Armbian build framework

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?

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?

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

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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

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

I'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 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

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?

In case anyone else needs help with this. These steps create an oven-baked .img complete with all custom goodies on board from the get-go. 1. rysnc custom code and any other local dependencies into userpatches/overlay 2. Ensure any library dependencies (libv4l-dev in this case) are met by adding 'PACKAGE_LIST="$PACKAGE_LIST libv4l-dev"' to userpatches/lib.config 3. Step 1 ensures that the target image will have content in /tmp/overlay. In userpatches/customize-image.sh one needs to move said content from the read-only directory to somewhere suitable (/test in my case) 4. Finally have customize-image.sh run the relevant build system and optionall…

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

Hello, I have seen a patch for emmc/nand with UUID, it looks interesting. Is anything planned sooner or later to use UUID in /etc/fstab in image building process, please? Or is it something to dig in? (I am looking for a solution for Odroid XU4 next to bypass the ANTIC uboot 2012.07) Thanks!

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 …

Hello, with an old image "Armbian_5.10_Bananapim2_Debian_jessie_4.5.2_nfsboot.raw" I could stop the boot process and use the u-boot dhcp command and the Pi gets propper values from my DHCP Server. U-Boot SPL 2016.01-armbian (Apr 28 2016 - 10:35:52) DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying to boot from MMC U-Boot 2016.01-armbian (Apr 28 2016 - 10:35:52 +0000) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner A31s (SUN6I) DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment HDMI connected: Setting up a 1920x1080 hdmi console (overscan 0x0) In: serial Out: vga Err: vga Net: eth0: ethernet@01c30000 starting USB... USB0: USB EHCI 1.00 USB1: USB OHCI 1.0…

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

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. Maybe this is discussed already, but i can't find anything with the search. I have some modifications in kernel and other things and i have my own build image of Debian Jessie and deb-s with this modifications. Version 4.84 of legacy 3.4.110 kernel. The most important for me is contiguous memory allocator - CMA, which solved my problem mentioned here - http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/559-lamobo-r1-hardware-accelerated-driver/ , other things i can do under working system later, but i add them in image for ease. The problem is, after latest upgrade every modification is gone, of course. I made a new deb-s, version 5.0 with CMA enabled and apply them, but wh…

I'm doing a build inside a Docker container (Ubuntu Xenial 16.04; started with --privileged) and I've tried several builds but all of them fail. The .img file gets created but after copying to the SD card they always fail (unrecognized file system). Here's the output of compile.sh: [ o.k. ] Creating board support package [ orangepizero default ] [ .... ] Fingerprinting [ o.k. ] Building package [ linux-xenial-root-orangepizero ] [ o.k. ] Starting rootfs and image building process for [ orangepizero xenial ] [ o.k. ] Extracting xenial-ng-armhf.50a...4c9.tgz [ 0 days old ] xenial-ng-armhf.50a...4c9.tgz: 75.6MiB [ 204MiB/s] [=======================================…

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

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

For a reason I didn't figure out, the build is broken : MKIMAGE CC [M] fs/ecryptfs/read_write.o CC [M] fs/ecryptfs/crypto.o CC lib/kasprintf.o CC [M] net/bluetooth/mgmt.o CC kernel/compat.o CC [M] sound/soc/soc-dapm.o CC [M] fs/ecryptfs/keystore.o Invalid CPU Type - valid names are: alpha, arm, x86, ia64, m68k, microblaze, mips, mips64, nios2, powerpc, ppc, s390, sh, sparc, sparc64, blackfin, avr32, nds32, or1k, sandbox Usage: mkimage -l image -l ==> list image header information mkimage [-x] -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep -n name -d data_file[:data_file...] image -A ==> set architecture to …

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?

Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation promises setup is easy following Vagrant tutorial. But the link does not lead to a working web page. I am preparing to try building my own Armbian image for Orangepi One.

Hi, I'm trying to compile a kernel using the procedure described here: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib I've set the KERNEL_ONLY="yes" in the compile.sh script, but I get the following error after a while I wonder what i've missed or if there's some other issues. I've tried both the master branch and v2016.08 tag, same result. My system lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial Linux apu 4.4.0-36-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 11 18:01:55 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Any pointers would be much appreciated, Thanks …

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

I 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:

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

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

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

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…

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.

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 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, 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…

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…

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

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

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

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.

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…

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…

[ 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…

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

I am building 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-…

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

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

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

I'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…

I found "lib/patch/kernel/sun8i-default/30-real-time143-full-plus-rt-fixes.patch.disabled." So, just renamed it to .patch. and build default (Vendor provided / legacy) of version 3.4.113. But, showed ERROR. So, I cleaned scripts and newly git clone armbian lib. but the result is the same. Here is output log. Spoiler Displaying message: Preparing host info Displaying message: Build host OS release trusty info ## BUILD SCRIPT ENVIRONMENT Version: 8e605aaaf48a06d74a8e55b1636e51f6893f7b5f ## BUILD CONFIGURATION Build target: Board: nanopineo Branch: default Kernel configuration: Repository: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/linux Branch:…

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,

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

The new vagrant method looks like it is broken.. In order to login with ssh it asks for password and we do not know it, it does not work as vagrant/vagrant, ubuntu/vagrant, ubuntu/reverse and everything else tried. Can the vagrant armbian instructions be more specific to this? ( although it looks like a serious vagrant bug -> https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/1569237 ) /edit followed this guide to setup, executing exactly what is referenced -> https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/master/README-Vagrant.md and managed to have a vagrant box up and running, but no means to login to it /edit2 Host system: Win7/64, VirtualBox 5…

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'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…

Trying to add the hdmi hotplug udev rule to the build environment, adding it in the same manner as the C2 hdmi config script doesn't work, it tells me the file/folder doesn't exist, I'm guessing then that bsp family tweaks isn't the place to add it?

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…

If I checked the configuration correctly, only Cubox, S500 and Udoo* don't have HAVE_UUID_SUPPORT=yes set, but AFAIK all boot scripts now load the initrd. @Igor can you add and test root by UUID on those boards? Also boot scripts for more boards could use /boot/ambianEnv.txt, I already tested it on XU4 and will try to test it on C2, will anybody be able to test it on C1 or C0 (it has much older u-boot)? If I remember correctly there were some problems either on Cubox or Udoo, but hopefully it can work on most of the left over configurations.

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).

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

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…

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 …

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 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…

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

I have read carefully documentation : https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/ But I can't succeed building with this file modified : ./sources/linux-sun8i/sun8i/drivers/media/rc/sunxi-cir.c Before compiling I have this : [ warn ] Make your changes in this directory: [ /root/crosscompile/sources/u-boot/v2017.03 ] [ warn ] Press <Enter> after you are done [ waiting ] I paste the file, but I have : [ warn ] No changes found, skipping patch creation Where I must copy paste my "sunxi-cir.c" file ? How do I do it

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

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

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, do you already have SUBJ ? Thank you

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

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

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

I 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 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…

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

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

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 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, 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 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

Hello guys, I built OS with legacy kernel for Orange Pi One using github framework https://github.com/armbian/build . Everything went fine and I got a resulting img file. I copied it to 16GB SD card (7Samsung EVO class 10) and powered up my device but it couldn't start. Below is the log I got from UART console. You can see from it that my device was retrying boot sequence over and over unsuccessfully. Can you help with the problem, please ? P.S. I also built Armbian with mainline kernel and it loaded fine, i.e. problem exists only with legacy kernel -------------------------------------------------------------------…

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

Hello, I found a typo: start armbian-config go to Welcome show numbers avaliable updates --> available cat /etc/armbian-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=bananapi BOARD_NAME="Banana Pi" VERSION=5.31 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi BRANCH=next ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable

Hi Board, I have submitted a PR a few minutes ago to Build repo (https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/927) removing some drivers that WILL NOT load in RK3288, because they are specific to other SoCs / Architectures. I also took the opportunity to convert a batch of drivers / machines to modules, in order to alleviate the kernel size and squeeze some performance (because some of the loaded stuffs does effectively consumes CPU). Well, that's what modules are meant for, right? The patch was crafted to DEV version. Need more extensive Tinkerboard tests (did not test the GUI) and MiQi (not tested at all, I lack the hardware). Ha…

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…

Hi all Is it possible (and if so how) to use the toolchain and the first kernel compilation output from armbian to recompile a single kernel module? Bye

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 [ …

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…

Hi there, Trying to build full OS image (or only kernel) to Rock64 in order to add support to AR9271 Atheros chipset. I only managed once to make the board recognize the wlan adapter only after reconnecting it (doesn't survive reboot). any help will be much appreciated.

Hi all, When i trie to install ISPconfig with softy all goes very well. And when the installation is finished i should be login on https://orangepi-PC:8080/login/index.php . But every what i trie (i read it should be admin/admin at the first start) nothing worked to login. Does anyone know what is the default password or what is the problem van not loging in? Kind regards!

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…

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

Documentation is a little thin here. Does anyone have a working example of how to get a file (or files) properly copied into the destination image? Specifically I'm trying to get a binary copied into /sbin on the target. TAIA

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

Hello, guys, may I ask you to fix the code below so that I can put my custom "sun6i.conf" file into "userpatches/sources/" ? Currently your code makes it impossible because LINUXFAMILY variable is forcibly set to "sunxi" in sunxi_common.inc file. What you can easily do is introducing a new variable so that one can know that LINUXFAMILY was overwritten. configuration.sh -------------------------------------------- [[ ! -f $SRC/config/sources/$LINUXFAMILY.conf ]] && \ exit_with_error "Sources configuration not found" "$LINUXFAMILY" source $SRC/config/sources/$LINUXFAMILY.conf if [[ -f $SRC/userpatches/s…