Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Cross compile GNURadio on ARM in Odroid XU3

[Dennis Glatting]

On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 09:01 -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
> I'm trying not to get drug into this thread sine I am on vacation next
> week ...
> 
> xu3 -> https://github.com/akuster/meta-odroid or
> https://github.com/ARM-software/meta-mali ?
> 
> The ARM-software one looks interesting since it may deal with the Mali
> stuff. I'll try and get some time to build test it on our layer stack we
> use for GNU Radio.
> 
> I have a (discontinued) XU and am annoyed at hardfloat not supporting
> the lcd panel I bought for it on the XU3. So I can't test XU3 locally.
> 
> The big problem in the low end arm dev board space is the matrix of
> random vendor kernels, crappy binary only images from vendors (GPL
> compliance nightmares for people selling products), short lived
> hardware, multiple desktop distros with even more quirks and so on. The
> support envelope for GNU Radio on ARM is huge. I cannot be handled by a
> small group of people without setting some boundaries.
> 

Add to that the problem of a defective board (WandBoard, in my case) and
attempting an RMA with the reseller. And lets not forget the problem of
booting with no BIOS or console/serial to help or yield clues.


> Donations of cash/bitcoins welcome :) I already have too many
> interesting borads to play with.
> 
> Philip
> 
> On 07/09/2015 02:00 AM, shaunwang wrote:
> > Hello Nathan
> > 
> > Firstly I am really grateful for your long suggestions. I am very surprised
> > to spend so much time writing this for me.
> > 
> > Secondly, I already tried building GNU Radio natively in Odroid xu3 and
> > Hummingboard. They both took long time to build. And I always meet some
> > bugs, but I fixed them. Building GNU Radio on Hummingboard is definitely a
> > pain. 
> > 
> > I want to concentrate on cross compile now even I have native compile
> > option. I am reading Open Embedded website now, OE layer does not support
> > Odroid XU3 layer. 1>What do you mean for "add support"? 2>I am going to try
> > Tom's rootfs and chroot once I understand it. 3> Is this the website you are
> > talking about for cross compile with OE
> > https://github.com/balister/meta-sdr/wiki/CrossCompile. 
> > the first three steps are
> > 1)Build the cross toolchain with OpenEmbedded:
> > bitbake -c populate_sdk gnuradio-dev-image
> > a
> > 2)Find the sdk:
> > $ ls tmp-eglibc/deploy/sdk/
> > oecore-x86_64-armv7a-vfp-neon-toolchain-nodistro.0.sh
> > 
> > 3)Install the sdk:
> > '$ sudo sh
> > tmp-eglibc/deploy/sdk/oecore-x86_64-armv7a-vfp-neon-toolchain-nodistro.0.sh`
> > 
> > But the problem is that this SDK file is for Zynq chip.
> > http://gnuradio.org/data/sdk/zedboard_armv7a-sf-vfp-neon/
> > 
> > Do you have any idea how to build SDK for ARMV7L which is used in Odroid
> > xu3? 
> > 
> > According to my understand of reading in GNURadio website, it seems the
> > number 3) way is the same way as get an SDK for my distribution. I read from
> > this website https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/OE_PyBOMBS 
> >>From what you said, it seems I can either combine OE and SDK to do cross
> > compile or JUST use SDK for my distribution. I have not found any resource
> > for the later option. Since you said the later option is unknown and hard, I
> > will save this for later.
> > 
> > I am going to try the Tom's rootfs way and OE SDK way firstly, I will keep
> > posting my questions, thank you so much for your time and help. I am super
> > grateful!
> > 
> > Shaun
> > 
> > 
> > 
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