Setting up SAM-BA across architectures

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# Microchip SAM-BA is only released for x86_64 architecture and will not run on arm64
# These steps allow it to be run under Ubuntu arm64 using qemu-user successfully


- Install Ubuntu (24.04.01)
- sudo apt install:
qemu-user
qemu-user-static
gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu
binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu
binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu-dbg
build-essential

- For other arch, get this package list first:
https://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

- Download these packages from another arch repo:
libbsd0_0.12.1-1build1_amd64.deb
libcap2_2.66-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
libgl1_1.7.0-1build1_amd64.deb
libglib2.0-0t64_2.80.0-6ubuntu1_amd64.deb
libglvnd0_1.7.0-1build1_amd64.deb
libglx0_1.7.0-1build1_amd64.deb
libmd0_1.1.0-2build1_amd64.deb
libpcre2-8-0_10.42-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb
libudev1_255.4-1ubuntu8_amd64.deb
libudev-dev_255.4-1ubuntu8_amd64.deb
libx11-6_1.8.7-1build1_amd64.deb
libxau6_1.0.9-1build6_amd64.deb
libxcb1_1.15-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
libxdmcp6_1.1.3-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
libzstd1_1.5.5+dfsg2-2build1_amd64.deb
mesa-common-dev_24.0.5-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
udev_255.4-1ubuntu8_amd64.deb
zlib1g_1.3.dfsg-3.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb

REPO PREFIX: https://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/
Add "Filename:" from Packages.gz which starts with "pool/"

- Unarchive each deb: ar -x XXX.deb

- Unzip the resulting data.tar.zst for each deb: tar xvf data.tar.zst

- Copy all libraries to the target folder:
cp usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/* /usr/x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/

- Download sam-ba for Linux and unzip
- Run sam-ba like so:
alias samba='qemu-amd64 -L /usr/x86_64-linux-gnu/ ./samba/sam-ba -d sama5d2:4:1 -t 1'


If the above steps fail, check to see if sam-ba or one of its libraries needs another library:
/usr/x86_64-linux-gnu/bin/readelf -d /usr/x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/libcap




(reference: https://azeria-labs.com/arm-on-x86-qemu-user/)