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We are opening public testing for upcoming Armbian images. The goal is to verify that the right images are built and that basic functionality works before boards are moved to the main download pages. You don’t need to be a developer. Simple testing and short reports are enough. 1. Download testing images Testing images are available here: https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/incoming/igorpecovnik/ Pick the image matching your board and choose desktop if applicable. Once image is confirmed working, the board will be: Moved to the main download pages Added to Armbian Imager 2. Check that expected images exist Before testing, please ver…

Dear Igor, I'am trying to make an image with 3.19 kernel now for a while, but I couldn't make it work. It won't boot. A few weeks ago there was some problems with the patchings, so I tried to do it manually. But it lead me to the same result. Now I deleted everything, related to the image building, and started everything over again. I noticed that your building script has been updated. Now the patching errors disappeared, but I still get the same result, a non booting image. The error says, that "File not found /boot/.next" then "File not found /boot/zImage", "Unrecognized filesystem type", "Bad Linux ARM zImage magic!", ..... Picture from it here. I tried whe…

jeanrhum - France - documentation and debian packaging - July Task from thread http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1325-claim-a-task-set-due-date-and-start-doing-it/#entry9986 @jeanrhum Please provide status for your task on this thread. If possible please assign the GitHub issue to yourself.

I have been trying to Build Armbian for a humming board under debian Stretch. As it will not build directly under Debian I tried building it in an Ubuntu 14.04 container. I encountered one problem with the most recent Armbian. I was building in /usr/src/amp/Armbian While Building linux the imx 6 sdma build failed as it was unable to access /usr/src/amp/source/.... This was clearly an error as the path should have been /usr/src/amp/Armbian/source/.... I was able to build by symbolic linking the source directory to /usr/src/amp. The build now completed However there were warnings Could not stat /dev/loop0p1 --- No such file or directory T…

Hi, I am working on H3 based Nano Pi Neo board. my task is to enable audio and kernel version is 4.4. I tested Armbian image, Audio is working fine(good) and capture working too. Enabled sun4i-codec.c (which has h3 support). I struck with major problem. I am unable to write AC registors(physical address: 1c22c00) but i can read them using readl. writel is not showing any effect on register. I enabled audio_pll, codec clock, bus codec gate registers and reset deasserted. I have cross-checked H3 datasheet for clock tree. Everything looks fine. why writel is not working?? any suggestion.?? help me. …

Hi, I'm trying to solve a problem here. I have a Pine64so board with LTE module plugged into the USB and a battery back up. With the battery drained to 0%, the board will not boot up with the LTE module plugged into the USB port even with a microUSB power supply, because LTE is drawing too much power. But with the battery slightly charged or the LTE module unplugged it boots up just fine. I know that USB power is enabled by the u-boot, because with the Armbian SD card ejected, when I plug in the microUSB power supply, the board doesn't automatically provide power to the USB port, and the battery charges by default. So I'm trying to figure out where in the uboo…

Hi all, I have Orange pi pc H3 , and I want to display a boot logo at uboot startup. the official ubuntu 16.04 image from orangepi website works except that there's console on hdmi in addition to the logo , and I don't want the console just the boot logo. so I cloned the official u-boot git and checked out v2020.07 and applied this patch : https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/remove-boot-messages-from-hdmi.patch.disabled and compiled u-boot, there's no hdmi output in uboot stage. I used menuconfig to enable the hdmi driver CONFIG_VIDEO_HDMI , the problem is it depends on !MACH_SUN8I , which means it's not sup…

martinayotte - Canada - maintain/fix DTS entries for some devices such I2C/SPI/W1 - ASAP Task from thread http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1325-claim-a-task-set-due-date-and-start-doing-it/?p=11253 @martinayotte I know you already have a lot of dialog for this task on the forum and Github. If you can consolidate to here that would be fantastic. If it's too much work I understand. Please at least provide a status here as you progress. If possible please reference merge requests to this GitHub Issue

Hello, i want to read from a mcp3008 on my orange pi zero with armbian and python. Sadly i can't read any data from my moisture sensor on channel 0 over the mcp3008. Anyone got an idea or a tutorial for the mcp3008 with orange pi zero? This is what i got right now: pi@orangepizero:~/spi/SPI-Py$ ls -la /dev/spidev* crw------- 1 root root 153, 0 Mar 20 13:17 /dev/spidev0.0 crw------- 1 root root 153, 1 Mar 20 13:17 /dev/spidev1.0 Vdd / Vref on 3,3. Agnd / Dgnd on ground. CLK on SPI1_CLK/PA14 Dout on SPI1_MOSI/PA15 Din on SPI1_MISO/PA16 CS/SHDN on SPI1_CS/PA13 Code: …

Hello, guys, there are custom device tree overlays for some boards in armbian build framework, they are usually created by patches. The spi-spidev overlay for sun8i H3 has some additional parameters that can be set via armbianEnv.txt. My question is about "param_spidev_spi_bus" which is not actually working: is this possible to change the bus on the fly ? Thanks

Hi all, I'm using an online article to help get me started with DotNet core this one Article All works fine when I use a Raspberry Pi as my target host but on my Nanopi the executable file created by dotnet publish -t linux-arm is not found, in the article the author creates a console app from a Windows command line and then publishes it. He then copies all the files from the Windows *publish* folder to a Pi and the executable created by Windows runs on the Pi. If I do the same on my Nanopi I get a file not found error - racking my brains with this one as the file is definitely there. I can create apps directly on the Nano cli but it would be …

EDIT: After discussion with a few users, to avoid the issue of having this modification wiped out by a future DTB update and create the unfortunate scenario where the /boot/armbianEnv.txt requests to load a DTB which no longer exists, it's a lot simpler to overwrite the original DTB thus keeping the naming identical. If the DTB gets overwritten by an update then the reboot functionality may just revert to the no-reboot behavior until the fix is re-applied to the newer DTB. The problem lies in the SDCARD signals not being in the right state for a reboot. To solve this we will de-compile the DTB in /boot/dtb/amlogic/meson-gxbb-odroidc2.dtb to create a source ver…

Hi !!!!!!! Anybody try the SPI protocol (python or c)? Thx all for your future anwser

vlad59 - France - Nanopi M1 testing and documentation Task from thread GitHub Issue

Hi! I have a problem with my Orange Pi Lite 2 I tried to connect my device to my home WiFi. But the device does not see the wifi, at a distance of 10 centimeters. I try to launch commands: nmtui-connect *name to my WIFI* nmtui-connect for show all WiFi Network. But in neither case does the device manage to identify the network. I tried using: vim /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf I tried to edit the file and to insert the data of my network but nothing. Can anyone give me a hand to solve this problem? Thanks everyone in advance!

Being asked to run armbianmonitor -u on my ODroid-N2 I got syntax errors: armbianmonitor -u System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to /usr/bin/armbianmonitor: line 388: read: read error: 0: Invalid argument /usr/bin/armbianmonitor: line 389: [: -ge: unary operator expected /usr/bin/armbianmonitor: line 388: read: read error: 0: Invalid argument /usr/bin/armbianmonitor: line 389: [: -ge: unary operator expected ..... http://ix.io/2g2A Please post the URL in the forum where you've been asked for.

The "Edit Device" wordpress template ("https://www.armbian.com/wp-admin/...") has some input fields that I would like to understand. I am trying to complete it for the MKS-Klipad50 (https://www.armbian.com/mks-klipad50). (It's a CSC board, not standard support - if that matters.) Following fields are unclear to me: "Compatible" What is the meaning and expected syntax? Is that something like devices using the same kernel, but different setup/devicetree files? "Expose kernels" / "How many kernels to expose?" Is this related to the "Kernels" table (see below), like how many rows to use? …

Gravelrash - UK - Prepare HOWTO's & package "armbian-gc2035-fswebcam package" - June Task from thread http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1325-claim-a-task-set-due-date-and-start-doing-it/?p=10298 @Gravelrash please provide status for your task on this thread. Please associate merge requests to this GitHub Issue

I'm testing with bananapi m1 plus(ARMBIAN 5.31 stable Debian GNU/Linux 8 jessie 4.11.6-sunxi) I want to remove booting output both in the lcd screen and the serial console(because I am using the ttys0 for other purpose), so changed /boot/boot.cmd. I found these two line, if test "${console}" = "display" || test "${console}" = "both"; then setenv consoleargs "console=tty1"; fi if test "${console}" = "serial" || test "${console}" = "both"; then setenv consoleargs "${consoleargs} console=ttyS0, 115200"; fi and changed it with those two lines below. if test "${console}" = "display" || test "${console}" = "both"; then setenv consoleargs "console=tty…

Task derived from Inquiry / Discussion thread http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1337-documentation-software-proposal-for-armbian-wiki/ Commit against github issue

I know, I know.... I am trying to do the following: apt-get autoremove --purge network-manager rdnssd ifdown eth0 ifdown wlan0 remove all settings in /etc/network/interfaces, except for the lo interface. Configure systemd-networkd rm /etc/resolv.conf ln -s /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf vim /etc/systemd/network/wired.network [Match] Name=eth0 [Network] DHCP=both [DHCP] RouteMetric=10 vim /etc/systemd/network/wireless.network [Match] Name=wlan0 [Network] DHCP=both [DHCP] RouteMetric=20 Enable the services systemctl enable systemd-resolved.service systemctl enable s…

Sorry to ask such a beginner question, but I am still learning about Armbian... When I install debian Kernels from Kernel.org myself, I find this in my source-folder of the distro which I created when unzip/tar the Kernel. But as Armbian does this in the backround for me...where is this folder ? RTLA is a new tool to use osnoise tracer and needs to be compiled from source. https://lwn.net/Articles/869563/ THX

@Igor Probably one of the experts to ask I noticed there has been many changes and documentations not up to date Noticed deprecated options when running the ./compile.sh with options So far so good. I noticed though below behavior and wanted to check if normal or how can I enable the interactive process (asking to proceed if low disk space ) I have created a new vm with latest recommended base os (no desktop) After few tests when space runs low, the interactive options ctrl+c or enter show only if i run the ./compile.sh if i run ./compile.sh uboot-patch (or any option even expert) it kills the compile without asking Any…

Hello, FYI: some minor cosmetic issues. - The GbE tag on the download page doesn't list the Banana Pi M2. - The documentation describes 5 interfaces.* files. The directory contains a 6th one: interface.r1router https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/b3489368eededc025d343fd220b022ca08f52338/documentation/user-faq.md#L294 - While building "jessie next" for Lamobo R1, Banana Pi M2 the following warning is displayed: dpkg-genchanges: warning: package linux-libc-dev-next-sunxi in control file but not in files list [[0;32m o.k. [0m] Compiling next kernel [[0;33m @host [0m] HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/bin2c HOSTCC scripts/kcon…

Hi All, I have a requirement to boot a whole a20 system over USB as discussed in the link below. http://linux-sunxi.org/FEL/USBBoot#Boot_the_system_over_USB It requires U-Boot + kernel + initramfs to do this. Right now the only part that I succeed is booting on uboot, but not yet in kernel as well as initramfs (which is I dont have yet). I cant find a good tutorial how to do this. Hope someone can help. Thanks in advance.

Hello, I've just built and installed new Armbian console image on OrangePi PC. I am trying to use the a10disp utility, first of all to get information - info command: sudo a10disp info, but it shows error "kernel sunxi disp driver does not support versioning. This program requires sunxi display driver 1.0 or higher", while dmesg shows error "disp_ioctl, line 1584:para err in disp_ioctl, cmd = 0x0,screen id = 65536". Please advise what is wrong and how to get correct result.

Hello, I tried building current@4c54309b7b1c6 for opi+2e, dev, jessie, console, and saw those: [...] [ warn ] ... scripts-dtc-Update-to-version-with-overlays.patch [ failed ] [...] scripts/kconfig/conf --olddefconfig Kconfig .config:1440:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for RXKAD .config:5691:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE [...] Are they known ? harmless ? EDIT: trying to fix, will PR if it works OK: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/pull/468

I've decided to give a try by building new image with the refactoring of 4.8.x. So the image I've done is Armbian_5.21_Orangepipcplus_Debian_jessie_4.8.3.img I placed it on sdcard and look at the boot using serial debug. Unfortunately, the 4.8.3 Kernel is broken and get stuck the this last line ... U-Boot 2016.09-armbian (Oct 20 2016 - 12:18:44 -0400) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi PC I2C: ready DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0, SUNXI SD/MMC: 1 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface0 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 Hit any key to…

Hi, I'm trying to compile an Armbian image for OdroidC2 with btrfs rootfs, I created an Ubuntu Xenial container with systemd-nspawn as building environment. The building process reports these errors: ERROR in function prepare_partitions debootstrap-ng.sh:374 err Unable to find free loop device err Process terminated info ERROR in function unmount_on_exit debootstrap-ng.sh:525 err debootstrap-ng was interrupted err Process terminated info I've done a little search and found that there are no loop device in a default container and that's impossible to create a new one with: mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0 The answer is: mknod: /dev/loop0: Operation not permitted So I …

I'm trying to learn a little more about uboot and device tree, I already managed to create my own boot.scr, but I'm not having any success with device tree overlay, especially when typing the command. fdt apply ${load_addr} before I can type all these commands successfully setenv kernel "zImage" setenv ramdisk "uInitrd" setenv fdtfile "sun8i-h3-nanopi-neo-core.dtb" setenv load_addr "0x44000000" setenv rootdev "/dev/mmcblk0p1" setenv verbosity "1" setenv console "both" setenv disp_mem_reserves "off" setenv rootfstype "ext4" setenv consoleargs "console=ttyS0,115200" setenv uuid "UUID=7ac33e6e-fa92-4fd2-bb7c-bde01b119803" setenv rootfstype "ext4" part uuid…

Hi, I wanted to know if there was an easy way to customize an existing released image or rebuild a released image. I know you can use the customize image option when building, but I would like to not build the latest nightly, but instead just build whatever was released. The customization I am looking to do is installing additional packages, downloading some personal python code, setting timezone and other similar settings. I searched the forums, but didn't see anything helpful, any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hello, I try build kernel for NanopiNeo board with user kernel patch, but I don't understand with path needed put my patch. In previous version armbian's builds I just put files to userpatches/kernel/sunxi-current how it described in docs. But now with current version Armbian build system it's not working. I put my custom linux-sunxi-current.config to userpatches folder, my patch to userpatches/kernel/sunxi-current and try build kernel with command: ./compile.sh BOARD=nanopineo BRANCH=current kernel I see that linux-sunxi-current.config found and applied but not patch isn't.

Preparation Supported build environment is Ubuntu Focal 20.04 x64 (minimal iso image). a guest inside a VirtualBox or other virtualization software, a guest managed by Vagrant . This uses Virtualbox (as above) but does so in an easily repeatable way. Please check the Armbian with Vagrant README for a quick start HOWTO, inside a Docker , systemd-nspawn or other container environments (example), running natively on a dedicated PC or a server (not recommended), 20GB disk space or more and 2GB RAM or more available for the VM, container or native OS, superuser rights (configured sudo or root access). Execu…

5.0x Lamobo R1 / Banana Pi M2 jessie next 4.4.3 As described in this thread http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/691-banana-pro-testers-wanted-sata-drive-not-working-on-some-boards/?p=5641 /etc/rc.local successfully controls the Banana Pi M2's red, green and blue LEDs and the Lamobo R1's green LED. But how to control the behavior of the Lamobo R1's red LED? At the moment, Armbian 5.0x, the red LED doesn't turn off after shutdown. An older image, I'm still using, I guess 4.8x or 4.9x, turns the red LED off after shutdown by default without any manual configuration. I'm using a green heartbeat as workaround to indicate the power status but I would appreciate to us…

I runned once again in same isssue. After compiling last image for bananapro and copying these to the sd card, the sata device not appears anymore. I changed the bananapro with the bananapi dtb file, but this doesn't help. root@bananapipro:~# dpkg -l | grep next ii linux-dtb-next-sunxi 5.07 armhf Linux DTB, version 4.5.1-sunxi ii linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi 5.07 armhf Linux kernel firmware, version 4.5.1-sunxi ii linux-headers-next-sunxi 5.07 armhf Linux kernel headers for 4.5.1-sunxi on armhf ii linux-image-next-sunxi 5.07 …

Hello, I noticed that the official armbian images for this board(s) are based on Jessie -> https://www.armbian.com/odroid-hc1/ NCP only supports Stretch, but that is ok, because I build the armbian images from source. The Odroid XU4/HC1/HC2 NCP images I build ( https://ownyourbits.com/downloads ) are using Stretch and everything seems to be working fine so far. My question is, what is your testing procedure to consider an image stable? Would it help if I built the plain Armbian image as well so it can be shared in https://www.armbian.com/odroid-hc1 ? I would be happy to help with this Apologies if this has been asked bef…

What do we have? Serial connection: Hardware schematics: orangepi-plus-h3-v1_1.pdf Wireless: Realtek RTL 8189 ETV Allwinner introduced new way of storing board definitions (also on A23 and A80) so it's a bit different than on A20 boards. H3_Manual_build_howto Kernel building with Allwinner SDK is terrible and was not able to build it. I must admit I haven't invest much time and energy yet.

So, Just installed Arbian Xenial mainline/stable on a 32Gb microSD on a Cubietruck. Everything seems to be working well except when I attach an external USB 3.0 1Tb disk. It seems to keep issuing some kind of ATA command to query the disk and cause a clicking. I know its not the disk because it works fine elsewhere and theres some info in the dmesg about it (which I will post when I get a chance). Is this a known bug or not? And if Im able to track down the bug and fix it where should I submit a PR? Thanks for the great project! - Zack

Note : feel free to move this topic "where it can be" or point location where to post. I'm aware it's a cross way between hardware and software. I'm currently using an Orange board PI R1, that have 2 ethernet, one came from internal Allwinner H2+ EMAC and EPHY, the other is an USB bridge I have a full custom setup (based on armbian Linux version 4.13.9+ (root@bat-virtual-machine) (gcc version 7.1.1 20170707 (Linaro GCC 7.1-2017.08)) #113 SMP PREEMPT). I only used kernel, then have custom init and app. I use ethernet in USB bridge like standard one (Linux kernel driver, TCPs sockets on it), I can reach 5Mo/s in both way (at same time), and that enoug…

Spoiler ___ _ _ _ ____ ____ / _ \ __| |_ __ ___ (_) __| | / ___|___ \ | | | |/ _` | '__/ _ \| |/ _` | | | __) | | |_| | (_| | | | (_) | | (_| | | |___ / __/ \___/ \__,_|_| \___/|_|\__,_| \____|_____| Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.32.170701 nightly Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS 4.12.0-odroidc2 System load: 0.00 0.02 0.00 Up time: 4 min Memory usage: 2 % of 1855MB IP: 172.16.100.183 Usage of /: 19% of 7.0G [ General system configuration: armbian-config ] root@odroidc2:~# Download: https://dl.armbian.com/odroidc2/Ubuntu_xenial_next_nightl…

hi, i'm pretty new to armbian, i'd like to setup a arm-gcc cross compilation toolchain in my current (old) suse-linux distribution i've read this thread which suggest to use the Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 x64 image in a virtual machine i've also read some other sites on the gcc / g++ tool chain http://linux-sunxi.org/Toolchain https://www.linaro.org/latest/downloads/ https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/latest-7/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ for the linaro toolchains, there are many releases the latest being 7.3.1. as of this post my qu…

Armbian is written to a µSD card as a small file (a gig or two if I recall). If the card is 64gigs, the image is still just a few gigs written to that card. When booted on the device, though, it automatically expands the file system to the full size of the card. How exactly does it do that? And... How do I do the reverse? Take the file system from a working armbian install and create a small image that when written to a µSD card, will stay small, but then auto-expand when booted on a device?

Hello, I am testing vendor kernel + Ubuntu 24.04 on my board and found an issue with the Bluetooth desktop application. The Bluetooth adapter itself works normally. After enabling Bluetooth from the desktop UI, hciconfig -a shows the Bluetooth device correctly. However, when I click the Bluetooth device in the Blueman interface to open the device window, the Blueman window becomes stuck and stops responding. The strange thing is that if I restart Blueman manually using: killall blueman-manager export DISPLAY=:0 blueman-manager the Bluetooth manager window opens normally, and device scannin…

Hi, There have been a couple of posts about this over time, but I was wondeing if somebody could please provide concrete example / sample code that uses DMA to TX out the GPIO pin(s)? I want to be able to TX outwards only from my Allwinner H3 device (Orange PI PC) to 16 pins in parallel (so 16 bit DMA in parallel) from a chunk of memory in RAM. Happy with a basic example if somebody has which just blasts out one GPIO pin even.

I have have armbian V25.2.3 installed on a radxa Zero 2w linux kernel 6.12.17-current-meson64. The radxa uses i2c to talk to a PCA9685 which in turn drives three servos in a robot. The issue is that the PCA9685 has two i2c busses, 0 and 1. But the radxa zero has only two i2c busses that can be enabled using armbian-config and they are i2c-3 and - ic2-5. It seems I need to install a new overlay to describe the i2c busses in the device tree. But how do I do that?

I was doing some testing today on aml-s9xx-box builds and noticed that with meson64-current (6.0.13) kernels the boot logo is showing, but with meson64-edge (6.1.0) kernels it does not. I know there was a recent commit that probably is causing this, something about removing the old way of handling boot logos. So my question is, what needs to change to convert to the new way? I suspect it has something to do with the append line that the build process is inserting into the extlinux.conf file: append root=UUID=0ffde9aa-5a6a-4d6f-bbef-0d8daf439537 rw no_console_suspend c onsoleblank=0 fsck.fix=yes fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0 bo…

Hi, I have been recently working on a couple of extensions: lvm and cloud-init I forked off "v23.11.2" tag when creating my branches, since they are extensions, and wont alter the framework much. Today I noticed that OdroidUX4 is not building, but it was building last week. A patch seems to be failing. I guess it is a kernel/driver patch. Then my question is: is it possible that, on the same tag (v23.11.2), builds break? I am starting to think that the tag is only for the build process/patch set, but excludes, for example a reference to kernel code. I suppose then the situation is that a kernel update…

For who is interested in the dwmac-sun8i driver for Ethernet on the Orange Pi H3 family. It is an alternative driver for sun8i_emac driver. I have good results with it. No multicast problems and 24x7 uptime ( no RX errors). The maintainer Coretin mailed me today about an update. Tommorrow version v6 will be updated.

Hi All, this is my 1st post here. If I'm mistaken where or what placing here, please pardon me and direct me to the right place. Please illuminate my ignorance, concerning the subject. I think it is implementation dependent, how usleep(3) is treated, when found in an interrupt service call back routine. Is it just ignored?, or are ISRs executed as threads and usleep(3) works?? Moreover, the ISR is called from a Real_Timer int (sigalrm). Thank's and best regards hk

Hello everyone, I am new to this forum. Apologize if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it. I do docker run -it -P --privileged lib /root/compile.sh I get the following towards the end of the build process Fetched 68.1 MB in 60s (1,130 kB/s) Reading package lists... Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... hostapd is already the newest version (2:2.6-4~armbian5.34.171017+1). The following NEW packages will be installed: sunxi-tools 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 36.9 kB of archives. After this operation, 134 kB of additional disk …

I installed the linux-image-dev-sunxi64 and linux-dtb-dev-sunxi64 packages, which pulls in the 5.1.5 kernel, and it seems something is amiss in the pinebook dtb. On the 4.19 kernel, pwm-backlight powers on, and you get video output, however, on 5.1.5 once u-boot loads the kernel and it is starting, video output goes away. In the 4.19 kernel, the kern.log shows the following output during boot: May 29 19:15:10 localhost kernel: [ 3.937999] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p1): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. Opts: (null) May 29 19:15:10 localhost kernel: [ 5.573863] random: lvmconfig: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read) May 29 19:…

In kernel 6.1.24 default configuration for orangepione and orangepiplus2e is not checked module wireguard, which was previously checked. Is it paraticular reason for this or it's jus mistake. Please can devs make it checked in furure, this saves time when building. Thanks in advance.

There is another topic with answer for desktop case. But how to rotate the console screen, when there is no desktop? The suggestion about change in kernel parameter - fbcon=rotate:<number> didn't work for me (edited boot.cmd, compiled with mkimage command, and I see boot.scr changed ) and I was unable to change the /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/rotate file - it stays unchanged.

Hello, We've enabled pps-gpio in armbianEnv and will hopefully soon have our GPS/PPS source sync'ing the Neo2. We are also trying to have the Neo2 as a PPS generator when there is no local GPS/PPS connected and it's sync'd on the LAN from another Neo2 that has the GPS/PPS. To make all this work we'd like to be able to activate a PPS generator (output), along the lines of: https://github.com/jsln/pps-gen-gpio Think we understand the device-tree process well enough, but how (and where) would we put the driver code and have it compiled in and usable? Is this something that can be done on top of the nightly build we're using, or would we have to do this in t…

Finally Canonical launches an official Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Beta for Raspberry Pi 3 boards http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04/beta/ Maybe is interesting to check the repos.

I am going to use your Banana Pi image for my media server image release. I would like to know how to re-enable the regenerate ssh keys and resize the SD card on first boot (I want the password to stay the same).

Hi, I am new to armbian, and I was trying to compile the vanilla kernel for the Banana Pi M2. I get the following error: Compiling DTB ccache ... DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-inet-98v-rev2.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-olinuxino.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-olinuxino-micro.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-q8-tablet.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-utoo-p66.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-r8-chip.dtb …

Hello. Can someone explain which dtb/dts I should use for R1? With sun7i-a20-lamobo-r1.dtb kernels 4.4.1/4.4.4 disable SATA power when boot and sata subsystem fills log with errors: -- snip -- [ 24.054170] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) [ 24.059664] ata1: EH complete [ 24.337429] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen [ 24.344944] ata1: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed [ 24.350962] ata1: SError: { DevExch } [ 24.354701] ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 24.359859] ata1: hard resetting link [ 25.544101] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) [ 25.549573] ata1: EH complete [ …

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/armbian/u-boot-sun50i Cloning into 'u-boot-sun50i'... remote: Counting objects: 104, done. remote: Total 104 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 104 Receiving objects: 100% (104/104), 15.69 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (60/60), done. Submodule 'arm-trusted-firmware' (https://github.com/apritzel/arm-trusted-firmware.git) registered for path 'arm-trusted-firmware' Submodule 'u-boot' (https://github.com/apritzel/u-boot.git) registered for path 'u-boot' Cloning into '/home/samuel/u-boot-sun50i/arm-trusted-firmware'... remote: Counting objects: 17522, done. remote: Total 17522 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pac…

Hi, first of all thank you for the great work. Let me tell you my story. I bought a Pinebook laptop some months ago and in my spare time I was playing with numerous OS-es. Installing and testing one by one. In total I've tested every single OS and so far Armbian is the winner. Why? Well because it is super fast, very stable, lightweight and with very simple xfce desktop look and feel. Now, like everything in life, there are some bad sides of Armbian. I am not sure if I will say something false or strange but I don't consider my self expert for hardware nor Linux world. So far I have also Raspberry Pi with Raspbian installed and don't see any bad si…

I have lost track with which Banana Pi image supports modular PMP out of the box. Do any of your images have dvb header support like Raspbian?

I'm just trying to create a new image for the ClearFog Pro, b/c I need some special kernel modules built-in. Compiling kernel 4.4.4 with my settings works great, but I have problems to boot the image. This is my build command: sudo ./compile.sh BRANCH=next BOARD=armada KERNEL_ONLY=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no PROGRESS_DISPLAY=plain RELEASE=jessie But u-boot complains about starting with the following message. Even the u-boot `help` command doesn't work. ... Board configuration detected:Net: | port | Interface | PHY address | |--------|-----------|--------------| | egiga0 | RGMII | 0x00 | | egiga1 | SGMII | In-Band | | egiga2 | SGMII | In-Band …

How can I drive adafruit 3.5 inch touch screen on orange pi PC I have tried various methods on the web and still not to work

Starting to get into the armbian image a whole lot more as I prefer the lightweight nature of it over ubuntu mate on the ODroid C2. One issue I ran into today is the armbian kernel isn't built from the current hardkernel C2 kernel image: https://github.com/hardkernel/linux/tree/odroidc2-3.14.y I'm trying to get the 3.5" LCD Shield running on there, naturally it works fine on ubuntu mate C2 image but the kernel used for the armbian build is a different fork. The specific fbtft customised version for the C2 sits under the kernel here: https://github.com/hardkernel/linux/blob/odroidc2-3.14.y/drivers/video/fbtft/flexfb.c I'm happy to rebuild the kernel fro…

I was adding a driver to mvebu64-default and when this patch is removed, compilations breaks this way: Spoiler drivers/net/wireless/rtl8814au/core/rtw_mp.c: In function ‘rtfloor’: drivers/net/wireless/rtl8814au/core/rtw_mp.c:36:12: error: ‘-mgeneral-regs-only’ is incompatible with floating-point argument static int rtfloor(float x) { ^~~~~~~ scripts/Makefile.build:269: recipe for target 'drivers/net/wireless/rtl8814au/core/rtw_mp.o' failed make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/rtl8814au/core/rtw_mp.o] Error 1 scripts/Makefile.build:476: recipe for target 'drivers/net/wireless/rtl8814au' failed make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/rtl8814au] Er…

Hello, I see that on both buster and bullseye for orange pi pc2, the usbtmc module is not enabled. This is a heavily used module with embedded systems and can't see any reason for disabling it. thanks

Hi all, I have the clearfog base - Armbian 5.32 works great on it. Now let's say I need to develop an application which uses Boost. I can create a custom user config to install the appropriate packages, but how do I compile against it? rootfs seems to be deleted every time I create an image to be flashed. How can I package my own application into the sd card image? I have done this before with openwrt and their custom packages, but if I could do it in Armbian that would be great.

Hello, how i can change this message: I checked /etc/motd but is empty. Regards

As far as I can tell, there is currently no hook to allow patching the out of tree wifi drivers, since they're merged into the kernel source after patching. I was able to add the ability to patch these drivers with just a one line change: Spoiler diff --git a/lib/compilation.sh b/lib/compilation.sh index 7bb90902..ddaf24a8 100644 --- a/lib/compilation.sh +++ b/lib/compilation.sh @@ -293,6 +293,8 @@ compile_kernel() # build 3rd party drivers compilation_prepare + advanced_patch "wifi" "$KERNELPATCHDIR" "$BOARD" "" "$BRANCH" "$LINUXFAMILY-$BRANCH" + # create linux-source package - with already patched source…

Anyone heard of this? I had not, until it was brought to my attention in a comment to the release announcement I sent to LWN. From https://validation.linaro.org/ : There is also https://www.lavasoftware.org/ : https://wiki-archive.linaro.org/LAVA : https://www.linaro.org/blog/lava-fundamentals/ https://github.com/Linaro/lava Anyway, plenty info in the Internet about it. I had a couple questions / thoughts: Any of you heard about / familiar with this? Is this suitable for our use-case?

Hi all, I am just wondering if there are patched kernel images for the Dirty COW exploit?

I tried to compile wireguard from source in armbian xenial with kernel 4.9.7. on a Banana Pro. After compiling and installing the resulting kernelmodule, modprobe fails: sudo modprobe wireguard modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wireguard': Exec format error dmesg shows: [ 5563.012529] wireguard: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 5563.013912] wireguard: unknown relocation: 102 On the wireguard list, one pointed out this might be related to old toolchain, so i checked: the installed gcc is: gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) and the mentiond gcc Version in dmesg is (gcc version 6.2.1 …

Hi, thanks for the efforts making armbian very well and very stable for all the distributions, I'm running with a Cubieboard 1 and other arm devices.. I don't want to disturb, but I'll be a headache to support or add in repository this old A10 device Mele A1000/A2000? I know that is old chip, but I'm feel nostalgia, because was one of firsts devices supported in linux-sunxi, and Tom Cubie worked at mele, and sell this litlle joys overseas in 2012, and there are a lot of people now that have this devices too. a lot now sure in the dust and is in mainline kernel also. Tom left Mele, and maked Cubieboard 1, this Mele A1000 I think that have the same configurat…

Some of you probably saw that I added recently the OrangePi-Prime to the build process. Unfortunately, I'm still struggling to get the WiFi. It is even worst than the WiFi issue still present on OrangePiWin. For the OrangePi-Prime, even the DT doesn't process the WiFi entries, and the mmc1 is still "disabled" in /proc/device-tree at boot time. The strange thing is that if I load a small overlay to change the mmc1 status to "okay", the kernel start processing it. But, unfortunately, I'm seeing "sunxi-mmc 1c10000.mmc: no support for card's volts" error, although I didn't found obvious errors in vqmmc-supply setting of mmc1. I will have to dig f…

Thanks for the great armbian work this community does! I am trying to use an Espressobin board as a Homeassistant host. However I am struggeling with the usbserial of the kernel. Here is what I get with the Linux 4.19.59-mvebu64 kernel when I plug in the SiliconLabs based HubZ zigbee USBstick: [ 159.552682] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 2 [ 164.277522] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using orion-ehci [ 164.436750] usb 1-1: config 1 interface 0 altsetting 0 bulk endpoint 0x81 has invalid maxpacket 64 [ 164.436792] usb 1-1: config 1 interface 0 altsetting 0 bulk endpoint 0x1 has invalid maxpacket 64 [ 164.436828] usb 1-1: config 1 …

Hi guys I'm working to port the bpi-m2m to armbian. Right now i'm having a strange behaviour. I'm new to armbian development. I only use it for a npi-neo back in time. Anyway, my problem is quite simple. I have a working uboot and a working kernel (I think). the decive tree is in mainline. Looking the schematic, the DTS looks it is ok. I crated the armbian configuration, buit an image and it started "working" (you will se why is inside teh quote mark later) . Somehow i got a shell via UART. I configured the wireless AP and I got a working image. (Only BT was not working, no idea why). Due to the BT problem I decided to reboot the SBC and the problem I got b…

Hello. I'm just wondering if anyone here has successfully built the latest Linux Kernel 5.2 rc for any of the RK3288 based sbc's. I'm using the Tinkerboard S specifically and have read about several improvements that have been included in this kernel and including panfrost support which seems rather exciting.

I am working on support for the ClockworkPi Gameshell main board. I have patches for the kernel, but it seems that the build system applies kernel patches on a "per family" basis. Indeed, looking at the 'kernel-patch.sh' script it seems the BOARD and TARGET variables that would let board specific patches work are commented out. I've read through the example PR's in the docs, but don't see an example of how applying board specific patches should work. I fear that if I put the patches into the normal flow, it will get applied to other boards within the sunxi family and things may break for other boards. Should kernel patches be crafted in a way that they SHOULD …

Dear Community, Everytime I build a new Armbian OS, it comes with "configng" which dosent support the Feature to enable I2C, SPI & UART, the category "Hardware" isnt available in my build. How can I add the armbian-config to my automated build-system which adds the armbian-config with support of enabling this? I add a picture of the armbian-config, which comes with the currently build. At "system" is an entry with "armv7l" , but I build the OS for sunxi8. What I need to do, to support the Hardware entry in my armbian-config?

This isn't specific to armbian, I guess. I am not sure if the mainline linux kernel supports USB peripheral/OTG on Banana Pi M2. Armbian doesn't list anything in /sys/class/udc , so I assume it isn't. In the v3.3 kernel released by Sinovoip, there is a dedicated option in the menuconfig for sunxi_usb. I am not sure where to look in the mainline kernel. Anybody has a better idea about this? Thank you.

When I build for Olimex-A10 with the sunxi I2S drivers enabled, build fails. Without this driver, its building/ working fine without issues. I am compiling with 3.4.x and with Jessie. I tried compiling it even as a module but with same result. the lines just before the failure are pasted below: " In file included from drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c:5:0: x x drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c: In function âwriteimage.constprop.37â: …

Hello I use compile.sh and customize-image.sh to make my own custom image and every think is all right and work great. This is my command line to compile: sudo ./compile.sh KERNEL_CONFIGURE="no" KERNEL_ONLY="no" BOARD="orangepipc2" BRANCH="next" RELEASE="xenial" BUILD_DESKTOP="yes" After burned my image and lounch Armbian I have to do two steps: 1) go to armbian config and set taggle hardware config "i2c0" option to "true" (like on picture 1.png) 2) go to armbian config and set time zone = Europe/Moscow I tried to set KERNEL_CONFIGURE="yes" and try to find this options in configmenu = I did not find I tried to add option T…

I am trying to convert this dts file into a user-provided overlay. I have a work-in-progress, but I'm running into the issue that some labels seem not available to reference with the "&" operator. Specifically - the uart2 label seems not possible to reference. Maybe there are more compile errors in my code, but dtc only gives errors one by one... I tried decompiling the current device tree using dtc -I fs -O dts /sys/firmware/devicetree/base There the uart2 label seems missing in that output. I tried whether creating an alias for the path found in the current device tree, but that also didn't help: uart2 = "/soc/serial@1c28800"; …

Hi everyone, I have problems with compilation patched kernel 3.4.113 My patches uses header file customize.h, I copy this file into build directory - cache/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/include/linux/ I get an error during the build process fatal error: linux/customize.h: No such file or directory What location should I use for my header file?

I've done an PinebookPro build with rockchip64-dev 5.8.y, it worked, I'm planning to do a rockchip64-dev garden tour, and if nothing special, commit those change for 5.8.y ...

Hi there, trying to iterate on making small changes to a kernel driver module, and using armbian to help build the kernel (cross-compiling off the device). I'm aware of kernel-patch mode, but for making small changes, compiling, and iterating like this over and over, making and then putting patches into place on each cycle is quite cumbersome. Is there some way to tell armbian build _not_ to update the kernel, i.e. let me build with dirty tree, as I'm in a dev cycle? I just want to edit something in my local kernel tree, then build the kernel, and repeat

Built an Edge/Jammy firmware for a rk3588s2 based system(Radxa CM5). Panthor firmware for GPU G610 is not the right version though in this image. So after boot changed the firmware file, in the /lib/firmware/arm/mali/arch10.8/ folder, to the right version. Reboot produces the same problem though. It does not see the modified file, but still the original, wrong, one. With boot complete and going to the firmware folder the changed firmware is there. I presume that the changes I make end up in an overlay that only is mounted after the boot process. Rewriting the whole 6 GB image, just to change one file, is a bit cumbersome. Is there a way to chan…

E.g., in Orange Pi PC or PC2? Any hardware mod necessary or kernel mods? How about H2, as in OPi 0?

Hi there, I am trying to build the image using docker, but I get several "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" error messages and as result the build gets interrupted. Would like to stick to docker build (I am running of fedora 39, and it automatically selects docker), as it looks to be far more efficient rather than running it into a VM. Any idea on how could I get rid of this issue? Thanks is advance! Andrea

I've added new patches for OrangePi-ZeroPlus and commited them. Like for OPiPrime done yesterday, the OrangePi-ZeroPlus WiFi still not working. I don't know why yet, although is more encouraging than OPiPrime, since at least the driver comes up in "lsmod" in the OrangePi-ZeroPlus, while for the Prime it didn't. Also another issue : OrangePi-ZeroPlus has an eMMC, I was able to do "nand-install-sata", but I'm unable to boot from it, although the MMC2 DT is part of U-Boot, for some reasons, it doesn't scan it.

IMO this needs to be discussed separately, not in this (Banana Pi M2 Ultra) thread.

I made a similar board with reference to Renegade, but modified some peripherals (remove the gmac chip, remove the infrared sensor, etc.), directly use the image of Renegade, and the debug log will show as follows: U-Boot 2021.07-armbian (Mar 04 2022 - 10:47:46 +0800) Model: Firefly roc-rk3328-cc DRAM: 1022 MiB PMIC: RK8050 (on=0x10, off=0x00) MMC: mmc@ff500000: 1, mmc@ff520000: 0 Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial@ff130000 Out: serial@ff130000 Err: serial@ff130000 Model: Firefly roc-rk3328-cc Net: eth0: ethernet@ff540000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1 is curre…

Hello, I don't want the linux version often change on different Armbian compiling, for example, use linux 5.15.34 every time. Can I ?

I tried to run the image build process using Docker. At one point it tries to download the Linux tree and due to my slow Internet connection (max 3MB/s) there seems to be a connection reset from Github due to a too long download time (after 9 minutes, simillar times in 2 attempts). ✗ [ ...........](2.57 MB/s) Downloading linux-complete.git.tar 1.68/3.55 GB 47.34% 9m27s └─ sha256:dd18f1227c9bcf8d3a1c1ecd55721323639550c2845750f59168e17a0d0483bd Error: failed to copy content to /armbian/cache/git-bundles/kernel/linux-complete.git.tar.oras.pull.tmp/linux-complet…

Hi! Just wondered, if it would make more sense to use zram instead of a SD-card based swapfile by default? Andreas

Hi Team, With very straight forward documentation for building the image for Orange PI one board (All Winner H3), I was able build image. The experiment I am trying to do here is to run a simple service on boot (It may do nothing as of now, but should be listed as running when status is checked). Now since, the experiment is simple, I am trying to get some inputs on removing/excluding kernel modules that are not required and also build the image in release mode (not debug mode). Highly appreciate teams help in getting the inputs. Looking forward for the response. Thanks, Kedar

Good morning, I hope you all are fine. I am working on orange pi pc plus with mainline kernel 4.4, I tried to use the on board button but it didn't work in spite of its existence in the device tree (after dumping the already running dtb) and I found that: pinctrl@01f02c00 { compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-h3-r-pinctrl"; reg = <0x1f02c00 0x400>; interrupts = <0x0 0x2d 0x4>; clocks = <0x2d 0x3 0x1c 0x1d>; clock-names = "apb", "hosc", "losc"; gpio-controller; #gpio-cells = <…

Hi all, I have a Orange Pi Zero Plus H5 board running with Armbinan 5.65 Ubuntu Bionic image downloaded from armbian.com/download. The kernel version is 4.14.78. I want to build a custom kernel module for this kernel but where I can get linux-headers-next-sunxi64_5.65 package? I did with apt-get but the lasted version only 5.60. Please help

I compiled the Armbian on renegade board, based on mainline linux, compiling was stopped as the output: LD vmlinux.o MODPOST vmlinux.symvers MODINFO modules.builtin.modinfo GEN modules.builtin LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1 [ error ] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ main.sh:589 -> main.sh:490 -> compilation.sh:506 -> general.sh:0 ] [ error ] Kernel was not built [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Process terminated And the logs files are in the attachments. Today the linux kernel auto updates to 5.15.36, I haven't this issue using 5.15.35 before. Anybody know why? logs.zip

I would love to see a guide on how to create a virtual machine for Armbian which would be great for testing in VMWare Workstation, Player or Virtualbox. It would be similar to the diet pi vm which autoboots into the qemu (I think) for the Raspberry Pi If someone has a rough guide on how to do it I can make something noob friendly. My guess is you need to install qemu, add some repositories and then get it to autoboot using rc.local or something like that. Any resources on how to get started would be much appreciated.