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I'm sooooo close to sharing a WIP for building armbiain for espressobin , but I'm having trouble getting armbian builder to use the file name for the kernel package deb. │ dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-headers-4.4.8-mvebu64' in '../linux-headers-4.4.8-mvebu64_5.27_arm64.deb'. │ │ dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-libc-dev' in '../linux-libc-dev_5.27_arm64.deb'. │ │ dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-image-4.4.8-mvebu64' in '../linux-image-4.4.8-mvebu64_5.27_arm64.deb'. …

Hi eveyone, I am coming from a a hint off Github here: https://github.com/armbian/documentation/issues/165. Igor was so kind and redirected me to this community. I am struggling since beginning christmas to get my EspressoBin to latest versions out of dusty 2018 images. Device EspressoBin v7 DDR4 1G 1000_800Mhz Baseline - What did I do? - Update U-Boot according https://www.armbian.com/espressobin to devel-18.12.3 - Flashed SD-Card with armbian Focal via Balena according https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/ - Updated Boot Environment according https://www.armbian.com/espressobin/#kernels-archi…

Hi All! I am having a lot of trouble making my ESPRESSObin v7 1GB DDR4 run without crashes. I have tried both Bionic (5.75 4.19.20) and Stretch (5.75 4.19.20) images, and neither are stable. I have tried with a lot of different PSUs (all switch-mode though) and booting from both microSD and USB sticks. My U-Boot is "flash-image-ddr4-1g-1cs-1000_800.bin". It seems like there is about 50% chance that it will boot without a crash. The type of crashes I get seems random. Ex http://ix.io/1JGY And then it just freezes. Or this one which includes a proper kernel Oops: http://ix.io/1JGZ While runnin…

Hi. I've ordererd a new bunch of espresso bins from globalscale. they have the same board revision as my old ones (V5_0_1 and 1G 2CS) - but now I get an error while trying to flash armbian uboot (mentioned in https://www.armbian.com/espressobin/) Marvell>> bubt espresso/flash-image-1g-2cs-800_800_boot_sd_and_usb.bin spi tftp Burning U-BOOT image "espresso/flash-image-1g-2cs-800_800_boot_sd_and_usb.bin" from "tftp" to "spi" Using neta@30000 device TFTP from server 192.168.5.5; our IP address is 192.168.5.10 Filename 'espresso/flash-image-1g-2cs-800_800_boot_sd_and_usb.bin'. Load address: 0x5000000 Lo…

Currently using an image based on the latest (13/12/16) in: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib Some changes recently have resulted in emmc based clearfog-pro boards requiring the SD card to boot again. There's a new variable in /boot/armbianEnv.txt to enable the emmc fix. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to help. Based on the SolidRun wiki: http://wiki.solid-run.com/doku.php?id=products:a38x:software:development:u-boot you can patch the sdhci to give the signal that an sd card is in the slot diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-388-clearfog.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-388-clearfog.dts index 8fa7b27..b8b05ad 100644 --…

Just updated both my cubietruck and espressobin to 5.85, however the latter doesn't up come again after the update (from 5.83 IMO). (Had to get it out of the basement and) the console gives me the following error msg, now: Marvell>> boot starting USB... USB0: Register 2000104 NbrPorts 2 Starting the controller USB XHCI 1.00 USB1: USB EHCI 1.00 scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus 1 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found / ** Bad device usb 0 ** ## Executing script at 06d00000 Wrong image format for "source" command /boot/ ** Bad device usb 0 ** ## Executin…

as per title... i have 2 boards running armbian (Debian version). Even if the mac addresses on /boot/armbianEnv.txt are set differently, all nic cards of both boards, have the same exact mac address, specifically f0:ad:4e:03:64:7f this of course creates a lot of problems because i cannot connect my 2 boards in the same network here is armbianmonitor from the 1st board - https://pastebin.com/N9AuwV2h here is the same for the 2nd board - https://pastebin.com/QcTq3BaD apparently i am not the only one http://espressobin.net/forums/topic/each-network-interface-has-the-same-mac-address/

Hi everyone, I updated the Linux kernel on my Espressobin to the latest version (5.6.2) and had some issues booting from SATA as my SSD was not detected properly after boot. Using the device tree from an older kernel version did help, but I also read somewhere that updating to the latest Armbian U-Boot would solve the issue. So I downloaded the version that matches my hardware (flash-image-ddr3-2g-2cs-1000_800.bin) and flashed it. It indeed fixed the boot issues, but now only 1 GB of RAM is detected instead of 2 GB. This happens as soon as the board is powered on, in U-Boot: DRAM: 1 GiB Before that, I was using the U-Boot…

Don't know if this is a Arabian issue or a driver issue But i got a ath9k mpcie board in en ExpressoBIN running Armbian nightly WIP lspci 00:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter dmesg shows: 20.892457] advk-pcie d0070000.pcie: Posted PIO Response Status: CA, 0xe00 @ 0x44 [ 21.154426] advk-pcie d0070000.pcie: Posted PIO Response Status: CA, 0xe00 @ 0x4 [ 21.505762] ath9k 0000:00:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 21.505794] advk-pcie d0070000.pcie: Posted PIO Response Status: CA, 0xe00 @ 0x3c [ 21.657293] dsa dsa@0 wan: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx [ 21.7…

Hi everyone, especially armbian maintainers! I'd like to make use of great performance of this board regarding SATA performance which is crippled by 1Gbps so my question is, would etherchannel work on this hardware? I understand that the board has only 1Gbps from the switch (dual LAN ports) so I guess the only possible way to exceed 1Gbps output would be to bundle WAN && [LAN01|LAN02]. Anyone tried this or believe it should work? I don't have the board to try. Thanks.

I just came across this line: -Is this correct ? scriptaddr is where the boot.scr is loaded, as far as I understand, it overwrites itself by loading armbianEnv.txt to the same address. So wouldn't it be better to load armbianEnv.txt to kernel_addr, initrd_addr or fdt_addr, since armbianEnv.txt is only used for a short time ? I have not tried making an armbianEnv.txt, which is larger than boot.scr, but it looks like it would stop the board from booting if it's just long enough to overwrite the 'env import' line.

Hello, I have just updated armbian on my clearfogpro and after the hard drive plugged on the PCIe sata card (2 slots) is no more recognized, it does not appear at all in logs. It was working like a charm before. I wonder what happened ? Here is the output of lspci 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 6828 (rev 04) 00:03.0 PCI bridge: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 6828 (rev 04) 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA986x/988x 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter I think the PCIe card is recognized (I have also a wifi card on the other PCI slot). I wonder why armbian does no more see the hard drive…

So I have a new board that I am working with. I cannot get armbian-config to display anything. I have tried both the Ubuntu and Debian images. I also tried the default and next images with not luck. The default image has the drivers that I need for a mpcie network card. The final goal is to install the kernel source so I can update drivers. [ 2.037420] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded [ 2.048872] r8169 0000:00:00.0 eth1: RTL8168evl/8111evl at 0xffffff8000376000, 00:13:3b:21:4b:62, XID 0c900800 IRQ 108 [ 2.048931] r8169 0000:00:00.0 eth1: jumbo features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko] [ 2.653362] r8169 0000:00:00.0 enp…

Trying to tweak settings for NAS use cases I built a Debian Jessie for Clearfog Pro using vendor kernel (4.4.59-mvebu). Just for fun I made a Gigabit Ethernet LanTest with an USB3 RTL8153 -- target is a Seagate Barracuda on an ASM1062: Now with onboard eth0 it looks partially better but writes to the NAS are way lower: It seems RX packet processing happens on both CPU cores and slows the device unnecessarily down. But I found no way to adjust this: root@clearfogpro:~# grep eth0 /proc/interrupts 38: 3532614 3873924 armada_370_xp_irq 8 Level eth0 root@clearfogpro:~# echo 2 >/proc/irq/38/smp_affinity -bash: echo: write error: …

Hello everyone, I am trying to achieve first boot with a Clearfog Base with eMMC. It was not clear (at least to me) that the eMMC version does not allow booting from SD card *at all* But hey, let's get this baby up&running, can anybody please help me? I am trying to follow this procedure [https://www.armbian.com/clearfog-base/]: 1) Write the image to a USB flash drive -> easy enough, I did it with Win32DiskImager and a well-tested 64GB USB stick 2) Load the modified u-boot (from the Armbian image) using the UART method -> I have issues here. I suppose that UART method consists in plugging in the microU…

I purchased a 1GB EspressoBin off of Amazon with the plan to run Armbian + OMV on it. Here's what it looked like upon initial boot with factory firmware. Which showed 1GB version. TIM-1.0 WTMI-armada-17.10.1-b90dbf0 ENTER init_ddrgen DDR_TOPOLOGY is 4 : DDR3, 1CS 1G WTMI_CLOCK=2 Fill memory before self refresh...done Now in Self-refresh Mode Restore CAS Read and Write Latency Restore termination values to original values Exited self-refresh ... DLL TUNING ============== DLL 0xc0001050[21:16]: [0,2f,17] DLL 0xc0001050[29:24]: [1,35,1b] DLL 0xc0001054[21:16]: [0,2d,16] DLL 0xc0001054[29:24]: [4,34,1c] DLL 0xc0001074[21:16]: [0,3f,1f] DLL 0xc0001074…

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EDIT: only the card in what I'm calling slot two is detected by lspci. wifi card near SoM - at boot PCI-e 0: Detected No Link. PCI-e 2 (IF 1 - bus 0) Root Complex Interface, Detected Link X1, GEN 1.1 ... once booted root@clearfogpro:~# lspci 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 6828 (rev 04) wifi card in slot nearer edge of board - at boot PCI-e 1 (IF 0 - bus 0) Root Complex Interface, Detected Link X1, GEN 1.1 PCI-e 1: Detected No Link. ... once booted 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 6828 (rev 04) 01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QC…

I was running espressobin v7 with Welcome to Armbian 21.08.1 Bullseye with Linux 5.10.60-mvebu64 and made an upgrade in a regular way : # apt upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-dev apache2-utils armbian-bsp-cli-espressobin armbian-config armbian-firmware armbian-zsh asterisk asterisk-config asterisk-modules asterisk-voicemail avahi-autoipd base-files bash curl deb.torproject.org-keyring dirmngr distro-info-data dpkg dpkg-dev ffmpeg gnupg gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gnupg2 gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm gpgv gzip hostapd ifenslave inetutils-inetd inetutils-telnet …

Hi all, I came upon a few threads in this forum while working on the bootloader for my ESPRESSObin Ultra. I noticed all of the warnings here about CPU frequency (https://www.armbian.com/espressobin/#), and I think this community might be interested in the work I'm doing. I've have an ESPRESSObin Ultra which ships from Globalscale with old, buggy, and unmaintained firmware. I think the old firmware could explain a lot of the issues users have reported here with the V7. I forked the old factory firmware build script from Globalscale and moved it all to up-to-date, upstream projects: https://github.com/bschnei/ebu-bootloader I believe with some small modific…

Hi, i just installed a SFP Modul on my clearfog pro with armbian but i am not sure if this is the correct device. Is there some way to get more information out of it? root@armada:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:43:25:fb:84 inet addr:192.168.2.124 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:43ff:fe25:fb84/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:115 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:97 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:532 RX bytes:12347 (12.0 KiB) TX bytes:12297 (12.0 KiB) …

Hello every one, I own two ESPRESSOBin boards V5. And to both I attached an XCSOURCE® MiniPCIe Sata3.0 AC696 extension card via MiniPCIe. This is the link to amazon: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B06XRG2TGV I tested several images from https://www.armbian.com/espressobin/#kernels-archive-all Unfortunatelly all the old images have been deleted last week, so I could not continue testing. Tested Kernels 8 weeks ago + the latest two this week: - 5.10.09-mvebu64 #21.02.0-hirsute (trunk) <-- works not - 5.08.18-mvebu64 #20.11.6-bionic <-- works not - 5.08.18-mvebu64 #20.11.3-focal <-- works not - 5.08.18-mvebu64 …

I installed the latest stable (and updated) debian image on clearfogpro from SD card. I then chose "boot from SD, install on SATA ..." as I have a M.2 SSD card which is viewed as /dev/sda device, with the "armbian-install" utility. However, this one does not offer to boot directly from M2. SSD, which should be possible as there is a DIP switch configuration for it. I tried to burn the iso image on sata with "dd" and then, to "dd" the u-boot.sata on "/dev/sda" (bs=512 seek=1). When switching to sata boot (dip switch), it begins well, the sata device is found, but nothing happens after, the iso image is not loaded. …

I purchased a V7 version of ebin But after updating uboot, the reboot is still in stock uboot. Marvell>> bubt flash-image-1g-1cs-1000_800.bin spi usb Burning U-BOOT image "flash-image-1g-1cs-1000_800.bin" from "usb" to "spi" USB0: Register 2000104 NbrPorts 2 Starting the controller USB XHCI 1.00 USB1: USB EHCI 1.00 scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus 1 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found reading flash-image-1g-1cs-1000_800.bin Image checksum...OK! SF: Detected mx25u3235f with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 4 MiB 262144 bytes written, 593344 bytes skipped in 2.65s, speed 424017 B/s Done! Marvell>> TIM-1.0 T…

I've been running the Ubuntu from GlobalScale until now. -I finally had a chance for switching to Armbian, so I did; now I'm running 5.50: Ubuntu Xenial (4.17.3). So far, I've installed it onto my SATA harddisk, it boots, network is available via DHCP, web-server is up, SSHD is up, I can update via apt-get, etc... But there's still one important piece missing; I need to make the IP-address static (which was one of the main reasons I switched to Armbian). On GlobalScale's forum, I get the impression that Armbian is much easier to configure static IP address for, but I have the impression that I should not touch anything /etc/network/interfaces*. Instead…

Since I don't have one unit yet and the information related to this board is scarce, I'd like to ask if someone who owns one could test what the power budget for the board is. In Marvell's github wiki there is the following mention: It would be really great if under load and with all the network ports connected to gigabit the board only took 1W@12V. I found a script in github that would help to reduce power usage: https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/main/wiki/Power-Saving-Script Thanks for you help. Depending on the results I may have a solution for one project where I need to use a dual-lan board with low…

Hi all, Over at Doozan we are having quite a time trying to get kwboot to work on the newer Armada 385 based boards. It works for the ClearFrog because there is a DIP switch to select UART boot. However on shipping products like the Zyxel NAS326 and the Western Digital EX2 Ultra/EX2100/EX4100 this is not an option. Does anyone else have any of the above products? Were you ever successful in getting it to load u-boot via uart?

Hi all, I have an espressobin v5, running the newest Armbian 20.02.01 Buster that is available online (installed just recently). I am using this device as a home gateway/router so there is hostapd, dnsmasq, iptables that kind which is all working perfectly. But I cannot enable name resolution for the subnet!! Packet forwarding works fine, if I set the DNS manually on any of the devices connected to the subnet then the connection works perfectly but I would prefer to have it performed dynamically for any guest that connects. I installed bind9, this is the named.conf.options file: acl allowed_clients { localhost; 172.24.0…

Hi everyone, So I am a real beginner with networking so I though I would buy this board for learning and messing about. But I cant get the switched 6 port Ethernet to work. It shows up with ip link: root@armada:~#ip link 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 0a:b2:e1:6c:82:2e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 532 lin…

Hi All! I am verifying the function about pcie to net port on armada-3720 ESPRESSObin. I insert 3 PCIE network cards in 3720 with PCIE bridge, connect to PC by switch. PC ping 3 net port at the same time ,but only one net port could be pinged successfully. I use the same test environment to test on the cavium's development board ,and PC can ping 3 network cards successfully at the same time. Besides, I used 3 network cards connect to 3 PC directly not by switch on 3720, and 3 PC can also ping 3 network cards successfully at the same time. Through the above cross-testing, it seems that this problem will occur as …

I goofed-up my espressobin install and need to recover and start over. Here is what happened (to my embarrassment): I recently obtained a 1GB espressobin from Amazon.com. I flashed the Armbian_5.59_Espressobin_Debian_stretch_next_4.18.6.img to a Sandisk Ultra and booted the board. The marvell>> prompt came up just fine, and I used the command bubt .flash-image-1g-1cs-800_800.bin spi usb to load the flash binary from my usb drive. But I did not know at the time that the correct flash to use was actually flash-image-1g-1cs-1000_800.bin. But my worse mistake was applying the script given on the instruction page, where it says: "Updated u-boot…

I've set up my local EspressoBIN with 18.04 Bionic (Armbian_5.44_Espressobin_Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.14.40.7z). My impression is that it's very much like setting up Xenial and the same issues seem to be present. I mention them in the order of importance. 1: #reboot sometimes hang, so does #poweroff. It would be great to get this fixed, because it would be a disaster if a device hangs on rebooting from remote (eg. the device is 200km away). 2: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade destroys the network setup. No network access is possible after doing this. I think a fix is important, because people would likely issue those commands. …

when I used the command "nand-sata-install" ,then i select The first one, install Armbian from the SD card to the Built in emmc, After step-by-step execution, I will prompt poweroff. Then I remove the SD card and prepare to start from EMMC. However, the following error prompt appears. I cannot enter the system from EMMC normally，Please help me, thank you TIM-1.0 WTMI-devel-18.12.1-e6bb176 WTMI: system early-init CPU VDD voltage default value: 1.155V NOTICE: Booting Trusted Firmware NOTICE: BL1: v1.5(release):1f8ca7e (Marvell-devel-18.12.2) NOTICE: BL1: Built : 16:23:10, May 21 2019 NOTICE: BL1: Booting BL2 NOTICE: BL2: v1.5(release):1f8ca7e (Marvell-deve…

I have Espressobin v7 1G and PCIe card WLE900VX. With armbian-config create AP. Starts successfully on 36 channels. I tried all the channels in 5Ghz, but works only successfully at 36 and 44. By selecting another channel tells me after trying that I can not start AP on 5Ghz and start at 2GHz successfull. Any idea how to deal with this?

Hi, I have a problem with my ClearfogPro, it worked fine for some time but now theres something wrong with the system clock and I am unsure wether this is caused by the hardware or software. I set the time with the date command, then copy it to the rtc with hwclock --systohc... After a few moments the times in sys/hw are already a few seconds apart. The system clock seems to be about 1/3 second to slow.... So after a few minutes its completely off, this causes ntp to stop working ofc. I tried fixing this by using adjtimex but the setable value range ist not large enough... This is the output of timedatectl c…

Hi everybody, I have an Espressobin v5 in front of me and by default it boots fine from SATA: Now I need it to load the bootloader (U-Boot) from SD card. However, I can't seem to get it working. What I have tried so far: 1. Set the jumper on the board (J11,J3,J10) to "eMMC download mode" as well as "eMMC alternate download mode". 2. Get a SD card connected to my Linux host. Empty it with "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdg bs=1M count=100". 3. Then I tried to get the U-Boot on the SD card, but I am not exactly sure about the proper way. I tried two different things: 3.a. I just copied it raw onto the SD card with "dd if=…

The postfix V7 suggests that it will eventually succeed the EspressoBin V5 and in a long run, the V5 might disappear. Since I am about to start a business based on the EspressoBin, I would be really interested if there are good experiences regarding the V7 – as I had a very disappointing one, while the V5 seems to run very stable and reliably. By "reliable", I mean suitable for a home server running weeks and months without any bumps or hickups. I'd also be interested whereelse I could find a community running the EspressoBin in reasonable numbers to investigate there as well. Thanks in advance and sorry for the off-topic with respect to Armbian.

Hi Everyone, I'm considering getting an Espressobin to use as a simple NAS. Is this a good idea? My requirements are quite basic; a single SATA SSD and a single ethernet port, running NFS and Samba. I do need a newish version of Samba (required to support "Time Machine" backup from my Mac) which I believe is in Debian Buster but not in Stretch. I've been a Debian user for decades; I guess I might be happier if the hardware supplier provided a Debian image, but it's great that Armbian is available. This board's hardware looks good; it has a SATA connector. But there are a few posts here mentioning stability issues, related to power supply hardware or possibly u-…

I just got a new espressobin v7 with 2gb of ram. Output from working u-boot: U-Boot 2017.03-armada-17.10.2-g255b9cc (Nov 07 2018 - 09:48:30 +0800) Model: Marvell Armada 3720 Community Board ESPRESSOBin CPU @ 1000 [MHz] L2 @ 800 [MHz] TClock @ 200 [MHz] DDR @ 800 [MHz] DRAM: 2 GiB U-Boot DT blob at : 000000007f7161b8 Comphy-0: USB3 5 Gbps Comphy-1: PEX0 2.5 Gbps Comphy-2: SATA0 6 Gbps ... Marvell>> sspi SF: Detected mx25u3235f with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 4 MiB Marvell>> version U-Boot 2017.03-armada-17.10.2-g255b9cc (Nov 07 2018 - 09:48:30 +0800) aarch64-linux-gnu-g…

Having trouble getting the modem to show up in the /dev/ folder. I have a HL8548 Sierra Wireless mini pci-e connected to my Clearfog-Pro. Currently using Armbian 3.10.104 "jessie". I've tried using a stock image, going through the kernel config menu to turn on PPP and looking for any settings related which I can turn on (Can't seem to find anything device driver related). My understanding is it's part of the stock Kernel and should show up as a USB device (gone back to the supplier to check the AT command was sent to have the modem in the right mode). If anyone has experience getting a mini pci-e cellular modem going in Armbian I'd appreciate any advice. …

Morning All, Around a year and a half ago I found the USB port from my Espressobin V5 had broken off. This has not greatly affected me because the board itself continued to operate perfectly up to the point of merging with the mainline kernel 5.x which it simply will not boot, I am assuming because a new boot script needs to be set for the device as described on the download page ( https://www.armbian.com/espressobin/ ) but of course I am unable to access the U-Boot command without serial communication. I have set the kernel update on hold thus far, but this of course cannot hold forever. Is there anyway to update the boot script without access to serial commu…

Getting stuck out of the gate (of course never goes as documented🤣) https://puhoy.github.io/posts/armbian_on_espressobin/ While attempting to flash the required uboot update I keep getting a "permission" type error I've tried with usb stick and sd card, formated ext4, formatted fat and various permutations including simple filename....all give the same error even though usb and mmc commands say the media is there This is a v5. I have an identical one I set up a few years ago with ubuntu 18 but I did not have to flash this new uboot. Any thoughts? Do one of the jumpers have to be set in order to flash? …

I try to boot for first time an espresso bin v5, I followed the advice in (Espressobin / Ultra – Armbian](https://www.armbian.com/espressobin/) and updated my uboot, and reset the environment. env default -a ## Resetting to default environment I added the image and fdt address with: setenv fdt_name boot/dtb/marvell/armada-3720-espressobin.dtb setenv image_name boot/Image setenv scriptaddr 0x6d00000 The last line is after seeing in the forum that this setting has been erased when resetting the default environment my environment is now: When I try to boot, it seems to load the initrd but never complete the boot I get: Marvell>&…

Hi there, as already discussed here, https://forum.armbian.com/topic/5318-looking-for-an-enclosure-for-espressobin/?do=findComment&comment=49396 it seems that this 4-sata mini pci express card is supposed to be supported by armbian. As I wrote in that post, it doesn't work for me. I've tried Armbian default and next. The cards work, since I got them running with espressobin's Ubuntu distribution. Also, I've compiled a 4.4.52 Kernel according to: http://wiki.espressobin.net/tiki-index.php?page=Build+From+Source+-+Kernel It also works just fine with Armbian. So, my guess is that there's so…

Hello, [short version] My expresso bin V5 only boots from the micro sd card and I would like it to boot from the EMMC module. [long version] My old old expresso bin V5 did not came with a pre installed EMMC module, I had a 16gb kingston EMMC module from aliexpress soldered onto it, the EMMC module is correctly detected by armbian bionic as seen from the output of blkid as /dev/mmcblk0p1: /dev/mmcblk0p1: UUID="dc265376-877d-40a1-9417-7379fb332efe" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="36c210f9-01" /dev/mmcblk1p1: LABEL="root" UUID="621decff-6765-4dbd-ae8c-c7e2d5c0193d" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="04b226a1-01" /dev/mmcblk1p3: LABEL="home" UUID="df5bfbe2-de80-49b4-ac…

TIM-1.0 mv_ddr-devel-g251bc63 DDR4 16b 2GB 2CS WTMI-devel-18.12.1-1d97715 WTMI: system early-init SVC REV: 5, CPU VDD voltage: 1.213V Setting clocks: CPU 1200 MHz, DDR 750 MHz CZ.NIC's Armada 3720 Secure Firmware 0b68a33-dirty (May 16 2022 17:51:06) Running on ESPRESSObin NOTICE: Booting Trusted Firmware NOTICE: BL1: v2.6(release):a921da5e NOTICE: BL1: Built : 17:55:48, May 16 2022 NOTICE: BL1: Booting BL2 NOTICE: BL2: v2.6(release):a921da5e NOTICE: BL2: Built : 17:55:48, May 16 2022 NOTICE: BL1: Booting BL31 NOTICE: BL31: v2.6(release):a921da5e NOTICE: BL31: Built : 17:55:48, May 16 2022 U-Boot 2022.04-armbian (May 16 2022 - 17:50:52 +0000) DRAM: 2 GiB Core:…

Hello, I have recently bought one clearfogpro and one orangepi+ 2e. I power them with a RD65A adapter which delivers both 5V and 12V DC. You can see everything on the pictures. There is also a 2.5" hard drive connected to the clearfogpro. Before powering up everything, I would like to be sure all cables are correctly connected, there is the picture of all connections to the RD65A 1) The main power cable : the red (phase) goes to the L, the blue (neutral) goes to the N, and the green/yellow goes to the ground. 2) V1 is 5V for RD65A, so I plugged the orangepi+ 2e and red cable of the sata power 3) V2 is…

I'm getting tired of Globalscale deleting my post from the Espressobin forums, instead of either fixing or acknowledging the problem. So I'll repost this here for future reference. This is the URL to the original thread: http://espressobin.net/forums/topic/mainline-linux-not-running-at-1ghz/ Hi All That the Espressobin aims to support mainline is awesome – a lot of the benefits are described here http://espressobin.net/mainline-linux/. But I’m unable to get my v7 board running at more than 800MHz using the mainline kernel (for some reason cpufreq-info insists on reporting 1GHz with actual benchmarking only showing 800MHz). For…

The u-boot I used is flash-image-1g-2cs-800_800.bin. It can boot linux from usb and in linux, it can detect my emmc. root@espressobin:~# dmesg|grep -i mmc [ 4.266090] mmc0: SDHCI controller on d00d8000.sdhci [d00d8000.sdhci] using ADMA [ 4.308521] mmc0: new DDR MMC card at address 0001 [ 4.309517] mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 SEM04G 3.69 GiB [ 4.310228] mmcblk0boot0: mmc0:0001 SEM04G partition 1 2.00 MiB [ 4.310928] mmcblk0boot1: mmc0:0001 SEM04G partition 2 2.00 MiB [ 4.311176] mmcblk0rpmb: mmc0:0001 SEM04G partition 3 2.00 MiB, chardev (243:0) [ 4.311340] mmc1: SDHCI controller on d00d0000.sdhci [d00d0000.sdhci] using ADMA [ 4.316565] mmcblk0: p1 B…

I've attempted to install Ubuntu_xenial_default_4.4.112. In order to get this to work, I tried to follow the instructions on the download page as close as I could... Downloaded flash-image-2g-1000_800_boot_sd_and_usb.bin (because I have a 2GB model, which reports CPU-speed 1000 MHz and DDR 800 MHz. Formatted an USB-stick as FAT, copied flash-image-2g-1000_800_boot_sd_and_usb.bin to that stick, unmounted it. Inserted the USB-stick in the EspressoBIN, rebooted the EspressoBIN. Via the terminal I typed ... When it was done updating and returned to the "Marvell>>" prompt, I pressed the RESET button on the board. The board attempts t…

Background Most of the instructions I found on installing anything on the Clearfog Pro or Base with eMMC were either not applicable to me, incomplete or missing some file or there was some other barrier. After a couple weeks of tinkering and notation I feel I have a good handle on getting Armbian on this board by several different methods. Here I will describe my path to using TFTP to install Armbian on my Clearfog Pro. First off, I have no clue why so many tutorials include a line that reads something like "but that would require you to set up a TFTP server so we're going to go through a lot of other rigamarole instead.' Really? This guide got my TFTP serve…

I've been running 5.36 successfully on my espressobin. Saw the upgrade to 5.38, so ran apt-get update and upgrade. Now the boot process shows this log snippet: [ 6.251662] md: autorun ... [ 6.254188] md: ... autorun DONE. [ 6.258090] Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk0p1... [ 6.267577] mmc1: new high speed SDHC card at address aaaa [ 6.273478] mmcblk1: mmc1:aaaa SL16G 14.8 GiB [ 6.279091] mmcblk1: p1 [ 201.869175] random: crng init done I've let it sit for a while after this (200 seconds in), but no more log lines. Any other espressobin users successfully running 5.38?

Hi folks, I've been trying to compile an image for the EspressoBin since yesterday. Unfortunately I get the following error every time I run it. Other boards work fine. Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_Khadas-vim2_bookworm_edge_6.13.7.img Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_Rockpro64_bookworm_edge_6.14.0-rc4.img Why is this only with the EspressoBin can someone help me ? Kind regards StarSurfer Spoiler [💲|🔨] trusted-secure-firmware.bin trusted-secure-firmware-uart.bin trusted-secure-firmware-emmc.bin \ [💲|🔨] untrusted-secure-firmware.bin untrusted-secure-firmware-emmc.bin [💲|🔨] make -C wtmi CROSS_CM…

Hello! recently purchased the 2g espressobin and am not understanding why I cannot obtain gigabit speeds from lan to wan. I am able to do so from the OS out/in, but from a client machine to a machine attached to the wan I am getting 1/3 the speed of gigabit. Below is the iperf results along with my systemd/network settings. Does anyone have an idea why this is occurring? Client to machine in Ethernet attached to wan: Connecting to host 192.168.2.1, port 5001 [ 4] local 192.168.22.209 port 5859 connected to 192.168.2.1 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 36.6 MBytes 307 Mbits/sec [ 4] 1.00-2.…

Howdy, Trying to disable NCQ via kernel option, i have set the following extraarg=libata.force=5:noncq and extraarg=pcie_aspm=off in /boot/armbianEnv.txt. Rebooted and I do not see the change applied via: root@espressobin:~# cat /proc/cmdline console=ttyMV0,115200 earlycon=ar3700_uart,0xd0012000 root=UUID=e5344a53-4325-4b08-b6f3-1bfe432789d1 rw rootwait Thanks, Tim

The Espresobin wiki says 2 x Gigabit Ethernet 1Gbps / 2.5Gbps SGMII / HS-SGMII / RGMII Does that mean we actually have 2.5Gbps Nic x2? I also find this link But it's saying And there is even an official wiki talking about 2.5Gbps. Anyone has any luck on 2.5Gbps mode?

can somebody confirm this problem? in the year 2017 someone mentioned in http://espressobin.net/forums/topic/boot-behavior-of-the-switch-and-security/ some security concerns with older uboot bootloaders and port-mask setting in armada-3720-espressobin.dts(i) this seems still to be the case in the current released armbian bootloaders found in https://dl.armbian.com/espressobin/u-boot/ WTMI-devel-18.12.1-e6bb176 U-Boot 2018.03-devel-18.12.3-gc9aa92c-armbian (Feb 20 2019 - 09:45:04 +0100) since they also seem to use port-mask = <0xf> instead of the suggested port-mask = <0x3> ?! https://github.com…

Hi I want to boot from emmc(all bootloader ,rootfs and kernel are in emmc). Now I can boot kernel from SD card and emmc (bootloader in spi nor flash.), and it works well. At present ,I have got the flash-image.bin by ATF using BOOTDEV=EMMCNORM option and copy this one to emmc partition 1(mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 7.3G 0 part) Then i changed the jumper to emmc boot mode and reboot the board ,but uboot can not up .The output just show ">" "E" Can anyone tell me how should I do. Thanks

My Espressobin v5 with 4.14 reports 800Mhz and I am wondering if is there any progress on making it work at 1G or 1.2Ghz?

Hello all, it is this time of the year again. The pcie struggles with certain devices have returned with LK5.10 and are unfortunately not magically gone with LK5.13 As interest around clearfog is not that high, I am not expecting quick solutions here. But will post my findings and perhaps solution. If you have ideas welcome to chime in. pcie especially with wifi cards has been troublesome on clearfog (maybe even linux on the whole) forever(?). In LK5.4 we had it at a point where multiple different ones ran fine. Even "higher performance" ones as QCA988X (WLE600). We also list them as "supported hardware" on the download page... Now starting …

Hi there, a erroneously powered the Espressobin (V7) with my laptop power-supply [ i.e. 19V 2.31A ( right polarity i.e. + inside) ] ... The EspressoBin now does not boot. A green led lights-up for a moment and then nothing else. Any suggestion ? Thanks

Hello everybody, I would like to sell my helios4 and helios64. They weren't in operation much and are like new. So they are perfect for spare parts or to use them as a complete replacement. I really like the products but I don't want the hustle of fiddling around with every new armbian release. So if anybody is interested you can contact me and/or write here a comment. Thank you very much!

so on 2018-11-20 i've ordered an espressobin and tried armbian. and i probably got bitten by "yet another spi chip". using: U-Boot 2017.03-armada-18.09.1-ga92bd86-armbian (Sep 05 2018 - 21:49:34 +0200) i get: SF: unrecognized JEDEC id bytes: 9d, 70, 16. from the chip lookup (U10): IS25WP032 - UNSUPPORTED by armbian as of 2018-11-29 so i will try to gather already seen spi chips and their status with corresponding armbian uboots/kernels. since i'm new in the espressobin land, i ask other owners to post their chips and status.

I get kernel panic from TTL: espressobin login: [26830.163585] Internal error: synchronous parity or ECC error: 86000018 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [26830.168894] Modules linked in: zstd zram zsmalloc bridge stp llc sch_fq_codel ip_tables x_tables mv88e6xxx dsa_core [26830.179650] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.19.20-mvebu64 #5.75 [26830.186812] Hardware name: Globalscale Marvell ESPRESSOBin Board (DT) [26830.193445] pstate: 60000085 (nZCv daIf -PAN -UAO) [26830.198382] pc : need_update+0x0/0xb0 [26830.202138] lr : quiet_vmstat+0x4c/0x60 [26830.206076] sp : ffffff8008f73e80 [26830.209480] x29: ffffff8008f73e80 x28: 0000000007ed0018 [26830.214946] x27: 0000000000000…

I was hoping someone using a clearfog board could help me out with a working config for the switched ethernet ports on the clearfog board, to be able to access them as individually as possible as the hardware and linux allow for. Anyone with a Clearfog board by chance? Thanks! -Eric

I bought an espressobin and a realtek rtl8812au based usb wifi device because I wanted to set up a linux based wifi network at home. It is running the armbian mainline kernel with Debian 9. I installed hostapd and dnsmasq (config files below) and it works, hurray! Bad news is I do not understand how. I tried to look at the list of connected devices (cat /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases) but this showed nothing. I disabled dnsmasq and rebooted and the wifi continued to work without dnsmasq. So my question is this- without the dnsmasq service what exactly is handing out the ip addresses to devices connecting via dhcp? Hostapd config file: ssid=ARMBIAN inte…

Hi - I ordered a 2gb Espressobin from Globalscale and later flashed flash-image-2g-2cs-1200_750.bin, which caused my Espressobin to hang at: TIM-1.0 WTMI-devel-18.07.0-6050fd5 WTMI: system early-init SVC REV: 5, CPU VDD voltage: 0.898V I am able to boot to SATA using the sata recovery image, but cannot flash back to the working flash-image-2g-2cs-1000_800.bin. Here is what happens when I boot to SATA and attempt to flash the old bin: Booting Trusted Firmware BL1: v1.2(release):armada-17.02.0:v0.2-1324-g1cd562c BL1: Built : 16:29:17, Apr 20 2NOTICE: BL2: v1.2(release):armada-17.02.0:v0.2-1324-g1cd562c NOTICE: BL2: Built : 16:29:17, Apr 20…

Hello, today I tried upgrading my ClearfogPro Kernel from 4.14.106 (next) to 4.19.20(dev). So far everything seems to be working (samba, dnsmasq, minidlna, network etc.), see also attached armbianmonitor link. Great work @ armbian. I also noticed that the reported temperature by "cat /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp" seems to be about 20°C lower than with the old kernel. I appreciate this, because it seems to be closer to the real value (measured with thermal probe at heatsink). The old 4.14 kernel always reported some value around 65-70°C which seemed a bit high for idling (cpu running at 800Mhz like 80% of the time). The new valu…

So, I thought this was worth a try: diff --git a/config/sources/families/mvebu64.conf b/config/sources/families/mvebu64.conf index 091b7633..79e85954 100644 --- a/config/sources/families/mvebu64.conf +++ b/config/sources/families/mvebu64.conf @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ARCH=arm64 -BOOTSOURCE='https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/u-boot-marvell.git' -BOOTBRANCH='branch:u-boot-2018.03-armada-18.12' +BOOTSOURCE='https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot' +BOOTBRANCH='branch:master' BOOTENV_FILE='mvebu64.txt' ATFSOURCE='https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/atf-marvell' ATFDIR='arm-trusted-firmware-espressobin' TIM-1.0 WTMI-devel-18.12.1-e6bb176 WTMI: system early-init …

I have worked through the installation of Armbian Ubuntu 18.04 to the embedded MMC in an ESPRESSObin v7. It took a while and there were some quirks along the way, so here is a procedure with observations that may be useful to others. The Armbian u-boot does not appear to recognise the eMMC. I used Globalscale's u-boot espressobin-bootloader-cpu-1000-ddr4-1cs-1g I created a USB stick using the standard procedure and booted the ESPRESSObin from this. I copied the Armbian .img file to the ESPRESSObin USB system and used this to flash the eMMC sudo dd if= Armbian_5.69_Espressobin_Debian_stretch_next_4.19.14 of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=128K status=progres…

Hi there, The red LED on the EspressoBin v5 stopped working at Version 20.11. I opgrade from Armbian_20.02.0-rc1_Espressobin_buster_current_4.19.98 to the laetest version Armbian_20.11_Espressobin_buster_current_5.8.18. Also not working with Armbian_21.02.0-trunk.18_Espressobin_buster_current_5.8.18. On Armbian_20.02.0-rc1 to Armbian_20.05.2: root@espressobin:/sys/class/leds# ls -al total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 25 2020 . drwxr-xr-x 51 root root 0 Feb 14 2019 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 25 2020 espressobin:red:usr -> ../../devices/platform/leds/leds/espressobin:red:usr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 25 2020 mmc0::…

Just in case someone else experience this problem, this might be a solution. In order to try and get my EspressoBIN to work with a port multiplier, I figured that I'd boot via a microSD card, which then does the real boot from SATA. But I had plenty of problems writing to my microSD card, which worked fine for the CubieBoard2 a few minutes ago. The thing I did wrong was to write (armbian) to the /dev/mmcblk1 using the DD command. eg. dd if=/some/path/Armbian_5.50_Espressobin_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.17.3.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=1048576 ... I also tried cp /some/path/Armbian_5.50_Espressobin_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.17.3.img /dev/mmcblk1 -but th…

https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/u-boot-marvell/commits/u-boot-2018.03-armada-18.12 https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/A3700-utils-marvell/commits/A3700_utils-armada-18.12 https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/mv-ddr-marvell/commits/mv_ddr-armada-18.12 https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/atf-marvell/commits/atf-v1.5-armada-18.12 https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/uefi-marvell/commits/uefi-2.7-armada-18.12 https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/linux-marvell/commits/linux-4.14.76-armada-18.12 This release is based on ATF v1.5, but is also compatible with mainline ATF v2.0 sources. Th…

Hey guys, I've written a brief guide of getting ARMBIAN running on ClearFog Base, hoping it will be helpful for new bees. getting_started_with_clearfog_base.md It's like a note of how I was managed to write images and to boot ARMBIAN from USB, eMMC, or SATA SSD. And some details of A388 SoC boot selection. The guide is based on ARMBIAN 5.30 and ClearFog Base + A388 SoM with eMMC, and I believe that all the steps were verified, although I've tried several versions of ARMBIAN (both Deibian and Ubuntu) and got lots of boot failure. If there's any mistake in the guide, or there's a better way getting things done, please make comments here…

Hi, Trying to get the latest U-Boot working on my ESPRESSObin board - a v5, DDR3, 1 GB, 1cs version. I have no issues flashing it, and tftpbooting ... with the "old" supplied U-Boot. But wanting to run a recent version of OpenWrt on the board, so trying to update U-Boot. I flashed the latest version of U-Boot for it ... U-Boot comes up fine (I have serial access), but - ethernet seems to have an issue (for tftpboot, or even ping), I get, => ping 192.168.2.1 (NULL udevice *): mvneta_setup_txqs: can't create txq=0 Using ethernet@30000 device timeout: packet not sent timeout: packet not sent timeout: packet not sent timeout: packet not se…

i had contact with some devs regarding this problem: Compex cards (wle600 and wle900) do not work on kernel 4.4.x without changes. The answer i got is: Maybe someone could fix that? Would be really nice! I have no idea how to do that with the irq_mode

I have Armbian 5.38 Debian Stretch Default running 4.4.115-mvebu and it is working fine. If I try to use either Debian or Ubuntu with the Next kernel (4.14.14) Network Manager always fails to start with a long wait (1 - 1.5 mins). Both Debain and Ubuntu images behave the same with their respective kernels. (4.4 yes, 4.14 no) Is this fixed in 4.15? Am I missing anything using the Default kernel? I've read in other posts where Igor and Mr Kaiser state the Next kernel is more 'mature.' I'm starting a fairly ambitious project with this board so I kinda want to make sure everything will run. Thanks!!

Hi again, The Clearfog base has two push buttons, but these don't seem to be hard-wired to any hardware functionality. Does anyone know how to find them in the system and monitor them for events? They could then be used for example to reboot or power down the system. BR. --Marius--

Hi there, I've recently ordered a miniPCIe Wifi adapter for the Espressobin, so it can act as WiFi Access Point. The device does recognise the card (using `pci` in u-boot lists the device), but the kernel doesn't. All I can see is the following in dmesg output: [ 2.969072] advk-pcie d0070000.pcie: link never came up [ 2.974496] advk-pcie d0070000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00 [ 2.980995] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff] [ 2.986325] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0xe8000000-0xe8ffffff] [ 2.993793] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0000-0xffff] (bus address [0xe9000000-0xe9) [ 4.435260] advk-pcie d00700…

Hi, I'm running armbian 5.27 xenial / kernel 4.9.12-mvebu on a Clearfog base, where eth0 should have a static address and eth1 gets its config. from DHCP. The system has three possible interfaces (including the empty SFP port - eth2). By default both Ethernet ports eth0 and eth1 came up with DHCP, however, I couldn't find any config covering both of them. nmtui had a config for eth1 and eth2 (if I remember correctly), while the /etc/network/interfaces file only had a config for eth0. I have now tried to configure eth0 with a static config, both by adding it in nmtui (which didn't seem to have any effect) and…

Hello everybody and a nice evening. I have two EspressoBin 1GB at home and try desperately to change the static IP. No matter if in the armbian-config or under /etc/systemd/network/10-br0.network I just can not get it. Does anyone else have any advice? I've already tried Google and the forum search but any attempt fails that the IP is constantly jumping or that I no longer get a gateway. Armbian is a great distro and nobody has gotten the kernel to work so far. I hope you can help me. Alone a nice evening :-) LG StarSurfer

Ok I'm stuck and need some help. Trying to install an intel 7260 wifi + bt mini pcie card in my clearfog (as an access point but that's the next step). I'm using https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/ to build and using the dev branch (tried all 3). Installs everything ok Ethernet, 3G modem but the intel 7260 is killing me. Tried installing the ucode from version 13 - 17 from: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi?s%5b%5d=iwlmvm#firmware http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/?id=c883a6b6186bb2415761d287cbac773062911212 https://github.com/OpenELEC/iwlwifi-firmware/tree/master/firmware Using the Gent…

Hello, I have discovered interesting behaviour of the clearfogpro switching between lk4.19 and 5.8 and would like to know if others are able to reproduce. And maybe have ideas on how to fix. Steps to reproduce: - have a clearfogpro - get the current armbian image https://archive.armbian.com/clearfogpro/archive/ 20.08 - 'apt update && apt full-upgrade' - set the lan1-6 interfaces to bridging (example via following /etc/network/interfaces : https://pastebin.com/dpXEBe6g ) - reboot - plug into your network should be GBit (on lan1-5). Verify you get ip, and can reach other devices. - run iperf3 between clea…

Hi, I have not been able to find clear instructions explaning how to compile u-boot so it detects the installed msata disk. What I think I have to do is rebuild u-boot using the armbian build tools and patch uboot by moving and renaming file below ~/armbian/patch/u-boot/u-boot-mvebu/slot0=sata_1=sata.patch.disabled to the folder ~/armbian/userpatches/u-boot/u-boot-mvebu/board_clearfogpro/slot0=sata_1=sata.patch After builds completes I get a linux-u-boot-clearfogpro_5.74_armhf.deb which I installed and nothing happened the msata disk still not detected. Is that how am I supposted to go about to enable msata support? …

Hi, We made a custom board based on ClearfogBase. And we will change the size of DDR to 512MB. But, I have no idea if it would work without any software changes. Thanks in advance JS

Hello, I installed the latest armbian mainline image on my clearfog pro. I plugged a wifi card on it. I would like to set up the armbian network so as to use it as a gateway towards the ISP box. Concretely, here the scheme : internet <---- ADSL-----> ISP box <------- RJ45 ----------> clearfog <-------- wifi --------> PC1, tablet, ... <------- RJ45 -------> PC2, printer, ... Currently I use this scheme with an old router (linksys/dd-wrt) which is…

Hello everyone, i build a own Image for the EspressoBin and it wont boot. In the u-boot log shows boot.scr but on the Image himself is just a boot.scr.uimg. What is the problem ? Greetings StarSurfer Model: Marvell Armada 3720 Community Board ESPRESSOBin Net: eth0: neta@30000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 starting USB... USB0: Register 2000104 NbrPorts 2 Starting the controller USB XHCI 1.00 USB1: USB EHCI 1.00 scanning bus 0 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found scanning bus 1 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found / ** File not found /boot.scr ** ## Exec…

Hello Everyone! In the company where I am, we are migrating the current Zynq architecture with DDR3 to Armada 3700 family with DDR4. Before deciding to migrate, we bought some espressobin and were delighted with this product. We have therefore attempted to develop two cards that use the armada A3700 processor without success. We concluded that the problem is HW but we don't know exactly where. I have done numerous tests. I try to summarize the key points as briefly as possible. Our board uses DDR4 MT40A512M16LY-062E IT:E with Armada 88F3720-A0-BVB2I080-P123. We have created a TIM, WTMI, Uboot package using A3700-utils-marvell, mv-ddr-m…

Hi, similar to the issue reported in https://forum.armbian.com/topic/6566-le-potato-serial-getty-on-ttys0-starts-stops-restarts/ the /var/log/syslog file is being spammed with the following entries: Jul 11 00:37:04 localhost systemd[1]: serial-getty@ttyS0.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Jul 11 00:37:04 localhost systemd[1]: Stopped Serial Getty on ttyS0. Jul 11 00:37:04 localhost systemd[1]: Started Serial Getty on ttyS0. Jul 11 00:37:14 localhost systemd[1]: serial-getty@ttyS0.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Jul 11 00:37:14 localhost systemd[1]: Stopped Serial Getty on ttyS0. Jul 11 00:37:14 localhost syst…

Hi, I am currently trying to install a secure /trusted U-Boot into the EspressoBin and got several questions for this issue. I followed this manual: https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/u-boot-marvell/blob/u-boot-2017.03-armada-17.10/doc/mvebu/trusted_boot.txt Regarding this manual the Flag for "efuse write BOOT_DEVICE SPINOR "has to be setup into NOR-Flash, so that the device will only boot from NOR anymore (which is a reason for security, I know). Can I skip this step, so that I do not damage the complete board? I would choose UART for testing my encrypted bootloader. I skipped the step "efuse write DEV_DEPLOY 1…

Hi, I am setting up a Clearfog base as the backend for my music player. As a high-end audio device it would be a clear advantage if all processing could be passively cooled. Running Armbian_5.27_Clearfogbase_Ubuntu_xenial_default_4.4.70 the default heatsink gets very hot to the touch and feels much hotter than the reported 49 degrees. Does anyone know if there are any differences between the available kernel and armbian versions regarding temperature? Does anyone know of any inaccuracies in the temperature reporting for the ARMADA 38x? What could be regarded as a safe (reported) operating temperature for the ARMADA 38x? …

https://gist.github.com/voltagex/1dae7c0bf153c76a49bea407f932be69 if anyone's interested.

Is the ESPRESSObin version 7 supported by Armbian?

Hi all, i have the A38X MicroSom with emmc (yes bad idea) with ClearFog Base, and buy me an 64GB M.2 SSD for i Think easy way to dd a img on emmc. I have wait a long time for my Hardware and now musst be more time invest for my first boot up. I've been asking for concrete: on http://wiki.solid-run.com/doku.php?id=products:a38x:software:development:u-boo it is written: What is my toolchain prefix, this: arm-none-linux-gnueabi- ? I have my host linux pc, with debian x86 / amd64, ARM compatible? if so which packages are required for it, with add Architecture armhf? Is the ri…

I just pulled my espressobin back out of the box, re-imaged with 4.18.6-nvebu64, and sparked it up. Nearly everything just works, I'm so impressed! The only problem I'm having is that the bcache tools doesn't seem to be providing a kernel module -- at least, none is present anywhere I can find, particularly in the initramfs. Any suggestions?

Hi, the ClearfogPro has a so called TDM interface. This also contains a pin for spdif and i2s. I have been trying to get it to work for some time, but unfortunately it is not included in the solidrun image nor is there any documentation on it from their side. As far as I figured it out the TDM is for some external VoIP Cards, and I2S is a sound protocol between sounddevices. So I would like to use SPDIF to stream some audio to my amplifier. I checked in the function and hardware specs for the Armada 388 (88F6828) and the schematics of the clearfogpro and it seems that pin mpp51 is would be used for spdif. This pin al…

I recently got a ClearFog Pro board and wanted to replace my router with it. In order to add Wi-Fi functionality, I installed an Intel 4965 AGN PCI-E extension card. So far I have tried the following two images in order to get it to work: Mainline 4.9.7 The mainline kernel neither detected my Wi-Fi module nor the additional, built-in LAN ports. However, after updating the kernel with "apt upgrade" to 4.10.x, the "iwlegacy" driver necessary for the Intel Wi-Fi module started to work. However, the LAN ports are still missing. Entering "ip link" gives the following output: Usually, there should be lan1, lan2, lan3... …

Hi everyone, My name is Gabriel and I am a new person in the community. After installing ARMBIAN (Armbian_5.91_Clearfogbase_Debian_stretch_default_4.14.135) with the Mini PCI Express Marvel 88SE9215, I got a problem with my Clearfog Pro-A1 revision-2.1. It did not work properly like 88SE9215 did not show me my disks. My Idea is to deploy my NAS server with OMV. I tried to compile the kernel so many times with different modules like SATA, PATA, and AHCI but it did not work also. I guess that my u-boot is not setup properly because I was reading a couple post about it and it’s working to everyone. Someone can give me a favor pls and …

I was able to boot from a SATA disk that was manually setup with a GPT-formatted table and a debootstrap'ed debian arm64 kernel. The GPT partitions included: 1. BIOS from sector 34-2047, no filesystem 2. ESP from 2048-409599 (which u-boot calls bootable even if the flag isn't set), vfat filesystem 3. XBOOTLDR from 409600-819199 with bootable flag set (0x4), ext4 FS without journal 4. linux swap 5. ARM64 root (gdisk type 8305) with bit 60 set (read-only), ext4 without journal 6. linux /var (gdisk type 8310), ext4, with /srv/ and /home/ bind-mounted from /var/local/ The bootscripts/extlinux configuration live in /boot, onto which i…

I don't know if this is some strange thing about the kernel supplied for the Espressobin or what, but I am unable to load even the most basic rule set in nftables, the empty one that comes with the nftables package: root@tottenham:~# cat /etc/nftables.conf flush ruleset table inet filter { chain input { type filter hook input priority 0; policy accept; } chain forward { type filter hook forward priority 0; policy accept; } chain output { type filter hook output priority 0; policy accept; } } root@tottenham:~# nft -f /etc/nftables.conf /etc/nftables.conf:5:15-19: Error: Could not process rule: No such file or directory chain input { type filter hoo…