Hi @Mani,
I used the default HiKey960 configuration:
$ export RAMDISK=ramdisk.img
$ make -j8 ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- hikey960_defconfig
$ make -j8 ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-
$ make -j8 ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- deb-pkg@marcodip There is no hikey960_defconfig in mainline. Did you export it from Hikey kernel? In any case, you need to make UFS drivers as builtin.
CONFIG_SCSI_UFSHCD=y
CONFIG_SCSI_UFSHCD_PLATFORM=y
CONFIG_SCSI_UFS_HISI=y
Recollecting my steps for booting with 5.3-rc6 + debian.
Updated low level firmwares.
git clone https://android.googlesource.com/device/linaro/hikey
cd installer/hikey960
Board in fastboot mode, flashed UFS. (no sdcard present)
(I am flashing few firmwares after a long time. So to ensure certain firmware are updated. May be you can skip this.)
./uefi-flash-all.sh
./flash-all.sh
Flashed bootloader, boot image and rootfs image from Debian Downloads for HiKey960 - 96Boards (build 37)
Cloned mainline kernel
git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
(While I am checking, HEAD is at, a55aa89 Linux 5.3-rc6)
Compliation:
export ARCH=arm64
export CROSS_COMPILE=your toolchain
make defconfig
Replaced ‘=m’ to ‘=y’ in .config using search and replace in my editor.
(If anyone reading this know some better method for including all modules to builtin, Let me know.)
make olddefconfig
make Image.gz dtbs
Copied Image.gz and hi3660-hikey960.dtb to /boot on board.
Created a custom kernel entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg
menuentry 'Custom kernel' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-aab08174-8c3f-45f8-9749-79e1f1ced14b' {
load_video
insmod gzio
if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root aab08174-8c3f-45f8-9749-79e1f1ced14b
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root aab08174-8c3f-45f8-9749-79e1f1ced14b
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 4.19.5-hikey ...'
linux /boot/Image.gz root=UUID=aab08174-8c3f-45f8-9749-79e1f1ced14b rw no_console_suspend
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-4.19.5-hikey
devicetree /boot/hi3660-hikey960.dtb
}
Booted using the custom entry in grub.
@Mani
I am using this Linaro snapshot: https://git.linaro.org/people/john.stultz/android-dev.git/snapshot/android-dev-dev/hikey960-5.2.tar.gz
All modules have y.
$ grep SCSI_UFS .config
CONFIG_SCSI_UFSHCD=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_UFSHCD_PCI is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_UFSHCD_PLATFORM=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_UFS_CDNS_PLATFORM is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_UFS_DWC_TC_PLATFORM is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_UFS_HISI=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_UFS_BSG is not set@marcodip, you are using the AOSP kernel (don’t know why). If you don’t have any requirements to use AOSP kernel, I’d recommend you to use mainline kernel directly as per @sreenad’s reply.
Hi @Mani,
Mani:
I usually dorsyncto copy the files using network. If you don’t have network, then use uSD.
As it is difficult to always plug and unplug devices for copying files to board, I though of setting up a network via USB.
I could setup usb gadget ethernet on type-c.
Now I am using it to scp kernel image.
Capturing diffconfig:
$ scripts/diffconfig .config config_with_g_ether_working
-USB_CONFIGFS_ACM n
-USB_CONFIGFS_ECM n
-USB_CONFIGFS_ECM_SUBSET n
-USB_CONFIGFS_EEM n
-USB_CONFIGFS_F_FS n
-USB_CONFIGFS_F_HID n
-USB_CONFIGFS_F_LB_SS n
-USB_CONFIGFS_F_MIDI n
-USB_CONFIGFS_F_PRINTER n
-USB_CONFIGFS_F_UAC1 n
-USB_CONFIGFS_F_UAC1_LEGACY n
-USB_CONFIGFS_F_UAC2 n
-USB_CONFIGFS_F_UVC n
-USB_CONFIGFS_MASS_STORAGE n
-USB_CONFIGFS_NCM n
-USB_CONFIGFS_OBEX n
-USB_CONFIGFS_RNDIS n
-USB_CONFIGFS_SERIAL n
-USB_F_ACM m
-USB_F_MASS_STORAGE m
-USB_F_OBEX m
-USB_F_RNDIS m
-USB_F_SERIAL m
-USB_F_SS_LB m
-USB_G_WEBCAM n
-USB_U_SERIAL m
-USB_ZERO_HNPTEST n
-U_SERIAL_CONSOLE n
USB_CONFIGFS m -> n
USB_ETH m -> y
USB_ETH_RNDIS y -> n
USB_F_ECM m -> y
USB_F_SUBSET m -> y
USB_G_SERIAL m -> n
USB_LIBCOMPOSITE m -> y
USB_MASS_STORAGE m -> n
USB_U_ETHER m -> y
USB_ZERO m -> n
Regards,
Sreenad.
Hi @Mani,
Today I had to check hikey960 with 4.9 kernel + debian.
I took kernel source from:
Repo: git://github.com/96boards-hikey/linux.git
Branch: remotes/origin/hikey960-v4.9
Configuration: hikey960_defconfig
For mounting root device, I had to enable CONFIG_DEVTMPFS.
Am I using the right repo for 4.9 kernel which can work with debian in hikey960?
Regards,
Sreenad.
@sreenad The repository you pointed out is the correct one but I haven’t tested 4.9 branch. hikey960_upstream_rebase branch is known to be working.
Thanks @Mani for your quick reply.
Kernel version in hikey960_upstream_rebase is shown as 4.14.
Is there a repo or branch with kernel 4.9 (non android) available for hikey960 which is still maintained.?
Regards,
Sreenad.
@sreenad AFAIK, there is no 4.9 branch which is still maintained. But you can try using the one you pointed out and share the results with us 
@marcodip, Thanks, I did similar thing in Vim editor. :%s/=m/=y/g
But usually editing .config directly is not encouraged.
So just wanted to know whether any make target is available for it.
Some thing like make inbuilt_modules_config which can give a proper .config.
@Mani, kernel 5.2 works fine without devicetree.
If I add devicetree /boot/hi3660-hikey960.dtb, it cannot start.
I installed the kernel with dpkg.
That’s wierd. But it usually means, the dtb is not good.
Hi @sreenad,
is there any specific reason to build all the features into the kernel, not as module?
Is it possible to use modules too? As I would like to unload/load a specific module at run-time.
Thanks,
Marco
Hi @marcodip,
You can use modules. I prefer ‘inbuilt’ to avoid
Regards,
Sreenad.
Hi @sreenad,
got it, thanks! Just another question: why you call this?
make olddefconfig
Regards,
Marco
@Rajagopal No HDMI for now but WiFi should work with latest release.
http://snapshots.linaro.org/96boards/hikey/linaro/debian/latest/
Hello Mani,
Appreciate the timely reply.
No HDMI for now but WiFi should work with latest release.
Wondering why in Android we can get HDMI o/p but NOT in Linux.
Or, is it right in Android also HDMI doesn’t work & only MIPI-DSI works ?
Thanks.
