Alpine OS Legacy Kernel Builds - 3.4.x + mainline u-boot

atlury

Hello folks in here you can find the legacy builds for Alpine OS - Legacy Kernel

All Releases are now here
https://github.com/atlury/Alpine-Linux-Allwinner-H3-Distro/

updated to 3.4.112 with all patches (including backdoor patches)

How to burn: For mainline u-boot

(a) In linux blank the first 1MB of the card using the following (my sd-card is /dev/sda1

• dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=1
  

(b) Now Assuming you have got the file u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin, it just has to be burned to sd card using the following command:

• dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sda bs=1024 seek=8
  

(c) Next Using fdisk, create a new primary partition on the card (so far there are no partitions, only uboot has been burned on the card)
(d) Set the starting sector of the card as 2048
(e) Now create vfat file system on the newly created partition by running mkfs.fat /dev/sda1
(f) Using fdisk, set the bootable flag of the partition
(g) copy all the files into the above vfat or fat32 partition (namely vmlinuz, modloop-sunxi, initramfs-sunxi-new, boot.scr and please include your board specific script.bin) and it should boot...your final directory should like

/apks/
/vmlinuz-3.4.111-sun8i
/modloop-sunxi
/initramfs-sunxi-new
/boot.scr

You can find apks folder from the Generic ARM image available @ http://www.alpinelinux.org/downloads/ Just extract it. Please dont forget to include your board specific script.bin.

Note: Please make sure you replace script.bin with your correct board script.bin

Instructions on build from scratch are here (I am the author). I will slowly expand this threads with new tutorials etc. I will also release new images over the next few weeks....
https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wik ... _and_Other_ARM_SOCs

admin

Thanks for your sharing, it is a great work!

atlury

Most welcome. I got two Orange pi Boards from loverpi (https://www.loverpi.com/) and I will building and updating them in the next few weeks with fresh releases.

atlury

Okie new release build...

geev03

After experiencing Alpine (ARM) as 4MB  docker container , I am looking forward to exploring Alpine on Orange Pi-PC.

1. i@raspberrypi:~ $ docker ps
   
2. CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES
   
3. 4ab0e27f0ddb        1324905a5239        "/bin/sh"           2 hours ago         Up 2 hours                              silly_hugle
   
4. pi@raspberrypi:~ $
   
5. 
   
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1. / # apk update
   
2. fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/main/armhf/APKINDEX.tar.gz
   
3. fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/community/armhf/APKINDEX.tar.gz
   
4. v3.4.3-9-g6e6de70 [http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/main]
   
5. v3.4.2-11-g9b41a63 [http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/community]
   
6. OK: 5872 distinct packages available
   
7. / # apk upgrade
   
8. OK: 4 MiB in 11 packages
   

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geev03

1. 
   
2. / #  cat /proc/version
   
3. Linux version 4.4.11-v7+ (dc4@dc4-XPS13-9333) (gcc version 4.9.3 (crosstool-NG crosstool-ng-1.22.0-88-g8460611) ) #888 SMP Mon May 23 20:10:33 BST 2016
   
4. / #
   
5. 
   

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atlury

Okie I waiting for Orange Pi support in mainline kernel for releasing a new 4.x Kernel Version of Alpine Linux.

wzor

For the 3.8 version will there be a new manual?
In Wiki it is written but does not work (

atlury

I will write new manual soon wzor.

wzor

atlury replied at 2018-8-1 12:22
I will write new manual soon wzor.

Excellent!!!
Will wait!