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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…

Hello. using Armbian 5.16 opipc+ I have used ''create launcher'' from the desktop to be able to connect to wpa2 wifi. I have rebooted around 6 times and is working each time. I have to launch two in series. first starts wpa_supplicant second starts dhclient success!. I tried adding them to the startup,(wishful thinking) so. each time i run them from the desktop, it launches terminal and asks for PW. because command has and requires sudo. does anybody know how i can get around this?, it would be amazing if i could have them auto run, next best would be without terminal asking for PW. no i don't know how to write scripts. I'm …

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? …

Current main Armbian build hardware is a desktop based "server" running Ubuntu Xenial - i7 4790 / 16 / SSD. We already made lots's of optimisations within the build process but for 140 images I still need up to 14 hours where kernels were already cached. How is it possible to cut this time down significantly - to few hours, perhaps on a server grade hardware and further code optimisations? Currently I don't have access to any much better hardware to just run "build all" and see. I am looking for specific ideas for a build server upgrade and sponsored rent / exchange for advertisement. I was already advised by a friend, who knows something about server hardware: "J…

This task is complete, but creating topic for consistency. wha - USA - 50unattended-upgrades, issue #337 - June https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/issues/337 Needs a solved tag or other for this thanks @wha

This task was generated from http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1325-claim-a-task-set-due-date-and-start-doing-it/ Corresponding GitHub Issue 389 The initiative highlighted the need for a consistent way to track active tasks. This task provides a process to satisfy that requirement Tentative procedure demonstrated here https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib.docs/blob/master/docs/%5BProcess%5D-Armbian-Task-Tracking.md

Task originated from http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1325-claim-a-task-set-due-date-and-start-doing-it/ naibmra - Bulgaria - kernel testing, try hooking to kernelci.org, docs - mid July GitHub Issue @naibmra Please provide status here and assign GitHub issue to yourself (if possible)

Kriston - USA - documentation rework - July, August Task from http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1325-claim-a-task-set-due-date-and-start-doing-it/page-4#entry11910 Github issue @Kriston please assign yourself github issue, and provide an update here if possible. I apologize in advance as I'm shuffling docs around to satisfy the Doc software task

madilabs - Martinique - Packaging for desktop video acceleration - June @madilabs Please provide status for your task here. Also please assign the github issue to yourself if possible

Task from thread http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1325-claim-a-task-set-due-date-and-start-doing-it/page-2#entry10580 @Xer0 please provide status here and assign GitHub Task to yourself if possible

xcasex - Sweden - desktop packaging - July, August Task from thread http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/user/1411-xcasex/ @xcasex please provide status here, and assign GitHub issue to yourself if possible

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.

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

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

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

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

SEC mode being set for legacy and mainline. Overriding u-boot default of non-sec I've got a patch to make it conditional. just doing a bit more testing cooresponding github issue: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/issues/408 pull request: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/pull/409

I'm currently trying out various features before going through the tools in detail and attempting to tackle all scenarios. I'll write down some thoughts in this thread for now.

Discussion thread for github issue 423 - glshim packaging. Related discussion is here. Glshim development happens here. Current status: build script is mostly working, I'm fixing minor issues before making a github commit: - avoid hardcoded dependencies - make sure OpenGL apps can be built on target system Once these are resolved, I'll post a link to my commit for an eventual review and will be ready to create a pull request. ---------- Unrelated topic: armbian build script fixes for Debian Jessie Although only Ubuntu distribution is supported by armbian build scripts, Debian sid and above have all the necessary packages and should work fine. For Debian Je…

It's time to unify GPIO for the other PIs with WiringOtherPI and bundle it with Armbian! Inspired from these discussions: https://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/2808-orange-pi-zero-went-to-the-market/page-4#entry20302 http://tech.scargill.net/banana-pi-m2/#comment-27946 Goals WiringPI GPIO support for most AllWinner H2/H3 boards using legacy kernel WiringPI GPIO support for most AllWinner H2/H3 boards using mainline kernel Compatiblity with code using WiringPI dependencies Make my Orange Pi Zero blink my christmas lights Produce a distro-friendly package to be included with Armbian releases Todos Compile todos from other discussions Resources WiringOtherPi R…

Hello, for a piece of advice, I have compiled kernel 4.6.1 for Lamobo-R1, USB is KO, I am switching back to 4.5.5 in the meantime. [gr:~] $ dmesg | grep usb [ 3.346361] reg-fixed-voltage usb0-vbus: could not find pctldev for node /soc@01c00000/pinctrl@01c20800/usb0_vbus_pin@0, deferring probe [ 3.346404] reg-fixed-voltage usb1-vbus: could not find pctldev for node /soc@01c00000/pinctrl@01c20800/usb1_vbus_pin@0, deferring probe [ 3.346445] reg-fixed-voltage usb2-vbus: could not find pctldev for node /soc@01c00000/pinctrl@01c20800/usb2_vbus_pin@0, deferring probe [ 3.349520] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs [ 3.349626] usbcore:…

As a note I once created a new Branch to create an image with VDR (http://www.tvdr.de). (my first target is to get a full working build for my Cubieboard2 then i try modularize for the other boards) (It need's kernel 3.4.x for vdpau !!!) It's not finished yet because I still have to see whether the FFMpeg version of Debian also works. and some other things greetings Daniel

Hi Igor, I encountered an issue on Bananapi with kernel 4.2 using your latest SDK: A reboot or powercycle will fail with getting eth0 up and running (no IP address). I tried these both combinations: u-boot: 2015.04 + kernel: 4.2 u-boot: 2015.07 + kernel: 4.2 dmesg delivers: [ 13.387092] sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet: no reset control found [ 13.394879] Ring mode enabled [ 13.402647] No HW DMA feature register supported [ 13.402814] Normal descriptors [ 13.418061] TX Checksum insertion supported [ 13.498887] libphy: PHY stmmac-0:ffffffff not found [ 13.507177] eth0: Could not attach to PHY [ 13.515283] stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PH…

Could anybody confirm building Bananapim2 jessie next exits after compiling u-boot around line 142-146 in common.sh? wc: ... /output/debs/linux-u-boot-next-bananapim2_5.05_armhf.deb: no such file or directory The debs directory is empty. (I didn't check for hidden files.)

I am trying to work out how to add a 2560x1400 mode to the ViewSonic 32" 2560x1440 (16:9) display configuration that is not listed on the display settings configuration and should be there. Any tips on updating the configuration file, locally and then as a patch to Armbian please ?

Hello I'm trying to netboot a Rock 5C lite SBC via U-boot and a TFTP + NFS server. U-boot is working fine and is able to fetch the armbian.Image and fdt file (rk3588s-rock-5c.dtb) I provide through pxelinux.cfg/{device_mac_addr} file: LABEL Armbian MENU LABEL Armbian KERNEL /srv/tftp/armbian.Image FDT /srv/tftp/rk3588s-rock-5c.dtb APPEND root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.46:/srv/nfs/armbian,vers=3 rw ip=dhcp rootwait (To be complete I have U-boot installed on a SPI flash module configured to fetch the files with pxe commands: pxe get; pxe boot). To create the armbian.Image (kernel) I used the build repository and edited the kernel confi…

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…

Hello All in blue ...it's ok but in red ....not ok i started by git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib Clonage dans 'lib'... remote: Counting objects: 1075, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (935/935), done. remote: Total 1075 (delta 155), reused 806 (delta 70), pack-reused 0 Réception d'objets: 100% (1075/1075), 50.19 MiB | 1.06 MiB/s, fait. Résolution des deltas: 100% (155/155), fait. Vérification de la connectivité... fait. OK ! After i copy compile.sh in my directory and GO! ./compile.sh I choose "full os image to generate a sdcard ... board LIME ....Next lastest stable @kernel.org....jessie debian8 .......image with…

Hello Igor, I have noticed for a couple of kernel updates, a very minor issue : the previous initrd.img-x.x.x-sunxi is not removed I have tested both dpkg -i *.deb or apt upgrade, same issue so I guess a debian pkg script update is needed. gr@bpi:~$ ls -l /boot total 13864 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 13 15:37 bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6944 Aug 31 17:48 boot.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1749 Aug 31 17:49 boot.cmd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1821 Aug 31 17:49 boot.scr -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115484 Oct 11 14:12 config-4.2.3-sunxi drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Oct 13 15:37 dtb drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 13 14:23 dtb.old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 329…

Can someone tell me the difference between [uart_force_debug] and [uart_para]? [uart_para] uart_debug_port = 0 uart_debug_tx = port:PB22<2><1><default><default> uart_debug_rx = port:PB23<2><1><default><default> [uart_force_debug] uart_debug_port = 0 uart_debug_tx = port:PF02<4><1><default><default> uart_debug_rx = port:PF04<4><1><default><default> Thanks..

Hi, running Armbian Ubuntu on Nanopi Neo2 and it is working really great. I would like to implement HPN-SSH but I can't compile any of the OpenSSH versions against OpenSSL 1.1.x present on system. Any idea if OpenSSL 1.1.x can be safely downgraded to the latest OpenSSL 1.0.x release? I would use for example the method described here Not sure if OpenSSL 1.0.x would break anything on the system or not? Thanks for your help and advise!

Hello, FYI for prospective on Odroid XU4, testing images for XU4 (I also have a Cloushell (mini NAS including LCD display)) desktop image link folder Ubuntu 14.04.1 : ok, upgrade to 14.04.3 ok, upgrade to kernel 3.10.92 ok, upgrade to odroid final kernel 4.2.0 DEAD Ubuntu 15.04 : DEAD after reboot (kernel 4.2.0) It seems the image with kernel 4.2.0 just removed "journal" feature of ext4 on startup, so at next reboot, the ext4 fs is dead. trying to fix the SD card on a amd86 Ubuntu gives error like "/usr/sbin" dead, filesystem is garbage server image link ubuntu server image is not usable, dead after first reboot (kernel 4.2 ?) archlinux image…

Hi, I have two meson64 SBCs where one is Khadas VIM 3 and the other is Odroid N2. They have been running almost the same setup and there has been minor differences with time. For the past months, I have had issues with the error Illegal instruction for my Odroid N2 server. I did a clean install earlier today (Armbian_23.02.2_Odroidn2_jammy_current_6.1.11) without success. For instance, I often face the error when running cryptsetup benchmark. Most of the time I have to reboot multiple times, reinstall cryptsetup packages, try the armhf packages and more. I have never had the same issue with Khadas VIM 3. The issue seems to be related to argon2i and…

In the very beginning of the building I got such error *** [cmd] Ошибка 2ude/generated # error bmp_display() requires CONFIG_LCD or CONFIG_VIDEO inclmake: *** Ожидание Ð·Ð°Ð²ÐµÑ€ÑˆÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð·Ð°Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ð¹â€¦ ^ make[1]: *** [cmd/bmp.o] Ошибка 1 [ error ] ERROR in function compile_uboot [ common.sh:119 ] [ error ] U-boot file not found [ u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin ] [ o.k. ] Process terminated Sorry for russian, but I hope it still can be understood

Hello, I work on a gateway built around an orange PI 2. The orange PI has to manage 3 spi devices (an RTC, a flash and a radio). So I have enabled the spidev module on the orange PI and I use two overlay to get 3 /dev/spidev1.x (x=/dev/spidev1.,1 and2) devices with 3 distinct CS. See my the armbianEnv.txt file: # cat /boot/armbianEnv.txt verbosity=1 logo=disabled console=both disp_mode=1920x1080p60 overlay_prefix=sun8i-h3 overlays=i2c0 pwm spi-spidev usbhost2 usbhost3 rootdev=UUID=64a7c5d3-32a7-4eaf-9e69-a0dd046580ae rootfstype=ext4 param_spidev_spi_bus=1 param_spidev_max_freq=100000000 user_overlays= spi1-triple-spidev-cs sun8i-h3-spi1-add-cs1-cs…

Hi, on a lime2 the firstrun script hangs as it doesn't seem to have a red or blue LED. So I'd like to propose the following change which shouldn't break anything but add the green one. Unless some vendor adds even more colors. Not sure if the trailing "|| true" is the best solution to make sure the script will never fail? diff --git a/scripts/firstrun b/scripts/firstrun index 760cf0d..2f2b222 100644 --- a/scripts/firstrun +++ b/scripts/firstrun @@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ adjust_sunxi_settings() { sed -i "s/^MAC_ADDR=.*/MAC_ADDR=${MACADDR}/" /etc/default/brcm40183 \ echo -e "\n### [firstrun] Use MAC address ${MACADDR} for Bluetooth from now" >>${Log})…

Hello Igor(?), Armbian Buddies, I have ended being not able to compile a kernel module (and it breaks dkms btw) because files in linux-headers are ELF x86-64 (not ELF ARM) but it is quick & dirty FIXED :-) (Maybe I have messed Armbian tool playing with v4.3 kernel ???) root@bpi:~/kern4.3_4# dpkg -i linux-headers-next-sunxi_4.6_armhf.deb Unpacking linux-headers-next-sunxi (4.6) over (4.6) ... Setting up linux-headers-next-sunxi (4.6) ... root@bpi:~/kern4.3_4# cd /usr/src/linux-headers-4.3.0-sunxi/scripts/basic/ root@bpi:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.3.0-sunxi/scripts/basic# file fixdep fixdep: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically lin…

Hello Igor, greatings everyone, I have realized the "build" link is missing to the /usr/src/linux-headers-x.x.x-sunxi Ubuntu Trusty (x86/amd64 kernel) provides such a link I was building a small kernel module from source (frandom-dkms) on my labomo-r1 gr@bpi:/lib/modules/4.2.3-sunxi$ ll total 1260 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 13 18:34 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 13 15:20 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Oct 13 14:23 build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.3-sunxi/ drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Oct 13 15:20 kernel/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 360156 Oct 13 18:34 modules.alias -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 367304 Oct 13 18:34 modules.alias.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 r…

From time to time I searched for a somewhat precise power meter that produces not only a simple visual output but data that can be integrated into a monitoring system (be it RPi-Monitor, SNMP or something else). The ODROID Smart Power looked somewhat promising but was rather expensive and seems to be sold out in the meantime. Zador told me some time ago some details about different ADC measurements with Lime2, I checked this some days ago when combining Lime2 with a H3 board and am now thinking about simply using a Banana Pro to be used as such a power meter since I'm currently preparing measurements of a few H3 boards to arrive soon (see for some preparations this th…

Hi all, please be aware that Pine folks in the meantime understood that recommendations to use WinDisk32Imager, dd and other non verifying burning tools are wrong, tried to recommend Etcher instead (as usual sabotaged by at least their most famous forum moderator) and now use finally a 'branded' Etcher 2.0 beta: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4481&pid=27520#pid27520 I don't think it's correct to do it this way (and at least the macOS application sucks since not digitally signed and using a wrong so called 'bundle identifier') but anyway. Let's take this for a foresight. Etcher 2.0 uses catalog files in such a way: http:…

Is it my fault or the thermal trip points and cooling steps disappeared in Linux 5.1 on (at least) RK3288 devices? The "C/St." field from armbianmonitor -m disappeared: root@xt:/home/paolo# uname -a Linux xt 5.1.7-rockchip #5.88 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 8 13:06:26 UTC 2019 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux root@xt:/home/paolo# armbianmonitor -m Stop monitoring using [ctrl]-[c] Time CPU load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq CPU 12:03:51: 1608MHz 0.58 7% 1% 5% 0% 0% 0% 58.6°C 12:03:56: 696MHz 0.54 4% 1% 3% 0% 0% 0% 58.6°C 12:04:01: 696MHz 0.49 4% 1% 3% 0% 0% 0% 56.8°C and if I launch a stress test the SoC happi…

Found an old (2015) Ugoos UT3+ / UT3 Plus with an rk3288 - the neat thing about this board is it has HDMI-IN ! Also has PIP Specs: I'm was eventually able to successfully screen capture @ 1920 x 1080 ~29 fps using the Android 5.1.1 firmware V3.0.7 for UT3+ https://mega.nz/#!cQpl0ICS!8EgHddI3_PXQsSe-TSrkHfxdHCmkbckNWBYuLhfuA7w The firmware crashes frequently and the painful part is the IR remote is required to start recording.. so I'll be porting gentoo / armbian to this device to turn this paper weight into a linux friendly screen capture device. It maybe …

I have been playing around the Rock Pi S from radxa, and am stumbling at enabling the I2S output using a device tree overlay. (Building using current Armbain that uses @piter75's kernel branch) As per the data sheet and pinout, `i2s_8ch_0` should be broken out to the GPIO, but I don't seem to be getting far enabling it via the device tree. Any inputs? This is what I am playing around with atm, but `dmesg` doesn't show anything helpful atm, and no "I2S-Card" device turns up. Tried disabling the inbuilt audio codec ( connected to `i2s_8ch_2`), but still no dice. The closest example I could find was from `rk3308-ai-va-v10.dts`, that similarly enables the `i2s_8…

Hello, I have been able to run the rock64 testing image posted in https://www.armbian.com/rock64/ I want to customize this image through userpatches/customize-image.sh, as I have done in the past with the odroid HC1. The plan is to create more SD card images with NextCloudPi As a first step, I want to replicate that testing image, that works for me. Following Igor's advice in this post, I tried with the following command ./compile.sh docker \ BOARD=rock64\ BRANCH=default\ KERNEL_ONLY=no\ KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no\ RELEASE=stretch\ BUILD_DESKTOP=no\ EXPERT=yes I was asked a few questions regarding kernel con…

Hallo, with EXTENDED_DEBOOTSTRAP="yes" and ROOTFS_TYPE="nfs"my bananapim2 (jessie, next) has its / on /dev/nfs. After a few minutes it hangs with the error message: nfs: server x.x.x.x not responding, still trying To extend the timeout period I add timeo=30 (3 seconds) to nfs-boot.cmd. The result is: ubuntu:~# grep timeo userpatches/nfs-boot.cmd setenv bootargs "console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/nfs ${net_setup} rw rootflags=noatime,nodiratime,timeo=30 disp.screen0_output_mode=1920x1080p60 panic=10 consoleblank=0 enforcing=0 loglevel=6" # Banana Pi M2 root@m2-bare:~# journalctl --no-pager | grep nfs Jun 10 23:17:01 m2-bare kernel: Kernel command l…

On Black Hat 2017 security researcher Nitay Artenstein showed a vulnerability affecting millions of smartphones he called BroadPwn. The bug/vulnerability sits inside the firmware blobs but I didn't pay that much attention since I thought it would be related to recent smartphones and at least the one I use still receives full security fix support now in the 5th year. But when I heard that latest Raspbian release contains a fix for BroadPwn (RPi 3 and Zero W use BCM43438 to provide wireless capabilities) I asked myself immediately a question: http://www.cnx-software.com/2017/08/17/raspbian-for-raspberry-pi-boards-gets-upgraded-to-debian-stretch/#comment-545270 …

Hi all, special thanks to Igor for his work and all who are involved, thank you for reading this, THE MISSION:I am trying to install Armbian 5.25 Cubietruck Ubuntu xenial onto a cubietruck v1.0-0606. THE SITUATION:My computer I am creating the SD-Card from is: First I tried to copy Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.9.7_desktop.img then I copied root root 2946498560 Feb 5 12:04 Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.10.0_desktop.img root root 2942304256 Feb 5 02:43 Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.9.8_desktop.img sudo dd bs=1M if=Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.10.0_desktop.img of=/dev/sde sync My cardrea…

Hi all, I'm trying to get Debian on an A20 TV box. Now I've successfully got debian up and running, but only one of the two usb ports is working. There is +5V power on the non-working USB port, but plugged in device cannot be seen in lsusb, and nothing is logged in dmesg. My current script.fex: http://paste.ubuntu.com/13887802/ [usbc0] usb_used = 1 usb_port_type = 2 usb_detect_type = 1 usb_id_gpio = port:PH04<0><1><default><default> usb_det_vbus_gpio = "axp_ctrl" usb_drv_vbus_gpio = port:PB09<1><default><default><0> usb_restrict_gpio = port:PH00<1><0><default><0> usb_host_init_state …

Hi, could anyone provide a kernel (e.g. 4.3.3) with the patch for CVE-2016-0728? Or can anyone tell me how to patch and build the kernel - i only know the official way via "git an ./compile" described here in the manuals. The patch can be found here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=23567fd052a9abb6d67fe8e7a9ccdd9800a540f2 Regards, A.

Hello, Interested in replacing virtualbox as a VM host, "docker" tool seems to be able to run on Debian/Ubuntu/other linux distro/MacOS/Windows (as they claim) My test: 1/ Installing docker on my amd64 4-cores Ubuntu 14.04 (too much tweaking to run "armbian" properly) see doc here also I have been using "Create a Docker group" and don't forget to run "Hello World" test 2/ To create a new container with Ubuntu 14.04 (if you have added docker group to your non-privileged user, if not use "sudo") $ docker run --privileged -i -t ubuntu:14.04 /bin/bash "privileged" is needed for /dev/loop operations, if not the container cannot see the loop d…

Hello All, To all striking with sdcard issues , I have a good news today! NORMAL AND FIGHTING WAY Normally you put your sdcard on a adapter on a big computer you have flashed with a working and booting sbc to be able to flash the emmc and then you copy the .img.xz you have downloaded on it , put the card in the sbc and boot on it to have access to the dd command from there. Unfortunately the result will depend on your sdcard quality, I experienced many bad block so I get bored. Yesterday have a flash, LET'S TAKE THE BUNNY HIGHWAY! I found a way faster and safer to do it to circonvent the sdcard: tempfs! …

Greetings, everyone I decided to try armbian for my recently acquired cubox-i4pro. Unfortunately it was missing some kernel modules that I require. No problem, it is easy enough to change the kernel configuration and recompile! Debian Jessie (main system) is even listed as a working development environment, so I thought I would test the included compile script using the instructions from the github. I had recently completed some cross-compilation (for armel, not armhf), so I manually updated the dependencies and read through instructions and looked through the script before getting started. First I compiled the kernel only with the following settings: KERNEL…

A small patch addressing some power monitoring related issues: 1. The script was always writing to the "REG 82H: ADC Enable 1" register (on each login). 2. The value being written (0xC3, raising bit 6) was overwriting the old one, wiping out other bits that may have been enabled. On my cubietruck for instance it defaults to 0xFF, not 0x83, so that "i2cset" call was effectively disabling/zeroing the /sys/class/power_supply/ac/current_now thing that I use for calculating and graphing the power usage in munin. 3. Raising that flag (bit 6, Battery current ADC enable) seems irrelevant to the bash.bashrc.custom script, as it doesn't appear to read that curren…

I've been trying to build a nanopiduo2 firmware for the last couple of days, and I keep getting an error on the 048-humanity-icon-theme_0.6.15_all.deb. It says corrupted filesystem tarball. I don't know where to report this. Is this a packaging error in Armbian or Ubuntu? I'm trying to build the bionic firmware. Any suggestions on getting around this error would be much appreciated.

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:…

Regardless of whether I use the main or v25.08 branch, set REGIONAL_IMAGE to china or not, or switch between noble and trixie base images, I consistently encounter a 403 Forbidden error right after the customization step. I've tried various configurations, but the issue persists. Any help?🤔

A while ago we added some logic to set LINUXFAMILY=sunxi in /etc/armbian-release and this breaks completely the IRQ affinity settings in /etc/init.d/armhwinfo (prepare_board function). Sunxi boards upgrading to 5.35 get slower with some use cases unless a fix in 5.36 is provided (though I've no idea how the fix should look like) It seems board support packages on apt.armbian.com have been built a few days ago not containing latest fixes. Is this possible?

Hello, I'm new in this forum with my Banana Pro I got on christmas. Before I used a Raspberry so I gained a little experience with Linux. For Raspberry nearly every question is asked and answers you could find a lot in internet. But the BananaPi is quite new and so sometimes it is hard to find answers. First I tried to get my Terratec H5 to work and after a lot of research I found out that I need an other driver. Unfortunately the driver "em2884" (still do not know if it works) could not found within Armbian an the odyssey began because I have to compile a kernel. I red a lot of sites to understand what compilin a kernel means, about modules and config. Un…

I created a pull pull request to add gpu support for radxa rock3a. Since this the first time I do this I need a maintainer to approve running workflows. Does anybody have the permission to do this so that we can make this support merged?

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.

First a very big "Thank you", Igor. You create wonderful images. But now the problem. I want to boot the A20 from an eMMC Flash. I use a HAOYU New MarsBoard A20 Dev Board. The reason: the CM-A10/A20 PCB has a footprint for an eMMC. So the 8GB NAND was removed and replaced by a 2GB eMMC. Then I took the Pecovnik Olimex Lime2 Jessie 3.4.108 image and added the fex file from the MarsBoard SD image. After a fex2bin the MarsBoard bootet from SD0. Life was beautiful. The problems start if I wanted to contact the eMMC. I changed "[nand_para] nand_used" to 0. And I changed "[mmc2_para] sdc_used" to 1. Then the kernel gets in serious problems: <6>[mmc-msg] sdc2 se…

Finally got a SPI connected DS3234 RTC for my BananaPi working! Main problem was that a patch is needed to get SPI master mode working reliably on A20: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9567833/ @Igor/staff: it would make Armbian even better than it already is if you could apply this patch on all A20 boards Setup: BananaPi (bought back in 2015 so not exactly sure which "flavour" it is, specs are equal to BPI-M1) DS3234 RTC (SparkFun DeadOn RTC Breakout DS3234) Mainline kernel (4.10 currently) Armbian build/devopment (of course ) Note: wiring and base of DTS according to Science Gizmo - Raspberry PI and your SPI Rea…

Let's first recap from the other thread : And here is Zador's first reply : And my first reply : Now, here is my latest investigations : Both H5 and A64 doesn't probe RTC driver successfully, explaining why dmesg doesn't mentioned it (I hate driver which are not verbose on failures !) But, why H5 doesn't react the same as A64 ? I will have to wait until issue re-appear to dig further in /var/log/syslog , maybe tomorrow ! BTW, Zador, the -EINVAL seen on "date" command is only shown when symptom occurred, not after reboot... (let's wait tomorrow to see) As I said, I suspect "systemd" compatiblilty issue here. BTW, each time the issu…

Hi all! I need to back to an older kernel version that I had used past year. In my PC, I conserve without any kind of changes, the working directory used to run compile.sh. If I did not missunderstood my Armbian documentation reading, there is an option to tell compilation process that don't try to upgrade sources files before compile (touch .ignore_changes). Am I right? And, if it's fine, Could somebody please explain me where and how must I apply these parameter? Thanks in advances! Edit: You could ask. Why he want to re-compile if he has past_year.img file? The reason is I need to include kernel headers nad my old compila…

Hi! I want to know in what order is executed the patching at compilation? Patched files are written into SRC files? How I can skip selected patch file? Thanks!

Hi, I need to modify the kernel to enable the USB networking ability for my network of development boards. (currently 1master & 10servers) we need to use usb connections for networking functionalities. My question: is it possible to modify the linux kernel without compiling a whole image from scratch. We are now developing a network of mashines and are thinking ahead, doing some planning, to reduce our workload in the future and for avoiding the need to reinstall all the OSes on the whole network. Optimally we would never need to reinstall an image /only reboot a mashine and do meaningful changes on the kernel over ssh. Metaphoricallly speaking…

On Orange Pi One, Lite and NanoPi M1 we currently have the ability to let VDD_CPUX voltage switch between 1.1V and 1.3V. With our current settings we switch at 912MHz CPU clockspeed from 1.1V to 1.3V. The higher the clockspeed the higher VDD_CPUX (this is the voltage the CPU cores are fed with) has to be to let the SoC work reliable. But on the other hand the higher VDD_CPUX is set the hotter the SoC gets and the earlier throttling will jump in. So knowing at which clockspeed H3 still works reliable at the lowest possible VDD_CPUX voltage (in the case of the aforementioned boards only 1.1V or 1.3V are available) can help with overall performance since throttling gets m…

Hi all, Please excuse what you may feel is an ignorant question. I may not be posting in the right forum topic, but I'm a newbe struggling to ditch the tyranny of Windows after 40 years and move over to Linux. This is my first use of an Armbian image. I have OMV 5 installed on OdroidHC4 using Debian 10 Buster and am trying to activate hwclock to support system suspend states. The HardKernal site specifically says the board capable of this and OMV has appropriate supporting menu options. I've added the RTC shield pcf8563 hardware (with a good battery), but like so many I've not been able to get the system to recognize the clock on RTC0; it times out wa…

Hi there! Issue: Installing required package for Python face_recognition takes almost 15-20 hours to install using my Orange Pi One. These are the commands I manually ran to my Orange Pi one: https://gist.github.com/jmcausing/d89d659ae43dff8f5ea8feea95fe2de3 Goal: I need a custom armbian image that has those package installed already. I tried: - Building armbian image using Virtual Box with ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64 - 30GB of Disk , 4GB of RAM and 6 CPUs - Edited the /build/config/templates/customize-image.sh and added those commands (see gist link above) to install the required packages -…

Hello. I'm building an armbian image and want to add some partitions to the result disk. I use the post_create_partitions hook to do that. The documentation doesn't show how to use it, so I looked at the armbian's sources: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/99815c0a8880d4e04fc64742412632e1d41c1334/lib/functions/image/partitioning.sh#L206 Here they create a string and pass it to sfdisk. In my hook I do a similar row to add two partitions: echo -ne "label:dos\nsize=1G\nsize=1G\n+\n" | sfdisk -a "${SDCARD}".raw --no-reread || exit_with_error "Partition fail." But building of the image fails with message: No free sectors available. Failed to add #3 partition…

Hi, I'm porting trusty on imx53 ConnectCore board and I wonder what I should change in order to use lib with this card. I have an ubuntu that works. note : kernel is too old : 2.6.35 but i have source code. edit : I dropped!

Hi, Igor, it is a wonderful thing you got going on here I would to add applications to the image by either installing them as anyone would (apt-get install ...) or by compiling source code for the desired applications. What would be the approach to do so? I tried reading the messages on the forum and the documentation but could not find a way to do so. Example: Mono (can either be added with apt-get or compiled. Cheers, Robson

Hello community, I have just been successful building my own image of Ubuntu focal + preempt_rt (kernel 5.15.76-rt53) for my Rock64 board for the first time (a bit of additional background at the end of my post). Exciting! I had a few hiccups along the way, and I need to figure out a few more things. So far I'm happy and impressed with the project. However, given I want to share my work (and the resulting image(s)) I would like to ask for some pointers on what is the best way to go in regards of forking armbian/build and the changes I found myself doing. I have added my kernel compilation flags to config/kernel/linux-rockchip64-curre…

Hi. Today i made apt-get upgrade on opi +2. After it i cannot enable wlan1 interface (tp-link WN-722N). Modules are loaded properly but i cannot see wlan1 in ifconfig or iwconfig.

Hi, friend. Please help me compile u-boot How to compile old u-boot 2019.07 using armbian Building? Which kernel version is supported with u-boot 2019.07? How to add boot.src : setenv video-mode sunxi:800x480-18@40,monitor=lcd , when compiling u-boot? /build/config/boards/olinux-som-a13.csc: What is HAS_VIDEO_OUTPUT="no" ?

Hi, No matter I am using master or development branches, both were failed to build uboot/kernel by bl31 target. Spoiler $ ./compile.sh [ o.k. ] Using config file [ config-default.conf ] [ warn ] This script requires root privileges, trying to use sudo [ o.k. ] Using config file [ config-default.conf ] [ o.k. ] This script will try to update Already up-to-date. Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin. Switched to a new branch 'master' [ o.k. ] Command line: setting LIB_TAG to [ development ] [ o.k. ] Preparing [ host ] [ o.k. ] Build host OS release [ xenial ] [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] ... [ o.k. ] Downloading sources […

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…

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.

I prepared new kernel based on recent H3 Allwinner code. Code was found here: https://github.com/friendlyarm/h3_lichee than it was cleaned and moved to my repository: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/linux -b sun8i On the top there are additional 100+ patches. I am still working on patches so they are not online yet, but you can try first build and compare to old kernel. Download deb package (dpkg -i linux-image-sun8i_5.07_armhf.deb) Patches regarding thermal, video mode changing and camera are missing. They need further inspection and adjustments.

As bookworm is stable now I want to update my odroid HC2 from bullseye to bookworm? Any experiences welcome. I know this is not supported. But in principle it should work. I did the update from buster to bullseye and that worked perfectly (see link to threat below). I would just do the same for the new update. But maybe there is one special fact to remember that wasn't necessary for the last update. Jürgen

Dear all, I recently perched a SINA33 from SINLINX after a week of test i download the Armbian source code that is very interesting and started to create an Armbian image for this board. I created a csc file to start the building. Spoiler The csc file code: # A33 quad core 1Gb SoC BOARD_NAME="Sina33" BOARDFAMILY="sun8i" BOOTCONFIG="Sinlinx_SinA33_defconfig" MODULES="hci_uart gpio_sunxi rfcomm hidp bonding spi_sun7i 8021q a20_tp" MODULES_NEXT="brcmfmac" OVERLAY_PREFIX="sun8i-a33" KERNEL_TARGET="default,next,dev" The compile is done and the image is created. I flash the image w…

Now that I've done builds for NanoPiM1Plus2 and BananaPiM2Plus, along with the previous series OPiZeroPlus-H3/OPiZeroPlus-H5/OPiWin/OPiPrime, and that all of those boards has the same symptoms of missing AP6212 (+/- some have mmc-sdio appear, some not), I've continue my search for hints. To my discovery, I found the following quote in http://linux-sunxi.org/Sinovoip_Banana_Pi_M2%2B I hope that is not true any more ...

I tried to used AppArmor under the Linux cubietruck 4.4.1-sunxi #10 SMP Wed Feb 17 17:57:20 CET 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux. But I get a kernel panic after i rebooted the system. Some questions: 1. Did you integrate AppArmor into the kernel? 2. Did you use an alternative mandatory access control? 3. Need I an additional kernel argument in the /boot/boot.cmd other than these "apparmor=1 security=apparmor"? 4. Is there a major diffenrece between your kernel and that from danad.de? Unluckily I was not capable of getting a dump from the kernel panic. If you need it, I would take a photo.

It's been decades since I did application development but I want to get started again. I see that Ubuntu IDE SDK is included in the 'software boutique' but when I install it there are numerous errors when trying to configure. Do you guys have a preferred IDE for application dev on Armbian and do you have any tutorial how to build it? The Ubuntu IDE SDK looks good but so do several other IDEs that include GUI designers such as QDevelop. Before I go down a long path I'd rather try what you kids are already successfully using. I know, most guys use Vi(m) and command line, but I want to give the IDE style of development a go. This is a ver…

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 …

the main proposal of this research is to enable cached apt archives for docker build. first apt cache can be saved by a docker volume, but due to `${SDCARD}/var/cache/apt/archives` is not a constant, then we can't use `-v=apt-cache:${SDCARD}/var/cache/apt/archives` to enable it. so I use `-v=apt-cache:/root/.apt` as a tmp place for apt cache, when need `apt install` in `${SDCARD}`, use `mount -o bind /root/.apt ${SDCARD}/var/cache/apt/archives` and after install finishes, `umount ${SDCARD}/var/cache/apt/archives` this looks perfect, but after I check /root/.apt, everything is gone. I double checked whether *.deb are saved to…

➜ ~ sudo apt update [sudo] password for malex: Hit:1 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com groovy InRelease Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com groovy-security InRelease Hit:5 http://ports.ubuntu.com groovy-updates InRelease Get:2 https://armbian.tnahosting.net/apt groovy InRelease [18.3 kB] Hit:6 http://ports.ubuntu.com groovy-backports InRelease Hit:7 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports groovy InRel…

Hello, when I try apt update, I got this message: W: Failed to fetch http://apt.armbian.com/dists/jessie/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) My /etc/apt/sources.list.d: deb http://apt.armbian.com jessie main jessie-utils jessie-desktop Is any error on my side or how to correct this please? Thanx

Build today a new 5.23 jessie 3.4.112 (with rt143) for H3 (NanoPiNEO) Configured all wifi ok (8192cu) Later on, saw the indicated upgrade on 3 packages linux-headers-sun8i linux-image-sun8i tzdata First I installed the tzdata and all were still working ok. The linux-headers-sun8i linux-image-sun8i when installed made wifi (8192cu driver) to vanish. After a hint for install the armbian-firmware-full, the dongle became visible in ifconfig as wlan0 but not being able to connect anymore on any AP although previously, before the upgrade, everything was connecting and working ok. Though it might be proper to report it also here in development sect…

Hello! Im new in this community, I would like to know if there is a language like the C of Arduino's or any other to use in Raspberry Pi. I would appreciate your help. Greetings!

I'm trying to create a custom Armbian image based on the User Configurations documentation. I can see that I can install additional packages by editing `userpatches/lib.config` and adding entries to the `PACKAGE_LIST_ADDITIONAL` variable, and I can work with custom files like scripts by placing them inside `userpatches/overlay` and accessing them in `/tmp/overlay` via `customize-image.sh`. My question is, does `customize-image.sh` support the below commands given that it executes in a chroot environment: NOTE: Some commands below require `sudo`, but because we're already in a chroot environment, I assume we can run them without `sudo`. 1.…

Sorry in advance, but this is a bit of a dive. But, I haven't seen this fully captured and explained anywhere, and think this would be a useful thing to know for anyone who's doing arm64 development on a PC, which seems very relevant here ... I started pulling this thread when moving some software from Ubuntu Jammy to Noble, where the arm64 build process went from 20 mins to 50 mins. When I was done, it below to 15 min, and all I did was poke some flags for qemu's emulated CPU. The TL;DR version is that setting the environment variable QEMU_CPU to something like "cortex-a53" or "max,pauth-impdef=on" or even what I settled on, "max,pauth=off" saves …

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 …

You may have read about the recent (one month ago, but hey, what's a month between friends?) security vulnerabilities discovered in dnsmasq. They have been patched in version 2.78 and, quoting the author: This is a bugfix release, and, amongst other things, addresses a set of serious security vulnerabilities. Update should be mandatory. The dnsmasq shipped with Armbian is a rather old 2.75 and it is enabled by default, so I see this as a rather significant risk. I have compiled the latest version and installed it by hand, following the instructions located here (obviously, with 2.78 instead of 2.76). Is there any chance of getting this package updated in …

Hello, I'm looking for armbian 23.8.1 repository on github for building my own image. On github site there is on only the latest and after the 23.08 is more recent one. So where can i download the branche 23.8.1 ?

I'm just starting out with Armbian development, and the most recent "stable" version (5.20, v2016.09) doesn't compile. Is this supposed to work? olaf@tackd:~$ mkdir routertest olaf@tackd:~$ cd routertest/ olaf@tackd:~/routertest$ olaf@tackd:~/routertest$ git clone -b v2016.09 https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib Cloning into 'lib'... remote: Counting objects: 19756, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (155/155), done. remote: Total 19756 (delta 75), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 19601 Receiving objects: 100% (19756/19756), 173.96 MiB | 1003.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (12762/12762), done. Checking connectivity... done. Note: checking out '4c5…

Hi, I updated my cubietruck jessie to 5.23. update successful but no boot on kernel . I boot on sd card and mount nand . no uImage but an zImage. I use mkimage in order to generate uImage and it work. kernel packaging must be corrected.

Hello, I have had a look to the new Development Image (Armbian_5.76.190228_Tinkerboard_Debian_stretch_dev_5.0.0-rc8_desktop.7z) My SixFfab Hat which was working like a charm on 4.19-20 kernel. Any changes to add supoort for this Hardware again? Do you need any additional information? Many Thanks Roman

Hi guys, Given the not so great durability of SD cards (and limited storage...I try to keep everything on NFS mounts, but there's always some log that decides to randomly fill the SD card full of crap), and the incapability of run properly docker (it runs, but it NEEDS to use damn local storage, and won't take an NFS mount for some reason...it gets full real quick), I was considering to boot to a iSCSI target. This would let me expand storage anytime I need, plus it would make backup and snapshots a piece of cake. Is there a way to do this?

Hi, I have a board Orange Pi Zero with modified PAs for power of WiFi module from PA20 to PA02, by soldering a connection on board. This is done to allow connection of I2C DAC. I see that board definition in 'u-boot/configs/orangepi_zero_defconfig' It uses dts definition of: 'arch/arm/dts/sun8i-h2-plus-orangepi-zero.dts' I need to modify one section of this dts file from: reg_vcc_wifi: reg_vcc_wifi { compatible = "regulator-fixed"; regulator-min-microvolt = <3300000>; regulator-max-microvolt = <3300000>; regulator-name = "vcc-wifi"; enable-active-high; gpi…