Retropie 4.x on Odroid C2

BuZz

@roleo I have been generously offered an ODroid-C2 for free from Hardkernel so I will look into adding official support once it arrives. Thanks for your code feedback etc.

roleo

@BuZz
Good news!
I hope I can help you.

roleo

Update.
Finally I compiled the lr-imame4all. I encountered two problems:
1 - The libco (src/libretro/libretro-common/libco) gives an error at runtime: "longjmp causes uninitialized stack frame", so I had to use the ucontext.c part instead of sjlj.c modifying libco.c (could be a performance issue).
2 - The file src/libretro/osinline.h contains some asm code that I tried to patch (sorry but I'm not an asm programmer :) ).

This is the code I used for the lr-imame4all.sh script:

function sources_lr-imame4all() {
    gitPullOrClone "$md_build" https://github.com/libretro/mame2000-libretro.git
    sed -i 's/#include "sjlj.c"/#include "ucontext.c"/g' src/libretro/libretro-common/libco/libco.c
    sed -i 's/#include <retro_inline.h>/#include <retro_inline.h>\n#include <stdint.h>/g' src/libretro/osinline.h
    sed -i 's/    int res_hi, res_lo;/    int64_t res;/g' src/libretro/osinline.h
    sed -i 's/("smull\\t%1,%0,%2,%3"/("smull\\t%x0,%w1,%w2"/g' src/libretro/osinline.h
    sed -i 's/: "=r"(res_hi), "=r"(res_lo)/: "=r"(res)/g' src/libretro/osinline.h
    sed -i 's/return res_hi;/return res>>32;/g' src/libretro/osinline.h
    sed -i 's/( " mov %2, %2, asr #1 \\n"/( " asr %2, %2, #1 \\n"/g' src/libretro/osinline.h
}

mphil906

Hello,

I was able to compile emulationstation on my C2 successfully, but I get the following error when trying to run it:

lvl0:   Error initializing SDL!
        Failed to connect to the Mir Server
lvl0:   Renderer failed to initialize!
lvl0:   Window failed to intialize!

This error occurs if lightdm is stopped or running. Any ideas? I'm new so go easy on me.

roleo

@mphil906
During the build, the script has also built and installed libsdl mali-2.04?
Which libsdl2 packages are installed? You should have:

odroid@odroid64:~$ dpkg --list | grep sdl2
ii  libsdl2-2.0-0:arm64                   2.0.4+4mali                                   arm64        Simple DirectMedia Layer
hi  libsdl2-dev:arm64                     2.0.4+4mali                                   arm64        Simple DirectMedia Layer development files

from this source:
https://github.com/RetroPie/SDL-mirror/tree/mali-2.0.4
and not the original ones of ubuntu.

mphil906

@roleo
Thank you for the reply, I was able to compile emulationstation succesfully. Indeed, the default Ubuntu sdl was installed. I cloned the original posters repository. I'm not entirely sure if this was the issue, but in the function platform_odroid-c2() {...} __platform_flags did not contain mali. This is what I used:

function platform_odroid-c2() {
    __default_cflags="-O3 -march=armv8-a+crc -mtune=cortex-a53 -funsafe-math-optimizations"
    __default_asflags=""
    __default_makeflags="-j2"
    __platform_flags="armv8 neon mali" #added mali flag
    __qemu_cpu=cortex-a9
    __has_binaries=0
}

Not sure if this was the issue, but it compiles and runs. Thanks! Now attempting to compile retroarch.

BuZz

Just to note - I have a board now and will be looking at adding basic support as free time permits (ES + retroarch etc first).

roleo

@mphil906
I think this was the issue.

@BuZz
Great!
Thank you.

Shakz

@mphil906
See now I was just about to give up on this...dang...lemmie drag the darn thing out and give it another shot!
Thanks for posting!

roleo

With the last changes of the EmulationStation github I have a new problem during the configure phase:

cmake . -DFREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include/freetype2/

The cmake didn't find the vlc library.

CMake Error at CMake/Packages/FindVLC.cmake:33 (macro_ensure_version):
  MACRO_ENSURE_VERSION Macro invoked with incorrect arguments for macro
  named: MACRO_ENSURE_VERSION
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:51 (find_package)

--- EDIT ---

Sorry, my mistake.
The libvlc-dev was missing.

BuZz

I am currently working on odroid-c2 support - not trying to put you off working on it, but in case you don't want to duplicate efforts etc.

roleo

Apart reicast, I compiled everything I needed but I will continue to work on it for personal pleasure.
If I can help ...

Thanks for your support.

BuZz

@roleo Thanks.

Are you using the 16.04 aarch64 Ubuntu ? I was wondering as you are targetting aarch32 right ? Are you using an aarch32 targetted gcc ?

I was planning on targetting aarch64.

[edit] actually maybe I just misread - you will likely want to remove the "neon" platform flag though though if you have it as that's all aarch32 neon stuff which I don't think will work on aarch64 (without changes).

roleo

@BuZz
aarch64

odroid@odroid64:~$ uname -a
Linux odroid64 3.14.79-89 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 13 08:42:27 BRT 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
odroid@odroid64:~$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-linux-gnu/5/lto-wrapper
Target: aarch64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-5/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-5 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-libquadmath --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-arm64/jre --enable-java-home --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-arm64 --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-arm64 --with-arch-directory=aarch64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-multiarch --enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419 --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --build=aarch64-linux-gnu --host=aarch64-linux-gnu --target=aarch64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4)

--- EDIT ---

I had forgotten. At a later time, I removed neon flag because the gcc doesn't support it.

function platform_odroid-c2() {
    __default_cflags="-O3 -march=armv8-a+crc -mtune=cortex-a53 -funsafe-math-opt
    __default_asflags=""
    __default_makeflags="-j2"
#    __platform_flags="arm armv8 neon mali"
    __platform_flags="arm armv8 mali"
    __qemu_cpu=cortex-a9
    __has_binaries=0
}

As far as I know neon is mandatory for arm64, so no command line flag is needed.

flag

I've an odroidc2 board too, if there's an image to test.

roleo

Hi BuzZ.
When I scroll up/down the game list (for example in MAME menu) I can see a strange screen flickerig due to the chars printed on the back (on the terminal I think).
Is this a known problem? Is there a solution?
This doesn't happen in raspberry image.

BuZz

@roleo to do with the sdl2 driver I guess. Will look into it.

detron

@BuZz

that is great! actually, had I known you needed one to try to get RetroPie support, I would have put some money towards getting you one.

I have an ODroid C2, and would LOVE to see RetroPie using that hardware. thank you Buzz and Hardkernel.

detron

if we get RetroPie working on the C2, I see myself buying more C2s those things are fast!

BuZz

@detron it will never be supported to the level of the rpi, but it will be source installable. I have a branch, doing some more fixing and I will do PR for testing..

WIP is here - https://github.com/joolswills/RetroPie-Setup/tree/odroid_c2