AM335X: Debian support

Does TI provide a Debian image for their AM335x processors?  TI please respond.

Have you looked here: http://www.eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone#BeagleBone-DebianWheezy%28snapshot%29%28armhfbased%29RootFileSystem

http://elinux.org/BeagleBone#Debian

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardDebian#Debian_Wheezy_snapshot

Yegor

Yes have checked the web, looks like all those Debian ports are community efforts?  I was just wondering if TI supplied any official images?  Looks like they do not,

Why???  Because there are no clear instructions on HOW to build a debian image... !!!

If you have any idea how to create the image, please do

(step by step, don't link to other pages - spell every step out)

Most of us need something to start with - building from scratch isn't an option (don't have months to learn yocto), and the instructions on 'meta-debian' are about as clear as mud.

You can build your own Debian image using debootstrap. In your host Debian 8 machine execute:

apt-get install debootstrap qemu-system-arm qemu-user-static

Take a look at following script, that would perform the first debootstrap, make chroot and start mydeb.sh, that would perform the second stage:

#!/bin/sh

DROOTFS=rootfs
mkdir -p $DROOTFS
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo Failed to create rootfs folder
exit 1
fi

# clean DROOTFS
rm -fr $DROOTFS/*

debootstrap --arch armhf --foreign jessie $DROOTFS ftp.de.debian.org/.../
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo debootstrap first stage failed
exit 1
fi

modprobe binfmt_misc
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo failed to load binfmt_misc driver
exit 1
fi

cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static $DROOTFS/usr/bin/
cp mydeb.sh $DROOTFS/usr/bin/

mkdir -p $DROOTFS/dev/pts
mount devpts $DROOTFS/dev/pts -t devpts
mount -t proc proc $DROOTFS/proc
chroot $DROOTFS /bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/mydeb.sh"
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo chroot into rootfs failed
exit 1
fi

Possible mydeb.sh:

#!/bin/sh

/debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage

# setup repositories
cd /root
cat <<END > /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
END

# prepare fstab
cat <<END > /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/mmcblk0p2 / auto errors=remount-ro 0 1
END

export LANG=C

apt-get update

# install core packages
yes "Y" | apt-get install mc dstat lsof whois tmux vim usbutils psmisc policykit-1 bzip2 libconfig9 minicom

That's all.