Framework and userspace feature requests

armbian-config provides configuration and installation routines for customizing and automating tasks within Armbian Linux environment. These utilities help streamline setup processes for various use cases. Key Advantages Lightweight: Minimal dependencies for optimal performance. Flexible: Supports JSON, TUI, CLI, and API interfaces. Modern: A fresh approach to configuration. Low entropy: Byte clean uninstall for most targets. Features System Configuration: Kernel management, headers, hardware tweaks. NFS and ZFS storage management. SSH user access tweaks. Sy…

It's been several years since I started looking for a forum to discuss various general aspects of SBCs, such as "recommend me the board for X", SoC software support state, pricing, deals, etc. All not armbian-related per se. Neither of current categories are exactly suitable for such questions on this forum. Off-topic category doesn't receive much attention as I would guess. Proposal: create "general discussions" category.

Will an Ubuntu minimal Armbian image based on 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" be available? For my project, an every-six-month release is a better fit than every two years or grabbing packages from "sid".

Was wondering if there is a utility similar to the Khadas Krescue boot utility that allows one to backup/install emcc images?? I found it very useful to backup my Khadas images as well as installing different os. The description is as follows: 'Krescue is an extremely small (21mb) operating system that you can boot directly from a micro-SD card or your EMMC. It is a “Swiss Army knife”, and you can use it to perform a variety of low-level SBC maintenance tasks. Most notable of which are backing-up your EMMC by dumping a raw-compressed .img.gz, and rapidly installing a new OS via flashing a .img.gz back into the EMMC. Krescue can download and install OS i…

The "create access point" utility in `armbian-config` has several bugs that prevent it from working, due to changes in the default installation since it was written: - hostapd does not install a default configuration file at `/etc/hostapd.conf` - hostapd is installed masked by default - dnsmasq fails to start because systemd-resolvd launches first as the default DNS resolver I can write patches to fix this utility, but I'm wondering if it will ultimately be worth it. I noticed this access point utility doesn't exist in the `armbian-configng` repository. Is that because Armbian is dropping this utility, or no one has gotten around to it yet? …

For the longest time I have struggled with Timezone for Iceland in Armbian. The initial Armbian config has Europe -> and then places in Europe, in this list then it even has exotic places like Jan Mayen and or Swalbard (I forgot which ?). But it does not have Iceland at all. I know at this point in time (at initial install you can manually enter in some time zone format also). If you go in Armbian Config after it has been installed then the Armbian Config tool only displays Cities, so at this point in time you have missed the chance to enter it in the time zone format. Iceland uses UTC / GMT0, as in same time as London h…

NanoPi R76S is supposed to have PHC hardware timestamp support with both ethernet interfaces. Unfortunately ethtool -T returns no hardware support. Would be great if PHC could be enabled in this nice box.

During first boot if the wifi router is not online, the whole setup skips wifi configuration. It would have good if it keeps scanning for new wifi names everytime it fails to connect to chosen option.

Hi everyone, I am working on a project to use the Orange Pi Zero 2W as a USB UVC (Webcam) gadget via ConfigFS. I am currently using a newer image with Kernel 6.12/6.1, but I am facing critical issues. Specifically, I am getting 'Permission Denied' errors when trying to write to resolution parameters (like hHeight/wHeight), and even after bypassing that, I encounter 'Device or resource busy' errors when binding the UDC. Based on my research, these UVC functions were much more stable on the Legacy 5.10 kernel. However, I cannot find any official Debian Bullseye/Bookworm images for the Zero 2W that still use the 5.10 kernel, as most archives have been updated …

Hi, for 2 day i am searching for set a bootlogo on the screen while loading klipper but all i get is the linux text that fly by. I set bootlogo= true in armbianEnv.txt does not help i can't find any other option. There should also be Splash can find any decent information about that either So is it possible to show a logo at booting klipper, if yes is it also possible to change it to custom logo or video because it would be nicer to show a logo or video then al these linux lines And i am not a professional programmer so easy language if possible

Dear All, I found armbian by chance and it's the best supporting linux solution for my orangepizero3 - will later start tinkering with orangepizero2w and orangepi5plus I'd love, along with Debian and Ubuntu, to have Kali selectable as distribution option - linux kernel, dtb, headers, u-boot, overlays and armbian-config would be the perfect base for it (and every other distribution imho) Being inspired by GoVanguard/karmbian, which is based on armbian's previous framework, I tried grossly "injecting" kali support into armbian branch v24.02 - but I'm lost; definitely no developer, just playing around specifically I'm stuck with "lib/functions/gene…

Good day. I built an image for SDCARD on the rockchip3568 board using the project from here https://github.com/armbian/build This framework creates an image for SDCARD, consisting of two partitions: 1 - boot (Fat32 - 256 MiB) 2 - root file system (ext4) (all remaining capacity on SDCARD, I use a 16GiB card) I need a different, custom, file system partition. How can I make three partitions, for example of these sizes: 1. boot - 256MiB 2. root - 2GiB 3. work - the entire remaining capacity of the SDCARD while the size of the image file is not all 16GiB, but 256MiB (boot) + 2Gib (root) + 256MiB (work) = 2.5GiB and the last partition …

Hello, i am new here, an experienced back-end developer from Hungary, and my hobby is mostly doing some IOT stuff in my free-time. I'm big fun of the Armbian project a long time and checking its progress time to time cos its seems perfect for IOT usage and the NanoPi R3S was specially chosen by me for my ongoing project because of the Platinum support of the product as it seemed to be perfect fit with good enough video support to make IOT server with remote app for admin functions. Sadly as it seems the hardware acceleration is not supported i guess because there is no HDMI port on the product but with Panfrost + VirtualGL it could be a capable rem…

Hello...I successfully installed Trixie on the BBAI-64. It is a beagleboard.org board from earlier in the 2020s. https://www.beagleboard.org/blog/2025-04-18-armbian-support-is-here Anyway, I was wondering if there was some way to handle installing and configuring Wifi access to the BBAI-64 that anyone around here knew of currently. Ethernet works. I can get online. Also, there is a set up in `armbian-config` that may allow OctoPrint to be installed. It seems one needs to add support for Docker first. The Docker install from Trixie is not available on kernel 6.6.x so far. Seth P.S. Um, I understand that some people now are s…

Can AVIF support be added to LibVIPS? It works fine on the amd64 version of Ubuntu 24.04, so I'm assuming Armbian needs to update the package. Current bug: Failed to process avif file version: unable to call heifsave_target heifsave: Unsupported compression It's not a HEIC image, this is how LibVIPS encodes AVIF files.

Hello Armbian team, I’m a big fan of your work and use Armbian on all my single-board computers, including Orange Pi, Banana Pi, and Raspberry Pi. However, I’ve noticed a recurring issue during bootstrapping: identifying the device on the network. Enabling the avahi-daemon could make it easier to connect to or discover the device using mDNS. What are your thoughts on this?

Hello, I need to create images for multiple boards (rpi4b, rpi5b, rock3a, rock5b, orangepi5, orangepi-plus, nanopct6 and khadas-vim4) for a Kubernetes cluster running ceph and cilium, hence I need some new modules and parameters in the kernel. I created a simple playbook that changes the parameters in build/config/kernel/linux-* which works. What does not work is calling compile.sh with the required parameters. The task gives an error and stops after 5 minutes or so. If I run the commands from the prompt, everything is fine...but not convenient. The Ubuntu VM used for the compilation is created on a Fedora 40, with Vagrant, and I gave it 30 cores and 30GB of R…

Please, investigate and if it has a benefit, support debcow. See also https://github.com/teknoraver/debcow and https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debcow-Debian-DEBs-CoW-FS and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write#In_computer_storage

I've been noticing how troublesome that is to install the "free" gpu/vulkan packages on a distro and optimize accordingly... and on how proprietary packages are decently optimized as is. For instance, heres a video that shows someone running a switch emulator at a decent framerate on a RK3588 cpu with proprietary packages installed... while it is, well... borderline impossible to run with "free" gpu/vulkan packages. (I've tried following several guides trying to mimic the same experience as the video shows with "free" gpu/vulkan support... and I could barely make it run at a reasonable resolution. It was comically borked, to not say the least.) Even if I'm com…

Hi there! I've tried your image on Two Trees SK1 3d printer, it has a custom OEM of the SKIPR card. There's no HDMI so I can't see what happens. But putting an ethernet cable it doesn't get DHCP address. The card has also a wifi that I can't identify, not visible with lcpci or lsusb. I put a picture of the card and a schema.

Hi I'm wondering if you are considering to support Orange Pi 5 support. I want to use the HDMI input to record 4k 60fps. At the moment I'm using the official orange pi image (kernel 6.1.43) and I've many issues in the kernel

Hi here, as a hobby project I forked Armbian repo to add support of someone "new" hardware, mostly around 3D printing and mostly because no support from the vendor side. At this moment I have following almost independent components: a kernel module for ST7796 (LCD controller connected via SPI and working as frame buffer module/device) a patch for HDMI configuration to support MKS IPS50 screen (800x480, 5:3 aspect ration with some weird EDID) configuration with related patches for MKSPI, SKIPR and a few derivatives boards + some DTS overlay for one related/specific use case. It's a "Renegade ROC-RK3328-CC" based board(s) which wa…

Hey guys, Just wanted to ask if there is any plan on making a version of armbian for the orange pi 5 Max. I have one and am using the official image but am having problems with hardware acceleration when attempting to use it in jellyfin docker. So I thought some files might be the issue and I previously set up my system with armbian in the orange pi 5 and it worked. If you guys did or are planing to make one, please let me know.

A sincere request to include virtualization technology "incus" in armbian-config. https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/introduction/ https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/installing/ https://github.com/lxc/incus Thank you!

Hi, Context systemd's cloud-init.target and armbian-firstrun.service will be started concurrently (both are wanted by multi-user.target). Both will try to create SSH host keys by default: - armbian-firstrun will always delete SSH host keys and then generate new ones - cloud-init.target (by default) will always delete SSH host keys and then generate new ones. Problem When one must run armbian-firstrun and cloud-init, there is no deterministic ordering between the 2 files execution and therefore no one can guarantee which will be last to setup host keys. In my current scenario, host keys are explicitly setup in clo…

Hi, I cannot exactly say why, but I never liked the 'emptyness' of the IP-Address on the SSH welcome message System load: 0.82 0.29 0.10 Up time: 1 min Memory usage: 3 % of 3867MB IP: 192.168.11.7 So I thought it needs a lot of space for a long Up time. So, the space is reasonable. Looking at the other information provided, which needs as well many letters? My suggestion to move it like this and adding: -Address (IP is not the complete term (Internet-Protocol): IP-Address: 192.168.11.7 Up time: 1 min Memory usage: 3 % of 3867MB System load: 0.82 0.29 0.10 adding 'Address' might fix …

Please add support for the FireFly ITX-3588J. Note that the Armbian Station M3 latest UEFI image boots unmodified on an SD card on this hardware, with working picture on one of the HDMI ports. (But no USB) So the partition structure is ok. 20230428-EDK2-EFI-current/Armbian_23.04_Station-m3_sid_current_6.2.0.img.xz So it is already close to a usable image once the relevant device tree bits are swapped out. I am not 100% sure the details yet of the uboot they ship, or even how to just install the uboot part to emmc but when I flashed the complete Debian 11 "firmware" they provide on the website link to the EMMC (using the linux command line loader…

Hello. May be it is easy or not. I don't know. Mldonkey Server has fallen from Debian repositories about one year ago. How much $help$ do you need? Thanks.

Hello is it possible to add support for the Rockchip rk3066 boards like the Marsboard and the mk808b ?? Thanks

Hello, I would like to propose a change to the default kernel config for the r4s. Currently in .config # # USB HID support # CONFIG_USB_HID=y CONFIG_HID_PID=y CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y This should be altered to CONFIG_USB_HID=m This change has been requested previously for other boards: here and is also explained properly. To summarise : the change would allow those using APCUPSD to communicate with their APC UPS device. TiA!

Hello, Well, ladies and gentlemen, I done it, becoz I can't live without it when quitting cinnamon for xfce. It is like the thunar-archive-plugin (file-roller equivalent) that should be enabled by default imho. I decided to release it here , this is my gift to armbian team to thanks for their work. INSTALLATION If you follow the README.md, you will have the magic custom action added The demo: Enjoy SoSie thunar-open-as-root-plugin.zip

Hello Armbian Team, i have the wish for the integration of - GPIO Support for RockPi 5b to the Edge Kerne - dtb's which are aviable for Kernel 5.10.160 mostly importend for me are the UARTS ( if tryed to compile the DTS files form 5.10.160 for the 6.8.2 .. ends after sending some to the UART with a Kernel segfault 😞 ) Thanks a lot for the good Work 🙂 René

Sorry, I was unsure which category to post this under, feel free to move it if there is a better place. I enabled "multi factor authentication" for my forum account (ie. "the code thingy that changes with time"), but the window to ask for the code doesn't show up with Firefox (this is the latest version of Firefox 115.0.3 (64-bit) on MacOS). It does with with Safari though.

Requests to yandex blocked by most providers in Ukraine. So, apt failed to pull new updates when roundrobin returns yandex as a mirror

hi everybody... are you planning to migrate the IO scheduler to the NPU? in most cases, it is not involved on the devices that your operating system serves. This would give space for new perspectives.

On my odroid hc2 with armbian/bullseye I found some of the logs (both in /var/log and /var/log.hdd) empty, while they should have some contens (i.e. afpd.log, kern.log, user.log, ...). The empty files all have the timestamp of a run of armbian-ramlog at a recent reboot. In armbian-ramlog.log I found this for the run that created the empty files: rsync: [receiver] write failed on "/var/log/journal/0d4b1c13b9a14b6d9c746402b7d7ef6f/user-1000@0005d37f46f9961b-23c015a66b68d086.journal~": No space left on device (28) rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(378) [receiver=3.2.3] rsync: [sender] write error: Broken pipe (32) Seems tha…

I spotted this new board coming soon https://www.crowdsupply.com/ov-tech-gmbh/pi-mx8-module More info I appreciate it's a lot of work to support new boards, but I wondered if anyone was interested in forking this https://github.com/TechNexion-customization/ubuntu-tn-imx/tree/master?tab=readme-ov-file#technexion-ubuntu-lts-image-builder and doing a Armbian build for it?

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place, but I used the contact form twice back in august and september and haven't received any reply The mirror list on the github page is not updated either Anyway, as a raspberry pi lover, I've set up a mirror to support the development of armbian: http://repo.jing.rocks/armbian-apt https://repo.jing.rocks/armbian-apt rsync://repo.jing.rocks/armbian-apt http://repo.jing.rocks/armbian-dl https://repo.jing.rocks/armbian-dl rsync://repo.jing.rocks/armbian-dl sync frequency: every 4 hrs upstream: rsync://rsync.armbian.com/{apt,dl} armbian-archive …

Hello. I am trying to use MKS SKIPR board with HDMI 7" LCD (1024x600) from BTT (https://biqu.equipment/collections/lcd/products/bigtreetech-hdmi5-v1-0-hdmi7-v1-0?variant=39984058138722 ) but seems to be not supported (initial console or klipperscreen). I tried mks linux image, and 0.2.1-23.08.0-trunk (edge) Regards, Fabrizio

Hi Moderators, I noticed in the past some requests were made already in regards to supporting i.MX platforms. This did not work out are there is no budget for such developments ($) We plan to bring an i.MX93 and i.MX95 board to the market early next year, and support for Armbian is one of my requirements Would it be possible to treat this as a paid request to get 2 boards supported by the Armbian releases? let me know where i should post this, if not in the right section

Hi, Could you please: update the kernel image to include the 'lvm2' package, load the required modules at boot, upgrade armbian-install script to propose an option in the dialog menu to install the root file system on a volume group (VG) and logical volume (LV) that you will create, instead of directly on a primary disk partition? Please, at least if you are interested or not by this feature can you let a comment? Your feedback will help! Sincerely, Frederic

I have a z3735 board. Unfortunately, the only system that can be installed at present is Debian Server. Is it feasible for the armbian to support IA32 UEFI

I got a particularly tricky display, which requires overriding the EDID on Odroid N2 (this maybe more of a feature of meson-drm ff900000) but Armbian doesn't come compiled on it with the CONFIG_DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWARE kernel config option. Seems that it would be a fairly harmless thing to enable on Amlogic/Odroid and possibly on all devices.

A lot of spi-nand flashes is supported linux kernel. It will be very helpful to add a possibility to read/write/erase such flashes using standard linux support. Unfortunately spi-nand support is not enabled in armbian linux kernel. example: recovery bootloader on the router board Orange Pi 4 configuration 1. Recompile orange pi 4 linux kernel to enable spi-nand driver (linux-5.10 or above is required). Make sure spinand, mtd and nandcore are built as modules 2. sudo armbian-config, go to “System → DTC” and replace spidev with spinand 3. install the following packages: mtd-utils 4. reboot board to apply changes Connect spi-na…

The BananaPi CM4 doesn't play well with a number of third party base boards in that often, USB does not work on them. Usually, that is because the third party base board designer connected the USB hub IC to an SOC OTG port without connecting a line to switch the OTG port into host mode. The problem was demonstrated at least with the Waveshare CM4 Base Board B and the MCUZone POE baseboard. In the Banana Pi forums, Sinovoip engineer "August" posted a DTBO for Ubuntu 20.04 which solves the issue by forcing host mode. Below is the DTBO decompiled to DTS. I would like to request that this overlay be updated for the Armbian kernel and included as an optional overlay into …

moderators/admins, I'm thinking it could help to put Orange Pi Zero 3 in its own unmaintained boards sub section, it is likely there'd be more threads related to this and to move this thread and the other thread into the new orange pi zero 3 board section

it was originally named armbian, because the framework was providing images for arm, but now we do riscv and even amd64 so i propose a rename.

Writing code for armbian is currently pain and suffering, because the code quality is horrible and it always makes me do changes alike https://github.com/Kreyren/armbian-build-kreyren/compare/6cd581c96c0b7b800b6549afe23112d4a662d2a0..811288169004dccacab964129ecaf8cfe891b22d that waste time just to get the contribution to work reliably, thus proposing to take an inspiration for how other projects such as nixos handle this issue and implement a RFC: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs Which is a repository filled with directives that are to be followed during development to unite the coding style through brainstorm and logical rationale Additionally this RFC can then be…

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I found this default setting in `/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02-armbian-periodic` for apt in my armbian image for my odroid HC2: ```APT::Periodic::Enable: "0"``` I suspect many credit-card servers just chug along with default settings for years without manual upgrades (myself included until i reinstalled a fresh image the other day). Should't that be enabled by default so people can stay up to date with security updates etc.?

Sry. the existing search tags are fine 🙂 Would be nice to have a separate forum for Nanopi Duo2. T.

May i ask about support for Khadas vim3l?

Would it be possible to include VHD versions of the Armbian for PC? I was able to convert the image file over to VHD, but it would have been nice to have it available as a download. This is for use in VirtualBox or other virtual machine (like XCP-NG for my use case). Alternate being an ISO installer, but that would probably take a bunch of work to get going.

Hi Any news when it could be included in Armbian? As I see 4 years we have been waiting for it... Kindly

Under Ubuntu when you install using BTRFS and Debian when you install to BTRFS using the Calamares live GUI installer, both installers create a subvolume called @home for the /home directory and another subvol called @ for the rest of the filesystem. This layout enables users to use timeshift to easily (and automatically with timeshift-autosnap-apt) create BTRFS snapshots and restore them using the command line or the timeshift GUI and restore their OS whilst optionally keeping users files stored under /home intact. I would like to see the armbian installation script configure BTRFS in this same manner.

It's a good filesystem for universal storage, but isnt enabled on Rockchip (orangepi5/ rock 5b) kernels and I need to maintain my own.

There is a armbian release for odroid n2+ but my request is for working release. Means working also onboard uart. At this moment no chance to get working uart which is on the odroid board.

Hello, Are there any plans to add support for this board? Thanks, Gustavo

It's time to get a good logo for armbian...I mean the little penguin dude is cool...but we need something we can make stickers and templates for cases and whatnot I am no graphics guru...but can we either get that little guy below converted into something we can use for other things

Is there a web page that gives the download stats? I was curious to know which board is the most popular.

Hi, Could you add the keyboard layout configuration as the first operation in the first startup, before creating the password. That would be realy helpful. Regards.

Currently lowest download speed limit is hardcoded to 500k (build/lib/functions/general/downloads.sh, line 79) --lowest-speed-limit=500K As I build my first image, I hit a lot of times this limit 🙈 Wouldn't be nice if this limit was configurable? I'm willing to try to implement it myself. Should I create an issue on Jira or GitHub or is the forum the right place to discuss it? Where would be the right place to add this parameter? userpatches/config-default.conf?

This is more of an idea or feedback than a requirement. I know you guys are struggling with community engagement and support/donations, and I plan to help myself because I love what you do and find it exciting. I work for a company in the industrial automation field and last year a small revolution picked up. At the SPS in Nürnberg/Germany (the biggest European fair in our field) last November, a ton of industrial hardware constructors unveiled their new ARM-based compact devices running Linux: essentially modified SBCs. This is really unusual because industrial automation has been traditionally more oriented toward Microsoft. But thanks to different technolog…

The device tree is as follows https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-eaidk-610.dts

I have a rockpro64 that i use as a NAS. It recently started to behave unexpectedly and after investigating the issue i realised that the RAM has defective block. after searching for a solution (because i'd like not to waste 80$ to get a new board and my BGA soldering skill are far from whats needed to change the RAM module) there seems to be one that is called badram. It basically tell the kernel not to use a set of known bad addresses. saddly this is not a standard package but a kernel patch made for debian and ubuntu that i have no idea how to install on ARMBIAN. I was wondering if it would be interesting and possible to add this option to armbian. the wa…

Particularly, the linux.config file is expected, better to enable kernel 6.0 ? Cheers

Please add Linux Mint 21 ("Vanessa") support to armbian build script.

Hello, I am a long time Debian Testing user, and would like to use the testing repo on armbian as well. Currently however, I only get the choice between stable and unstable. apt.armbian.com also seems to only house packages for stable and unstable, not for testing. I would think that when you are already supporting stable and unstable, testing wouldn't be much more than just flicking a switch to turn it on. However, I assume people here know better than me. I barely know what is in the armbian repos.

The official GitHub page for haveged says: Fedora and Arch both have a test for the kernel version in haveged.service: ConditionKernelVersion=<5.6 I put a complete example of haveged.service in this GitHub Gist for the convenience of anyone reading this post. https://gist.github.com/ambiamber/0d99cc5c8f79a72633acf39c443f5f2f I got here because on a fresh installation "systemctl status" showed "degraded" because haveged failed to start (which is correct because it shouldn't start). Upstream bug report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=999811

Can no longer download older builds for nanopi r2s

QCA6391 is supported since kernel 5.10 and QCNFA765(WCN6856) since 5.17. So please enable default build options for them. Options are ATH11K_PCI and ATH11K(ATH11K_PCI depends on ATH11K)

Hope add support for rockpi 4c+

Hello, please move this thread to the correct place in case I misplaced it. Does the armbian image for generic Intel/AMD x86 also support PCs with the old BIOS (non-UEFI)? I ask because I have a pretty old Notebook from 2013 which still works good as general purpose Internet or Office workhorse and this only has the old BIOS. The armbian image for the Intel/AMD looks pretty nice and I would like to install it no the Notebook eventually when Windows 10 runs out. If it does not support this, is there an image for the old BIOS? Thanks! Best regards, Udo

This was my goto distro and Im going to have to find another one because of the lack of support for eMMC going forward. Why has the 5 kernels led to the drop in support for eMMC?

Hello, I am looking for a Minimal Armbian for H3 chip with kiosk feature. I don't need desktop interface but still need a web browser to open at startup. Is there any version like this? I need it minimum because i will install on eMMC of the Orange Pi PC Plus and it has only 8GB.

Could you please add support for Olimex RK3328 SOM (https://www.olimex.com/Products/SOM/RK3328/), in a minimal and base version of the bullseye release? Thanks

HIi Armbianers! i found Link by Marcin Juszkiewicz and i wonder if it be able to switch from using extlinux.conf to grub-efi-arm,arm64 with custom flash-kernel package ( mayby optional)

Hi, can somebodey please make armbian for Asus Thinker board 2 / 2s. I would be very thankfull.

Could you please add support for NanoPi R2C Plus (https://wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_R2C_Plus#Install_OS). I tried the R2S image and it failed to boot; I believe due to network hardware being different on this board (using YT8521S)

Hi all I have been using https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone to clone sd cards as it uses rsync. It's much quicker than imaging and will clone larger cards to smaller if there is space. The thing is it expects a raspberrypi and so doesn't update the UUID in the armbianEnv.txt and fstab. If I manually do this then the clone is bookable and works fine. I cant script (yet), so if anyone could take a look at the script on git and suggest how this could be changed to work with armbian also i would be really grateful.

I have used the latest stable/current image for Tinker and was very pleased to see the new steps/wizard for initial setup with passwords, users, locale, wifi etc This is not the case with RockPro64 latest current images. I get even with the focal cinammon the warning about being a nightly build and old initial steps. Not as posted here posted by Igor in the Armbian Download RockPro64 page Just a note as many of us would like to see similar. If Im missing something my apologies and please point me to the right place

Is there a backup and restore script on armbian using rsync and NFS for backup entire system to NAS like there is on dietpi (dietpi-backup) which is excellent?

Hi all, While building a custom image that needs to do some things at the end of the first bootup and reboot, I ran into some issues with armbian-firstrun.service. It currently has Type=simple, which means dependencies will be started when armbian-firstrun is *started*, and there is no clean way to wait until after it has *finished*. Looking to fix this, I noticed some other things that could be improved in this area, such as using systemd's first-boot-complete.target and ConditionFirstBoot to more simply manage first-boot-only services. I'm considering implementing some changes and submitting them in a PR, but before I do that, I'd like to get som…

Can we remove the downloading of Linaro and other build dependencies from the build process? That would save so much time and bandwidth. Most of us are able to obtain and install the Linaro and other dependencies for our build systems on our own. Let's figure out how to avoid doing this on each and every clean build of Armbian. I have lots of bandwidth and the build doesn't even start after it takes ten to twenty minutes downloading these packages. Thanks, and I appreciate any comments on this request.

Can we stop building modules for hardware that doesn't exist on the target device? My observation is that we seem to be building the entire kernel tree, but correct me if I'm wrong. Let's see if we can only build hardware that actually exists on the device instead of building everything. For example, my Pine64 doesn't even have WiFi but dozens of WiFi drivers are built. Same with my Orange Pi 3 LTS, it has BlueTooth and WiFi, but doesn't need the several dozen other BlueTooth and WiFi devices built into its kernel modules directory. Thanks!

NanoPi K2 used to be supported but its not now and we’re looking forward to see NanoPi K2 on support list again !!! (NanoPi K2 has the same SoC as Odroid C2 and we wish we can use armbian on nanopik2 more stable) Have a nice day !!!

Hello gents, I have been out of the loop for quite some time... Therefore did not update my armbian dev env either for quite a while, was a bit "surprised" after a " git pull " most boards went to CSC, but read the story why... Anyway I was wondering rgd the "new" OP1 Rockpi4+ boards, if same image can be used for these boards ? Most likely a new entry to compile, armbian building script, will appear sooner or later. Also noticed current kernel 5.16 holds commits for 4A+ and 4B+ : Rockchip ... Add RK3399 ROCK Pi 4A+ board commit Add RK3399 ROCK Pi 4B+ board commit ... In +/- two months like to start a PoE ROCK …

Are there any plans to add an option for full disk encryption to the installer ? I am using the RockPro64 if that matters. I notice that no ARM distro I have tried supports this for the RockPro64 currently so i'm not sure if it is just a low priority or if there is a techncial reason to not have it. Regardless if it's doable I would appreciate it being added down the road.

Hi Folks! I think this would be great for testing Anbox easily on armbian. We are linux users (and we hate android), but in order to get ARM Linux attractive as desktop we may have to offer anbox. the kernel modules have problems on latest kernels so would be great to have them included already. maybe that makes the kernel "too big" and isn't acceptable, but that's up to you to consider it or not. best regards, Salvador.

ksmbd is a more performant version of Samba. Located here: https://github.com/cifsd-team/cifsd and https://github.com/cifsd-team/ksmbd-tools Given that most devices supported by Armbian are underpowered, it would be great to get this installable via apt.

Too many years ago I had Armbian whis was based on Debian Jessie with MySql. And there I've created database with three tables ENGINE = InnoDB. When I download and rolled Armbian on Debian Buster based I note that MariaDb instead Mysql is on it. Now using MariaDb I can not make dump of my database. I found out here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19926802/mariadb-crash-table-doesnt-exist-in-engine-cant-recover-tables that I can make dump with Mysql only

Dear developers! Could you please consider possibility to change default kernel config, used in release versions of Armbian, so it enable to forcefully unload of kernel modules ( to do this config option CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD needs to be enabled). This is seldom but regular needs for me and I beleive for many others in case of external hardware malfunctions, for example. Previosly I have used selfcompiled version of Armbian 5.15 where named option was enabled and anything was fine. Now I have upgraded to Armbian 21.08.1 Buster by installing release version of it because it seems dramatically more complicated to compile by myself. Now in …

please add option in armbian-config for autologin in shell with root or non root user.

I need i2s audio output on the Odroid C2. Have the required kernel modules snd-soc-pcm5102 and snd-soc-odroid-dac made it into any Armbian C2 images?

Hi, currently container build only support docker, when I run `./compile.sh docker`(docker is an alias of podman), the build will fail. When I switch back to docker, the build is ok. Can Armbian dev team consider support podman? since podman is popular nowadays. :-P

Hi, I have a tv box (mxq pro 4k 5g with rk3228a chipset). The wifi chipset is sv6152p. The armbian image "Armbian_21.08.1_Rk322x-box_buster_legacy_4.4.194_xfce_desktop.img.xz" works on it with the wifi driver ssv6x5x. I want to use librelec on it. When i install unofficial libreelec for rk3229/rk3228 box (kernel 4.4.194) the wifi don't works. The driver for ssv6051 is loading at startup but wifi don't works. Can somebody say to me how to compile ssv6x5x for libreelec. I don't know how to cross compile it. which source do i use : https://github.com/khadas/android_hardware_wifi_icomm_drivers_ssv6xxx …

Hi, It is my personal opinion that armbian should be distributed without default packages from the Debian non-free archive area. I think that the only package that is pre-installed from that area is iozone3. I wanted to stress that I believe that the armbian developers chose to pre-install iozone3 in good faith. So I don't mean to cause any undue trouble - If removing the tool is not appropriate at this time, I understand. I just wanted it out there that this is something that is 'nice to have'. Thanks, LD

Hello, there has been a linux kernel issue in the pci part. The symptoms are Armbian kernel panics. This has already been discussed in the armbian forum: A patch has been supplied by @Pali and Marek Behún in the drivers/pci/quirks.c file. Thank you guys very much for that! Bug report can be found here:https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212695 And patch can be found here: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20210317115924.31885-1-kabel@kernel.org/ This is the actual patch content: --- drivers/pci/quirks.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/pci/quirks.c b/drivers/pci/quirks.c inde…

In this topic solved the problem orange H3 with tv out. Can you add this TV-out feature to the new armbian focal release for orange pi H2+ / H3 ?

I suggest allow armbian script put deb-src without comment. For example I want to get system with deb-src packages. Of cause I can add deb-src via userpatches/customize-image.sh but it is not so easy. May be armbian add option like INSTALL_KSRC that allow user to get OS with uncommented deb-src in /etc/apt/sources.list It also helps in customize-image.sh For example: Main() { apt-get install libxcb-xinerama0-dev -y It will Error: You must put some 'deb-src' URIs in your sources.list The solution may be: ./compile.sh REPOSITORY_INSTALL=deb-src general.sh