Click one of the site to download toolchain to build U-boot. Please note that this toolchain is for U-boot, there is another toolchain to build Linux kernel.

• Download Bootloader Tool chain(arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9)

Once the download is done, extract the tarball to /opt/toolchains/.

If the '/opt/toolchains' directory does not exist in host pc, then create the directory.

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$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/toolchains
$ sudo unxz gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux.tar.xz
$ sudo tar xf gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux.tar -C /opt/toolchains/

In order to add the toolchain path to PATH, paste below lines to $HOME/.bashrc.

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export PATH=/opt/toolchains/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/:$PATH
export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-
export ARCH=arm

You can apply the change if you login again or import to apply this change, login again or evaluate $HOME/.bashrc with source command.

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$ source ~/.bashrc

You can check if the toolchain installed above works properly while checking the version of toolchain. If you can find gcc version 4.9.2 at the end of the line, the toolchain is well installed.

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$ arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/opt/toolchains/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/../libexec/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9.2/lto-wrapper
Target: arm-linux-gnueabihf
Configured with: /cbuild/slaves/oorts/crosstool-ng/builds/arm-linux-gnueabihf-linux/.build/src/gcc-linaro-4.9-2014.09/configure --build=i686-build_pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-build_pc-linux-gnu --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf --prefix=/cbuild/slaves/oorts/crosstool-ng/builds/arm-linux-gnueabihf-linux/install --with-sysroot=/cbuild/slaves/oorts/crosstool-ng/builds/arm-linux-gnueabihf-linux/install/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --disable-multilib --enable-multiarch --with-arch=armv7-a --with-tune=cortex-a9 --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 --with-float=hard --with-pkgversion='crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.9-2014.09 - Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.09' --with-bugurl=https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-libmudflap --enable-libgomp --enable-libssp --with-gmp=/cbuild/slaves/oorts/crosstool-ng/builds/arm-linux-gnueabihf-linux/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/static --with-mpfr=/cbuild/slaves/oorts/crosstool-ng/builds/arm-linux-gnueabihf-linux/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/static --with-mpc=/cbuild/slaves/oorts/crosstool-ng/builds/arm-linux-gnueabihf-linux/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/static --with-isl=/cbuild/slaves/oorts/crosstool-ng/builds/arm-linux-gnueabihf-linux/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/static --with-cloog=/cbuild/slaves/oorts/crosstool-ng/builds/arm-linux-gnueabihf-linux/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/static --with-libelf=/cbuild/slaves/oorts/crosstool-ng/builds/arm-linux-gnueabihf-linux/.build/arm-linux-gnueabihf/build/static --enable-threads=posix --disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-linker-build-id --enable-plugin --enable-gold --with-local-prefix=/cbuild/slaves/oorts/crosstool-ng/builds/arm-linux-gnueabihf-linux/install/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc --enable-c99 --enable-long-long --with-mode=thumb --disable-multilib --with-float=hard
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.9.2 20140904 (prerelease) (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.9-2014.09 - Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.09) 

You can checkout U-boot source tree from Hardkernel's Github.

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$ git clone https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot.git -b odroidxu4-v2017.05

Before you compile U-boot, you must configure for ODROID-XU3/4 with following command.

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$ cd u-boot
$ make odroid-xu4_defconfig

And finally you can compile U-boot.

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$ make

Then you can start to build u-boot image, u-boot-dtb.bin. This will create u-boot/u-boot-dtb.bin. You can also add -j option for fast compile.

ODROID-XU3/4 must have the secure boot enabled boot loader. There are four components of boot loader bl1.bin.hardkernel, bl2.bin.hardkernel.720k_uboot, u-boot-dtb.bin and tzsw.bin.hardkernel. u-boot-dtb.bin file can be generated by u-boot source code. But bl1.bin.hardkernel, bl2.bin.hardkernel.720k_uboot and tzsw.bin.hardkerenel blobs can be found in u-boot/sd_fuse directory.

We provide the script, sd_fuse/sd_fusing.sh, this helps you to install the bootloader into your blank card MicroSD.

1. Insert your card to USB card reader and attach to USB host port of your desktop.
2. Check the device path of your USB card reader.
3. Install the bootloader binaries using sd_fuse/sd_fusing.sh.

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$ cd sd_fuse
$ ./sd_fusing.sh <device/path/of/your/card>

If you can boot your ODROID-XU3/4 already and want to install a new u-boot-dtb.bin built by you. Fastboot helps you to install a u-boot-dtb.bin into your board.

u-boot-dtb.bin install

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$ sudo fastboot flash bootloader u-boot-dtb.bin

bl1.bin install

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$ sudo fastboot flash fwbl1 sd_fuse/bl1.bin.hardKernel

bl2.bin install

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$ sudo fastboot flash bl2 sd_fuse/bl2.bin.hardKernel_720k_uboot

tzsw.bin install

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$ sudo fastboot flash tzsw sd_fuse/tzsw.bin.hardKernel

If installation is done, you care reboot your ODROID-XU3/4 with fastboot.

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$ sudo fastboot reboot

You also can update U-boot from Linux with dd command. After building U-boot, copy u-boot-dtb.bin into your ODROID-XU3/4. Then do the command below in order to flash your U-boot image to Micro SD card.

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$ sudo dd if=u-boot-dtb.bin of=<device/path/of/your/card> seek=63
$ sudo sync

Write u-boot image to eMMC module on the XU4 board Linux command line.

1. Assume you already copied the compiled u-boot-dtb.bin file into the eMMC boot(FAT) partition
2. Boot from the eMMC module.
3. Open terminal and type “sudo su” to become a super user.
4. Unlock the eMMC boot blocks.

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echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk0boot0/force_ro

5. Copy the u-boot binary to the eMMC boot block.

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dd if=/media/boot/u-boot-dtb.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0boot0 bs=512 seek=62

6. Flush and reboot.

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sync && reboot 

And you can see your own uboot build information from the USB-UART console terminal.