OpenELEC meets Raspberry Pi - part 1 (XBMC)

[cvtj97]

nimdy said:


Unless some smart person can help out here, I think its a wait for Part 2 of the guide to find out!



Thats what I was afraid of.  I'm going to play around some more and see what happens

[gavinlew]

cvtj97 said:


nimdy said:


Unless some smart person can help out here, I think its a wait for Part 2 of the guide to find out!


Thats what I was afraid of.  I'm going to play around some more and see what happens


Im thinking, depending on whats produced when the compile has finished it may be able to be lifted and dropped onto either the debian or arch linux distros that are available.

[nimdy]

@gavinlew

I actually thought that this was an OS in itself. I.e. write the compiled work to another SD card and boot straight into XBMC.

[icyground]

Hi,

I started building this forenoon and had to fix a couple minor problems but now its done.

Build is resulting in 2 files in target directory:

7,8M Apr 24 15:24 OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel-20120424131113-r10695.kernel

80M Apr 24 15:24 OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel-20120424131113-r10695.system

I can share those files, if youre interested, but im kinda stucked, what to do now…

Cheers,

Henrik

[cvtj97]

icyground said:


Hi,

I started building this forenoon and had to fix a couple minor problems but now its done.

Build is resulting in 2 files in target directory:

7,8M Apr 24 15:24 OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel-20120424131113-r10695.kernel

80M Apr 24 15:24 OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel-20120424131113-r10695.system

I can share those files, if youre interested, but im kinda stucked, what to do now…

Cheers,

Henrik



I followed the directions from here http://wiki.openelec.tv/index......ingle_boot

But that didn't work, now I'm running Debian and trying to install it as an application

[icyground]

cvtj97 said:


I followed the directions from herehttp://wiki.openelec.tv/index......ingle_boot

But that didn't work, now I'm running Debian and trying to install it as an application


Thanks! For me it seemes like the whole boatloader thing is missing in this wiki article - I will try to setup the partition scheme an install grub for telling raspi weher to find the kernel - probably thats the wrong way, but I dont know how boatloading for raspi is working and its worth a try

Also I setup a wiki page at elinux for collecting all usefull information: http://elinux.org/Rpi_openELEC

[nimdy]

The Pi will still need the small FAT partiton to read the kernel and point it to another partition?

[gavinlew]

Ok so its built, and we end up with

Parallel mksquashfs: Using 2 processors
Creating 4.0 filesystem on /home/gavinl/OpenELEC.tv/target/OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel-20120424114828-r10695.system, block size 131072.
[=============================================================-] 4362/4362 100%
Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, lzo compressed, data block size 131072
compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments, no xattrs
duplicates are removed
Filesystem size 81346.66 Kbytes (79.44 Mbytes)
50.62% of uncompressed filesystem size (160709.73 Kbytes)
Inode table size 54506 bytes (53.23 Kbytes)
36.67% of uncompressed inode table size (148639 bytes)
Directory table size 51883 bytes (50.67 Kbytes)
55.52% of uncompressed directory table size (93447 bytes)
Number of duplicate files found 202
Number of inodes 4418
Number of files 3501
Number of fragments 363
Number of symbolic links 416
Number of device nodes 0
Number of fifo nodes 0
Number of socket nodes 0
Number of directories 501
Number of ids (unique uids + gids) 2
Number of uids 1
root (0)
Number of gids 2
root (0)
unknown (81) The SD card would need to point to the kernel then to the system file I believe, im no expert from here on but will aim to find out  

[cvtj97]

Here are the files from the build.

http://www.morganelayne.com/ra.....pberry_pi/

xbmc-rpi-d8a02e0.zip contains the entire directory

target.zip contains the kernel and system files 

[nimdy]

@cvtj97

Thanks. Would you be able to put it on somewhere like a Dropbox shared folder though? With everyone wanting to get their hands on this, your webserver will take a hammering!

[cvtj97]

I don't have a dropbox.  My host, Hostgator, claims to have unlimited bandwidth, guess we will see what happens.

[tzzhc4]

I have my .kernel and .system files now. What is the step after the compile is done?

[Helpme1986]

So we just need to C&P over the OS system files with the first larger zip then over right the kernel with the second?

[gavinlew]

Helpme1986 said:


So we just need to C&P over the OS system files with the first larger zip then over right the kernel with the second?


Hi,

No not as easy as this - we need some form of bootloader which im hoping can be modified from the debian image - im on my way home so will be working on this later this evening.

[gavinlew]

The kernel is here ; https://www.dropbox.com/s/5c2vl4cq79l2h ... 695.kernel

The system file is here ; https://www.dropbox.com/s/ouiwxjkrlrt2f ... 695.system

[Helpme1986]

gavinlew said:


No not as easy as this - we need some form of bootloader which im hoping can be modified from the debian image - im on my way home so will be working on this later this evening.


Good lad Can you then share how you did this as looking to learn (not just grab and run )

[poing]

cvtj97 said:


I don't have a dropbox.  My host, Hostgator, claims to have unlimited bandwidth, guess we will see what happens.


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[nimdy]

gavinlew said:


The kernel is here ; https://www.dropbox.com/s/5c2vl4cq79l2h ... 695.kernel

The system file is here ; https://www.dropbox.com/s/ouiwxjkrlrt2f ... 695.system



Thanks. I downloaded cvtj97's files with a view to upload them to my Dropbox, but I've got 10 meg down and 1.2 meg up!

[gavinlew]

Those are on Dropbox now - luckily enough my work machine is on 100/100 circuit.

[dom]

sraue said:

you are sure it comes from zlib and you pasted configure.log from zlib? it dont matches with the files here (also configure of zlib has much more less then 4000 lines)?
The error comes from here:

/home/dc4/raspberry/OpenELEC.tv/build.OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel/gcc-4.7.0/objdir-gcc-core

(the forum sometimes inserts whatever is in my copy/paste buffer when I press post, which is why the zlib line was there. Done it several times....)

[dom]

@gavinlew

Congratulations. Your build works. I've got YouTube playing with it...

[icyground]

dom said:


@gavinlew

Congratulations. Your build works. I've got YouTube playing with it...


How did you got those images to boot?

[sraue]

dom said:


The error comes from here:

/home/dc4/raspberry/OpenELEC.tv/build.OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel/gcc-4.7.0/objdir-gcc-core



i am not really sure, but maybe it has todo with your $PATH which includes locations to other toolchains?

[gavinlew]

dom said:


@gavinlew

Congratulations. Your build works. I've got YouTube playing with it...


Ok cool - so its built correctly, now to figure out how to get the images to boot up.

[TopherBrink]

Literally just finished building this myself on Ubuntu. Can't wait to find out how to get it up and running.