Compile Debian 11 From Source Code

Compile Debian 11 From Source Code

It is suggested to use Ubuntu, the distribution version of Linux, to compile Debian firmware. To compile Debian firmware, you need to build a suitable environment on Ubuntu PC as required.

1. Preparation to Compile

Recommended computer configuration as below:

64-bit CPU (Open System Setting –> About –> xx-bit system to check this)

16GB physical memory + swap memory (Open System Setting –> About –> xx memory to check this)

250GB of free disk space (Open terminal –> type “df -h” command to check this) The official recommendation is the Ubuntu 20.04 operating system. (Open System Setting –> About –> System Version to check this)

2. Checkout code

git clone https://github.com/mixtile-rockchip/build.git
cd build

3. Checkout LFS

git lfs fetch && git lfs checkout

4. Install dependencies

  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
  sudo apt-get install -y git ssh make gcc libssl-dev \
  liblz4-tool expect g++ patchelf chrpath gawk texinfo \
  chrpath diffstat software-properties-common bison flex \
  fakeroot cmake gcc-multilib g++-multilib unzip device-tree-compiler \
  libncurses-dev python3-pip python3-pyelftools bc make build-essential \
  libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev wget curl \
  llvm libncursesw5-dev xz-utils tk-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libffi-dev \
  liblzma-dev uuid-dev lzma-dev liblzma-dev libbluetooth-dev python-parted-doc \
  u-boot-tools sudo time rsync libmpc-dev bsdmainutils python2 xz-utils

5. Install PPA dependencies

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y binfmt-support qemu-user-static live-build

6. Install debian_prepare

  sudo cp debian-rk3588.tar.gz /opt/ && sudo tar -xvf debian-rk3588.tar.gz -C /opt/ && \
  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y xxd && \
  sudo chmod a+x debian_prepare.sh && sudo ./debian_prepare.sh

7. Install repo

  mkdir -p ~/.bin && \
  sudo curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo -o ~/.bin/repo && \
  sudo cp ~/.bin/repo /usr/bin/repo && sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/repo

8. Download code

  repo init -u https://github.com/mixtile-rockchip/manifests.git -b master -m mixtile_edge2_release.xml && \
  repo sync

9. Build image

  echo '19' > input.txt && \
  echo '8' >> input.txt && \
  sudo ./build.sh chip < input.txt && sudo rm input.txt && \
  sudo ./build.sh all

10. Build output

Directory: output/update/Image
.
├── boot.img -> ../../../kernel/boot.img
├── MiniLoaderAll.bin -> ../../../u-boot/rk356x_spl_loader_v1.18.112.bin
├── oem.img -> ../../firmware/oem.img
├── package-file
├── parameter.txt -> ../../../device/rockchip/.chips/rk3566_rk3568/parameter-buildroot-fit.txt
├── recovery.img -> ../../recovery/ramboot.img
├── rootfs.img -> ../../../debian/linaro-rootfs.img
├── uboot.img -> ../../../u-boot/uboot.img
├── update.img
├── update.raw.img
└── userdata.img -> ../../firmware/userdata.img

update.img is rockchip-format image.

update.raw.img is raw-format image.

11. Upgrade Firmware

Refer to here