Armbian build framework

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

Hi, When I start armbian script, there is no Banana Pi M1 model anymore. Was Banana Pi M1 merged with Banana Pi Pro model? I could not find any note or info about this change anywhere. Thank you!

I'm a newb, so please make allowances if I am a little dumb. I have SPI NOR boot working on an Orange Pi Zero Plus (H5). Latest next kernel. (I've tried the download, and compiled my own). There is a problem when I power on. It fails to detect the USB drive. If I reset the CPU it finds the drive. If I reboot it finds the drive. resetting USB... USB0: USB EHCI 1.00 USB1: USB OHCI 1.0 scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found I want to try some things in the boot environment settings, but I haven't figured out where to do this. Can anyone point me in the right direct…

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/

I have compiled to test new armbian 5.04 in a banana pro (Output: Armbian_5.04_Bananapipro_Debian_jessie_4.4.3.zip). At the first boot it is asking for the new user: login as: root root@192.168.178.30's password: Thank you for choosing Armbian! Support: www.armbian.com Creating new account. Please provide a username (eg. your forename): I introduce whatever username and after that the system is booting. There is a loop continuously because after the boot, if I try to login with root, aks again for user but if I login with a created new user doesn't work because the password not was asked before and therefore is not accepting a password. I'm doing something wron…

There was recently a discussion on an issue over on github dealing with an issue that popped up when building Armbian within a Docker container. Following on from there, it was decided that it would be a good idea to document the build process using Docker, and adding a howto, best practices, and FAQ to the main Armbian documentation. (I've put my hand up to coordinate this.) Using Docker is a good alternative to a VM, and particularly for anyone on macOS or Windows. So to kick off the thread, it'll be good just to discuss what should go into the docs. Also to see if anyone is interested in building with Docker and hasn't done so yet.

What do these explicitly do? Which ones can be disabled? Which ones can interfere with other system mods? sudo systemctl list-unit-files | grep armb* armbian-firstrun-config.service enabled armbian-firstrun.service disabled armbian-hardware-monitor.service enabled armbian-hardware-optimize.service enabled armbian-ramlog.service enabled armbian-resize-filesystem.service disabled armbian-zram-config.service enabled I've notices that ramlog can be disabled two ways - in the config, or disable …

Hello, everyone, I found a very serious issue with Armbian build framework: build may corrupt your host's rootfs! This has happened to my system 3 times: my rootfs has been totally destroyed without being able to recover it (I used a number tools, like testdisk, etc. All of the tools detected some deleted files but all of those files appeared to be 0-sized). I have delayed reporting this to be 100% sure that it is Armbian build that caused those issues. Now I am, absolutely, because such a problem NEVER happened to me before (I have been using Ubuntu 16.04 for a long time). After 2nd crash I changed my HDD to a brand new one and installed all again …

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 …

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…

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…

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:

Hi all I am trying to build Armbian (Xenial Server) for H5 orangepipc2 I nee to customize kernel config to add some DVB drivers. The compilation starts but I get this error, but without any usefull information What I get is: CC [M] drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/rtw_proc.o CC [M] drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.o CC [M] drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_ops_linux.o CC [M] drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/wifi_regd.o CC [M] drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/xmit_linux.o LD [M] drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/r8723bs.o AR drivers/staging/built-in.o AR drivers/built-in.o [ error ] ERROR in function comp…

Hello, guys, is this possible to choose a custom board-specific kernel config located in "userpatches" based on $BOARD variable? I am trying to customize different boards and I have no idea how to provide a specific config for, let's say, sun6i bananapi and sun8i orangepipc when I build "next" kernel, because all of them are covered by linux-sunxi-next.config. It seems like I need to change your scripts but I wouldn't like to.. Thanks.

Hi, I have received an upgrade notification. While applying changes, I received this message for 1 package (out of 5). (Reading database ... 73767 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../armbian-tools-xenial_5.20_armhf.deb ... Unpacking armbian-tools-xenial (5.20) over (5.14) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/armbian-tools-xenial_5.20_armhf.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/etc/init.d/brcm40183-patch', which is also in package linux-xenial-root-orangepilite 5.16 Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu8) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... Errors were encountered while processing: …

This topic is a response to the growing number of kernels, growing number of boards with... "unique properties", and for the increased complexity of some platofrms (aarch64 and the atf, etc). I think the coherency of the chosen organizational method is starting to fall apart. So just a thought experiment on my part: Currently, we have a sources directory, and the sources file has not just sources, but also executable script functions in it. We also do our patches per SoC, mostly, but the organization is by the thing being compiled rather than by the target, making finding/adjusting a bit cumbersome in some cases. I would propose a di…

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

Hi, I'm looking for the simplest way to provide a custom uboot configuration to the Armbian build system. I have read (I think I did not miss something obvious) the documentation pages how to customize Armbian build, but the doc is mostly focused on specifying alternate source version or applying custom patches, while I only need a way to specify an already existing uboot config (generated with make menuconfig from the existing, installed Armbian sources). What would be the best way to tell Armbian to use an alternate uboot configuration? Thanks, Emmanuel.

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.

hello, do you already have SUBJ ? Thank you

Hello, while reading the build tools scripts I found this part of the license text to be fishy: # This file is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public # License version 2. This program is licensed "as is" without any # warranty of any kind, whether express or implied. I think the intent was to say "whether expressed or implied". Can I get confirmation, so I can prepare a PR for changing all the (cut'n'pasted) occurrences ?

Hello guys, I tried to build v3.* starting from here https://github.com/armbian/build, my build environment is Hiper-V & Ubuntu 16.04 x64. I have chosen OrangePi One board to build u-boot & kernel of v3.* but got issue with compiling kernel. Looking into log & scripts I found the compiler version assigned for kernel is > 6.x but looks like the code base (or whatever) is not ready for this high version. Logs attached. Can you help, please ? Thank you logs-26_05_2017-14_26_00.tgz

I tried compiling Debian 9 Full OS Image with Desktop using BRANCH=next and default kernel configs for * NanoPi K1 * Rock64 * OrangePi Plus 2E And all failed at the end: Errors were encountered while processing /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-LTKPXl/621-numix-icon-theme_0.3+922~201711061547~ubuntu16.04.1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [ error ] ERROR in function create_rootfs_cache [ debootstrap-ng.sh:213 ] [ error ] Installation of Armbian packages failed [ o.k. ] Process terminated [ error ] ERROR in function unmount_on_exit [ image-helpers.sh:59 ] [ error ] debootstrap-ng was in…

when build armbian via docker "proces will create and run a named Docker container armbian with 2 named volumes armbian-cache and armbian-ccache" and store it in /var. My root amount is not over 40Gb and it will be good thing to store armbian-cache and armbian-ccache in different place

Hi there, I'm trying to run compile.sh since several days as mentioned in the instructions with Vagrant but no success so far. 1. https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Using-Vagrant/ Vagrant Guest steps Instruction tells cd armbian but it is cd /vagrant 2. First run of ./compile.sh stops because the following packages signature could not be verified. Downloading the following packages manually, unpacking them in cache/toolchain and creating a .download-complete file fixed this issue. All other following packages were installed automatically. gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz …

thinking of http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/2043-lamobo-r1-520-swconfig-problem-with-last-520-armbian-update/?p=15773 We may ask the forum users and create a list of testers for each board (or family of boards) => we could create a sub forum Armbian/Tech/Dev/Armbian build framework/Testing/ - to call for testers when needed (testers would register a pined thread managed by Igor/Mikhail/Thomas/others) - to report testing on the forum using a title like [5.20/Lamobo-R1] "Status" (OK/KO/minor issues) - create bug reports in appropriate forum each registered testers creates its minimum set of test (like testing the switch config of Lamobo-R1) and cr…

I'm getting an error No rule to make target 'tinker-rk3288_defconfig' while typing the command ./compile.sh [ o.k. ] Using config file [ config-default.conf ] [ o.k. ] This script will try to update Already up-to-date. Already on 'master' Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. [ o.k. ] Preparing [ host ] [ o.k. ] Build host OS release [ xenial ] [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ .... ] Downloading [ gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.04_linux ] ######################################################################## 100.0% ######################################################################## 100.0% [ .... ] Ve…

Hello there @Igor and board; Two things :-) 1. Potential problem. I'm trying to build a crafted Kernel image and I found tat some patches does not apply cleanly, being: [ warn ] * [l][c] 04-patch-4.4.114-115.patch [ failed ] [ warn ] * [l][c] 04-patch-4.4.115-116.patch [ failed ] [ warn ] * [l][c] 04-patch-4.4.116-117.patch [ failed ] [ warn ] * [l][c] 04-patch-4.4.117-118.patch [ failed ] [ warn ] * [l][c] 04-patch-4.4.118-119.patch [ failed ] [ warn ] * [l][c] 220_uart4_fix.patch [ failed ] And finally, I have a build failure: CC lib/zlib_inflate/inflate_syms.o sound/usb/pcm.c: In function ‘set_sync_ep_impli…

Hello, I want to tackle the TODO item from main.sh:175: # TODO: move to armbian-tools or extras-buildpkgs Which way should I go ?

Hello there Maintainers! o/ I have found something while builiding my image and would like to ask for your opinion on that :-) I have built a Docker build environment where things are going real smooth (After some tinkering ;-) In order to save everyone's bandwidth (and be able to do builds while offline), I was tinkering with IGNORE_UPDATES=yes FORCE_CHECKOUT=no compile option. Well. That causes the build to fail, because after the first compile and its patch, a second round with these flags will cause the patch to be applied again and potentially breaking stuffs. I'm circumventing it by moving the p…

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I have two build hosts, one was built week ago, one is Xenial, the other is Trusty. Since I added deboostrap to Trusty manually I also downgrade it to Trusty defaults but still ... Wheezy is somehow partially corrupted but it was O.K. few weeks ago. Any ideas what's going on ... before I start digging in?

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…

Are there any chance to build testing image for Ubuntu 18.04 ?

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.

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.

I tried to compile any distro for the first time, so I'm a total n00b here (used Oracle VirtualBox on a Win x64 machine, Ubuntu 10.04.02 x64)... They seem to be compiled fine. Moved the result images, written to new SD Cards with Etcher... Legacy Ubuntu server did boot. Legacy Ubuntu Desktop did not boot (even red/green lights did not light up). Can you give me some starting points or links about how to deal with this issue? Thank you in advance... BTW: I'm giving a shot to this to get rid of unnecessary SW installed in the desktop version, such as LibreOffice etc... I also don't know if this is possible...

I'm using nanopi-neo-air board and I have patched the Armbian build script for select uart1 as system console. When I have changed the kernel boot args in boot-sunxi.cmd, script says the: [ warn ] Can't update since you made changes to: config/bootscripts/boot-sunxi.cmd Press <Ctrl-C> to abort compilation, <Enter> to ignore and continue How to normal modify config/bootscripts/boot-sunxi.cmd ? Thank you.

Hello all, maybe I missed that part in the docs or in another thread... In fact, I haven't found a solution. I'd like to include a custom kernel repository in the build process (maybe in kernel-only mode) and select that in the interface if available. Either include a remote directory (github...) or some local directory. That all for easily trying things out without using the single-patches directory but using the armbian building environment. I couldn't find the lines in the build scripts, where I easily can "hardcode" such a kernel tree. Ultimate way would be an additional option for a custom kernel tree, chooseable via the menu. Can someone point me into …

Hi Wondering if there are instructions on how to use the newer dwmac driver (instead of sun8i-emac.c) on the dev branch 4.10.x ? thanks jerry

I've been working on a project to boot a custom kernel on my NanoPC-T4. I haven't gotten too far though because as soon as I make the smallest change to the source, everything goes to hell (see below). I've built 3 images following EXACTLY the same process. All I did was change the KERNELBRANCH variable in userpatches/lib.config to point to different branches in the same repository. For completeness, here's my lib.config (which simply points to my fork of ayufan-rock64/linux-mainline-kernel): KERNELSOURCE='https://github.com/ethDreamer/linux-mainline-kernel' KERNELBRANCH='branch:BRANCHNAME' Here's the script I wrote to ensure everything was built exactly the …

I have a RAW image ~/crosscompile/output/cache/sdcard-default-nanopiair-xenial-no.raw I try to retrieve the lirc_gpio.ko from a patch successfully applied But, I think because I use a VPS I can't mount anything.. [ o.k. ] Creating partitions [ root: ext4 ] losetup: cannot find an unused loop device: No such file or directory [ error ] ERROR in function prepare_partitions [ debootstrap-ng.sh:370 ] [ error ] Unable to find free loop device [ o.k. ] Process terminated [ error ] ERROR in function unmount_on_exit [ debootstrap-ng.sh:521 ] [ error ] debootstrap-ng was interrupted [ o.k. ] Process terminated What can I do n…

I've come into a problem, my build system refuses to build images. I haven't been able to debug it, so I'm curious if anyone else in North America is having this trouble? I have historically had odd name resolution bugs/etc that required some massaging of the scripts' use of URL's, but this seems impervious to my efforts. Reading package lists... W: The repository 'http://apt.armbian.com stretch Release' does not have a Release file. E: Failed to fetch http://apt.armbian.com/dists/stretch/stretch-desktop/binary-armhf/Packages 500 Connection failure: Network is unreachable [IP: ::1 3142] E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old…

Hello, I've got a problem with DNS resolving and customize-image.sh. One setup works (home), one setup does not (office). Both setups are OS X (different major versions), Virtual Box (different major versions), Network Bridging and Ubuntu 14.04. Building images (Banana Pi M1/M2/R1 jessie next) without customize-image.sh works perfectly, espacially the apt-get stuff, which needs DNS resolving. The working home setup uses dynamic (DHCP) private RFC1918 IPs (and/or public IPv6 IPs). The nonworking office setup uses public static IPv4 IPs for OS X and Ubuntu. The build process works flawlessly until customize-image.sh is executed. Some excerpts of cust…

please, is it useful if I would test MBR/PARTUUID for XU4 (as Zador is thinking of)? (instead of the former LABEL testing I did for SD/eMMC for next) in case I am on the proper path as of http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/2454-fel-mass-storage-or-writing-images-directly-to-emmc/?p=18115

I need customization in configuration file for: a) DISTROS=("jessie" "xenial" "stretch" "bionic") b) ${SCRIPTPATH}config/armbian.key I want to make patch for it, but I need a few decisions: 1. Should I use lib.config as the configuration source? Maybe we prefer a separate file? 2. Can I unify RELEASE_LIST=("xenial" "jessie" "stretch" "bionic") from build-all and DISTROS=("jessie" "xenial" "stretch" "bionic") from repository.sh into one common parameter? 3. Do we accept the name for the parameter: GPG_PUBLIC_KEY=config/armbian.key?

now I can answer this question: all lima code are removed by: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/lib/compilation.sh#L588 thus lima patches can be applied. thus I create a github issue: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/1474 @martinayotte @Igor and other maintainers, please help to handle this, because this is huge work.

This might be more targeted towards security, but building Armbian should not be as a root/privileged user... https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/#how-to-start OpenWRT builds fine as a normal user account, does not need elevated access. Also - FWIW - the local build directory should be armbian, not build - too many other things use /build. @Igor-- thoughts here?

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 !

Hi all I am working on having a working cpufreq support for Allwinner H5 SoC According to the mainline plan, it won't happen anytime soon (it is not even scheduled for 4.13) However some (working) patches already exist, there is a quite updated fork at: https://github.com/megous/linux Reading the provided information, there is also an absolutely required patch for u-boot that fix a PLL1 configuration Apparently this patch is already included in Armbian, it is the patch: But for some reason I really don't understand, this is not applied to the u-boot source, the file doesn't contain the patch. Other patches in u-boot-sun50i-dev are applied correct…

Hello, guys, I need your help with building an image with kernel 4.15 ("dev") for bananapi m1+ (can't use "next" because I need the new display engine). First of all, I need to transfer patches from 4.14 so that I can create my own overlays. Can you tell me which patches I need to look at , besides "add-overlay-compilation-support.patch" ? Thank you

Hello, I am enjoying tinkering with the armbian build tools to customize images. I notice it takes about 2 hours to do a build on my machine. I am just making changes to the customize-image.sh and would like to know if there is an option to retain the default install image and just run the customization process? Thanks Neil

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 …

Hi, I’m trying to integrate the newly released hostapd 2.7 into an image and I’m having trouble including it as a part of the image build process (bionic on vagrant - by the book). My tree is a few weeks out of date, but I can’t see any subsequent commits to the scripts that seem to be the source of my trouble. My build config is: KERNEL_ONLY="no" KERNEL_CONFIGURE="no" CLEAN_LEVEL="make,debs,oldcache" DEST_LANG="en_US.UTF-8" # sl_SI.UTF-8, en_US.UTF-8 KERNEL_KEEP_CONFIG="no" # do not overwrite kernel config before compilation EXTERN…

Hello guys, I am trying to build another kernel within your framework. Here is what I did: 1) copied sun8i.conf to userpaches/sources and modified kernel source url and branch 2) copied patches to userpatches/kernel/sun8i-dev and removed those that made compilation fail I was able to compile u-boot and kernel, but in the end I am getting the following issue: dpkg-deb: error: failed to read archive '/home/sergey/Projects/orangepi/armbian/output/debs/linux-image-dev-sun8i_5.32_armhf.deb': No such file or directory [ o.k. ] Kernel build done [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Target directory [ /home/sergey/Projects/orangepi/armbian/output/de…

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?

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 have a really slow internet connection and I'm doing alot of re-building Armbian and target systems etc. I have a copy of apt-cacher running on a local machine, I know how to configure it on target machines but I'm not sure how I would point the Armbian build system at it? At a guess I'm thinking that I probably need to modify debootstrap to create /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90-apt-proxy.conf but wondered if anyone had any better ideas?

Hi, I'm trying to iterate quickly to test out some ideas on the mmc driver, so I was wondering if it is possible to prevent re-downloading the sources every time. It looked like IGNORE_UPDATES=yes might be what I want, but when I tried that I got a failure during compile_atf: [ o.k. ] Installing [ rkbin-tools ] [ o.k. ] Cleaning output/debs for [ pinebook-a64 default ] [ o.k. ] Cleaning [ o.k. ] Compiling ATF [ o.k. ] Compiler version [ aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc 6.4.1 ] [ o.k. ] Started patching process for [ atf pine64-pinebook-a64-default ] [ o.k. ] Looking for user patches in [ userpatches/atf/atf-pine64 ] make: *** No rule to make target 'bl31'. Stop. [ error ] ERR…

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…

To continue from here. Actually it works the way repository is build together: host Debian Jessie, and then I changed release, update. Now we only have jessie desktop packages, so it looks ok. # armbian.list deb http://apt.armbian.com jessie main utils desktop ... Ign http://apt.armbian.com jessie/desktop Translation-en_US Ign http://apt.armbian.com jessie/desktop Translation-en Ign http://apt.armbian.com jessie/desktop Translation-en_US.UTF-8 Ign http://apt.armbian.com jessie/main Translation-en_US Ign http://apt.armbian.com jessie/main Translation-en Ign http://apt.armbian.com jessie/main Translation-en_US.UTF-8 Ign http://apt.armbian.com jessie/utils Translation-en…

There's a typo in nfs-boot.cmd.template, line 9. s/nfsroot={nfs_root}/nfsroot=${nfs_root}/ Nevertheless thanks for the template. Regards, Steve

I noticed that once in a while I receive Jenkins notification from some build machine under lollipopcloud.solutions domain. I guess I receive notification whenever my email is in some commits covered by the build. Is this build machine some armbian official build machine ? In any case I cannot access the linked jenkins portal. http://jenkins.build.lollipopcloud.solutions:8080/job/Armbian/38/

Does anyone else have to run testdisk regularly after writing Armbian images to SD cards? It may simply be that I've cycles through the 3 or 4 cards that I have here so many times now that they are all on their way out, but it certainly happens on more than 1 card. I've just tried the latest Git version and it's happens with both debootstrap and debootstrap-ng. I used dd in an ubuntu VM to write the SD cards using a USB SD card reader. Workflow: Build Armbian use dd to write image file to SD card Try SD card in *pi board, it fails with unsupported file system error EDIT: the actual error is "Failed to mount Ext2 filesystem" Insert SD card into USB reader a…

First, I'd like to say thank you for creating this. I have a Pine64 board and have built and loaded an Ubuntu Armbian build on the board. I'm now looking to develop custom software which will include a custom audio driver and custom audio software. I anticipate this means one or more custom kernel modules and custom user space software. I've read through all the documentation and will begin experimenting, but thought I'd check to see if somebody has created a cookbook style recipe for the following: 1. Kernel development: incrementally modifying the kernel, building and deploying on the test board. I can see deployment through the created .deb files, but…

Hello, It seems like the 'FORCE_MODULE_UNLOAD' parameter was (set to?) 'N' during the generation of the Armbian kernels. I know it's potentially dangerous to use it, but since the community is doing a lot of experimenting it would be convenient sometimes if this is enabled. Does this mean I have to compile a kernel with this option enabled myself, or is it possible to turn it on in future builds?

I have problem with low space during building orange pi zero image ( even there free space about 50GB on both root and secondary drive ). I happens at the end of image creating when batch customize-image.sh started. Do you know where is variable responsible for 1.5GB big /armbian/output/cache/ ? Thanks.

Hi all, after runnning cd /root/ apt-get -y install git git clone https://github.com/armbian/build cd build ./compile.sh i get following error message. Any hints? Spoiler make[3]: *** [drivers/video/sunxi/lcdc.o] Error 1 scripts/Makefile.build:425: recipe for target 'drivers/video/sunxi' failed make[2]: *** [drivers/video/sunxi] Error 2 scripts/Makefile.build:425: recipe for target 'drivers/video' failed make[1]: *** [drivers/video] Error 2 Makefile:1278: recipe for target 'drivers' failed make: *** [drivers] Error 2 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... CC fs/fs.o CC env/env.o CC drivers/us…

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…

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.

Hello. I'am try use adv7604 and csi in orangepi zero +2 H5, and i cant understand right way to apply changes in build-framework. After all settings in menuconfig are selected, i save cfg in .config_adv7604, and Exit from menuconfig. Build-fwk continued to buld my img ~1hour, and after that i cannot found the module adv7604.ko. OK I am rebuild img again, in the menuconfig i save settings in .config and again cannot find modules. Оn the third try it finally turned out. I saved the config several times in .config (maybe, rewrite old cfg file) and modules now is available in system. It is possible, add .config-files select mode in build-framework? O…

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…

Hello, guys, I am having some strange boot messages for my bananapi m2 running 4.13.14. They all are more or less device-tree related. May I ask you to look at it and give some comments ? 1) there is always a lot of messages like below, but WiFi is working fine: [ 10.801417] brcmfmac: brcmf_p2p_create_p2pdev: timeout occurred [ 10.801434] brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_add_iface: add iface p2p-dev-wlan0 type 10 failed: err=-5 ....... [ 26.108251] brcmfmac: brcmf_fweh_call_event_handler: no interface object [ 26.108260] brcmfmac: brcmf_fweh_event_worker: event handler failed (72) 2) [ …

Please to add new version Armbian for Orange Pi PC 1) automount USB Flash 2) SAMBA (server+client) maybe anything

Using customize-image.sh work nice with debian but not executed when build Ubuntu. Log report [O.K.] Calling image customization script [customize-image.sh] but after that no output from my script and no change on image

Just a thought. Over half of the boards we support feature a 26 or 40 RPi compatible GPIO header and all the other boards expose various protocols and GPIO on various pins and headers. Users coming from Raspbian and trying out any of our boards expect that basics work the same. While it's both impossible and not desirable to be 100% compatible with Raspbian a few things would make transition from Raspbian to Armbian for IoT folks more easy. Simple example: Default user pi in Raspbian has access to GPIO pins -- on Armbian it's currently root only. How's that done? A group called gpio exists in Raspbian, pi is added to it and /etc/udev/rules.d/99-com…

new to the ARMbian build process.. seems very well put together. this is my second attempt at a fresh ARMbian Kernal build in a clean VBox Mini_Ubuntu 16.04 VM. this Kernel build (successful) was invoked by: git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/armbian/build cd build ./compile.sh EXPERT=yes BRANCH=dev RELEASE=xenial BOARD=nanopineo2 KERNEL_ONLY=yes I am still easing into the build process, at the interactive prompt, I opted not to change the kernel's configuration. During the build, I noticed that many modules unrelated to my target NanoPiNeo2 board's hardware.. .. ( yes I know it's still a WIP, then for…

I've got a working Vagrant Armbian Build environment. Now I want to add the following to the sun50i-h5-nanopi-neo2.dts (provides network support in U-boot) and compile a new image. &emac { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&emac_rgmii_pins>; status = "okay"; phy = <&phy1>; phy-mode = "rgmii"; phy1: ethernet-phy@1 { reg = <0>; }; }; Despite reading the docs, I still can't figure out how it's done. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction?

Hey, I'm trying to lock kernel version to 4.11. The documentation is talking about the variable ARMBIAN_MAINLINE_KERNEL_VERSION, which does not do anything, as the script does not take it into account and still clone the last version of kernel (4.13) I cheat and copy KERNELBRANCH='branch:linux-4.11.y' instead in userpatches/lib.config which seems to do the job. What is wrong then ? Documentation or me ? Thanks Florian

Good day, What is the best and easiest way to deal with situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: armbian-config : Depends: debconf-utils but it is not going to be installed Depends: html2text but it is not going to be installed Depends: html2text but it is not going to be installed mc : Depends: mc-data (= 3:4.8.18-1) but it is not going to be installed nfs-kernel-server : Depends: libtirpc1 (>= 0.2.4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: nfs-common (= 1:1.3.4-2.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: keyutils but it is not going to be ins…

Mainline kernel 4.7 brought separate Device Tree configuration for Lime2-eMMC board. What should we do with this board? Don't provide separate images, write some basic instructions about changing Lime2 images to use eMMC Provide separate images with mainline kernel Provide separate images with mainline and legacy kernels I remember about default DRAM frequency issues, but we always can lower default value in u-boot configuration patches. Also I reworked Pine64 configuration and, now build process for legacy u-boot should be more reliable, and mainline (dev) target is also available for building. I think we should start providing preliminary images (Jessie CLI…

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.

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…

(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?

If I have understood correctly, usb-redirector is an example of adding a custom application to an Armbian build? Is there a slightly simpler 'hello world' example? I typically use Buildroot to assemble an OS and RFS - is there anything similar to the BR package system in Armbian if I have misunderstood the above? TAIA.

Hello, guys, I recently posted a problem with Banana Pi M2 framebuffer - my Waveshare35a TFT display was not working with "next" mainline image. I had messages in dmesg about an SPI data transfer issue. As a result there was no new framebuffer device created on the device. The question was then moved to Development group. Can you give a comment about SPI driver on BananaPI M2 ? Is SPI communication on BananaPi m2 really supported by mainline kernel ?

Hi, I made a container based on xenial. ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepizero BRANCH=next KERNEL_ONLY=no RELEASE=stretch [ o.k. ] Using config file [ config-default.conf ] [ o.k. ] This script will try to update remote: Counting objects: 10, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done. remote: Total 10 (delta 4), reused 6 (delta 4), pack-reused 0 Unpacking objects: 100% (10/10), done. From https://github.com/armbian/build 579e17a..e8906ed development -> origin/development Already up-to-date. Already on 'master' Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. [ o.k. ] Command line: setting BOARD to [ orangepizero ] [ o.k. ] Command line: setting BRANCH …

Hi, while toying around build system for Odroid C1 I saw that toolchains for arm-linux-gnueabihf where "old" as we are at "gcc-linaro-7.2.1-2017.11-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf" since the 7.3.1 looks like it is not available for this platform. So I did some changes in lib/general.sh and added the following as a fast hack: "https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/7.4-2019.02/arm-linux-gnueabihf/gcc-linaro-7.4.1-2019.02-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz" "https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/gnu-a/8.2-2019.01/gcc-arm-8.2-2019.01-x86_64-arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz" Then I modified the configuration files fo…

Hi, I wish to develop simple applications on Armbian using C++ language. Is there any guide available on how to compile and link (build) applications for Armbian. Or any other link which would help me to start the development? Thanks a lot, Pottan

Hello, While trying to build full Devian Jessy image for NanoPi Neo at stock x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04 using latest https://github.com/igorpecovnik/libgit , got this: ... [ o.k. ] Compiling default kernel [ 3.4.113 ] [ o.k. ] Compiler version [ arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc 5.4.0 ] [ o.k. ] Using kernel config file [ lib/config/kernel/linux-sun8i-default.config ] HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig drivers/net/wireless/b…

Hello guys, is it possible to build custom source code in customize-image.sh ? Seems like /tmp/overlay is read-only, can I use another location to git clone my source code, make and install in target file system ? My idea is to build & deploy sources using native gcc compiler. Thanks

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 there, while the customize-image.sh got some attention lately because of OMV integration, I've started a try to enhance the customization process. At the moment any changes to the script are valid for the whole buildenv. That might be good when building just one image but all over I think thats not a good situation, especially for automated building or with more then one customization. I startet to define a $CUSTOM Buildvar and redefined the script locations, starting with the following changes: - delete customize-image.sh an overlay dir - placed it under config/customizations with following layout *-chroot.sh, *-host.sh, …

Hello guys after recent updates no patches are executed from "userpatches/kernel/sun8i-dev" anymore. Can you explain what's going on, please ? How should we run user patches now ? Can you also document those changes, please. Thanks

Dear All, I´m trying to boot my nanoPi NEO from an external SPI Flash. Actually, I attached a small AT25DF321A and I´m able to see it´s is working: when in FEL mode, using a slightly modified sunxi-tools, there´s the message: osboxes@osboxes:/tmp/marcellus-sunxi-tools/sunxi-tools$ sudo ./sunxi-fel spiflash-info Manufacturer: Adesto AT25DF321A (1Fh), model: 47h, size: 4096k bytes. I can write to and read from it, too. Now, I need to compile U-BOOT with the command "sf" (I know I will need to write another spi driver, but baby steps...). The problem is: when I change the U-BOOT´s .config file and call the "compile.sh" script using the o…

I've been doing a little housekeeping with github issues and PR's to eliminate noise or bring closure. I've created a STALE label for issues that lack closure or don't have clear actionable items and closing. Hopefully that makes them easy to revisit later if one is interested. I've also posted some follow-ups on a few to try to get things moving and merged a few PRs while applying extreme discretion. Let me know if I do anything you disagree with or want me to back off. I'm trying to be mindful of everyone's work.