Armbian build framework

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

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

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.

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

I 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 ?

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.

Hello everyone, since i couldn't find a section for the NanoPi Neo/M1 (or maybe i just overlooked it), and the OrangePi One is rather close to it anyways, i'll post it here. Would there be interrest in a 3.4.112 kernel tree with the preempt_rt patches (rt143) added? I got myself said NanoPi's some days ago, and started to patch my way up from the original sunxi kernel 3.4.39 to the 3.4.112 version, then added the preempt_rt patches, and finally added (most?) patches from the Armbian build. Obviously manually adding the rejects. I'm also having a U-Boot 2016.09-rc1 that i have slightly patched to have it use uEnv.txt instead of boot.scr, because i got too annoyed t…

I've been working on the rtl8189fs patches for Mainline. Althouth the source code change between Legacy and Mainline is pretty trivial, preparing good and nice patches becomes a tedious task : - First, the original patch in Legacy contains tons of DOS file formatted (strange for a Linux driver, shame on Realtek) and even dos2unix failed on some files because of binaries character (probably Chinese), I had to edit many files because I wouldn't "signed-off" such ugly thing. (btw, maybe that dos2unix job should be done one Legacy to make it cleaner) - It is a quick big patch, but about the same size as the one in Legacy, about 10MB of text file. - Even after …

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.

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.

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…

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

Hello team, I noticed the following lines during script run: Free space: grep: | tee -a $DEST/debug/debootstrap.log: No such file or directory [ o.k. ] Ending debootstrap process and preparing cache [ jessie ] as you can see, free space is neither logged nor displayed. I found 2 occurrences in debootstrap-ng.sh, but I don't get what's wrong there...?

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

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!

Subtitle: Or I've screwed (Which is more than likely ;-) I'm trying to add some custom apt sources via customize_image.sh. They appear to be being added, but they are then deleted again. #!/bin/bash # arguments: $RELEASE $FAMILY $BOARD $BUILD_DESKTOP # # This is the image customization script # # NOTE: It is copied to /tmp directory inside the image # and executed there inside chroot environment # so don't reference any files that are not already installed RELEASE=$1 FAMILY=$2 BOARD=$3 BUILD_DESKTOP=$4 # add TV Headend echo "deb http://dl.bintray.com/tvheadend/deb jessie release" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nimo.list wget apt.nimo.co.uk/conf/tvheadend.key c…

Hi there, i try to compile a kernel via: apt-get -y install git git clone https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib--depth 1 cp lib/compile.sh . chmod +x compile.sh ./compile.sh In compile.sh, i changed: KERNEL_ONLY="yes" and added KERNELTAG="v4.3.5" I get an error which can be seen in the attached file. I was able to compile 4.3.4 on the same machine, so i do not expect enironment issues. Any hint? Thx, A.

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.

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

Is it possible to download debian sources for the armbian kernels? If so where are these located?

Hi, ist it possible to select a specific kernel version in the build tool (not only next, dev ...)? I need kernel 4.17. Thanks. Steffen

4.17.y is, even not LTS, but probably better than heavily patched 4.14.y in any way. Shall we do this switch now and start preparing 4.18.y on a DEV?

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

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

Hello everybody, I tried to install drivers for camera the board on karnel 4.* for orange pi lite2 , but it failed. -modprobe vfe_v4l2 -modprobe vfe_v4l2 -and device /dev/video0 no directory i folloved instruction and i installed header file for linux karnel , but this did't solov my problem. I readed a lot of topic on the forums, but this did't solove my problem. I'm willing to spend a small amount for to solov the problem. Please write you thoughts and offer.

Hi Igor, hi team, we are using Armbian since the the first version. We only using it with Banana Pi and Banana Pi Pro. Yesterday I wanted to build a new image for our BananaPro projects, but unfortunately there is no support for Banana Pi Pro anymore. Why? Is it possible to continue supporting this board? What is the difference to the Banana Pi? You still support Banana Pi. Thanks. Steffen

Hello, I have got an Orange Pi PC2 but there is no fully working operationg system for it. If someone could make a working build for then that thing will live a long time as an efficient PC. THX

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

A very simple proposal: How about creating a tag in the Github repo with each Armbian release? I think it would be very little hassle, and can be very useful in many ways.

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

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

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

Hello guys can you help me please understand your overlay compilation support which is working in "next" build? I transferred required patches and made a build with 4.15. Now I have my dtbos and scr in place, added "overlays=" in armbianEnv.txt but my overlays are not loaded in run-time. I noticed that you have the following condition around dtbos: ifeq ($(CONFIG_OF_CONFIGFS),y) ... endif and there is also a special patch to add configs module to build. My question: is configs module required for loading overlays ? I can't apply this patch into 4.15 as configfs.c is not compatible with new codebase. …

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 …

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, attached is a patch for U-Boot (should work on 2016.09-rc1 and 2016-09-rc2-dirty, will probably work on older ones as well) that makes it use the plain text file uEnv.txt instead of boot.scr, which has to be translated to a binary file first. This way changing the environment means only editing a text file, instead of editing a file, converting it to binary, and copying it over to the /boot partition on the SD. This becomes active if the U-Boot config has the option OLD_SUNXI_COMPAT disabled (in the menuconfig this is under ARM architecture -> Enable workarounds for booting old kernels). It also adds a small patch to board/sunxi/board.c to skip the setting …

Processing file /home/user/Projects/armbian/build/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/fix-sunxi-gpio-driver.patch patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line

Now that u-boot UEFI is kind of a thing.... How will that shape armbian and the build process?

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

hi Everyone! I need an image with this Ubuntu server 16.04 no Desktop environment, only console. This is for projects, programming something, like a kiosk, just run an application, the system should be light, and haven't additional applications like browser, LibreOffice, etc. how can I compile this image? Thx From Mx.!

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

I am attempting to build the following: Full OS image for flashing Do not change the kernel configuration nanopineo2 next or dev kernel same error stretch or xenial same error [ o.k. ] Downloading sources [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ u-boot v2017.11 ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ linux-mainline linux-4.14.y ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ arm-trusted-firmware-sunxi-mainline allwinner-stable ] [ .... ] Fetching updates fatal: Couldn't find remote ref allwinner-stable [ .... ] Checking out error: pathspec 'FETCH_HEAD' did not match any file(s) known to git. [ o.k. ] Chec…

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…

Hello guys, There is an issue in build framework that makes impossible building my custom kernel for sun6i without changing your code. In the file sunxi_common.inc the variable LINUXFAMILY is forced to "sunxi" (unless it is sun8i) and my custom file userpatches/sources/sun6i.conf is not included. Of course I can hack sunxi_common.inc but much better if you make sort of correction for this issue. Thanks

Hi, Need to have unattended upgrades stopped and not run uppon every boot. What is the best way to do this?

Hi rtl8189FS was added on august and the version at include/rtw_version.h is v4.3.18.1_15373.20151005 At http://linux-sunxi.org/Wifi#RTL8189FTV I see that the recommended repository is https://github.com/jwrdegoede/rtl8189ES_linux/tree/rtl8189fs That repository use v4.3.24_15589.20151023 There is also newer versions, now I'm patching v4.3.24.6_20019.20161107 https://github.com/CGarces/rtl8189FS Any one has tested this newer versions? maybe @martinayotte ?

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

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

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

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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

Hi guys setting variables like MAINLINE_KERNEL_SOURCE in userpatches/lib.config does not change anything in the build. Is this fine ? What is the correct place to update this variable ? Thanks

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

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

Hi! I already successfully get mainline Armbian working on Pinebook (no sound - working on fix, and also suspend took much time to wake up), but, I don't like the way how I made it. Github repo: https://github.com/gamelaster/build/tree/pinebook-build I set the branch to "next", I set kernel repository to anarsoul's kernel (contains latest patches for A64 and also for Pinebook & Sopine devices) and deleted all patches from sunxi-next (all that patches has been for 4.14), I just kept and add some of patches. But this is probably terrible idea. @Igor or anyone, can you please me suggest better way to support "next" kernel (The task…

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

Hi, I've been trying to follow the instructions here https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Using-Vagrant/ rather than using my current virtualbox setup however I fall over at the following spot: nick@Nick-desktop:~$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-disksize Installing the 'vagrant-disksize' plugin. This can take a few minutes... Bundler, the underlying system Vagrant uses to install plugins, reported an error. The error is shown below. These errors are usually caused by misconfigured plugin installations or transient network issues. The error from Bundler is: conflicting dependencies nokogiri (= 1.5.10) and nokogiri (= 1.8.1) Activated nokogiri-1.8.1 …

Looking at this: https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/925b8592220a590b09215f08d3f06de6b8fe238d First, I would put most of the dependencies in "Recommends" and "Suggests" sections, otherwise people will be unable to remove non-essential packages they don't want. Second, I would put something like "nodm | lightdm" so you could switch the login manager without breaking things. And third, since we are discussing the desktop packages, personally I think that lightdm login dark theme looks relatively ugly (mostly you can't see element borders for user switcher dropdown menu, it's hard to read a dark font on a dark background, etc.) so mayb…

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.

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

I hope you can understand my question just from the title but here's more information in case you need it. BACKGROUND ON MY END GOAL IN CASE YOU HAVE ADVICE: I'm attempting to create a hardened linux image for running on my nanoPC-t4. I gotta give you guys props because Armbian appears to be wayyyyy ahead of the alternative distributions I checked out (gentoo/arch/lubuntu) in terms of support/customizability/documentation for ARM development. As a first step, I'm trying to build & boot a hardened Linux kernel. After some googling, I settled on this repo as my best option for free & open-source hardened kernel sources (unless anyone has a better suggestion)…

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

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

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.

I have machines available at work, but I loose quite a big amount of time fighting with proxy issues. I also have VM available with proxy almost correctly configured (some protocols/ports don't work, like for adding gpg key), but the disks aren't big enough. At home, I have network without any proxy, but it's not that good... So, I was wondering if I could try and build Armbian on the cloud... for free. I tried several websites like google cloud and other services offering Docker, but I haven't found any with enough disk space. Is anyone of you building in the cloud? Thanks.

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

This is really just a bash-centic question, but I'm baffled an tired of googling. Why does passing KEY=VALUE args to compile.sh work? I don't see bash flags, arg parsing or anything. I'm trying to do something similar in another script I'm just baffled. ex: sudo ./compile.sh EXPERT=yes EXTERNAL_NEW="compile" BOARD=orangepi-r1 BRANCH=next RELEASE="jessie" DESKTOP=no KERNEL_ONLY=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no CLEAN_LEVEL=""

Release WIP and CSC images from their own page with very specific limitations, including, but not limited to: no kernel or u-boot updates, ideally with the kernel and u-boot package names modified with -unsupported- Explain these are demo snapshot images, potentially even package a different wallpaper that has -unofficial- or something similar watermarked across it. Maybe even use the default WM theme.

Just for information purposes. I was able to build from, 5.27 for an OrangePiLite complete image, debian Jesse, console server On Debian GNU/Linux 9 \n \l Linux dv7-dhlii 4.9.0-11-exton #12 SMP Sat Dec 17 10:10:47 CET 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux This is the first time I have been able to successfully build Armbian on my base machine - rather than in a Virtual machine, or container. I am generally able to build whatever Armbian I want in an Ubuntu 16.04 Virtual Machine - though I dislike running linux virtual machines under Linux I have generally been about to build Armbian in and Ubuntu 16.04 LXC Container so long as I do not try to…

As many of you know, lots of git repositories are automatically built every time there's a pull request, letting the project community know if that commit will introduce a flaw of some kind. If it's a help to Armbian, I'd like to configure a cloud-based build system that should be able to cut the "build all" time down to about 10% of what it is, and possibly to a number lower than that. Here's what I'd do. I'll use Google cloud's preemptible servers to spawn say 30 machines with the trigger being a pull request. If any of these macines dies during the build, it'll come back red. and otherwise, it will come back green and upload all of the binaries to google clou…

I an new in building ARMBIAN. I have native: ' Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial with a nfs-mounted share on my NAS as working directory. [ o.k. ] Building deb [ linux-u-boot-dev-bananapim2ultra_5.27_armhf.deb ] dpkg-deb: Fehler: Control-Verzeichnis hat falsche Zugriffsrechte 770 (muss >=0755 und <=0775 sein) -> Sorry, I have German settings in my linux: I translate it corresponding: Error: Control-Directory has wrong access rights 770 (must be >=755 and <= 775) [ error ] ERROR in function compile_uboot [ common.sh:156 ]…

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

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