This repository can be used to create an ArchLinuxARM image for the OrangePi Zero board.

Dependencies

• make
• gnu tar
• python2
• u-boot-tools
• device-tree-compiler >1.4.0 (1.4.5)
• sudo
• fdisk

Prerequisite

In order to build the image, you need a working ARM toolchain.

Here is a simple way to get one: sudo apt-get install make autoconf gcc gperf bison flex texinfo help2man libncurses5-dev git clone https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng cd crosstool-ng ./bootstrap ./configure --enable-local make ./ct-ng arm-unknown-eabi ./ct-ng build

Preparing the files

Run make (specifying jobs with -jX is supported and recommended).

This will provide:

• the ArchLinuxARM armv7 default rootfs (ArchLinuxARM-armv7-latest.tar.gz)
• an u-boot image compiled for the OrangePi Zero (u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin)
• device tree blobs for enabling USB ports on expansion board
• a boot script (boot.scr) to be copied in /boot

Installing the distribution

Run make install BLOCK_DEVICE=/dev/mmcblk0 with the appropriate value for BLOCK_DEVICE.

This is running commands similar to any other AllWinner ArchLinuxARM installation.

Building with Docker

Included Dockerfile will create an ubuntu container with all required build tools. To disable building overlays for expansion card, change EXPANSION=true to false in docker-compose.yml

docker-compose up --build

Goodies

If you have a serial cable and miniterm.py installed (python-pyserial), make serial will open a session with the appropriate settings.

References

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Orange_Pi https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/blob/master/alarm/uboot-sunxi/ https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/doc/README.fdt-overlays

TODO

• upstream to ArchLinuxARM