[elbe-users] ARM allwinner msdoshd: Specify binary blob

[Manuel Traut]

Hi Ralf,

On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 07:06:02PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:15:41AM +0100, Manuel Traut wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 09:17:11PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> > > I'm in the process of building elbe configs for various ARM allwinner
> > > boards. Several questions:
> 
> > That sounds interesting! Feel free to post your XML's here! I'm sure it would
> > be nice to have them in the 'examples' directory.
> 
> Attached I've appended an example for the Olimex A20-OLinuXino-Lime
> board as an example (generated using elbe preprocess). I've started a
> small project on github that auto-generates a Kernel package (currently
> locally not inside the VM, current mainline kernels feature a 'deb-pkg'
> make target that even works when cross-compiling) and builds a custom
> bootloader.
> 
> Note that the file currently uses my local debian mirror...
> 
> Since ELBE currently doesn't support unsigned repos, the Makefile of
> that project generates a throwaway GPG key and uses this to set up a
> temporary local repo using pythons built-in webserver. This is a crude
> hack, maybe one day setting up a temporary elbe repo or injecting custom
> .deb files into a build will be easier (hint :-)
> 
> It basically works by checking out kernel and bootloader and
> communicating this to the make call. The TARGET is specified on the
> command-line of make.
> 
> Find it at:
> https://github.com/schlatterbeck/elbe-arm

thanks for sharing your setup!

You don't use 'elbe pbuilder' to build the kernel package because it is to slow?

Regards,

  Manuel