I've installed the latest Armbian on an F3 (Armbian_26.5.1_Bananapif3_trixie_current_6.18.33_minimal.img), updated and upgraded and then rebooted.  Unfortunately there's no PWM controller under /sys:

bobham@bananapif3:~$ ls /sys/class/pwm/
bobham@bananapif3:~$ 

which means there's no fan control.  According to the official docs, there should be a PWM controller to control the fan.

Can the fan controller be added?

Thanks,

Bob Ham

If needed, I can provide logs, test kernels, or help verify the changes.

Thanks for maintaining support for this board.

I've connected an NVMe drive that I used in my PC to the Banana Pi F3, but it's not being detected. I'm using a USB-C PD power supply (Pine64 PinePower Desktop) to ensure sufficient power, yet it's still not recognized. The drive might be faulty.

Has anyone successfully used an NVMe drive with this board? If so, could you share which NVMe drives are known to work with it?

Thanks!

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 v25.5.1 for BananaPi BPI-F3 running Armbian Linux 6.6.87-current-spacemit

 Packages:     Debian rolling (trixie)
 IPv4:         (LAN) 192.168.1.185, 192.168.1.83 (WAN) 82.65.177.146
 IPv6:         2a01:e0a:5ed:6230:fcfe:feff:fef8:f4be, 2a01:e0a:5ed:6230:3718:a97e:8a7b:a2c6 (WAN) 2a01:e0a:5ed:6230:9f8a:b5c1:f849:3f6f

 Performance:

 Load:         2%               Up time:       1:31
 Memory usage: 2% of 15.51G
 CPU temp:     45°C              Usage of /:   12% of 113G

 Commands:

 Configuration : armbian-config
 Monitoring    : htop
[...]

# Check PCIe-related kernel messages
sudo dmesg | grep -E "(pcie|nvme|k1x-dwc)"

# Check PCIe power management
cat /sys/module/nvme_core/parameters/default_ps_max_latency_us

# Monitor PCIe during boot
sudo journalctl -b | grep -i pcie
[    0.404937] k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: has no power on gpio.
[    0.407218] k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: host bridge /soc/pcie@ca400000 ranges:
[    0.407260] k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie:       IO 0x009f002000..0x009f101fff -> 0x009f002000
[    0.407280] k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie:      MEM 0x0090000000..0x009effffff -> 0x0090000000
[    0.507413] k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: iATU: unroll T, 8 ob, 8 ib, align 4K, limit 4G
[    1.507664] k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: Phy link never came up
[    1.508176] k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0001:00
[    1.514835] pcieport 0001:00:00.0: PME: Signaling with IRQ 65
[    1.515235] pcieport 0001:00:00.0: AER: enabled with IRQ 65
[    1.515884] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: has no power on gpio.
[    1.518096] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: host bridge /soc/pcie@ca800000 ranges:
[    1.518126] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie:       IO 0x00b7002000..0x00b7101fff -> 0x00b7002000
[    1.518150] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie:      MEM 0x00a0000000..0x00afffffff -> 0x00a0000000
[    1.518164] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie:      MEM 0x00b0000000..0x00b6ffffff -> 0x00b0000000
[    1.618263] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: iATU: unroll T, 8 ob, 8 ib, align 4K, limit 4G
[    2.618384] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: Phy link never came up
[    2.618513] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0002:00
[    2.625055] pcieport 0002:00:00.0: PME: Signaling with IRQ 69
[    2.625444] pcieport 0002:00:00.0: AER: enabled with IRQ 69
[    8.000939] systemd[1]: Starting modprobe@nvme_fabrics.service - Load Kernel Module nvme_fabrics...
[    8.348576] systemd[1]: modprobe@nvme_fabrics.service: Deactivated successfully.
[    8.349624] systemd[1]: Finished modprobe@nvme_fabrics.service - Load Kernel Module nvme_fabrics.
[    9.227876] systemd[1]: nvmefc-boot-connections.service - Auto-connect to subsystems on FC-NVME devices found during boot was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathExists=/sys/class/fc/fc_udev_device/nvme_discovery).
100000
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: has no power on gpio.
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: host bridge /soc/pcie@ca400000 ranges:
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie:       IO 0x009f002000..0x009f101fff -> 0x009f002000
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie:      MEM 0x0090000000..0x009effffff -> 0x0090000000
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: iATU: unroll T, 8 ob, 8 ib, align 4K, limit 4G
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: Phy link never came up
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0001:00
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: pcieport 0001:00:00.0: PME: Signaling with IRQ 65
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: pcieport 0001:00:00.0: AER: enabled with IRQ 65
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: has no power on gpio.
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: host bridge /soc/pcie@ca800000 ranges:
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie:       IO 0x00b7002000..0x00b7101fff -> 0x00b7002000
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie:      MEM 0x00a0000000..0x00afffffff -> 0x00a0000000
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie:      MEM 0x00b0000000..0x00b6ffffff -> 0x00b0000000
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: iATU: unroll T, 8 ob, 8 ib, align 4K, limit 4G
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: Phy link never came up
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0002:00
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: pcieport 0002:00:00.0: PME: Signaling with IRQ 69
juil. 04 19:00:44 bananapif3 kernel: pcieport 0002:00:00.0: AER: enabled with IRQ 69
poddingue@bananapif3 ~ $ # Enable all available kernel modules for NVMe
sudo modprobe nvme
sudo modprobe nvme-core
sudo modprobe nvme-pci

# Check if modules loaded
lsmod | grep nvme
modprobe: FATAL: Module nvme-pci not found in directory /lib/modules/6.6.87-current-spacemit
nvme_fabrics          118784  0

I recently gained remote access to a Banana Pi F3 to test it, and everything went smoothly.
The board was running Bianbu Linux, and I was able to install and use Docker without issues.
 

Now, I'm considering purchasing the board and was wondering if the Armbian image would also support running Docker.
Do you have any insights on this?

Thanks!

ffmpeg command

ffmpeg -y -v 99 -f lavfi -i testsrc -pix_fmt nv12 -g 15 -c:v h264_v4l2m2m  out.264

dmesg error

[ 4834.438234] MVX if: Failed to load firmware binary. filename=linlon-v52_v76-80-2/h264enc.fwb.
[ 4834.450002] MVX if: Firmware binary was loaded with error.
[ 4834.450020] MVX session: ffffffd905a1a0f8 send event error. error=-22

ffmpeg

Gets some way into initialising. It detects the Linlon H264 encoder, checks images are NV12 format, but then fail with this error

[h264_v4l2m2m @ 0x2abf834870] Failed to set gop size: Invalid argument

Where do I find this .fwb file, and should it be shipping with Armbian?

System

Banana Pi F3

Uname

Linux bananapif3 6.1.15-legacy-spacemit #1 SMP Sat Sep  7 13:08:45 UTC 2024 riscv64 riscv64 riscv64 GNU/Linux

/etc/os-release

PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 25.5.0-trunk.451 noble"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="24.04"
VERSION="24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)"
VERSION_CODENAME=noble
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.armbian.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forum.armbian.com"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://www.armbian.com/bugs"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.armbian.com"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
LOGO="armbian-logo"
ARMBIAN_PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 25.5.0-trunk.451 noble"

apt-update/apt-upgrade

did this first

I use bananapif3 as my home router, where our latest official Armbian runs. Everything works well except the flow offload, which is used to accelerate packets handling, doesn't work in Armbian:

$ sudo nft add rule inet filter forward ip protocol tcp flow add @f
Error: Could not process rule: No such file or directory
add rule inet filter forward ip protocol tcp flow add @f
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^

It seems that the kernel config CONFIG_NFT_FLOW_OFFLOAD is not enabled, which might result in this issue:

$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_NFT_FLOW_OFFLOAD
# CONFIG_NFT_FLOW_OFFLOAD is not set

So would the maintainer kindly enable it in the future build? Thanks.

P.S.:  My armbianmonitor result is here.

BPI-F3 Introduction

For this device, we can make an image using the Source Code:

BananaPi_BPI-F3#_development

Let's try to add support to the Armbian build system.

I tried installing libsquashfs-dev, libsquashfs1, libsquashfuse0, squashfs-tools, squashfuse, but no improvement

Tips how to solve this?

sander@bananapif3:~$ sudo modprobe squashfs
modprobe: FATAL: Module squashfs not found in directory /lib/modules/6.1.15-legacy-k1

sander@bananapif3:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Armbian-bpi-SpacemiT 24.5.0-trunk noble
Release:    24.04
Codename:    noble

sander@bananapif3:~$ apt list --installed | grep -i squashfs

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

libsquashfs-dev/noble,now 1.2.0-1 riscv64 [installed]
libsquashfs1/noble,now 1.2.0-1 riscv64 [installed]
squashfs-tools/noble,now 1:4.6.1-1build1 riscv64 [installed]

sander@bananapif3:~$ snap install hello-world
error: system does not fully support snapd: cannot mount squashfs image using "squashfs": -----
       mount: /tmp/syscheck-mountpoint-1699862111: unknown filesystem type 'squashfs'.

       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.

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