Armbian build framework

Is there any simple way that we automatically produce a patch of changes made to the (kernel / uboot) source? Of course also if files are added.

It looks like the GH repo is being renamed from https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib to https://github.com/armbian/build However, the scripts still point to the old location. What are the plans for the GH repo? Is armbian/build the new official location and the scripts will be updated in time? Would a PR be welcome that updates the scripts to the new repo location? Cheers,

Hello - I'm requesting that an issue tracker be added to the documentation repository on the Armbian GitHub project. This would allow various documentation improvement requests to be placed and resolution status to be easily located.

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…

Hi all I have updated the armbian repo today and all the H5 boards disappeared... Some new option to add maybe?

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

How can I debug kernel source code in armbian build system very simply? Each build will need to download source code from the git hub , if add a line of source code，also need patch again, but the process need very super time, what is the simple method?

How can I exclude from build kernel "dbg" package ? There is a patch for the kernel, but as not know how to fix it (without the original file which is a patch).

As mentioned above, how can is specify the version of kernel and u-boot when i build the image(in https://github.com/armbian/build) from scratch? Thanks in advance!

I can configure the kernel (KERNEL_CONFIGURE="yes" in compile.sh), but can not configure U-Boot? How to configure U-Boot at ARMBIAN compilation?

Hello guys I have a question regarding H3 overlays. I see that during build "overlay" folder is created in arch/arm/boot/dts and H3 overlays are copied there. Can you point, please, where build framework takes those file from and how to customize this ? The goal here is to add an extra overlay. I see that the structure is very similar to https://github.com/armbian/sunxi-DT-overlays but I can't find in build scripts if you copy files from there or any other repository. Thanks.

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…

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 …

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

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 my project I would like to create Armbian ISO that has only the packages that are really needed for system itself and literally few I need for my application. Just to use smallest possible SD card and not update packages I will never use. Regardless how I configure build at the end I got 1GB image. While I know it is possible to go down to 100MB using Ubuntu bionic and latest kernel. Shall debootstrap use configurable —variant option? For me “minbase” would be perfect. But it does not change anything. Shall I put into lib.config my version of PACKAGE_LIST? Still a rootfs is forced to download. No success. So how to strip do…

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

I want to build kernel applied with rt-patch. Latest rt-patch version is for 4.9.13. So, How can I get the result? I think I should edit configuration.sh and then, put the patch file to userpatches/kernel directory? I need a kernel for nanopi-neo.

Is there a way to increase/change CMA (contiguous memory alocator) reserved memory in kernel configuration for H3 devices? The value stays at default of 16Mb, but after kernel/image creation magically increase to some higher value like 160Mb for OpiOne (512Mb RAM), or 256Mb for OpiPC (1Gb RAM). Even if i try to change the value in kernel configuration, like i used to in A20, with: KERNEL_CONFIGURE="yes" FORCE_CHECKOUT="no" in compile.sh , this have no effect for H3 and the above values of 160Mb/256Mb stays the same. So i guess it's defined somewhere else, patch maybe? Is there a way to change this? I want to see if increasing the CMA value will help to get rid of "out…

Hi, I tried to use the Legacy 3.4.113 but when it loads the kernel the Cubieboard2 shows a weird scrambeled picture on the Monitor and just shuts down. So I decided to build the kernel from source. I'm pretty new to Armbian, and the compile script is a lot of different. I built the kernel using the compile.sh script for Cubieborad2. I installed the Mainline 4.9.7 Armbian on Cubieboard2. My question is how to install the built kernel (3.x) on the existing system, as if I try to install the debs I get that I can't install over existing firmware and u-boot (even with force-install)? Thanks!

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?

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.

Please see the boot log of Orange Pi PC, FEL/NFS booting kernel 4.6-rc1 with (mostly) working Ethernet: U-Boot SPL 2016.03-armbian (Apr 02 2016 - 13:09:08) DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying to boot from U-Boot 2016.03-armbian (Apr 02 2016 - 13:09:08 +0200) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi PC I2C: ready DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 Card did not respond to voltage select! *** Warning - MMC init failed, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: No ethernet found. starting USB... USB0: USB EHCI 1.00 USB1: USB OHCI 1.0 USB2: USB EHCI 1.00 USB3: USB OHCI 1.0 USB4: USB EHCI 1…

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

Hello guys can you teach please how to update Armbian's kernel on my device without replacing whole SD image ? thank you

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

Playing with BUILD_MINIMAL I had to several times run compilation script for the same board / system / branch. To speed up verification I thought: what is a point to constantly build u-boot / kernel? So I added CLEAN_LEVEL option to not delete generated debs. I have noted that from one hand I can disable cleaning of (for example) kernel deb files, but from other hand if there is repository update no new deb is produced. And the idea.... or is this already implemented somewhere? Build of u-boot / kernel is initiated when no deb file exists. fetch_from_repo function knows if the repository is updated. What is fetch_f…

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

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

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…

I fail build rom when pack [libssl-dev] , my OS is ubuntu 15, anyone can help me ?

Hi, I tested to build some deb package yesterday on my Nanopi M1 and it went surprisingly good and quite fast so I wondered ... I know that the documented way of building armbian is with a x64 computer (with Virtualbox / docker). As I already stated I don't have a big enough x64 computer at hand, would it be feasible to tweak the scripts to build one image (not all) using either my Nanopi M1 (but I guess 512Mo of RAM will be problematic) or a Banana Pi / Raspberry Pi 2 ? If not, building uboot / kernel only ? I started to read the scripts, there are many scripts and but I think I can understand many of them individually even if the global architecture is h…

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:

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

I'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.

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

Hello, guys, when can we expect mainline Kernel 4.14 for sun8i h3 ? Now we have only 2 options : 4.11 or 4.13. Thank you

Hello guys, is there any reason why you still build the old Kernel 4.11 for h3/sun8i ? Thanks

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

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

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 ?

As far as I can tell, many, if not all, targets generate an identical postinst script for the linux-headers package by patching scripts/package/builddeb. A search of the Armbian build repo for "Compiling headers - please wait" produces 33 code results. This means that improving the postinst script (for example, as discussed here) requires updating 33 patch files. I'd be happy to help improve the situation, but I'm unsure how to proceed. Could we have a global postinst script for the linux-headers package, and somehow copy it into place? or must we use a patch file?

I don't know if this is related to Linux kernel 5.0 but I didn't have this problem with 4.20 I used linux-headers-dev-.._arm64.deb kernel header files to compile mali kernel drivers on board I don't know if armbian changed something or it is kernel 5.0 related now I can't as linux-headers-dev debian/postinst script don't generate scripts/mod/modpost and only scripts/basic/fixdep any idea? this is output from make -d -s scripts http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/fbhr37q8GF/

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…

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?

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

I'm trying to lock u-boot version and I create the file /userpatches/lib.config with this inside MAINLINE_UBOOT_BRANCH='tag:v2017.01', but script continue updating uboot to v2017.03. What's wrong? In configuration.sh I put echo $MAINLINE_UBOOT_BRANCH just after load lib.config and this show my tag:v2017.01.

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…

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 ?

[ o.k. ] Building deb [ armbian-config ] [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ armbian-config master ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Merging and packaging linux firmware [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ armbian-firmware-git master ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Merging and packaging linux firmware [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ armbian-firmware-git master ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ linux-firmware-git master ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Creating board support package [ nanopineocore2 next ] [ .... ] Fingerprinting [ o.k. ] Building package [ linux-stretch-root-next-nanopineocore2 ] [ o.k. ] Building desktop package [ armbian-stretc…

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 …

Hello, guys, any plans to support SUBJ ? I need a very simple image, display + network. Thank you

I've been using ./compile.sh to play around booting a NanoPi Neo via FEL and come across an issue when using the default branch. When I build using "BRANCH=dev" it boots but when using ./compile.sh KERNEL_ONLY=no BRANCH=default BOARD=nanopineo PROGRESS_DISPLAY=plain RELEASE=jessie BUILD_DESKTOP=no ROOTFS_TYPE=fel The resulting kernel doesn't boot and shows the following error via serial on the Neo. "Error: unrecognized/unsupported machine ID (r1 = 0x00000000)" I found extracting output/cache/sdcard/boot/boot.scr, adding "setenv machid 1029" and generating the boot.scr image again I was able to get it to boot. Have I missed a step in the compile.sh process…

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

hey there, compilation noob here. I want to build my own image via vagrant and set it up already, because Armbian is the only OS* which provides an integrated option for an encrypted rootfs (preferrably on another drive than the sd-card, because of performance) without manually fiddling around. See: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/947 My plan is to build it with the optional config, as written in post 2 of the link above: CRYPTROOT_ENABLE=yes CRYPTROOT_PASSPHRASE="MYSECRECTPASS" CRYPTROOT_SSH_UNLOCK=yes CRYPTROOT_SSH_PORT=2222 But I don't know where to put the optional build options and it's not clear to…

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…

Hi all, here's a newbie question: -How to change root-file-system? Eg. for ex. change settings in a file /etc/network/interfaces, when building the whole image. I tried to use the build/userpatches/overlay folder and add changed files there, but didn't work... I'm probably missing something. br. Mike

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.

I've just tried to build my custom image for OPI 2 but got into some trouble with space: Spoiler [ o.k. ] Preparing image file for rootfs [ orangepi2 xenial ] [ o.k. ] Current rootfs size [ 753 MiB ] [ o.k. ] Creating blank image for rootfs [ 872 MiB ] 872MiB [42,5MiB/s] [===========================================================================================================================================>] 100% [ o.k. ] Creating partitions [ root: ext4 ] [ .... ] Creating rootfs [ ext4 ] [ .... ] Copying files to root directory 657.56M 99% 25.52MB/s 0:00:24 (xfr#44298, to-chk=4/56213) rsync: mkstemp "/home/rufik/workspace…

@Igor It seems u-boot compilation fails. Please note that this is the first time I build armbian. Am I missing something? [ o.k. ] Building boot image cp: cannot stat 'build/a3700/debug/flash-image.bin': No such file or directory [ error ] ERROR in function compile_uboot [ compilation.sh:174 ] [ error ] U-boot file not found [ flash-image.bin ] [ o.k. ] Process terminated output.log: https://pastebin.com/Zc4sWzBb

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…

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

Hello there, I am trying to build a custom armbian image using instructions here http://www.armbian.com/using-armbian-tools/, because I need to enable additional module for Philips webcam, not included in stock one. I have built the compile environment, run the script, added my modules and compiled, generating the entire image. Once I flash and boot from it though, Uboot hangs while saying "booting the kernel" I have tried release 5.00 and 5.06, using Debian Wheezy and Jessie, with the same result. I have also tried flashing the stock image and then just replace kernel packages I had built, because I thought the problem could have to do with systemd. As l…

Hi, From the supported boards list armbian/config/boards$ ls orangepi* orangepi2.conf orangepi.eos orangepimini.eos orangepipc2.conf orangepipcplus.conf orangepiplus.conf orangepi-r1.conf orangepizero.conf orangepizeroplus2-h5.conf orangepi2g-iot.csc orangepilite.conf orangepione.conf orangepipc.conf orangepiplus2e.conf orangepiprime.conf orangepiwin.conf orangepizeroplus2-h3.conf orangepizeroplus.conf we can see that Orange Pi Plus 2e and Orange Pi Plus are supported, however Orange Pi Plus 2 is NOT. These 3 boards are of trivial differences. I wonder if I can use the configuration of Orange Pi Plus 2e …

Hello, all images for OrangePI PC (next) produced since yesterday give the following output: ----------------------------------- U-Boot SPL 2017.11-armbian (Dec 03 2017 - 17:13:28) DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel. Loading, please wait... starting version 232 Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done. Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... Scanning for Btrfs filesystems done. Begin: Waiting for root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-block…

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

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

Idly wondering if the .debs directory could be owned by the user rather than root ...

hello, do you already have SUBJ ? Thank you

Hello, guys, I need to set overlay_prefix=sun6i-a31 in armbianEnv.txt automatically. I found that the default sunxi_common.inc behavior does not allow applying my custom file "userpatches/sources/sun6i.conf" where I have OVERLAY_PREFIX variable declared. In the file sunxi_common.inc the variable LINUXFAMILY is reset to "sunxi" for sun6i architecture. My question is: do you have another way to set OVERLAY_PREFIX variable ? Thank you.

I want to override some configurations from $LINUXFAMILY.conf in SOMEBOARD.conf/wip/csc. One way is to provide $SRC/userpatches/sources/$LINUXFAMILY.conf, but I don't like this approach. I want to make these modification permanent. Maybe move the specific configuration from the family file to each board file, but with will not work with big families. Any ideas or comments? Thanks

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.

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

For now - armbian is best OS for Orange Pi Plus 2. I try connect touchscreen Waveshare 5" LCD Ver.2 trough GPIO but no success:( If it possible, please, add driver for ADS7843 Touchscreen in next patch. Sorry, cant do it himself:(

I am trying to build 150balbes/Build-Armbian at my Ubuntu18 PC . However , the download process of toolchains are very slow. I had already spent most of the day in it. Unfortunatly , some of the toolchains was downloaded with warnings : [ warn ] Verification failed Could you please tell me the list of all needed toolchains and its source ? I will try to downlaod them in another way. Thanks ! Guofu Han

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.

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

Hi guys, Is it possible to include the hfsplus module (used for mounting Mac HFS+ filesystems) in the kernel please? I have to manually build kernels in order to get this feature which is time consuming.

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

It might be time for some release line. Let's put together what was done in past few month, need to be done, was forgotten and it's worth mentioning. I sure missed stuff out ... so just add it. IMAGES / KERNEL: - all 3.10+ kernels are Docker ready - added Odroid C2 CLI and desktop, kernel upgraded to 3.14.65 - Udoo Neo wireless works - legacy kernel for Allwinner boards was upgraded to 3.4.111 - legacy kernel for iMx6 boards was upgraded to 3.14.65 - vanilla images comes with kernel 4.4.6 - Clearfog comes with 3.10.101 and 4.4.6 - added Armbianmonitor which knows .... - fixes for SPDIF / I2S audio driver in legacy kernel - added USB camera section - added f…

Should I just build it or we do some more fixes?

Short changelog: Removed autodetection for H3 boards, changed DVFS and thermal settings Repackaged tools, hostapd and firmware (may require manual installation of packages) Odroid C2: Fixed headers packaging script, updated kernel configuration, updated boot script Added back watchdog to sun7i-default kernel Purging and reinstalling "unattended-upgrades" package should be recommended in changelog Script "40-updates" update logic was changed; script was switched to python3 since Xenial doesn't use python2 by default. Installing "python3-apt" should be recommended in changelog. Reworked initrd images handling on kernel upgrade ... (to be added) Other fixes and enhancements…

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

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, 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 ?

Just a quick list: It's named completely wrong since it doesn't install anything but transfers an already running installation from one media to another. Main focus on 'without breaking stuff' since transfering a booted/running system is challenging! It's named completely wrong since it's not about NAND and SATA any more (hello Cubieboards and Bananas back in 2014) but eMMC and USB these days (and yeah, SATA too) It's a blind alley: moving the installation from SD card to $somewhere will work. But nand-sata-install is still there, people might want to use it and will fail (though I think that will most probably never happen since once people are h…

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…

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

How to use this variable ? Tried to set different options, but when compiling the kernel aarch64, always use the system version 4.8. Set both variables in the config file, the variable UBOOT_TOOLCHAIN is triggered (begins to use the written version), and this variable does not change either as the compiler. This is my local problem not correct the system configuration or the same situation with the others ? For now I solve this problem rough hack - point in the variable PATCH user, the first desired directory with the compiler. Another associated question in the script general.sh in lines 471-474, with a list of packages for the host system specified compilers, including …

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 am currently learning on the H5 on a OrangePiPC2. I would like to be able to add debug messages to arm-trusted-firmware (bl31) and u-boot code, then re-build them and update my SD card. I did successfully build an image, but having spent some time going through the build scripts and the documentation, and performed a number of recursive grep commands looking where bl31.bin was being referenced from, I have not been able to answer the following questions yet: 1) where is located the script code responsible for packaging bl31.bin and u-boot into an image acceptable by the H5 boot ROM ? 2) where is located the script code responsible for writin…

Wondering if we should have a release notes/changelog that gets tossed into the image somewhere? Something very simple that we maintain by just updating a text file with a significant commit. (Like changing kernel versions, fixing a known bug from previous release, etc). Maybe toss it up onscreen at first boot. Moving the thermal zones on Tinker made me think that might be a good idea.

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

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

I am building a full image for the OPiPC. For the most part everything works. I do get one error while running compile.sh The error I see during build is: "W: Failed to fetch http://apt.armbian.com/dists/jessie/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'jessie-utils/binary-armhf/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. I am building on a VMware vm running Linux armbian 4.4.0-96-generic #119-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 12 14:59:54 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I did the clone from the git repository and ran compile.sh as root. …

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…

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

First. Thanks for so great work in the ARMBIAN community. Any word of gratitude will not be enough. I have been installing Linux on different SBC. Some of them are supported by ARMBIAN, others not. There are some that never will be supported (as the Parallella 16). And the ARMBIAN process it is very clean for the already refined machines. However, when trying to bring up some other machine, it is complicated to understand what to do, how and where, as the process have been evolving for a long period of time. Recently I began to work with @chwe on the BPI-R2, and my first job is to make the nand-sata-install to work. So, I prepared an image to check this, to s…