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OLinuXino Android / Linux boards and System On Modules => A10s => Topic started by: Vincent on January 23, 2014, 10:37:16 AM

Title: A10S running on a soft-float (armel) distrib?
Post by: Vincent on January 23, 2014, 10:37:16 AM
Hi everyone,

I successfully used my A10S board for few days using this guide:
http://olimex.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/building-debian-sd-card-for-linux-with-kernel-3-4-from-scratch-for-a10s-olinuxino-micro/

I would like to use it with DigitalPersona U4500 readers, but this one is not provided with ARMHF driver/libs. That's why I'm looking for a way to use my A10S with an armel kernel/debian rootfs.

Is there any prebuilt armel debian rootfs for the A10S? If not, could someone give me few advices on how to proceed?

Thanks.

Best regards,
Vincent.

EDIT - I saw this very interesting article on the blog :
https://olimex.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/new-debian-image-with-armel-and-mono-complete-is-available/
Unfortunately it doesn't deal with A10S...  :-\
Title: Re: A10S running on a soft-float (armel) distrib?
Post by: progmetalbg on January 23, 2014, 02:39:48 PM
If you have enough free time you can build your own armel image from scratch using this guide:
http://linux-sunxi.org/Manual_build_howto (http://linux-sunxi.org/Manual_build_howto)
Just follow every link in this page and substitute arch=armhf with arch=armel in debootstrap (if you want Debian/Ubuntu based image).
Title: Re: A10S running on a soft-float (armel) distrib?
Post by: Vincent on January 29, 2014, 12:28:36 PM
Hi progmetalbg.

Thanks for this useful link, it will probably help me later!

I finally solved my problem without switching to armel distrib. Please see my answer here:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cubieboard/P7SCL6RyiwY/R_OcUMMfnVUJ

It's cubieboard google group but my solution concerns my Olinunixo A10S.

Regards,
Vincent.