INSTALLING DEBIAN WHEEZY TO OUYA
This is tested on Debian Wheezy and mostly adapted from
http://linux-sunxi.org/Debian
OUYA IS EASILY BRICKABLE. READ NO FURTHER
That said, the goal is not to flash anything on Ouya. Kernel is booted from memory and Debian from USB stick or SD card.
Known issues
Not properly tested, so there is a bunch unknown issues.
Low-power core doesn't work (kernel crash)
CPUfreq with ondemand governer works though.
Gstreamer usually assumes xvimagesink as the video sink, but nvxvimagesink must be used.
Totem obeys gconf: gconftool-2 -s /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/videosink nvxvimagesink --type=string
Wifi firmware binaries not included, they need to be copied from the Android rootfs.
Setting up the rootfs
Prepare a USB stick
Partition an USB stick (I used SD card in a small USB reader) and give e.g. 512M for swap, the rest for EXT4. I recommend using at least 4GB stick.
Use mkswap and mkfs.ext4 to initialise the partitions. If your system is properly set you shouldn't need even sudo for that while you would need sudo to format your actual root partition.
Mount the USB stick:
Change the sdX2 below to match your setup.
export TARGET=/mnt/rootfs
sudo mkdir -p $TARGET
sudo mount /dev/sdX2 $TARGET
Extract base system packages to the USB stick:
sudo debootstrap --verbose --arch armhf --foreign wheezy $TARGET
http://ftp.debian.org/debian
Prepare for chroot:
sudo apt-get install qemu-user-static binfmt-support
sudo cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static $TARGET/usr/bin
sudo mkdir $TARGET/dev/pts
sudo modprobe binfmt_misc
sudo mount -t devpts devpts $TARGET/dev/pts
sudo mount -t proc proc $TARGET/proc
Finish the base system installation:
sudo chroot $TARGET
You should see I have no
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/debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
At the end, you should see I: Base system installed successfully.
Configuring rootfs while still in chroot
Setup sources.list:
cat <<END > /etc/apt/sources.list
deb
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
END
apt-get update
Configure language:
export LANG=C
apt-get install apt-utils dialog locales
dpkg-reconfigure locales
Choose en_US.UTF-8 for both prompts, or whatever you want.
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Install some important stuff:
apt-get install dhcp3-client udev netbase ifupdown iproute openssh-server iputils-ping wget \
net-tools ntpdate ntp vim nano less tzdata console-tools module-init-tools mc
Configure ethernet with dhcp and set hostname:
cat <<END > /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
END
echo ouya > /etc/hostname
Create filesystem mounts:
cat <<END > /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/root / ext4 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 none swap sw 0 0
END
Activate remote console and disable some local consoles:
echo 'T0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 linux' >> /etc/inittab
sed -i 's/^\([3-6]:.* tty[3-6]\)/#\1/' /etc/inittab
Set root passwd:
passwd
Add normal user:
adduser ouya
adduser ouya video
adduser ouya audio
adduser ouya plugdev
Install XFCE and Slim login manager:
apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies totem midori slim
Add "vt1" to xserver_arguments in /etc/slim.conf
Install Tegra 3 proprietary binaries, configs, headers and pkgconfig files:
dpkg -i tegra30-r16_3-*_armhf.deb
Finish up with the chroot:
Log out from the chroot, kill any process started in the chroot (lsof $TARGET) and sudo umount $TARGET.
Extract kernel modules:
tar zxf modules-3.1.10-tk*.tar.gz -C $TARGET/lib/modules/
Install adb and fastboot to the host Debian:
sudo dpkg -i android-tools*deb
Booting Ouya
Reboot Ouya to fastboot:
adb reboot-bootloader
Boot Ouya with the kernel:
WARNING: NEVER EVER FLASH THE KERNEL, JUST BOOT FROM RAM
fastboot boot zImage-3.1.10-tk*
Wifi
The BCM firmware binaries may not be redistributable so they need to be copied from the Android rootfs after booting to Debian:
mount -o ro /dev/mmcblk0p3 /mnt/
mkdir /lib/firmware/bcm4330/
cp /mnt/etc/firmware/nvram_4330.txt /lib/firmware/
cp /mnt/vendor/firmware/bcm4330/fw_bcmdhd.bin /lib/firmware/bcm4330/
# Not sure where BT firmware should be in
cp /mnt/etc/firmware/bcm4330.hcd /lib/firmware/
cp /mnt/etc/firmware/bcm4330.hcd /lib/firmware/bcm4330/
umount /mnt
