Armbian build framework

Hi, while testing with various sun8i legacy builds with connected display it came to my attention that kernel always panics at shutdown (in fact I was all the time doing a reboot so it took me some time to notice this). I tried to replace our rmmod example here with this code for module in $(cut -f1 -d' ' </proc/modules) ; do rmmod -f ${module} ; done But to no avail. Still on shutdown or reboot the kernel panics, waits 10 seconds and reboots then. Behaviour might be related to recent kernel additions (FriendlyARM Matrix stuff)? And the other question is which drawbacks the above code could have?

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!

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) [ …

Hello, I am not very experienced on the Armbian development and want to add a kernel driver to the legacy kernel using the compile.sh development tool, but did not grasp the best practice to add the kernel source reading some forum posts and docs. As a start lets add the sunxi-can driver for the Olimex CAN-A20 interface for legacy kernel for Olimex lime2 A20 board like described in the Wiki at Olimex: https://www.olimex.com/wiki/A20-CAN I did: a) http://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparationon an virtual box on my machine and can successfully build kernel packages and apply user-patches enable some patches like the copy /patch…

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…

A thought occurred to me while watching my machine sync a bunch of repos while running the Armbian build script, and I couldn't help wondering: Could we put the board support patches into their own repo separate from the build scripts themselves? More specifically: board support for "Boards of Interest" to the Armbian maintainers would be in whatever "official" repos we dedicate, I recommend separating per board family or SoC board support for CSC goes into, predictably, a CSC repo board support for EOL boards can be spun off into their own repo TV boxes go into a TV box repo Advantages: Supporting every pet …

Hi, I'm trying to build a dev branch image for sun8i but struggle with this: dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi' in '../linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi_5.07_armhf.deb'. dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-dtb-next-sunxi' in '../linux-dtb-next-sunxi_5.07_armhf.deb'. dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-headers-next-sunxi' in '../linux-headers-next-sunxi_5.07_armhf.deb'. dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-image-next-sunxi' in '../linux-image-next-sunxi_5.07_armhf.deb'. dpkg-genchanges: warning: package linux-libc-dev-next-sunxi in control file but not in files list dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload (no source code included) Later the scripts try …

What about solving ramlog this way: - added cronjob on every 15 minutes - if space is 75% full do: logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.d/ write to SD card truncate and remove files It is better than now. Good enough for defaults? Spoiler diff --git a/packages/bsp/common/etc/cron.d/armbian-truncate-logs b/packages/bsp/common/etc/cron.d/armbian-truncate-logs new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dbc024c --- /dev/null +++ b/packages/bsp/common/etc/cron.d/armbian-truncate-logs @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +*/15 * * * * root /usr/lib/armbian/truncate-logs \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/bsp/common/usr/lib/armbian/truncate-logs b/p…

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.

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?

Hello, guys, I got a third-party source code for a GPU kernel module, compatible with mainline. I need to build & install it during the Armbian build procedure. I know what to do when "Full image" is selected in configuration , i.e. I can use customize-image-host.sh. Is there any good way to build it when "Kernel only" mode is selected ? Thanks

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

Hello. Now, build environment is only Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic). But some time ago, the build environment was Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial). How can I build armbian on Xenial? Maybe, I have to change branch to another, or checkout to certain commit? Help me please...

Did a fresh OrangePi Plus2E image, legacy, Debian jessie, desktop, RT, but the SD boot gives this U-Boot SPL 2016.11-armbian (Jan 06 2017 - 14:49:44) DRAM: 2048 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2016.11-armbian (Jan 06 2017 - 14:49:44 +0200) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Plus 2E I2C: ready DRAM: 2 GiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0, SUNXI SD/MMC: 1 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment HDMI connected: Setting up a 1920x1080 hdmi console (overscan 0x0) hdmi enabled Error: no valid bmp image at 66000000 In: serial Out: vga Err: vga Net: phy interface7 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 Hit any key to stop autoboot:…

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 …

I got this error building a Cubietruck image on sunxi-next with patches in both u-boot and the kernel: [ error ] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ common.sh:228 ] [ error ] Kernel was not built [ @host ] Full log: http://pastebin.com/MKTmUXcc

hi, i have latest Armbian environment pulled from github running on Ubuntu Bionic 18.04. There are 2 issues that are bugging me. Not sure It does produce in most cases images but i think they are incomplete. Tried even secondary copy (another clone) that i would run in docker containers just to see if that was the issue but outcome seems to be the same. 1. Every time i start ./compile it pulls Linaro toolchain and fails to verify its signature. Looking at the files https://dl.armbian.com/_toolchains/ it seems that linaro toolchain has GPG signature in ASC file where as others have checksum. Am not sure ... zh@acus:~/armbian$ ./comp…

hi, i have a problem not being able to build for Odroid-N2. To isolate the issue i created new copy of git ... it fails on kernel build. all defaults. zh@acus:~/git$ git clone https://github.com/armbian/build.git armbian Cloning into 'armbian'... remote: Enumerating objects: 151, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (151/151), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (121/121), done. remote: Total 49101 (delta 83), reused 65 (delta 30), pack-reused 48950 Receiving objects: 100% (49101/49101), 325.95 MiB | 8.33 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (32873/32873), done. Checking out files: 100% (2951/2951), done. zh@acus:~/git$ cd armbian zh@acus:~/git/armbian$ ./comp…

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…

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…

Hi, i try to build my own UserPatch for orangepizero. Sometimes i use my own Workaround with Editing Build-Files (old Builder). Please explain me replacing "patch/kernel/sun8i-default/02-0011-fbtft_for_older.patch" with FB-TFT Original Sources. (More Devices) Thanks

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

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?

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 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.

Hey, I'd like to build an image closer to mainline Debian (normal MOTD, wicd instead of network manager) with a few extra packages (nginx, mariadb, ...) and openbox for the DE targeted at an OrangePi Plus 2E, any suggestions or guidance on how to edit the build scripts to create something like this? Currently doing this all with Ansible after copying it to eMMC, but I figure it'd be a big time savings to prebuild an image with the right DE and software on a more powerful box.

Hi I want to build armbian for nanopi neo with a different mainline. What I have done is 1. added lib.config file in userpatches with statement ARMBIAN_MAINLINE_KERNEL_VERSION='4.9' that didn't work, I still get a 4.10.1 kernel build 2. then changed configration.sh ARMBIAN_MAINLINE_KERNEL_VERSION='4.9' that didn't work either, I got 4.10.1 kernel build Any other tricks? -jerry

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 don't know when exactly but since 21.08.2018 I can't build dev kernel anymore I am building armbian (on ubuntu 18.04) like this sudo BETA=yes EXPERT=yes ./compile.sh but there isn't dev kernel options in menu anymore

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…

Edit: Uh i guess it should be in the "Development" section instead ... but I can't find how to move the topic :s Hellow, thank you very much for all the work achieved by the Armbian project. I am using Armbian to build images (using https://github.com/armbian/build ) that I provide to users, with custom packagers installed via userpatches and it works pretty well ! However, the whole "kernel compiling" thing is quite mysterious to me and I don't really understand it. My questions are : - I am confused by the whole "default", "next" and "dev" terminology ? I am guessing this is some sort of stable / testing / unstable, b…

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…

I saw bionic image for download, so I thought I would build my customized image for OPI PC based on Ubuntu Bionic and 4.18.y kernel, so I have some questions: 1. Is Bionic fully stable/supported for OPI PC? 2. Is kernel 4.18.y supported? Is it sufficient to set KERNELTAG="v4.18.7" to build it? Or I just has to stick with 4.17.y?

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

Today I did build the image for stretch (for M2 Ultra) - but it was a bit strange - because it ended up in a 1.1GB .image file, but the compressed size was only 1.5MB OK, before building the image I got only 6GB free on my virtual HDD - by the last images this did work.... Now I will reinstall my build-system with the double size (60GB against 30GB before) and then I will firstly try to create a xenial image (not stretch which give me the compressed 1.50MB image whcih doesnt boot )

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…

I am trying to build an Image for the Rockpro but i am allways getting an Error when it comes to compile U-boot (did not make any Changes so far): Displaying message: Preparing host info Displaying message: Build host OS release bionic info Displaying message: Syncing clock host info ## BUILD SCRIPT ENVIRONMENT Repository: https://github.com/armbian/build Version: 46340a24 Host OS: bionic Host arch: amd64 Host system: Linux ek-desktop 4.15.0-33-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 15 16:00:05 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Virtualization type: none ## Build script directories Build directory is located on: TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE AVAIL /home /dev/sda1 ext4 …

Hi all, and first of all I want pay many thanks to authors and contributors for a great work on a Armbian itself and it's builder too. You rock, guys But a few days ago I ran into a problem with creating my own image. For these purposes, I use the custom-image.sh script. My goal is to preinstall the cups into my image. So, my modified script now looks like that: Spoiler ... RELEASE=$1 LINUXFAMILY=$2 BOARD=$3 BUILD_DESKTOP=$4 pb_staff_inj() { apt-get --yes --force-yes --allow-unauthenticated --fix-missing install -f cups avahi-daemon avahi-discover } Main() { case $RELEA…

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'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 …

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.

Hello, I know this will be a controversial subject, but I often like to see what's happening in a devel repository by browsing commits. I start by looking at the commit titles (first commit message line) to approximate the interest that particular entry is to me, then if deemed interesting, I'll read the full commit message to understand what it is about, then if still interested I'll go read the code. I think this is a fairly straightforward approach to digging in a codebase or development stream, avoiding to loose time on things outside of interest scope, and allowing to focus on specific subjects. So, in order for this workflow to be doable, the commit …

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…

I'm trying to create a full OS image with configured kernel but the process fails: E: Failed getting release file http://localhost:3142/httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release How can I fix it?

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 …

I tried to compile a new kernel. It compiles finaly, but I miss the file: linux-dtb-dev-sun8i_********** Instead I see a file: linux-libc-dev_5.27_armhf.deb Anyone has an idea hat goes wrong and how I produce this file? See compilation logs: https://pastebin.com/98en8B4n dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-firmware-image-4.12.0-next-20170529-sun8i' in '../linux-firmware-image-4.12.0-next-20170529-sun8i_5.27_armhf.deb'. dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-headers-4.12.0-next-20170529-sun8i' in '../linux-headers-4.12.0-next-20170529-sun8i_5.27_armhf.deb'. dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-libc-dev' in '../lin…

Can you please enable MAC80211_MESH in the kernel. Board: Rock64 https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/937 im guessing here https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/kernel/linux-rk3328-default.config#L1182

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…

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…

Hi - does the kernel 4.16 for Stretch 9 for the Odroid C2 support the cryptographic APIs options: (1) CMAC (2) User-space interface for hash algorithms (3) User-space interface for symmetric key cipher algorithms Thank you. -- Cinaed

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.…

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?

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?

Hello, I am trying to build a custom Armbian image and I would like to remove some deb packages in order to not to be installed. ¿What would be the right place to do that? 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 …

I made some changes in the build scripts and wanted to ask if some of you may find them useful... ability to use custom skel folder in /userpatches directory support for xdm display manager (with graphical keyboard) selectable display manager in expert mode (lightdm, xdm or nodm) Especially the custom skel folder gives much more flexability for modders to generate images for wip or scs boards. I am currently testing different configurations, all seems good so far. What do you think about these changes? Would a pull request make sense?

Hello guys I recently moved my build into VirtualBox in order to protect my host's rootfs from potential corruption. Everything went ok, build is working fine. For my project I would like to share toolchains that Armbian has already downloaded on first start. Is it possible to customize the path where toolchains are stored so that I can point to a shared folder? Thank you

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.

Hi, I am adding support of my board to armbian framework and I have several questions: 1. I added my u-boot & kernel but when I build package for kernel, it creates linux-image-4.14.98-sabre_5.94_armhf.deb instead of linux-image-sabre_5.94_armhf.deb so I have to remove version from from file name in compilation.sh or image creation process would fail. Is it possible to define name of .deb package? I guess I just missed something in my kernel config file. 2. u-boot & linux-image packages are installed successful but I have to add default links to kernel & device tree files by hands or update u-boot scripts by hand. Is it p…

Hello guys is there a way to customize boot.cmd without changing any git-controlled files ? For example, I would like to setenv console to null. I found the file lib/config/bootenv/sunxi-default.txt but I have no idea how to override it in my userpaches folder. Thanks

I try to build a customized image as described in https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/#user-provided-image-customization-script and by using the template with the OpenMediaVault example https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/templates/customize-image.sh.template The goal is to build an image who auto-execute an initial setup script after being flashed and frist boot. The device has connected RGB-Leds and an OLED I2c Display on the GPIO pins. It should give color signals durring this initial setup, and then show system parameters (especially the DHCP-Address) on the oled screen *without* having a keyboard and HDMI-Display c…

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.

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…

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…

Hello, I try to use DBus within the chroot and I got this issue : Failed to create bus connection The command used was : hostnamectl set-hostname device_name Systemd does not seems to work within the chroot, do you have any workaround ? Thanks, Florian

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…

I am doing test builds and I notice some strange behaviour. First boot is very short and it resets, than we got this: (Orangepi PC+ / legacy / jessie CLI) What was changed / break here? Is this related to my build host?

Spoiler Displaying message: Creating new rootfs for jessie info Displaying message: Installing base system Stage 1/2 info Displaying message: Installing base system Stage 2/2 info Displaying message: ERROR in function create_rootfs_cache debootstrap-ng.sh:139 err Displaying message: Debootstrap base system second stage failed err Displaying message: Process terminated info Displaying message: ERROR in function unmount_on_exit image-helpers.sh:59 err Displaying message: debootstrap-ng was interrupted err Displaying message: Process terminated info @zador.blood.stained Any idea why deboostrap is failing? target is …

Implement them to board configuration like: DEFAULT_OVERLAY="usbhost2" or hardcode into device tree?

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…

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…

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?

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…

Ideally I'd like to get a structure in place that rebuilds armbian with each commit to igorpecovnik/lib. I'd love people's ideas on the best way to go about this. I am pretty good with jenkins and all his pals, so if you have a favorite, please do let me know. Dockerfile Any feedback? It should work even on systems that don't have the needed native ubuntu 14.04 Vagrantfile Just used it to make a build myself, seems to be working fine, though there's some troubleshooting to be done with the build. Unsure what the source of the issue is, and had build mainline for opi, so instead I will now build opi-oldkernel.

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…

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…

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 studying and working on Dynamic Device-Tree Overlays since awhile, but after hard work, I've finally got a working prototype using the work from Pantelis Antoniou. During last few days, I was doing debugging to find out why it wasn't working, even if I got the ConfigFS working, it was refusing to grab my simple overlay test. I've finally figured out this afternoon : the Root/Base DTB need also to be compiled with the "symbols" list generated with the Antoniou's version of "dtc". So, I will probably prepare a patch soon and submit it thru a PR.

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

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?

Hello. I have some problem, building image from source. I try to build legacy kernel, full image, CLI, for Orange Pi PC and Orange Pi One (the two i have), but it always stops at "LD kernel/built-in.o", with the following error: [ error ] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ common.sh:177 ] on both platforms. I try Ubuntu Xenial and Debian Jessie, same error at the same place, so i don't think it's OS related. I delete the source and git clone again, but this not helped. I also try to build the same image (5.14_Ubuntu_xenial_3.4.112, CLI) for my A20 Lamobo R1 and it builds with no errors. So there must be something with H3 only. As far as i see, line 176 and 177 of…

Hi, I recently set up an ubuntu 16.04 parallels machine for armbian building. I use ./compile.sh BRANCH=dev to build orange pi lite2 dev images. But it failed, here is the log: [ o.k. ] Downloading sources [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ u-boot h6-hdmi-rebased-1 ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ linux-mainline h6-integrate-2-ugly ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ arm-trusted-firmware-sunxi-mainline sun50i_h6_pmic ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ sunxi-tools master ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ rkbin-t…

I'm successfully able to compile Armbian with the 4.17 kernel, Ubuntu Bionic and desktop support for my Orange Pi Plus 2E (H3). But I'm trying to switch from the default nodm display manager to lightdm. I was actually able to install lightdm using lib.config the customize-image.sh script (see here), but then the wizard complains that I have to choose between nodm and lightdm. Then I discovered there's a DISPLAY_MANAGER env variable that I can pass into compile which seems like a better solution. Unfortunately that consistently breaks: Unpacking libpython-stdlib:armhf (2.7.15~rc1-1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-GgFLat/090-huma…

Today i wanted to try some changes an build a new kernel for my H3 PCPlus. When I executed compile.sh i got a Message that the script was outdated. So i copied a newer Version from lib to my root directory. I made thechanges i did before: Set KERNEL_Configure to "yes" and set DEST_LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" (that was the only way to get a clean translated german Desktop before..) Now I get a warning Message: [ warn ] Can't update since you made changes to: compile.sh When I hit Enter the next thing happens: The Toolchan is downloaded every time. Is this really necessary? I have only a volume based Internet connection... Regards

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, The compilation of a kernel failed with the error returned: ERROR in function compile_kernel [common.sh:254] Armbian building script, http://www.armbian.com | Author: Igor Pecovnik Compiling kernel... ... CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/rtl8189fs/core/rtw_mp_ioctl.o LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/rtl8189fs/8189fs.o LD drivers/net/wireless/built-in.o LD drivers/net/built-in.o Makefile:948 : la recette pour la cible « drivers » a échouée make: *** [drivers] Erreur 2 This error occurred after activating in the config of the kernel: ----> Device Driver -----> USB Support ------> USB Modem (CDC ACM…

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:…

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…

Hello guys. I try to build image for pine64. My OS is Ubuntu 16.04. My options: - Full OS image for flashing - Do not change the kernel configuration - pine64 - default - jessie -image with console interface. Then I see the following: 0 upgraded, 299 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 118 MB of archives. After this operation, 461 MB of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! hostapd E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes [ error ] ERROR in function create_rootfs_cache [ debootstrap-ng.sh:208…

A week ago Armbian was kernel 4.9.0, and Ethernet on NanoPi Neo worked after compile image. But now kernel is 4.9.4 and Ethernet not works (no interface eth0, ifconfig -a not shows eth0, only Loopback). There was also renewed Armbian framework. How do I get to work Etnernet on NanoPi Neo after last change Armbian framework and Kernel?

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…

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?

Hi, I just made a brand new VM to build armbian this morning so after installing Bionic / checking out the sources, I started `compile.sh` for the first time and I got theses warning / errors (15 minutes ago) : E: Version '1.2.0' for 'aptly' was not found [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ .... ] Downloading [ gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.04_linux ] -=O=- # # # # curl: (7) Failed to connect to dl.armbian.com port 443: Connection refused curl: (7) Failed to connect to dl.armbian.com port 443: Connection refused [ .... ] Verifying grep: gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.04_linux.tar.…

Using ./compile.sh, I'm not able to build ATF for the H5. It appears that the problem is that it's looking for the "allwinner-stable" branch, when the branch name on the repositiory is just "allwinner" or "allwinner-testing". Error is at the bottom of the post. I got it to work by changing the branch name in ./build/config/sources/sunxi64_common.inc by setting ATFBRANCH='branch:allwinner-stable' and it appears to work. Is this a naming problem in the fork of ATF, or a naming problem in armbian/build? Error output from ./compile.sh. Targeting nanopineoplus2, occurs on next/dev with jessie/stretch/ubuntu. [ o.k. ] Downloading sources [ …

Hello I have built Armbian new desktop image and SATA PMP patched kernel debs for OrangePi from the master branch on Ubuntu Xenial VBox host ./compile.sh PROGRESS_DISPLAY=plain FORCE_CHECKOUT="no" CREATE_PATCHES=yes\ BRANCH=default BOARD=orangepi KERNEL_ONLY=no RELEASE=jessie\ USE_GITHUB_UBOOT_MIRROR="yes" BUILD_DESKTOP=yes EXTERNAL_NEW=prebuilt and got this messages during kernel compilation HEAD detached at FETCH_HEAD nothing to commit, working directory clean [ warn ] Make your changes in this directory: [ /root/my_orangepi_kernel/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4 ] [ warn ] Press <Enter> after you are done [ waiting ]…

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.…

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: …

How can I obtain the kernel sources for a specific image and build the modules the same as those installed? I am running into structure version differences when I build the mainline, then apply to my test system, and I don't want to run the test system on mainline, as I need the stability of the legacy kernel. I know there are certain options to build and ignore structure version differences as long as the structure is similar, but it would seem most pertinent to obtain the correct source for the kernel I am running, copy the .config to the build machine and then build the image. This then allows me to easily switch between different kernel modul…

I saw @zador.blood.stained was doing some housekeeping, so I wanted to open the discussion again about what to do about it in the future. We've obviously demonstrated what you "don't want to do". My last comments on this were as follows: We should have temporary per-kernel branches when undertaking a bigger change. This allows wider testing for those who like to build experimental things Makes the creator of the branch responsible for keeping it up to date gets flattened out and merged into "master" or a "next" waiting for a revision bump PR's should be used on anything anyone is not 100% certain of to g…

Hello community, i'm trying to build the image according the instructions _armbian/build_ but my build system is behind a firewall limited to http(80) and https(443). The build scripts are trying to fetch directly from git through different network ports. How can i change the way for cloning the git repositories to https? The same problem appears also for the key server, is there also a way to adapt them to https? There is a workaround by setting in file config-default.conf the options USE_MAINLINE_GOOGLE_MIRROR="yes" USE_GITHUB_UBOOT_MIRROR="yes" They only using implicit https protocol for git. The questions above are still i…