How can I build and deploy latest Linux kernel(not android branch) for hikey960
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The build method you could refer: https://github.com/96boards-hikey/l-loader/blob/testing/hikey960_v1.2/cc
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Yes, the USB with ADB can work well.
The booting image’s branch you can refer the page: https://github.com/96boards-hikey/tools-images-hikey960/blob/master/build-from-source/README-ATF-UEFI-build-from-source.md; you can see every source code repo (ARM Trusted Firmware/edk2/OpenPlatformPkg/l-loader/uefi-tools) there have pointed the branch in it.
For kernel branch, I am using below repo and branch:
git clone kernel/hikey-linaro - Git at Google
cd hikey-linaro
git checkout -b android-hikey-linaro-4.4 origin/android-hikey-linaro-4.4
@xlazom00, let me check this internally for debian distro with UEFI+ARM-TF, in the past time I mainly used AOSP or a very simple ramdisk for the works.
@xlazom00 Integration team told me this work will take ~1 week to add the debian build in CI and integrate with UEFI/GRUB. So currently UEFI+Debian is not available.
You could monitor the page http://www.96boards.org/documentation/ConsumerEdition/HiKey960/Downloads/README.md/ after related stuffs have been prepared. After I receive some notification, will keep you posted in this thread as well.
@leo-yan
We use OpenEmbedded version for now
https://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/reference-platform/openembedded/morty/hikey960/rpb/latest/
but USB isn’t working
@xlazom00 could you confirm now you are using OE with kernel 4.9? If so, I will check now 4.9 kernel has supported USB driver or not?
Please aware, I think now kernel 4.4 branch is most readiness branch; 4.9 branch may miss many patches at current stage…
@leo-yan
from https://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/reference-platform/openembedded/morty/hikey960/rpb/latest/
Image–4.9+git0+dfd2f77df3-r0-hikey960-20170609082329-69.bin
it really looks like 4.9 kernel 
Confirmed with landing team, now 4.9 kernel has not supported USB driver; but this is in their TODO list in next 1~2 weeks.
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@leo-yan
Is it somehow possible to compile android working kernel that will work with OE rootfs or debian ?
this is my .config that work for branch working-android-hikey-linaro-4.4
http://paste.ubuntu.com/24907585/
and with qualcomm debian rootfs it all works kind of “fine”
at least usb with usb network adapter
Great! Thanks for sharing this.
Why we don’t have latest patches sets for kernel
in https://github.com/96boards-hikey/linux
branch working-android-hikey-linaro-4.4
?
And what is the purpose for android branches in this(https://github.com/96boards-hikey/linux ) repo ?
I get wired behaviour with android-hikey-linaro-4.4 from
https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/hikey-linaro
My application use 8 thread but it only use one CPU core
And it don’t migrate to big core too.
All fine with
working-android-hikey-linaro-4.4 from
I disabled all android stuff from kernel
any idea ?
This may related with cpuset, could you do below setting before you run your program:
echo 0-7 > /dev/cpuset/background/cpus
echo 0-7 > /dev/cpuset/foreground/cpus
echo 0-7 > /dev/cpuset/top-app/cpus
echo 0-7 > /dev/cpuset/system-background/cpus
Please note, AFAIK https://github.com/96boards-hikey/linux is mainly used by Landing team to maintain two branches, one is for kernel 4.9 [1], another branch [2] is mainly used for Linux mainline kernel upstreaming. These branches are working in progress but not for release purpose.
So for common case, the official AOSP kernel release branch is [3] and this branch is encouraged to be used.
[1] https://github.com/96boards-hikey/linux/tree/hikey960-v4.9
[2] https://github.com/96boards-hikey/linux/tree/hikey960-upstream-rebase
[3] https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/hikey-linaro; branch: origin/android-hikey-linaro-4.4
I don’t have any /dev/cpuset
Could you enable kernel config: CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y; and after system boot up input below command: echo NO_ENERGY_AWARE > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features
This try can disable energy awared scheduling, so the tasks can be spread to multi-cores. Otherwise, the scheduler may pack small tasks onto single core.
