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Linux support issue on hikey 960

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#1

Hi, I’m currently working on hikey 960 board, and I wanna this board with linux host such as debian or ubuntu

And I found that hikey 960 supports debian linux, and actually shows an instruction to flash debian linux to 960 board.

But, when I flash this image, reboot-bootloader or booting was failed after flash.
I think I have same problems as this thread (Error occurs druing procedures of installing Debian).

And also I found this thread (Is there a basic guide to installing Linux on Hikey960? - #7 by susmithagankidi) which mentions that hdmi supporting linux kernel can be found in latest 960 kernel.

So, in summary, from my best understanding,

  1. Currently default debian linux doesn’t support hdmi & usb driver, so when I don’t have any uart daughter board for hikey, I cannot use this linux host.

  2. Secondly, laetest 4.9 linux kernel for 960 supports hdmi and usb drivers, but still if I wanna switch linux kernel into this latest kernel, first I need to flash and boot the debian linux host using uart serial port, and I switch the kernel from grub menu through uart.

  3. So, when I don’t have any uart addon board, I cannot boot this board with linux host.

Is that right??

Additionally, is hikey 960 board supports gicv3 or gicv2? or gicv3 with gicv2 compatible?

Please answer me.

Thanks,

#2

Yes for default Debian Linux, you need UART mezzanine board.

For latest Linux version 4.14-rc7, please use https://github.com/96boards-hikey/linux/commits/hikey960-upstream-rebase branch. It has support for hdmi and usb drivers.

Hikey960 has integrated GIC-400 which complies to GICv2 architecture.

Regards,
Sumit

#3

Thanks for reply,
So then, can I compile and flash the 4.14-rc7 directly without using uart board? or should I firstly boot up my board with uart console, then switch the kernel into 4.14?

Thanks,

#4

@wangmir you need to boot up board with uart console first and then switch to 4.14 kernel. Actually kernel image is part of Debian rootfs as /boot/vmlinuz-4.15-hikey.

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#5

Ok, then do you have any guide to make new rootfs from the scratch based on 960 source with 4.14?

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#6

Can you guide me to build & deloy latest kernel, which supports USB and HDMI drivers, to hikey 960?

I boot up basic debian linux with uart console, but then how can I build and switch to new and USB supported linux kernel when the basic debian linux does not support USB driver?

#7

Hi @wangmir,

For the USB and HDMI support, you can use the landing team kernel [1]. Then just use the instructions in below guide for building and deploying it on HiKey960 running debian.

Note:

After installing the kernel using dpkg utility, you should boot with your devicetree. Please see the last section in above document.

Thanks,
Mani

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#9

Hi, what do you mean “landing team kernel”?

#10

Hi, what do you mean “landing team kernel”?

The kernel tree maintained by HiSilicon landing team. They use this tree for the whole development around HiKey960 board.

#11

Hi Mani, those instructions appear to be for the Hikey 620, will those instructions work without change on a Hikey 960?

#12

Hi @morgdx,

Yes it should work for HiKey960 too. Only prerequisite is to have a running Linaro debian image on the board.

Thanks,
Mani

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#13

@Mani

I’m trying to complete the host build steps on an ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS host and have run into some trouble.

wget releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/latest/aarch64-linux-gnu/gcc-*-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.xz
mkdir ~/toolchain
tar -xf gcc-*-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.xz -C ~/toolchain --strip-components=1
git clone https://github.com/suihkulokki/linux.git
cd linux/
git checkout -t origin/hikey-v4.15
sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential fakeroot bc kmod cpio libssl-dev bison flex
export ARCH=arm64
export CROSS_COMPILE=~/toolchain/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-
make defconfig distro.config
make bindeb-pkg LOCALVERSION=-hikey-linaro

And I get the following error:

arch/arm64/Makefile:27: ld does not support --fix-cortex-a53-843419; kernel may be susceptible to erratum
arch/arm64/Makefile:48: Detected assembler with broken .inst; disassembly will be unreliable
CHK     include/config/kernel.release
/bin/bash ./scripts/package/mkdebian
dpkg-buildpackage -j1 -r"fakeroot -u" -a$(cat debian/arch) -b -nc -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package linux-4.15.3-hikey-linaro-00154-gf449b3ca0861
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 4.15.3-hikey-linaro-00154-gf449b3ca0861-1
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution bionic
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Anonymous <x@x-MacBookPro>
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture arm64
 dpkg-source --before-build linux
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: libssl-dev
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)
scripts/package/Makefile:75: recipe for target 'bindeb-pkg' failed
make[1]: *** [bindeb-pkg] Error 3
Makefile:1345: recipe for target 'bindeb-pkg' failed
make: *** [bindeb-pkg] Error 2

I definitely have libssl-dev installed!

Any ideas?

#14

I’ve just tried these exact kernel build steps on two different machines, one of which was a clean ubuntu AWS EC2 instance that I created just to do this build:

make bin deb-pkg LOCALVERSION=-hikey-linaro
CHK include/config/kernel.release
/bin/bash ./scripts/package/mkdebian
dpkg-buildpackage -j1 -r"fakeroot -u" -a$(cat debian/arch) -b -nc -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: source package linux-4.15.3-hikey-linaro-00154-gf449b3c
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 4.15.3-hikey-linaro-00154-gf449b3c-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution xenial
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Anonymous ubuntu@ip-172-31-17-129.eu-west-2.compute.internal
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture arm64
dpkg-source --before-build linux
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: libssl-dev
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)
scripts/package/Makefile:75: recipe for target ‘bindeb-pkg’ failed
make[1]: *** [bindeb-pkg] Error 3
Makefile:1345: recipe for target ‘bindeb-pkg’ failed
make: *** [bindeb-pkg] Error 2

#15

@morgdx,

Can you please verify whether you have openssl installed or not?

sudo apt install openssl

#16

Hi @Mani thanks, yes I do:

sudo apt install openssl
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
openssl is already the newest version (1.1.0g-2ubuntu4.1).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 17 not to upgrade.

#17

got the same error, completely useless information.

/bin/sh ./scripts/package/mkdebian
dpkg-buildpackage -j1 -r"fakeroot -u" -a$(cat debian/arch) -b -nc -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: using a gain-root-command while being root
dpkg-buildpackage: source package linux-4.15.3-hikey-linaro-00154-gf449b3c
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 4.15.3-hikey-linaro-00154-gf449b3c-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution xenial
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Anonymous root@ubuntu
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture arm64
dpkg-source --before-build linux
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: libssl-dev
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)
scripts/package/Makefile:75: recipe for target ‘bindeb-pkg’ failed
make[1]: *** [bindeb-pkg] Error 3
Makefile:1345: recipe for target ‘bindeb-pkg’ failed
make: *** [bindeb-pkg] Error 2

#18

dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: libssl-dev

This line states that you are lacking libssl-dev. You’ll need to put it using apt. Just run the command
sudo apt install openssl libssl-dev

This should solve your error.

#19

no, I am much sure it has been installed.
install openssl libssl-dev
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
libssl-dev is already the newest version (1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.10).
openssl is already the newest version (1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.10).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

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#20

I spun up a fresh 18.04.1 container and did a quick test.

I couldn’t reproduce this behaviour… the instructions worked exactly as documented (although I did apt install git before I started reading the instructions).

I notice that I have a newer version of libssl-dev installed but I very much doubt that matters.

#21

yes, I also have doubt about this. I tried many times to uninstall libssl-dev and then re-install again, but it always will re-install the 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.10.

I have updated my kernel into 4.18 through this way:

Step 1: make ARCH=arm64 hikey960_defconfig
Step 2: make
Step 3: cp arch/arm64/boot/Image to your board boot folder, name it, eg, 4.18.image

Cp arch/arm64/boot/dts/hinis/ hi3660-hikey960.dtb to your board boot folder, and name it, eg, 4.18.dtb.

Step 4: modify grup.cfg

set default=“0”
set timeout=5
menuentry ‘CE Reference Platform (HiKey960 rpb)’ {
linux /boot/Image console=tty0 console=ttyAMA6,115200n8 root=/dev/sdd10 rootwait rw quiet efi=noruntime
devicetree /boot/hi3660-hikey960.dtb
}
menuentry ‘my-4.18’ {
linux /boot/4.18.image console=tty0 console=ttyAMA6,115200n8 root=/dev/sdd10 rw quiet efi=noruntime
devicetree /boot/4.18.dtb
}