Dragonboard410c

The Dragonboard410c is a credit-card sized minicomputer, akin to the popular RaspberryPi series. It's sporting a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410, quad-core Cortex A53 @ 1.2GHz (which implies 64bit arch) and an Adreno 306 GPU.

Initial Flash
The Dragonboard comes pre-installed with Android. But since we are Gentooligans, we want Linux on it, of course. For a quick and dirty flash orgy, consult the Linux User Guide on http://www.96boards.org/products/ce/dragonboard410c/docs/. It guides you through a quick procedure that gets Linaro/Debian up and running.

We, however, want to build our own images. For that to work we need to download a couple of things. For that I'd suggest you create a dedicated directory; I called mine.

Kernel
Gentoo-native sources provide drivers that have been accepted in mainline already.

But to get the latest and greatest from the 96boards and Linaro devs:

Cross-compiler/-toolchain
To compile our stuff, we need a cross-compiler. For that, we use the fabulous tool.

skales tools
We will further need the "skales" tools, which are basically a set of scripts.

For those to work we will also need, which is a part of.

Accessories
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Installation
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Firmware
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Emerge
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