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openSUSE on your ARM board
Pre-built images for ARM boards are available:
Click on your board and follow instructions.
If no pre-built images are available for your board, download the root file system (armv6-rootfs or armv7-rootfs) available at:
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Version: Factory
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http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv7hl/factory/images/ |
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Version: 13.1
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http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv7hl/distribution/13.1/appliances/ |
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Version: 12.3
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http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv7hl/distribution/12.3/images/ |
And make your own SD card to boot on, with first bootloader (manufacturer specific), U-Boot (configured for your board) and a kernel (configured for your board) if openSUSE does not provide it.
Bootstrapping a kernel using openSUSE chroot
openSUSE does not currently ship a cross-compiler for ARM. If you don't want to compile your own, you can use a chroot'ed openSUSE rootfs on your PC.
First, download the JeOS rootfs from the openSUSE:Factory:ARM images repository:
$ wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Factory:/ARM/images/openSUSE-Factory-ARM-JeOS.armv7l-1.12.1-Build32.6.tbz $ sha256sum openSUSE-Factory-ARM-JeOS.armv7l-1.12.1-Build32.6.tbz $ mkdir rootfs $ sudo tar xvjf openSUSE-Factory-ARM-JeOS.armv7l-1.12.1-Build32.6.tbz -C rootfs
Set up QEMU translation for ARM binaries:
# zypper in qemu-linux-user # qemu-binfmt-conf.sh
Prepare the environment:
# mount --bind /proc rootfs/proc # mount --bind /sys rootfs/sys # mount --bind /dev rootfs/dev # cp /etc/resolv.conf rootfs/etc/ # cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm* rootfs/usr/bin # chroot rootfs
You can now run commands like you would on an ARM board, for example:
# zypper ref # zypper up # zypper in gcc make SDL-devel
Either obtain kernel sources using wget, git, etc. or copy into the rootfs from the host. Then compile like you would natively. Once you're done, type
# exit
and you're back in your previous filesystem.