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Compile Ubuntu firmware

This chapter introduces the compilation process of Ubuntu firmware. It is recommended to develop under Ubuntu 18.04 system environment. If you use other system versions, you may need to adjust the compilation environment accordingly.

The compilation portion of this tutorial works with SDK versions above v1.0.6e

$ readlink -f .repo/manifest.xml
/home/daijh/p/rk3588/.repo/manifests/rk3588/rk3588_linux_release_20230301_v1.0.6e.xml

Preparatory work​

Set up compilation environment​

sudo apt-get install repo git ssh make gcc libssl-dev liblz4-tool \
expect g++ patchelf chrpath gawk texinfo chrpath diffstat binfmt-support \
qemu-user-static live-build bison flex fakeroot cmake gcc-multilib g++-multilib \
unzip \
device-tree-compiler ncurses-dev \

Compile SDK​

Precompile Configuration​

There are configuration files for different board in device/rockchip/rk3588/, select the configuration file:

./build.sh aio-3588q-ubuntu.mk

Build​

Automatic compilation​

7z x ubuntu-aarch64-rootfs.7z
mkdir ubuntu_rootfs
mv ubuntu-aarch64-rootfs.img ubuntu_rootfs/rootfs.img
  • start compiling
./build.sh

the firmware will be saved to the directory rockdev/pack/.

Partial compilation​

  • u-boot
./build.sh uboot
  • kernel
./build.sh extboot
  • recovery
./build.sh recovery
7z x ubuntu-aarch64-rootfs.7z
mkdir ubuntu_rootfs
mv ubuntu-aarch64-rootfs.img ubuntu_rootfs/rootfs.img
  • Update each part of the .img link to the directory rockdev/:
./mkfirmware.sh
  • Pack the firmware, the firmware will be saved to the directory rockdev/pack/.
./build.sh updateimg