Arch Linux image with Mainline kernel and U-Boot

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Arch Linux image with Mainline kernel and U-Boot

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U-Boot       MEGA

Features

• Arch Linux Arm (https://archlinuxarm.org/)
• Mainline kernel 5.0.1
• Patched Mainline U-Boot v2019.01 (https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/WebHome)
• Working HDMI, Ethernet, WiFi driver
• AUR Helper yay installed (https://github.com/Jguer/yay)
• No Mali GPU Driver
• Not yet install Video Engine driver
• See another feature http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matrix
  
  

Installation on SD Card

• Download image and extract.
• Write the xxx.img file (disk image) to your SD Card
  on Linux use dd command
  
  1. # dd bs=4M if=ArchLinuxARM_xxx.img of=/dev/sdX status=progress oflag=direct

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  on Windows use disk image writing software such as Win32 Disk Imager
• Download U-Boot and extract.
• Write u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin to your SD Card
  1. # dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdX bs=1024 seek=8

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• Boot your Orange PI board from SD Card
• After booting resize Linux partition to fit your SD Card size:
  
  1. # echo -e "p\nd\nn\np\n1\n\n\n\n\nn\nw" | fdisk /dev/mmcblk0 > /dev/null
     
  2. # resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1

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Type	Username	Password
Root	root	root
User	alarm	alarm

Known Issues

• GPU driver not working
  

I tested only OrangePi 2


Version History
20190316

• Update Arch Linux Image
• Update kernel (5.0.1)
• Update U-Boot (Patched v2019.01)
• Add WiFi driver (https://github.com/jwrdegoede/rtl8189ES_linux)
• Add Packages (base-devel git dkms yay)
• Add OrangePi R1 U-Boot
  

20170911

• Initial release
• Patched Mainline kernel 4.13.0-rc6(https://github.com/megous/linux)
• Patched Mainline U-Boot v2017.09-rc4(https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/WebHome)
  

lazant

I upadted arch linux image.
It add WiFi driver.
Full changelog is in the version history.