Armbian build framework

Release Candidate Code Freeze Date: TBD Release Planning Meeting Date: 2021-10-16 1400GMT Release Date: TDB Release Candidate Branch Link: TBD Release Changelog: TBD Release Coordinator: @igor We are in doubts to make this release at all due to overall project strengthening and focus on securing maintainers and cut HW which doesn't have it. Alternative idea is to produce a release as is with minimal changes and focus on bug fixing straight from today. Meeting is this Saturday, to get on common grounds. @Igor@Werner @TonyMac32 @martinayotte@piter75 @ning@Myy@balbes150 @sfx2000 @ebin-dev@chwe@gprovost@aprayoga@5kft@JMCC@go…

Greetings, I'm currently modifying the Armbian build system, making it easier to add new desktop environments and application groups. This architecture is subject to heavy modifications until it is merged with the current Armbian build system. A repository with the modified build system is available here : https://github.com/Miouyouyou/armbian-desktop Currently, I only tested adding Ubuntu Focal + XFCE and application groups, since I had to make sure that the postinst and create_desktop_package.sh were actually aggregated correctly, now that they're split into multiple files, and, for comparison, we only have such …

In the past few weeks I have been working to improve processes of deploying our work. Scripts that runs in the background are combination of tools that are build into the main tool and additional scripts that run on the server. They are (will be) summed in a (private) scripts repository, but the functioning - which could be interested for any maintainer - are summed in this document: https://docs.armbian.com/Process_CI/ Welcome to add your ideas, especially for the merge request part, which remain unchanged. Otherwise its planned to extend this automation to execute tests, similar or the one from @William Bonnet on virtual image (image already boots insit…

https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-702 (Don't worry I only tagged it for the 21.08 Release -- so we have plenty of time to think this through) Armbian provides a lot of extra device tree improvements for support. Currently they’re added to the build system via patches, which is very difficult to follow. We need a new approach that makes our device tree files and overlays more visible within the Armbian-build framework.. as well as make it easier for us to upstream our faces to SoC maintainer kernel trees. Obviously lots to figure out here. Tagging a few.. please tag more @martinayotte @TonyMac32@Igor@Rich Ne…

note: This is from a previous thread about testing, I accidentally moved it, and this was the only way to resume the conversation --- Just kicking off a thread here to talk about different ideas around testing. It would be great if the community could help test more.,,, but what would it look like.... maybe end users can burn a test image and run a test script. the script could do cool things like: * spi loopback test * check for healthy kernel modules * look for dmesg errors * test wifi * test ethernet * test audio? * even run a phoronix test of somesort to validate a particular feature. Are there any simple circuit diagrams people could desi…

It seems to me like we currently have at least 2-3 separate initiatives going on which are in some way at least touching upon the very heart of the project (the build system). I wanted to bring attention to them and begin a high level strategic discussion of what the best way forward might be. I expect this will take some significant time for everyone to really have a chance to weigh in and (ideally) eventually to come to some sort of consensus. I will confess that I don't even really understand the build system myself. In fact I think only a few people really do. So as a side effect I hope to increase my own understanding. And eventually improve document…

Every quarter some one apt updates and breaks something after a release.... This can be prevented. We need to produce a repository per release for our debs just like Debian ubuntu etc aka lane@blipsqueak:~/GIT/lj-tools$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list deb http://apt.armbian.com focal main focal-utils focal-desktop becomes lane@blipsqueak:~/GIT/lj-tools$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list deb http://apt.armbian.com/chiru focal main focal-utils focal-desktop

Release Candidate Code Freeze Date: 2021-07-18. (Fixes only afterwards) Release Planning Meeting Date: 2021-07-10 1400GMT Release Date: 2021-08-08 Release Candidate Branch Link: TBD Release Changelog: TBD Release Coordinator: @lanefu Testing Tracking Sheet: TBD (google sheets) The purpose of this thread is to discuss testing, bugfixes, and the overall quality of the release. Once the release is complete, this thread should be locked and unpinned. Please subscribe to this thread! I want this release to focus on upgrade stability. That means we need to strongly focus on: * kernel packages * rootfs package…

Release Planning: April 3rd. Meeting in IRC channel #armbian on freenode. Meeting starts at 2pm GMT. (let me know if this is a bad date, because it is around easter holiday in Germany for example) Code Freeze: 2021-04-19 (Monday April 19th) Release Date: 2021-05-09 (Sunday May 9th) Release Candidate: https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/v21.05.0-rc Changelog: https://docs.armbian.com/Release_Changelog/#v2105-2021-05-09 Coordinator: @Heisath The goal of this thread is to discuss testing, bugfixes, and the overall quality of the release. Open topics: - complete desktop branch merge into master (this seems g…

Hi members and developers, I've tried to compile buster with using the latest armbian build environment for an Banana R1 SCB but it failed whith this errors: ... [ o.k. ] Installing base system [ Stage 1/2 ] /home/wolli/build/lib/debootstrap.sh: line 185: debootstrap: command not found [ error ] ERROR in function create_rootfs_cache [ debootstrap.sh:190 ] [ error ] Debootstrap base system for current lamobo-r1 buster yes first stage failed [ o.k. ] Process terminated I know that this SBC is EOS thats why I need to compile it by my self. Even when I try to compile a supported SBC linke the Bananapi I got this same debootstrab …

Armbian CI is building v5.10.43 while my local build is making v5.10.45. How can I switch? I've tried all sorts of iterations of KERNELRELEASE= BRANCH= and LIB_TAG= in userpatches/config-example.conf but can't find the right combination to build a v5.10.43 kernel with RELEASE=focal What's the correct build env var and value needed to match Armbian's CI?

Hello everybody, I'm trying to build a full bootable image for the Rock pi 4B using a VM with the recommended build system I followed the build instructions in https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/. I got the image built without errors. At this point I haven't tried the image because I still want to change a source file and recompile. I changed the file in question: build/cache/sources/linux-mainline/linux-5.10.y/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-host.c and rerun compile.sh in the build directory. The system builds again without issues, but the file I edited get replaced by the original content along the way.…

For the past 10 years, I have been moving evenly and rectilinearly in an inertial frame of reference called OpenSUSE. I had to first read about creating Debian packages and look here: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/focal/tree/ Both Ubuntu and OpenSUSE distributions start with the kernel source package, which contains a set of scripts and rules for further build. This has a sacred meaning. To get started, I took two scripts from the v5.7-rcX core as a basis and put them in packages/armbian/builddeb packages/armbian/mkdebian checked the build process for bionic current core v5.4.y This initial state can ser…

Is there any appetite for a smaller, lighter release without systemd ? Unfortunately it breaks some of armbian-config. I use Devuan at times on my desktop and wanted Armbian for a light Arm64 server. I found a Devuan based method to change over, but it is really simple in just Armbian Replace systemd with SysV Init as the init system on Armbian Buster arm64 (nanopc-t4) $ su - # apt update # apt upgrade # apt purge policykit-1 (suggested by Devuan) # apt autoremove # apt install sysvinit-core edit /etc/network/interfaces to include eth0 auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp …

mainline u-boot can read boot menu from extlinux.conf, and provides a menu to console or display (if support), which is more friendly to boot.scr and debian provides a tool: u-boot-menu to update extlinux.conf. in order to use u-boot-menu in armbian, need to update kernel build scripts, need to follow debian's build rules. or make change to u-boot-menu to fit armbian's kernel.

Hello Armbian, Since long time ago, build system is stuck at mainline kernel version 5.10.21 (for OrangePi H2+ H3 and H5 boards). Am I doing something wrong or what? Best regards.

Hello everybody, I'd like build the module for my usb dongle with rtl8821cu. Im using the 4.4.154 version on rk3328 tvboxes. I need the kernel sources. Is the a repo on github for this build? Thanks and excuse me for my English

Release planning: January 2nd. Meeting location is IRC channel #armbian on freenode. Meeting starts at 2pm GMT. Open topics / development directions: - desktop branch merge into the master - enabling 3D support on desktop(s) - update u-boot (where possible) to 2020.10 and K5.10.y Spoiler My test farm is updated to 2020.10 / 5.10.y Cubieboard Cubietruck Cubox i2eX/i4 (old u-boot) Le potato Lime 2 NanoPi K2 (NIC not working) NanoPi M4 NanoPi M4V2 NanoPi Neo 3 Nanopi R2S Odroid C1 Odroid C2 Odroid C4 Orange Pi Lite Orange Pi Lite 2 Orange Pi One+ Orange Pi R1 Orange Pi Win Orange Pi Zero Orange Pi Zero2 (private u-boot / WIP tar…

I am trying to build an updated image for an orange pi zero using the mainline buster headless. I tried on an ubuntu 20.04 VM (on a fedora host) and on a natively ubuntu20.04 installed laptop. Both fail to compile the kernel with the same error. Below is my compile config file and my compilation.log is attached. Any ideas what is going wrong here? I know I don't have the make terget in CLEAN_LEVEL, but I even tried when completely removing the whole armbian-build folder and cloning a fresh repos and removing all apt-cache-ng cache. So it's not due to that. # Read build script documentation https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Options/ # for detai…

By default when I build armbian on master, it downloads the toolchains from the china mirror for me, but those always fail to verify the gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz with gpg BAD SIGNATURE. If I change to ARMBIAN_MIRROR="https://minio.k-space.ee/armbian/dl/" the issue disappears.

Hi, I'm not exactly sure where this type of thread goes. If it doesn't go here, can someone please politely move it? Thank you very much! There seems to be a rogue file in the "/etc/sysfs.d/" directory with the file "20-gpu-governor.conf" on my system. This file is meant to tune the GPU governor to "performance", instead of the default "simple_ondemand". But I'm confused as to which package supplies this. It is not supplied by sysfsutils, so maybe it's Armbian specific? Not sure. This file is on Armbian for the Helios64. Here are the contents of the file "/etc/sysfs.d/20-gpu-governor.conf": # Set "performance" GPU…

It's been a while since I ran my VBox installed build system. apt-update gives the following error - Err:3 http://repo.aptly.info nightly InRelease The following signatures couldn't be verified because public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY ED75B5A4483DA07C but continues. Is there something I should do or ignore? I started from scratch and pulled the directory and ./compile'd again and everything seemed to go fine, produced output which I will test today.

FYI. Merge requests with labels: "beta" or "need testings" are automatically included in next nightly builds.

In recent weeks, I have been testing a new approach to using the source code for external WiFi modules (RTL). Previously, I regularly got build environment crash issues due to unpredictable source updates for EXTRAWIFI. These sources are scattered in different places and absolutely do not predictably change, breaking the kernel build. I'm tired of tracking such situations and regularly spending time creating emergency patches to restore the build process (or having to temporarily disable the EXTRAWIFI build). I compiled and placed all the sources in one controlled GIT. I still have them my GIT, but if your decide to switch to a new version of the build, it is advisable t…

Bugfix v1 was already pushed out: [AR-551] - Update fan configuration, enable network LED and enable UPS timer Updated Helios64, Rockpi 4* images and rockchip64 kernels Bugfix v2 Let's try to patch other critical things before Christmas. I already addressed ZFS problem on Focal by adding most recent DKMS package, but to solve it also for Buster it requires all kernel recompilation - in case you want to push some late changes, now it's the time. The Beast can handle that in no time We hopefully fixed Odroid HC4 (don't have HW to test), added KVIM2, DVFS on mvebu will be disabled from now on to secure stability (moving to 5.9.y ?)…

Hi, I was just setting up a new armbian build environment following the usual github instructions on a bionic 18.04.3 system. Running ./compile.sh (alone or with any configuration) generates the following error: [ o.k. ] Checking for external GCC compilers [ .... ] downloading using torrent network [ gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz ] [ error ] ERROR in function download_and_verify [ general.sh:1026 ] [ error ] verification failed From the output/debug/output.log Displaying message: Checking for external GCC compilers info Displaying message: …

Release Candidate Code Freeze Date: 2020-10-18 Release Date: 2020-11-XX Release Candidate Branch Link: TBD Release Changelog: TBD Release Coordinator: TBD Testing Tracking Sheet: TBD (google sheets) The goal of this thread is to discuss testing, bugfixes, and the overall quality of the release. Once the release is complete, this thread should be locked and unpinned. --- Our next release date is coming and perhaps its time to discuss what to push into 20.11, what not, resolve open questions and distract from most used keyword for past few weeks. @Myy @TonyMac32 @balbes150 @piter75 @sfx2000@ebin-dev …

hello! I'm trying to build a kernel and I think it did. but the script shows the error: CC [M] kernel/kheaders.o [ error ] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ compilation.sh:411 ] [ error ] Kernel was not built [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Process terminated root@valik-comp:~/armbian-build# and no errors in the text above. (full logs in attachments). please tell me what to do ..? fulllog.txt.gz

Hello Armbian, I am trying to build an image based on release 20.08, but kernel does not get compiled. compile.sh docker BOARD=orangepizero BRANCH=current KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no CLEAN_LEVEL="" NO_APT_CACHER=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=no RELEASE=buster Displaying message: * [\e[32ml\e[0m][\e[32mc\e[0m] xxx-sun50i-h6-enable-higher-clock.patch info Displaying message: Compressing sources for the linux-source package Displaying message: Compiling current kernel 5.8.16 info Displaying message: Compiler version arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc 9.2.1 info Displaying message: Using kernel config file config/kernel/linux-sunxi-current.config in…

As per documentation, I'm providing a custom kernel config, and I do get the message during my build: [ o.k. ] Using kernel config provided by user [ userpatches/linux-sunxi64-current.config ] which is great! The problem I face is that although the message is shown, the config that takes place seems to be something different, as can be checked when booting the image and looking up the config file in /boot/config-5.9.8-sunxi64 Digging a little bit in compilation.sh, I can see that cp .config "${DEST}/config/${LINUXCONFIG}.config" will only be run if KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes As I want a fully automated image…

Please forgive the badly formatted post, I am a bit new here. I was trying to overclock my RockPro64 and ended up writing a device tree overlay (and a rather rudimentary one at that). wasn't sure how to contribute it so I am posting the code here instead. Please note, however, that up until yesterday, I had never written a device tree overlay, so this will not be in the correct format by any stretch of the imagination. I just figured I would post them here as a starting point for anyone who wishes to create a properly formatted dts file to contribute. I got the values that I used from this page on the pine64 wiki: https://wiki.pine64.o…

Today I did compile for some SBCs the kernel 5.9.1 dev but had something strange - for me - When I did compile for sunxi I also did get a .deb for sunxi64 and a new sunxi when I did compile for a sunxi64 board. AND as last I did compile for the Odroid C2 (meson64) and I also did get the sunxi and sunxi64 .deb-packages. Is this normal or a new bug? Because in the past I did only get a new .deb-package for the platform which I did actually compile for.

I have several applications running on different boards. After reading documents/forum posts and checking the code here and there, I came to the following setup and I'll be very pleased if someone confirms it. Application A1, A2,..An Board B1, B2,...Bn 1) Create multiple compile_Ax_By.sh, containing: #!/bin/bash # Define my application MYAPP=A1 # Call ./compile.sh with predefined parameters ./compile.sh BOARD="orangepipcplus" BRANCH="current" RELEASE="focal" BUILD_DESKTOP="yes" KERNEL_ONLY="no" KERNEL_CONFIGURE="no" 2) In userpatches/customize-image.sh add a single line to my custom my-custom-image.sh (in case original got…

(Please feel free to move the post if it is not appropriate here.) I'm trying the build environment on VirtualBox and modifying settings and adding new scripting. I have had a habit of testing each modification right away, but the compile/burn/on-device-test is not logical. How can I emulate a device / setup / install process? Is there any way?

I have several files I want to embed into the compiled image, such as logos, desktop backgrounds, some public keys, scripts etc. I can put them in correct place (e.g. /usr/local/bin) or put it in a directory at root (e.g. /MyAppSetup) and run a script to handle/move them. In the past I was using a private git repo on my server to clone these, but if I'm compiling, I'd like to get rid of this extra layer. I could not find a way to do that. Could someone please advise?

I did a patch to allow armbian build system produce image with root on xfs filesystem. Kernel should have build-in filesystem support, and `RELEASE` have to contain required filesystem utilities. Then all need to be done — add filesystem to build process. Patch for builder attached. Then image have to be build with separate /boot filesystem. command should look like ./compile.sh BOARD=rockpi-4a BRANCH=current RELEASE=focal BUILD_MINIMAL=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes BOOTSIZE=250 ROOTFS_TYPE=xfs Spoiler diff --git a/lib/configuration.sh b/lib/configuration.sh index b825ca4b..2a65e075 100644 --- a/lib/con…

Hi everyone, I use Orangepipc and want to make full encryption of the root file system, I applied the following topics, but each time it says "starting kernel ..." and freezes on the booting What is the problem? I tried OS; Armbian_5.59_Orangepipc_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.65 Armbian_19.11.3_Orangepipc_buster_current_5.3.9 Armbian_20.02.1_Orangepipc_buster_current_5.4.20 Armbian_20.02.1_Orangepipc_bionic_current_5.4.20 and https://ch1p.io/armbian-fde/

When performing a build using this key (last commit, MASTER branch) I get an error. Is this a local error in my build environment, or are others observing similar behavior ? Pre-build without CLEAN_LEVEL="" passes without errors. The error occurs during a subsequent build with saving (using) already buils packages.

Hello all, I recently went through the exercise of getting the Armbian build system set up to create an image with some of my user customizations, similar to the example with OMV. The documentation and forums have been a huge help! As I am running Fedora and Windows as my main OSes, I did struggle a bit at first. I tried, in order: Ignoring the advice of the documentation, and running ./compile.sh on Fedora. Didn't get far Running the build with Docker on Fedora. I ran into a number of different problems and ultimately gave up. Running on Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL2. I did eventually get a build to complete, but the image may h…

I'm trying to add some extra packages and configuration changes to build v20.08. I did the following: git clone -b v20.08 https://github.com/armbian/build build-orange-pi-v20.08 cd build-orange-pi-v20.08 && git reset --hard 6e9b07e touch .ignore_changes ./compile.sh docker BRANCH=current BOARD=orangepizero KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=buster BUILD_DESKTOP=no CLEAN_LEVEL="" NO_APT_CACHER=yes The build ends with "ERROR in function compile_kernel [ compilation.sh:411 ]" When I clone the master without sticking to a revision, it's working fine. But I want to stick to an "official" build. How can this …

I followed the documentation and cloned the repo in the Host first, changed to config/templates and started the Vagrant virtual machine. If I am not mistaken, inside the Guest, the repo is cloned again for the actual development. This implies that cloning on the Host system has only the purpose to provide config/templates/Vagrantfile and config-vagrant.conf, is that right? All other cloned files on the HOST have no relevance (except for the directories userpatches and output, which are mounted)? I find that quite confusing and if I am right with my assumption, I would like to add a note to the documentation for future users. Or: Would it be possib…

Since this is a different issue I split this topic into a separate one to take care of or check at least somewhen. ------------------------------------------ Oh well. There IS something wrong but not with the toolchain download... rock64 focal current desktop HOSTLD tools/mkimage tools/Makefile:134: recipe for target 'tools/_libfdt.so' failed Makefile:1278: recipe for target 'tools' failed [ error ] ERROR in function compile_uboot [ compilation.sh:220 ] [ error ] U-boot compilation failed [ o.k. ] Process terminated #compilation log: tools/libfdt_wrap.c:149:11: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory # include &lt…

I know there has been an Igor account on the forums that has been trolling the forums, just want to make sure that the troll has not made any changes to the focal distribution, masquerading as the legit Igor. I was building from source, and noticed this debug note:

manual page: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-firstboot.html archlinux Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd-firstboot

Trying to create my first Armbian build for rock64 using native environment on Ubuntu 18.04 host. Followed instructions here https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ to clone and build. I am running as a root. Here are the steps I performed: git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/armbian/build cd build/ ./compile.sh I selected full OS, didn't change kernel config, selected rock64, current, focal, image with desktop. I am getting these errors: [ o.k. ] Build host OS release [ bionic ] [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ o.k. ] Checking for external GCC compilers [ error ] ERROR in function …

I would like to know the content of u-boot-s905x-s912 and u-boot-s905x2-s922 at the boot dir. of armbian release . Is there a tool to de-compile these script to plain text ? Sorry if this question had been asked or answered . I didnot find any clues from searching at this forum. Thanks !

In my customize-image.sh I need to dowload source via git and make it like user and not like root. Example of customize-image.sh: git clone https://github.com/xxx/xxx /home/pi/xxx su -c "sudo -S /home/pi/xxx/xxx.sh" - pi This work when I build image for OrangePi4 (and all other rk3399 board) It dosen't work when build image for sun8i board like OrangePi Lite. Both git and su command return error and compilation fail. This happen with legacy and mainline kernel, with ubuntu or debian.

I'm on Windows 10 using WSL2 (Ubuntu 20.04) to build (running with sudo). I installed gpg & generated a public key (I chose DSA+RSA, 3072 Length, Never Expire), but get errors with verification: Probably not a supported build environment but I figured I'd see if there was a simple fix rather than spinning up another VM... Came back here because I randomly looked and saw that UDOO was no longer obsolete (THANKS!) CPU configuration: 392000 - 996000 with interactive Displaying message: Preparing host info Displaying message: Build host OS release focal info Displaying message: Syncing clock host info Displaying message: Checking for external GCC compile…

Release Candidate Code Freeze Date: 2020-07-18 Release Date: 2020-08-XX Release Candidate Branch Link: TBD Release Changelog: TBD Release Coordinator: @lanefu Testing Tracking Sheet: TBD (google sheets) The goal of this thread is to discuss testing, bugfixes, and the overall quality of the release. Once the release is complete, this thread should be locked and unpinned. --- Our next release date is coming and perhaps its time to discuss what to push into 20.08, what not, resolve open questions and distract from most used keyword for past few weeks. @Myy @TonyMac32 @balbes150 @piter75 @sfx2000 @ebin-dev @c…

I've noticed that in order to be able to build offline, I need not only to specify OFFLINE_WORK=yes as per this documentation: OFFLINE_WORK ( yes | no ): skip downloading and updating sources as well as time and host check. Set to “yes” and you can collect packages without accessing the internet but also IGNORE_UPDATES=yes. Probably because of this is main.sh: # ignore updates help on building all images - for internal purposes if [[ $IGNORE_UPDATES != yes ]]; then display_alert "Downloading sources" "" "info" I don't see here in main.sh where is is checking for build-all..... so it seems that unless i specif…

For some days now I get the following error trying to build C4 images. I attempted the --fix-missing, apt update apt upgrade etc, still this after some time in compilation. Running in a Virtualbox direct session, no Vagrant or the like. Had been working fine for quite some time, went a few weeks and decided to rebuild and got this error. Is it trying to download from my own machine? What to do?

I'm trying to build a kernel driver for 5.7.14 for my custom image but couldn't find a linux-source package for the kernel version at https://mirrors.netix.net/armbian/apt/pool/main/l/ I tried to use armbian-config but it didn't show it, either (5.4.44 was listed instead). Where can I get 5.7.14 source code? I checked out Armbian Build v20.05( https://github.com/armbian/build/releases/tag/v20.05 )and created an image with the following options: BOARD=tinkerboard RELEASE=buster BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no INSTALL_HEADERS=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=yes The system information is as follows (on Tinker Board): root@tinker…

Why do I want the source code? Well I am working with an Allwinner H5 board (Orange Pi PC 2), getting a RTOS to run on it, and want to study some of the device drives. I have found the Armbian sources for the H3 quite valuable in this way. So I spent the bulk of the afternoon and got nowhere. My desktop is a Fedora System. I don't want to install VirtualBox again (which is what I did several years ago in order to get the H3 sources). I tried the Docker thing, but Fedora 32 and Docker don't work together. Then I remembered that I have access to a system running Fedora 30, and the Docker setup worked fine there, but the process choked with this: …

Officially, how do I convince my build environment that I still want to use 4.14? When I just ./compile.sh BOARD=nanopiair BRANCH=next it defaults to 4.17 What I have come up with is: git checkout sunxi-4.14 && touch .ignore_changes This results in a lot of patches failing What is the correct way please?

Dear All, I am trying to prepare the rootfs for opi3 board with CRYPTROOT_ENABLE option to yes using below command but getting error as below. ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepi3 BRANCH=current RELEASE=buster BUILD_MINIMAL=yes BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=sha,gpg,img CLEAN_LEVEL=images OFFLINE_WORK=yes CRYPTROOT_ENABLE=yes CRYPTROOT_PASSPHRASE="MYSECRECTPASS" CRYPTROOT_SSH_UNLOCK=yes CRYPTROOT_SSH_UNLOCK_PORT=2222 CRYPTROOT_PARAMETERS="custom cryptsetup options" invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of start. Processing triggers for systemd (241-7~deb10u4) ... [ o.k. ] Calling image customization script [ c…

Hi Team, I want to flash armbian.img image on olimex rev k board via mini usb to usb cable host machine (Linux ubuntu) without sd card. Please suggest the way How to do it. A little help will really be appreciable. Thanks Sachin Pundir

I found root of my card not resized to maximum space available. Unfortunately when I run out of space. Consider adding missing package btrfs-progs to minimal image or warn user when building of such system image is complete so user can resize root manually before the sd card is inserted.

I'm trying to build an image that includes armbian-firmware-full by specifying it in lib.config but it fails, I believe it is due to armbian-firmware being installed by default. What is the proper way to build an image with armbian-firmware-full instead of armbian-firmware?

After successfully building an image, I decided to build one for another board. Got a warning something like [warn] low disk space [5GB] I deleted the output directory and still states only 6 GB. I had given virtualbox 30 gb for this drive. What is the proper way to clean out the drive after a compile? Just ignore it, does it over write? Sorry if I missed this in the docs somewhere but I didn't find anything about it.

I'm new to building the toolchain so sorry if I missed something basic. I installed Virtualbox greater than the version noted on the instructions page. (https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/) Used the mini image at http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/installer-amd64/current/legacy-images/netboot/mini.iso per above page. During the install I did not check any options for system software. Started the os and installed git using sudo per the instructions page in the second line above. After it completed I changed to the build directory and issued the compile sudo ./compile.sh and seems to run as expected. I…

Dear All, I am following below link for my orangepi3 armbian os and able to successfully prepare image file. Now if i try to again generate image then whole the process go again and it took much time and everytime download packages. Below are my requirement so please help me for. build only uboot but don't want to fetch and extract sources again. build only kernel but don't want to fetch and extract sources again. build only rootfs but don't want to fetch and extract sources again. build whole image without internet access in my system it will be good if anyone can help me for this so i can speed up my development. https://docs.armbian.c…

Why armbian put debian.list to ubuntu package list (/etc/apt/sources.list/debian.list)? I am on ubuntu so I don't understand why should I have mix of debian and ubuntu packages

I am running the latest Build "Kagu". I have learned about Clean Levels. I am new to all of this. So I was not cleaning anything. I wanted to build the kernel locally after config. I noticed another thread about not seeing the menuconfig during the build even though it was requested. After hand deleting the target linux image deb, then menuconfig was invoked properly. I mention this to indicate that I dont really have control over this "cleaning" yet but I am getting there. I really dont want to clean too much but I have started over with a good cleaning. To simplify things I want to focus on the Minimal Server without Debia…

This is to discuss and prioritize enhancements and bugfixes we want to target for v20.05 (Kagu). We will lock this thread 2020-03-15 to manage scope creep. Many items are currently in Jira here https://armbian.atlassian.net/projects/AR/issues/?filter=allopenissues If you're a frequent contributor and would like to join our Jira, please PM me. It's not mandatory, but it would make things easier. To track. Remember the Armbian Mission Statement: Armbian is a base operating system platform for single board computers that other projects can trust to build upon. Let's try to prioritize things that help us deliver on that mission

I added a while back 'free' output to 'armbianmonitor' and 'armhwinfo' to get some monitoring data from real-world installations about swap usage. Armbian uses an emergency swap file of 128MB by default (vm.swappiness=0) which means swapping should be avoided unless really needed. Let's have a look and extract data from +50 support URLs collected within the last months. I piped the output of https://pastebin.com/raw/DjxAX6Rn through while read ; do curl -q "${REPLY}" | grep '^Swap: '; done | sort | uniq -c and this is what we end with: 175 Swap: 127M 0B 127M 1 Swap: 127M 22M 105M 1 Swap: …

Hi all. Not sure if it is me not understanding (may well be! built my last kernels in 1997 I think...) or a flaw in this patch: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/patch/kernel/sunxi-dev/general-sunxi-overlays.patch which is supposed to fix this bug if I understand correctly: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/1663 Looking at the patch file in my built tree: build/patch/kernel/sunxi-dev/general-sunxi-overlays.patch To my understanding it contains the (re)addition of dts files for sun7i-a20-spi{0..2}, i.e. as of line 3456 it addes the spi0.dts source. However, building the dev kernel (latest, git updated two days…

Hello, I'm planning to use Armbian for a custom distribution (target is Orange Pi Zero, for now). Usually, for this kind of job I use Yocto. But this time, I intend to use the board as a ROS server, and quite frankly, integrating ROS into Yocto is quite painful. As it will be used only for a hobby robotics project, I don't really mind using another method. So, the thing is, I intend to create a customized Armbian distro with ROS preinstalled. But, I will also need to cross-compile and install some of my own projects. I was wondering, what is the most standard way to cross-compile (mostly C++, here, but whatever) a project for int…

I don't really know if this is related to Armbian, but I have a USB disk that is not recognised when plugged into USB 3 (blue port) but it works in USB2.0 port. I have also tried SanDisk Ultra USB3.0 and it works. Shouldn't the USB3.1 also support USB3.0 if it supports USB2.0 ?

hello, do you already have SUBJ ? Thank you

I just try 5.7rc1 build of linux kernel for odroid c2 And armbian can't create linux kernel package It looks like some problem in https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/patch/misc/general-packaging-5.6.y.patch

Hello, not sure if I'm at the right place here, so please let me know if I'm wrong and where I need to be. Thanks in advance and my apologies... My problem is that for some time now does Apt keep deleting custom kernels in /boot and the package appears to delete kernels not only with a rough pattern, but with "-f" as well, ignoring any file permissions. I've been watching this for a while now and it has left me at first with unbootable devices until I've noticed the cause. I would very much appreciate it of the Armbian kernel package wouldn't just delete anything that looks remotely like a kernel from /boot with a "rm -f *", but only removes the fi…

I run Armbian inside VMware VM. As I understand the compile.sh script will not auto-update Armbian. What is the right procedure to update Armbian in this case? Just run git pull from $SRC? Could compile.sh script accomodate this scenario?

Hello, I use the amlogic S905W (TX3mini) When I would like to start my PPP connection my Kernel says missing Module: Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No such file or directory modprobe: FATAL: Module ppp_generic not found in directory /lib/modules/5.5.1-arm-64 pppd: You need to create the /dev/ppp device node by executing the following command as root: mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 Please check kernel 5.5.1-arm-64 Many Thanks

Is there a way, without having to fork the armbian/build repos, to modify the first run service? I would like to add some stuff. It would be awesome if there is a way to provide an extra script that is run after the end of the armbian-first-run service. Maybe an additional parameter in armbian_first_run.txt that can provide the path to a script that gets run? Or is there a way I am overlooking that can achieve this already?

I am building my own armbian image using the armbian build environment. A substantial part of the image creation time is occupied by over-and-over recompiling the kernel. Sure, it does go faster the 2nd time, but it still takes a lot of time. The goal for me is not to make a custom kernel. I am totally happy with the kernel. The goal for me is to modify the rest of the image. They installed software, config, etc. Is there a way to reuse an existing kernel for this, instead of rebuilding a new one each time? Cheers, Dolf.

Release Candidate Code Freeze Date: 2020-01-25 Release Date: 2020-02-?? (will update thread) Current Release Candidate Branch Link: v20.02-rc1 Release Changelog: (will update) Release Coordinator: @lanefu Testing Tracking Sheet: https://bit.ly/2TGaeZN (google sheets) The goal of this thread is to discuss testing, bugfixes, and the overall quality of the release. Once the release is complete, this thread should be locked and unpinned. Our Hotfix process for completed releases is TBD. First of all I'm sorry I'm kicking this off so late. I should have started a few weeks ago. I'll continue to update this post with more info…

Hi guys, Is this syntax still valid? Config file is placed in userpatches/config-<conf_name>.conf ./compile.sh docker <conf_name> It still displays the configuration menu for me. Thanks in advance.

Hello First issue: With the 5.4.18-sunxi64 kernel when you select in Armbian-config to install kernel headers it installs the wrong version, it install kernel headers for 5.3 something instead of the 5.4.18. The way that I was able to work is by compiling the 5.4.18-sunxi64 Linux version including the Kernel headers. I have attached it here. Second issue: When "make scripts" and make modules_prepare instead of link to the 5.4.18-sunxi64 it creates a link for modules in 5.4.18 which makes the modules useless, since it doesnt go to the correct /lib/modules library. instead that the modules will be installed in lib/modules/5.…

I am building from source using the vagrant process, as outlined here: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Using-Vagrant/ When running ./compile.sh, I get the option to customize the kernel via dialog and I did select some customizations. When saving the config, I choose the default `.config` as output. However, when running `./compile.sh` a second time, all the settings are back at default and I can not find any `.config` file anywhere in the tree. Spoiler vagrant@ubuntu-bionic:~/armbian$ tree output output ├── config │ └── linux-rockchip64-current.config ├── debs │ ├── armbian-config_19.11.9_all.deb │ ├── armbian-…

A little bit OT, but what is the recommended way to sort a dts file? I commonly see patches, where maintainers keep requesting for nodes in a dts file to be sorted alphabetically, but didn't find any way to achieve this? I tired a simple `dtc -I dts -O dts -s xxx.dts` but the output contains symbols that I don't really need.

I've just spun up a brand new vagrant installation using the instructions here https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Using-Vagrant/ When I ran compile.sh inside the VM it installed a load of packages as it should, then eventually failed due to dialog not being installed. A simple apt install dialog fixed everything, presumably the build system needs to be updated to install dialog as well?

Hi There I'm trying to compile a new image with armbians build environment. Basically the process works as expected, as long as i recompile everything. But i want to make some changes to the KERNEL source before compiling. Therefore i have enabled the following flags: CREATE_PATCHES="yes" KERNEL_ONLY="yes" # build kernel only SOURCE_COMPILE="yes" # force source compilation KERNEL_CLEAN="yes" # MAKE clean before compilation CLEAN_LEVEL="sources" But, it does not clean the Kernel and it does not recompile it. Do you have any…

Hi, I need to add a second SD card reader to my Orangepi zero. I tried with this link https://github.com/nopnop2002/STM32_TFT_8bit . But it doesn't work. I read that SPI is not enabled in Orangepi kernel and i checked with ls /dev/*spi* and the output was - ls: cannot access '/dev/*spi*': No such file or directory. So i edited the /boot/armbinaEnv.txt as adding "overlays=spi-spidev" and rebooted. then checked ls /dev/*spi* and out is - /dev/spidev0.0. But my code is not working..Can you tell me what is wrong here ? These are my pin configuration SD CARD OPI zero ------------------------------------------------------------ …

Hi, After building a DEV Pine64 image successfully, I wanted to build a Dev BananaPI image to update 2 banana pis. Unfortunately I have this error (using this commit id : e7aeffb1) : Setting up nplan (0.36.3) ... Setting up networkd-dispatcher (1.7-0ubuntu3.3) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/default/networkd-dispatcher ... Setting up gnupg (2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.5) ... [ o.k. ] Installing packages for [ Armbian ] Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... E: Unable to locate package…

Hi, I'm trying to build debian kernel but using mainline 5.4.12 + patches from patch/kernel/sunxi-current. I took non disabled patches and apply patch -p1 for all of them and it fails at patch 0010-general-h6-add-dma-i2c-ir-spi-uart.patch in first hunk because opp node in dts doesn't exists. It's not in mainline not in patches. I have no idea how this works though. Is this patch then skipped or? Thanks. Marek

Hello everyone, I have been using a pre-built Armbian image on a Nanopi M1 Plus and I have been very happy with it. However I have several modifications specific to my usage of the board (setup some files in /etc/, create default users, install or remove some packages, etc.) that I would like to add to the image in a repeatable way. By repeatable I mean that I could add the set of scripts/patches/packages etc. to source control so that other people could them rebuild the same exact image. All of the advice I have found searching the forum points to this process https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/ But it does requir…

Happy new year and thanks for the good work ! I see there is a (buster) image available for my Odroid N2 with kernel 5.4. A few weeks ago I set up the build environment and started building my own images. First images were build using the 4.9 kernel from Hardkernel. Later the images were build with kernel 5.1 (and BRANCH=default). However, the image with kernel 5.4 was not build today but the kernel 5.1 is still used for the image, although I changed the BRANCH=default (as it was before) to BRANCH=dev. How can I create a new armbian image with kernel 5.4 ? I read some posts about a new u-boot. Is this new u-boot…

What script is used in Armbian to build ram init image uInitrd?

Hi, I bought this relatively new WiFi card from sinovoip based on the MT7615. http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-mt7615-802-11-ac-wifi-4x4-dual-band-pcie-module-mass-production-version/10037 The kernel drivers for this are already in mainline linux (starting from 5.3 I think). I'm trying to use it on the clearfogpro though, which only runs up to kernel 4.19 right now (tried compiling 5.3 but it fails). So I wanted to backport the driver to 4.19. Unfortunately multiple things changed and trying to get the driver to compile broke lots of other stuff. So I came around to backports https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page their documentat…

Hello. I want to add some changes in mcp251x.c and rebuild it. I've installed linux-headers via armbian-config. During build process i got this error: /m_mcp251x.c:1042:8: error: implicit declaration of function ‘devm_clk_get_optional’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] clk = devm_clk_get_optional(&spi->dev, NULL); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ if i comment this line it passes compile process but when i do insmod i get these kernel debug messages: [ 583.741089] m_mcp251x: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 583.741626] m_mcp251x: Unknown symbol can_free_echo_skb (err -2) [ 583.741673] m_mcp251x: Unknown …

Hi there, my odroidc1 somehow died last month after updating to 5.3 test kernel so I decided to build new images from scratch starting from master. I did not touch any configuration and I choose to build the classical server image. Debian Buster boot but I cannot get any network Ubuntu 18.04 does not even boot with a u-boot error (see below) Ubuntu 19.10 does not even boot with a u-boot error (see below) Here it is the u-boot log of Ubuntu images: Does anyone have an idea on what is the problem and how to fix it? Thanks in advance *Ciao Piero

Today I noticed something strange about packages : armbian-config and armbian-firmware (bionic all) Repository version becomes 19.11.3 (via apt update) but self built packages created via kernel build script are version 5.98 Other kernel packages are ok, version 4.19.85 What about this?

I had try build a new kernel with tft screen , module ssd1322, find source , and build patch file, just like attach file <spender-ssd1322.patch>, and put it to patch : build/userpatches/kernel/sunxi-next, . then do "compile.sh", view patching.log, and compilation.log, compiler.log, no error! , directory build/cache/sources/linux-mainline/linux-4.19.y/drivers/staging/fbtft , no fb_ssd1322.o, .mod.c, .ko file output. build failed! help me , how to do spender-ssd1322.patch

Trying to setup a build environment using vagrant, keep getting the following error. I've deleted everything and started over several times but keep getting stuck here. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? vagrant@ubuntu-bionic:/vagrant$ sudo ./compile.sh [ o.k. ] Using config file [ /vagrant/userpatches/config-example.conf ] [ o.k. ] Preparing [ host ] [ o.k. ] Build host OS release [ bionic ] [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ o.k. ] Checking for external GCC compilers [ .... ] downloading using torrent network [ gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz ] [ error ] ERROR in function download_and_verify [ general.sh:…

Hi - Are there plans to upgrade uboot from April (v2019.04) to October (v2019.10) for all boards as October final has been tagged ?

There's been discussion in the past of switching to a YY.MM naming convention for releases (similar to Ubuntu) [citation needed -- I think it may be buried deep inside a github discussion] How does that impact us as a rolling release? What do we want to convey with our versions/releases? Should we do monthly releases? quarterly? I do think time-based releases would help us with priority.

I'm trying to build 4.19 kernel modules for Tinkerboard with Armbian's build script (https://github.com/armbian/build). But when I chose the board 'Tinkerboard' from the Armbian building script CUI menu, the output ko files were all built for 4.4. How can I create 4.19 ko files for Tinkerboard? I tried to put userpatches/lib.config in order to overwrite KERNELBRANCH with tag:v4.19.y but not luck. The error was shown below: [ o.k. ] Using config file [ /vagrant/userpatches/config-example.conf ] [ o.k. ] Preparing [ host ] [ o.k. ] Build host OS release [ bionic ] [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ o.k. ] Checking for external GCC compilers (snip) gr…

I'm attempting to build an image for the ROC-RK3328-CC (Renegade) with cryptroot encryption (and SSH unlock) enabled, but I run into weird behavior. The board will start and I can SSH in and reach the BusyBox prompt. So far so good but from what I've gathered I should enter the command "unlock" there to display the cryptroot password prompt. However it only results in the message -sh: unlock: not found. I read somewhere else the command might be "cryptroot-unlock" but that instead gives nothing, not even the error message. Furthermore, regardless whether I enter any commands, around 10 seconds into the SSH session it will freeze and I eventually ge…

Hey guys. 1. This piece if [[ $(lsb_release -sc) =~ bionic|buster|cosmic|disco ]]; then mkopts[ext4]='-q -m 2 -O ^64bit,^metadata_csum' elif [[ $(lsb_release -sc) == xenial ]]; then mkopts[ext4]='-q -m 2' fi Why disable metadata_csum? Why disable 64bit overall, not just for pure 32 bit boards? Edit on Mar 9 2020 Metadata checksums is a new feature of ext4 since e2fsprogs 1.44 (xenial has 1.42). It makes the fs more robust to data corruption but it requires some extra cpu power to calculate the checksums. It is not a problem for generic cpus with SSE4.2 (= hardware accelerated crc32): intel since …

Hello, I am new to armbian and it building environment. I had to start from ground and stumbled across some unclear / wrong point in the documentation. [EDIT: I already managed to build an running image. This Thread is about the documentation] So i just want to point them out, not to harm anybody, just to tell what happened to me. Perhaps all of it is just because i didn't followed the documentation correctly. If that's the case i like to apologize for disturbing. 1. https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Using-Vagrant/#virtualbox-version suggestst to do: > vagrant plugin install vagrant-disksize …