This is the SDK for the Valve Steam Link
The Steam Link hardware is a single core ARMv7 processor using the hard-float ABI, running at 1 GHz, with neon instruction support. It has approximately 256 MB of available RAM and 500 MB of usable flash storage.
The Steam Link software is custom Linux firmware based on kernel 3.8 and glibc 2.19.
The Steam Link SDK has support for the following major APIs:
OpenGL ES 2.0
Qt 5.4
SDL 2.0
The SDL game controller API is recommended for Steam Controller support on the Steam Link.
examples
very simple example applications to demonstrate how to build applications using the SDK
external
source code to 3rd party components of the Steam Link, each directory has a
"build_soc.sh" script to rebuild the component.
kernel
Steam Link linux kernel source code
rootfs
Steam Link root filesystem
toolchain
GCC toolchain for Steam Link
setenv.sh
Script to configure build environment
Steam Link applications are built using this SDK on Linux.
To set up the build environment, source the top level setenv.sh
Go to the examples and look at their README.txt files to see how to build them
Put the files in a folder with the app name on a USB drive under \steamlink\apps, insert it into the Steam Link and power cycle the device.
The app will be copied onto the system at boot and can be launched from the menu.
You may need to enable ssh access to the Steam Link for advanced debugging. You can do this by putting a file called enable_ssh.txt on a USB drive under \steamlink\config\system, inserting it into the Steam Link and power cycle the device.
The root password is steamlink123 and should be changed using the passwd command the first time you log in.
SSH access will remain enabled until a factory reset.
Recommended way is to run gdbserver on the Steam Link and use a local gdb to connect to it and debug an application.
Preparation
First, configure environment for SDK:
# source setenv.sh
Second, make sure that the install path of the SDK is on gdb's auto-load-safe-path by:
# echo "add-auto-load-safe-path $MARVELL_SDK_PATH" >> ~/.gdbinit
Build an example application and transfer it into the steam link:
# cd examples/linux
# make
# scp example root@10.1.211.126:/mnt/scratch
On the steam link, run the application:
# gdbserver :8080 example
Or you can attach to a running process with:
# gdbserver --attach :8080 $(pidof example)
On the host, create a .gdbinit file for your application and target:
$ ../../scripts/create_gdbinit.sh example 10.1.211.126:8080
On the host, run gdb and attach to the gdbserver:
ubuntu:/valve/marvell/sdk/examples/linux $ armv7a-cros-linux-gnueabi-gdb
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0xb6f6ba00 in _start () from /valve/marvell/sdk/rootfs/lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
(gdb) break printf
Function "printf" not defined.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) y
Breakpoint 1 (printf) pending.
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Breakpoint 1, __printf (format=0xb6f8c764 "Hello world\n!") at printf.c:28
28 printf.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) where
#0 __printf (format=0xb6f8c764 "Hello world\n!") at printf.c:28
#1 0xb6f8c704 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbed64e64) at example.c:7