Marvell mvebu

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?

Marvell>> bubt flash-image-DDR3-2g_2cs_7-600_600.bin Burning U-BOOT image "flash-image-DDR3-2g_2cs_7-600_600.bin" from "tftp" to "spi" Using neta@30000 device TFTP from server 192.168.10.1; our IP address is 192.168.10.253 Filename 'flash-image-DDR3-2g_2cs_7-600_600.bin'. Load address: 0x8000000 Loading: ############################################################# 4.8 MiB/s done Bytes transferred = 895012 (da824 hex) Image checksum...OK! 722980 bytes written, 172032 bytes skipped in 8.713s, speed 105174 B/s Done! Marvell>> reset resetting ... TIM-1.0 WTMI-devel-18.12.1-e6bb176 WTMI: system early-init DDR topology parameters: ========================…

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 …

Hi, I have this latest ESPRESSObin v7 board. It doe's not boot official Armbian BIONIC. I have used Armbian before on other chips and I am pretty confident I am following the instructions correctly. Steps I did to get it going: 1. I followed official instructions to flash u-boot with bubt tool to it's latest version. My board is DDR4, 1GB,1 ram chip, 1000cpu,800ram. I got the right one - as all works just fine after a reset. Also applied relevant boot environment as instructed here https://www.armbian.com/espressobin/ 2. I have then used etcher to burn SD card with bionic. Tried to boot - didn't work. Only getting call traces in kernel log. 3. I…

New revelation... the v7 of espressobin has flipped the ethernet port order. On v5 they were (left to right) lan1 lan0 wan On v7 they are (left to right) wan lan0 lan1 When I load armbian with latest u-boot (I believe v7 are the only boards with ddr4...) the ports are in v5 order. The v7 ports have the intended wan port separated from lan0 lan1, so they really need to be re-assigned. Is there a way to fix this without rebuilding u-boot?

Seems my espressoBin started randomly rebooting. sometimes it does it while sitting in a u boot prompt other times it will do it while bootting the os Any suggestions? anyone seen this before? Tried updateing uboot with no luck

Using the WiFi card: Compex WLE900VX Configured: /etc/network/interfaces: allow-hotplug wlp0s0 iface wlp0s0 inet dhcp wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and wpa_supplicant.conf ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1 country=US network={ ssid="****" scan_ssid=1 psk=''*****' } The networking.service tries to come up during boot before the WiFi and this causes problems so: $ systemctl disable networking the network comes up great on boot. I'm using a stretch 4.18.7 kernel compiled with re…

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 folks, I am building a small Kubernetes cluster and k8s absolutely *hates* swap, it wants it switched off. I have tried the customary purge of Adam Conrad's zram-config tool, but it looks like on Armbian the setup of zram is coming from deeper down in the system... any help? I would normally want zram on, but in this case, because of K8s's quirk, it is making nodes fail cluster init on reboot... it is not helping. thanks -F

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.

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…

I’m having a lot of trouble getting started with Armbian Ubuntu 16 (SD Boot) and the board. I downloaded the default image from https://dl.armbian.com/espressobin/ and wrote it successfully to the SD card. In UBoot, I have tried using the cmd at https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/bootscripts/boot-espressobin.cmd and there is no armada-3720-espressobin.dtb file at the path that is called. It also cacks out on the if statement saying there is no “load” command. If I don’t call the expressobin.dtb and bypass the if statement, using “run bootmmc” starts it loading but it hangs and throws some errors and then han…

Does armbian builds for Espressobin support u-boot's driver MVEBU_EFUSE_FAKE to fake efuse access? From my understanding efuse is needed to test trusted boot. https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/a1b6b0a9c1f91756b93e6d804837dc178d79d39e I am testing secure boot(trusted boot) on my 2GB EspressoBIN, using the armada-17.10 versions of u-boot, a3700utils, and atf-marvell. Following the trusted_boot.txt document, I successfully built an untrusted and trusted flash.bin and a u-boot.bin with mvebu efuse enabled. I was able to boot the board with the untrusted boot image and ran the efuse write commands. My board had a loss of power before I b…

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…

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?

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…

My Debian Buster with Armbian Linux 4.19.59-mvebu64 has no /dev/watchdog... I am a little confused - is there a simple solution to e.g. add the kernel module for the watchdog? I am not into kernel compiling myself unfortunately, so I appreciate any help.

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?

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 am trying to resuscitate an EspressoBin that I purchased back in 2017. I bought it to make a Linux firewall, but the Ubuntu image apparently wasn't up to networking, and I was too busy to deal with attempting to make a custom Linux build to ensure that networking was enabled. I am specifically looking for help with the SATA Rescue procedure. It seems that Armbian has created a Linux image with networking enabled, so I am trying to load the image. The Armbian instructions said to update the bootloader before attempting to use the new image. I (tried to) follow the instructions, but I had no success with the load. Using Kermit on my Linux laptop to watch …

Greetings! Just flashed my 1000-800, 2 ram chips (for what I reckon, I could provide a picture) 1gb espressobin with the latest image : However, I've no rtc, it seems: I've seen some of these errors being present in the developement efforts thread, however, I don't see any solutions other than using the latest firmware, that as per my knowledge, I do... Thanks a lot in advance!

Hello everyone, I would like to sell my Helios64. The NAS is in excellent condition, and has been used with care. It is ready to be configured according to your needs. I did not make the fix to take advantage of 2.5Gb/s connectivity (2.5G Ethernet Issue at 1Gbps Link Speed). I bought it for $285.00 + $28.00 shipping + $45.00 customs clearance + $15.00 for a 2.5" adapter (KOB-H64-ADP-01) (SSD support for the system). Total = $373.00 (~€340) I can provide purchase invoices for these amounts. You can make me your offer proposals. Here are some photos : Best regards, Flolm

Hello to you! I was using Arch Linux ARM on my Clearfog Pro for years. Then things got bad. I think it's a bad combination to have a distro with the most up-to-date software while developers are rapidly abandoning and not testing 32-bit Linux software. First wget became incompatible with gnutls and then programs in coreutils that use utmp started malfunctioning. The last straw was the system became unbootable, issuing a message about ext4 "ext4fs_devread read outside partition 18446744073709551440". I switched to Armbian but now I'm at a loss as to how to configure DSA on the Clearfog Pro. I installed the mv88e6xxx but the LAN ports on …

not an expert in device-tree, anybody knows how enable uart2/uart4? dts is attached. expressobin v7 mainline many thanks. armada-3720-espressobin-v7.dts

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, 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

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?

This is just to report, that Image file Armbian_23.11.1_Espressobin_bookworm_current_5.15.139.img.xz is not mounting. Downloaded from https://armbian.site-meganet.com/dl/espressobin/archive/Armbian_23.11.1_Espressobin_bookworm_current_5.15.139.img.xz Mounting from loop or from USB gives the same error: # mount /dev/loop0p1 /mnt/img/ mount: /mnt/img: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0p1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error Is there other working image?

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…

Is the ESPRESSObin version 7 supported by Armbian?

Where to find u-boot files? Download link from source page for EspressoBin doesn't work: https://www.armbian.com/espressobin/ gets you here:

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=…

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: …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

``` [ 160.434443] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 160.434470] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at net/bridge/br_switchdev.c:46 nbp_switchdev_frame_mark+0x20/0x30 [bridge] [ 160.434571] Modules linked in: xfrm_user xfrm_algo ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 ip6_tables nf_log_ipv6 xt_recent xt_comment xt_multiport ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_conntrack xt_hashlimit xt_mark xt_MASQUERADE nft_counter xt_CT xt_tcpudp xt_addrtype nft_compat nft_chain_nat br_netfilter nfnetlink_log xt_NFLOG nf_log_ipv4 nf_log_common xt_LOG nf_nat_tftp nf_nat_snmp_basic nf_conntrack_snmp nf_nat_sip nf_nat_pptp nf_nat_irc nf_nat_h323 nf_nat_ftp nf_nat_amanda ts_kmp nf_conntrack_amanda nf_nat nf…

Hi, I've been trying to compile an armbian image based on (any but In this case) the dev branch, Jessie using: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/libwhich seems fine. I write the .raw image to an sd card and throw it in to get an error: ** File not found boot/dtb/armada-388-clearfog.dtb Looking at the sd card compared to the pre-compiled images I can see that it isn't there. I'm new to compiling armbian (could you tell?) so sorry in advance if the answer is obvious. Any help or documentation people have for building the clearfog board I'd really appreciate.

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…

Folks, it has been a long time since I messed around with my ebin v5, but just wanted give it a second chance as I need to do something about my EOL Cubietruck (and my "broken" NT4 domain). So I started a second attempt with "Armbian_22.08.1_Espressobin_bullseye_current_5.15.63" just a few days ago, but didn't got much further than updating uboot and to apt update / upgrade the system, before I got distracted again. In the meantime I noticed the new "Armbian_22.11.1_Espressobin_bullseye_current_5.15.80" and I thought it would be a better idea starting from scratch with that version. However, when I boot this up from SD the only interfac…

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.…

I have a few 2G boards bought from Globalscale over the last few months. They've been working fine without any issues. So far I've been using the firmware that came with the boards. One has: TIM-1.0 WTMI-armada-17.10.1-b90dbf0 ENTER init_ddrgen DDR_TOPOLOGY is 7 : DDR3, 2CS 1G + 1G WTMI_CLOCK=2 ... U-Boot 2017.03-armada-17.10.1-gaee49fc (Jan 29 2018 - 18:21:49 +0800) (and has the w25q32dw SPI) The other two have: TIM-1.0 WTMI-armada-17.10.5-bb8f823 WTMI: system early-init SVC REV: 5, CPU VDD voltage: 1.143V ... U-Boot 2017.03-armada-17.10.2-g14aeedc (Jun 01 2018 - 15:39:10 …

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…

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!

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) …

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 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?

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…

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? …

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.

Hello, There are many leds on the clearfogpro that I would like to switch off. But /sys/class/leds only has "mmc0::". Is there a way to access other leds ? namely those of the ethernet ports ? Regards deb2016

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…

On my Clearfog Base, I noticed that the temperature reported in motd was different than that reported by /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp - and reading the script at /etc/update-motd.d/30-sysinfo I found towards the end a comment about readings being done on the heatsink for Marvell systems (of which this is one), and the code subtracts 30 degrees Celsius from the reading. I searched around and couldn't find any other mentions of needing to do that. I guess I'm curious how it was determined that this was necessary - and how accurate it actually should be. It seems like a questionable assumption that the sensor would report a temperature that was always …

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::…

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…

I'm building an application to automate installation and configuration of my Clearfog (eMMC board) and I've got stuck copying the files to the device. I'm trying to use TFTP for file transfer because I'd like to avoid needing a USB stick. The image file for Armbian is ~1.2GB which I think has a lot of padded space? (I've build a bare bones image). If so I have two possible options in mind to fix my problems. 1) Cut down on the padding so the image can be loaded (not sure where the configuration setting for this is yet). 2) Possibly compress the image and install it? Not sure if 2 is possible but have to ask. If there's another option I'd also like to hear it.…

Dear community, I'm trying to add some storage to espressobin board and idea to utilize existing mini pcie socket for that was very appealing. I have bought Mini PCI-E to NVME Adapter on aliexpress (PCI-E to NVME Adapter) and Samsung PM991a 256Gb drive. To my surprise it is almost worked immediately - drive is detected and appeared in system as nvme device. The next step would be to check if it works and I was hit by a failure immediately, Reading from drive using dd command seems to work for first 19 Mb's seems to work, but attempt to ready anything beyond 20 Mb mark produces drive freeze and then disconnect. Drive becomes unusable until p…

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…

Trying to get the serial port working on pins 24 and 26 of the espressobin. I've tried all of the armbian builds, plus building the kernel from the Marvell github repo - various branches. On the 4.4.52 kernels, the serial port on the header pins shows up with port of 0000 and IRQ of 8, but will not work. On the 4.14 kernels, I get port 0000 and IRQ 0, and also doesn't work Has anyone managed to get the serial port working on the header pins 24,26 of the espressobin? I have posted more detail here on the github page but no progress so thought I'd ask here if anyone has had any success with this? Thanks …

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…

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 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>&…

I just got my EspressoBin V7 and installed the current armbian for it. I haven't tested much, but Globalscale has changed the numbering of the ethernet ports, as can been seen in the Wiki of the EspressoBin. What do I have to do to rename the ports permanently, so that no update can change it back? Or is this something that needs to be changed in armbian for the V7 boards?

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