MangoPi MQ-Quad Alpine

This repository provides configs and a script to compile the Linux kernel + Alpine Linux as the root filesystem for the MangoPi MQ-Quad.

Build script

Prerequisites

• Uses apt to install the required packages, should work on Ubuntu and Debian, I only tested it on Debian
• The scripts needs access to the /dev/loop* files to create the image
• It uses /mnt/boot and /mnt/rootfs as mounting points, make sure these folders are unused

Running the script

⚠️ You run this script at your own risk.

git clone https://github.com/GiyoMoon/mangopi-mq-quad-alpine.git
cd mangopi-mq-quad-alpine
chmod +x ./build_image.sh
./build_image.sh

The build script does the following:

• Build u-boot
• Build Linux kernel
  • Includes the rtl8723ds wifi driver, which is currently not in mainline
• Create image with Alpine Linux as the root filesystem
  • Configures wifi
    • It configures a static IP address, make sure interfaces and resolv.conf matches your network configuration
    • Set your SSID and password in init.start
  • Set mango as the default password for root (Had issues when trying to log in over UART with no password)
  • Enable SSH and allow root login

When finished, you should see alpine.img in the root of this repository.

Todo

Not everything works yet. I'm trying to do/fix everything on this list.

• Documentation of the script
• Rewrite the device tree
  • Get SPI working
  • Get HDMI working
  • Get the act LED working
• Get SSH working
• Fix filesystem
  • Correctly mount partition 1 to /boot
  • Make partition 1 take up full SD card space
• Make sure that Alpine runs in diskless mode

If you need anything else, feel free to open an issue and I will have a look.