[Buildroot] Rootfs for aarch64

[Will Newton]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Pradeep Kiruvale
<pradeepkiruvale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Will,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. I am just trying with foundation first and then
> planing to move to qemu.
>
> I tried searching for ubuntu I dint find. Can you please tell me from where
> I can download ubuntu for aarch64?

There is a rootfs here:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/daily/current/

(It is called arm64 in Debian/Ubuntu)

> Regards,
> Pradeep
>
>
> On 27 August 2014 17:27, Will Newton <will.newton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Pradeep Kiruvale
>> <pradeepkiruvale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I am very new to aarch64/arm64. I want to port some application from x86
>> > to
>> > arm64
>> > so I need to build a environment for porting and testing the software.
>> > Please let me
>> > know how can I create a rootfile system and image for the newer version
>> > of
>> > the linux.
>> >
>> > I want to build a full fledged rootfs with all possible libraries and
>> > want
>> > to mount nfs.
>> >
>> > I did try for a while, do to some configuration issues I am not able to
>> > boot
>> > the image
>> > which I built on x86. I am using linaro foundation as a simulator.
>>
>> In general unless you need to I would use qemu over the foundation
>> model as it is quicker and IMO easier to work with.
>>
>> This blog post gives some detail about using it:
>>
>>
>> http://www.bennee.com/~alex/blog/2014/05/09/running-linux-in-qemus-aarch64-system-emulation-mode/
>>
>> Also note that Ubuntu (and Fedora) is available for aarch64 so if you
>> want a full development system with package management that may be
>> more suitable.
>
>