How to install brctl in hikey960

Products Support HiKey 960
#1

I am trying to add a bridge programmatically. Will try to call brctl addbr. But there is no brctl in hikey960. Any help on this? Thanks.

#2

IIRC from your other topics you are using AOSP?

#3

yes, I am using AOSP androidQ

#4

@jasmine8gu
I just checked how to cross build bridge-utils package for arm64 statically(static, to avoid dependency issue while running).

$ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/bridge-utils/bridge-utils-1.6.tar.xz
$ sudo apt-get install autoconf
$ tar -xf bridge-utils-1.6.tar.xz
$ cd bridge-utils-1.6
$ autoconf
$ ./configure CC=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc LDFLAGS='--static' --host=aarch64-linux-gnu --build=x86-linux-gnu
$ file brctl
brctl: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, for GNU/Linux 3.7.0,

This feature needs some kernel configs to be enabled. (See below link.)
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/8.1/basicnet/bridge-utils.html

I think you can do adb push and execute.

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#5

Thanks very much for your help. Will try it.

#6

Couldn’t figure out cross-compile way. Too many issues happened. Can’t find command, no stdio.h file, etc.

Enventually got a binary compiled for arm. Works now.

Thanks for the help.

#7

Ok.
Good to hear it worked at your side.:clap:

If everything works in one shot, there is nothing to learn new.

Regards,
Sreenad.