal flash in devices.
IIRC the linux-firmware.git repository has legal instructions.
> ah, I didn't know about that one. What does it do, who uses this code?
d-i uses it to know which files to write to where to get a device to
boot Debian.
> DONE: it contains a odroid-xu4 entry, that would work on the hc1 too.
Probably worth adding hc1 too so it can be autodetected.
> TODO: yes, I'd love for those automated build mechanism to create an image
> for the odroid-xu4/hc1. Who maintains this system, where is the code or
> config?
The Debian installer team do, please ask about it on debian-boot or
look at their wiki/other documentation.
> Does that place allow non-free binaries in the image, or do we need to go to
> the cdimage.debian.org infrastructure instead? that one has non-free images:
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/
Those are larger images that include a package pool, the ones I linked
to do not. Also the ones on cdimage are x86 only.
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pabs
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