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Hi, On the main site: https://www.armbian.com/ it says only 60 days to go for the next release :-) Well, to have a good user experience and squash bugs I think we should do a feature-freeze from about day 50 onwards - what is your take on that ? To do so, I was thinking about how you could handle this period on Github. Will “pull request’s” after feature-freeze be tagged for later integration? Everybody is welcome in squashing bugs (only the ones in code) eg. updating or adding configuration file for armbianmonitor ? eg. updating or adding information to the documentation ? Last but not least, if you can help with s…

Hi, I've been trying to setup a Cubox i with a buster image, encrypted root and ssh unlock. I cloned the git on 15th of August at commit `1a06bea5f31767b4983985c6592b78e288a85b99`. I used the following build options: ./compile.sh BOARD=cubox-i CRYPTROOT_ENABLE=yes CRYPTROOT_PASSPHRASE="abc" CRYPTROOT_SSH_UNLOCK=yes CRYPTROOT_SSH_UNLOCK_PORT=2222 KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no BRANCH=next RELEASE=buster I've tried using both 'dd' and 'etcher-cli' to burn the image, with identical results. The board boots, I can see the initial u-boot startup screen, then it goes black. Which something I've seen many times with the Cubox i on various di…

Hi all! When i comand pause to player (mplayer2, mpv, does not matters) it cause kernel panic if output device is spdif. It tested on kernel of 3.4 line. Old log here: Message from syslogd@Cubian at Oct 25 23:11:50 ... kernel:[ 476.282804] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM Message from syslogd@Cubian at Oct 25 23:11:50 ... kernel:[ 477.674151] Process mplayer (pid: 3651, stack limit = 0xedc522f0) Message from syslogd@Cubian at Oct 25 23:11:50 ... kernel:[ 477.689540] Stack: (0xedc53e18 to 0xedc54000) Message from syslogd@Cubian at Oct 25 23:11:50 ... kernel:[ 477.706949] 3e00: 00000000 c0b4747c Message from syslogd@Cubian at Oct 25 23:11:50 ... kern…

salve,chiedo informazioni di come caricare immagine armbian su orange pi pc,ho scaricato un archivio di un file in formato .RAW.............procedimento per concludere installazione immagine?qualcuno mi sa dire cosa si deve usare? thank's david

Hi everyone, Here an idea: It may be useful to know which board and wich compilation environment has already been tested with armbian-next, i.e.: Board User space Kernel Interface Environment Compilation Boot Hardware peripherals Hardware features Apps uefi-x86 Bullseye Current Desktop XFCE ✅ ✅ uefi-x86 Bullseye Edge…

I noticed today that there was no build created yet for Radxa Rock 3C. I found the Rock 3A config file at build/config/boards/rock-3a.conf : # Rockchip RK3568 quad core 1-8GB SoC GBe eMMC USB3 BOARD_NAME="Rock 3A" BOARDFAMILY="rk35xx" BOOTCONFIG="rock-3a-rk3568_defconfig" KERNEL_TARGET="legacy,current,edge" FULL_DESKTOP="yes" BOOT_LOGO="desktop" BOOT_FDT_FILE="rockchip/rk3568-rock-3a.dtb" BOOT_SCENARIO="spl-blobs" WIREGUARD="no" BOOT_SUPPORT_SPI="yes" BOOT_SPI_RKSPI_LOADER="yes" IMAGE_PARTITION_TABLE="gpt" BOOTFS_TYPE="fat" And copied it to build/boards/rock-3c.conf . Then modified it to # Rockchip RK3566 quad core 1-8GB SoC GBe eMMC USB3 BOARD…

Not sure if I posted this in the right location, kindly move the thread as necessary. Or please let me know where.

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…

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, I'm very happy with running armbian on an Asus Tinkerboard. But now I have a little issue: I want to build a kernel module using DKMS. I tried to install the kernel headers, but the latest version on apt.armbian.com is 5.32 and the kernel is 5.34. Is there any solution to get the headers for the 5.34 kernel image? Thanks, Alex

Hi all, Armbian v23.11 build fails while compiling ATF, reporting weird "cannot find cr" message: https://paste.next.armbian.com/evewilodap Can you please help? Thanks in advance!

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 posted a git issue for the Banana Pi image that the mainline kernel wasn't working with OpenMediaVault (at the time I think it was 3.19.3 or .4). It is now working with mainline 3.19.7 so all is resolved. Will release an openmediavault image when I find the time

Hi igor Can you build and add libcsptr to your repo? ( https://github.com/Snaipe/libcsptr ) it is required by libvdpau. i tried to build it via the build environment but it doesn't work ;-) :-( vdr_sunxi-vdpau (){ git clone https://github.com/Snaipe/libcsptr.git $DEST/cache/sdcard/usr/local/src/libcsptr chroot $DEST/cache/sdcard /bin/bash -c "cd /usr/local/src/libcsptr && mkdir build && cd build && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local .. && make && make install" chroot $DEST/cache/sdcard /bin/bash -c "cd /usr/local/src/libcsptr && make" chroot $DEST/cache/sdcard /bin/bash -c "cd /usr/local/src/libcsptr &am…

HI, Does anyone here encountered this error "libusb usb_bulk_send error -7" while reading in FEL mode? ./sunxi-fel read 0x42400000 0x82d0 boot1.header libusb usb_bulk_send error -7 Can you suggest how to fix this? Thanks in advance.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-gets-blasted-by-blueborne-too/ Not sure if we'd seen this/had exposure.

Was wondering if there are any kernel update scripts i can use to update from http://mirror.igorpecovnik.com/kernel/ http://mirror.igorpecovnik.com/u-boot/ would be nice im open to colab on a script if there isn't any

I am trying to build an older image (i.e. not latest / next). I select wheezy and default (3.4 - 3.14 kernel). I did not modify compile.sh in any way. When building, I seem to constantly run into these errors: /root/armbian3/lib/boards.sh: line 217: cd: /root/armbian3/output/cache/sdcard/usr/src/linux-headers-: No such file or directory [ o.k. ] Compile kernel headers scripts /bin/bash: line 0: cd: /usr/src/linux-headers-: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `headers_install'. Stop. make: *** No rule to make target `scripts'. Stop. dpkg-deb: error: failed to read archive `/root/armbian3/output/debs/linux-headers-banana_4.4_armhf.deb': N…

Hi all, I tried to build the kernel on my Ubuntu 15.10 machines which uses gcc 5.2 as default compiler. As mentioned in other threads this did not work. I found out two possible solutions. Apply the following kernel patch Compile the kernel with option -std=gnu98. I therefore changed the kernel makefile. --- a/arch/arm/kernel/return_address.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/return_address.c @@ -63,11 +63,6 @@ void *return_address(unsigned int level) #warning "TODO: return_address should use unwind tables" #endif -void *return_address(unsigned int level) -{ - return NULL; -} - #endif /* if defined(CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER) && !defined(CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND) / else…

Today i have tried to boot armbian on my old tablet. After i copied script.bin from tablet nanda partition and applied it on Armbian_5.20_Lime-a10_Debian_jessie_3.4.112_desktop image desktop has started. The first thing i have checked is CPU temperature 65 - 67 'C - 1008MHz 300Mb of 512 free mem Not working: 1) touch screen 2) wifi 3) accelerometer Is it normal 65-57 'C for Allwinner A10 CPU ? And how to add support for wifi and touch screen ? hardware: cpu Allwinner A10 wifi Realtek RTL8188CUS touchscreen raysens rs10f160904 ssd2533qt6 ddr3 x4 h5tq1g83tfr-h9c flash x2 29f32g08 lition power system axp209

I was doing some testing and it looks latest u-boot is broken for Allwinner H3 (no boot), A20 (Banana no network), I assume A10 too. There was some RFC upstream, but I did not go further into details ... Shall we rather rollback to 2017.03?

Hello, before even thinking about arranging a CSC board bring up pull request to armbian, I would be pleased to know if it sensible to do that for a TV Box which is not sold anymore but still quite powerful because of its rk3288 SoC. I made my own fork of armbian (see here). I tried to do things the most tidy way, following the best practices learnt from the documentation. The box has very good support now, but requires some initial setup to clean the eMMC. Also I made some customizations to kernel configs which, I guess, should be moved away (mali driver compiled by default, devfreq support, brcmfmac driver for AP6330 wifi, maybe other things...) …

Dear Friends, this is Judy from Banana Pi team. We will have BPI-M2S and BPI-R2 PRO sample ready on May. If you have interesting and ability to develope the software for these two boards, please contact me, my mail: judyhuang@banana-pi.com Look forward to cooperate with you!

@Igor, I started a new topic because is more clear. I compiled with the last files in your github and remove the ".disabled" of the file 30-real-time143-full-plus-rt-fixes.patch . I choose the option 5 (full real time) but crashes. I attach the screen of the error. I compiled two times. One in lubuntu 16 and other in Ubuntu 16. The error is the same. Very Thanks!!!

i worked on the BPI M1 Board (the first one) for quite a while now improving or more or less rewriting the A20 CSI camera driver. there are no more artifact-ghost-frames any more. The framerate goes from 5fps(full) to 120fps(crobbed small) i also modified the camera-device driver for the ov5640. disadvantage: existing camera device drivers would not be compatible any more. maybe someone wants to give it a try and check it out. it can be found here: https://github.com/xenpac/OV5640-Sunxi-A20

I was trying to build an image for my Banan Pi. While I running script there was an connection error occured on downloading components. now I can't remove the directory. When I try to remove I'm getting this error: rm: cannot remove ‘sources/linux-sunxi/drivers/video/fbtft’: Device or resource busy How can I remove this directory? "lsof" is telling the directory might be deleted lsof +D sources/ lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext4 file system sources/linux-sunxi/drivers/video/fbtft (deleted) Output information may be incomplete.

Hello, i tried to compile an armbian package for my Olimex A20 Micro board. (A20 Micro, legacy kernel 3.4.x, Debian Jessie) Because the use of Ubuntu is recommended for armbian development I installed Xubuntu 14.04 on a netbook. (Usually I use Debian for development). I prepared the toolchain and downloaded the armbian git repository. After start of compile.sh it lasts several hours (the netbook is *quiet* slow) and then the build was completed sucessfully. (I only saw an error message compiling the fbxxx display driver.) Next boot of the netbook the Xubuntu graphical login appears and after input of the credentials nothing happens. No desktop. Quiet stra…

Hi, I managed to compile a working 4.6.2 Linux kernel for my Allwinner H3 powered Orange Pi PC using the Armbian lib build scripts. But where I'm completely stuck is when it comes to get all four CPU cores up and running. lscpu shows only cpu0 as online, and a syfs entry to enable cores 1..3 does not exist. Having applied 20151223-h3-mainline-smp-hack patch, cpu1..3 seem to get set online, but the booting process stalls (rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU, etc.). http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matrixmarked SMP as "done", and mentioned this patch. A log file of the failed boot process is attached. My setup: Lin…

As armbian incorporates some performance tweaks also with regards to IRQ balancing on Allwinner devices, I just wanted to note, that the irqbalance daemon now finally works on armhf in Debian Stretch. I had tried irqbalanced on arm several times over the last two years, and neither the versions shipped in Wheezy or Jessie actually worked (i.e. balanced IRQs over multiple cores). I also tried to compile a more recent version last year but couldn't get it to work. So, now after upgrading one of my BananaPis to Debian Stretch, I gave irqbalanced another shot and am happy to see that interrupts are now nicely balanced, including e.g. ethernet and USB interrupts.

Hello, I'm newbie to armbian, I am trying to build my own image, and i following the steps of this link: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ (i am not using Virtualvox) My OS is: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial And my GCC version: gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5) 5.4.0 20160609 I apologize, since I'll probably be asking some nonsense. I follow the steps to build my own image, and I get the following error: [ o.k. ] Building deb [ linux-u-boot-next-lime_5.33_armhf.deb ] [ error ] ERROR in funct…

Dear Community, I'll build a Developer Team specially for Banana Pi Boards!" GPIO Libarys I started updating/modifing the old GPIO-Libarys, so they can be used on the latest builds! I want to build a Team, for GPIO-Libary Development, for porting these Libarys: WiringPi-Node WiringPi-PHP WiringPi-Perl WirinigPi-Ruby gpiozero rpi-gpio Updating and modifying these: RPi.GPIO BPI-WiringPi2-Python BPI-WiringPi2 At the end, all currently working GPIO Libarys are: luma.oled RPi.GPIO BPI-WiringPi BPI-WiringPi2 B…

Hi all, I have a bananapi and I have installed the debian Wheezy image with kernel 3.19.0. Now, I’d like to upgrade to kernel 4.0.4 to see wether the ananlog audio output is supported; so I downloaded all the deb packages from the website and installed them, but after reboot the system is still using kernel 3.19.0. How can I switch it to use kernel 4.0.4? I guess I should edit something in boot.cmd and convert it to boot.scr, but what should I change exactly? Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi I am getting a memory problem, quite irregular. In any case, for some reason, at different times suddenly decrease the amount of memory available - and so it remains. As the attached image at 2:30 at night when nothing has special - I was sleeping Can anyone advise me how to find the reason? I will be very grateful.

Hello, First please excuse me for being not learned enough to do it without asking stupid questions. Here is my goal: Build Armbian (debian jessie) image with some packages included into it, include some web content and scripts into image, run my own script at firstboot to configure apache/mysql etc. So everything to start working out of the box after first boot. I read a little and saw userpatches/customize-image.sh is responsible for custom configuration, but got no idea how to proceed further. For example if I want to install mariadb what should I do? apt-get install mariadb (it says this file was executed in chroot environment) …

Hi there! I am new to this forum, so hopefully I am at the right place to open my discussion. We use our own made iMX6DL based board to run a semi-professional amateur radio. We choose armbian as it worked almost out of the box, but we use a kernel 4.11+ probably 4.12+ next week with some small extra drivers for an SPI OLED and some special keyboard drivers. However these modifications are not relevant for the issue I have, but I should mention, that I added the etnaviv kernel drivers and all related things to activate HDMI. We have not fully encountered the way to merge in our BSP to armbian, however I found the very instructional vide…

Hi All, I have looked at the "How to build your own image/kernel post", but am wondering what the best way for me is to contribute. Basically, I often use the pine64 running armbian as an IoT control hub/gateway where it is running an install of nginx/php/mysql/mosquito/nodered. The php part is mostly because of phpmyadmin, so nginx comes in that case configured with node-red mounted on / and phpmyadmin on /phpmyadmin. I could create my own image with all this stuff on it, and also configure some default usernames, passwords and wifi setup, but I also noticed the "Software" section in armbian-config. So my question is which of these 3 options would b…

I've done a build Meson64-DEV with 5.2.y ... I will commit the switch as soon as runtime test succeded !

Is it possible to run some functions (such as enabling or disabling overlay) directly from the command line without using the GUI ?

I was able to get RTL8188FTV $2.00 US USB wifi https://www.ebay.com/itm/123713550193 working with a script I made from a forked project. The power saver has already been disabled in the Makefile. Check out https://github.com/sgjava/rtl8188fu/tree/arm. I've tested this on ARM 32 and ARM 64, but not x86 or x86_64. This is currently a dkms module that requires beta repos to get matching kernel headers.

Hello I have a problem to generate my kernel 3.x and jessie for may board A10 lime. I followed the procedure well but unfortunately I always get this error message after u-objcopy boot.nin: ./scripts/dtc-versions.sh: ligne17: dtc: command not found ./scripts/dtc-versions.sh: ligne18: dtc: command not found *** Your DTC is too old, please upgrade to 1.4 or newer dtc make: *** [checkdtc] error 1 I use a VM vmware ubuntu 14.04 x86 server as recommended in the documention. (I have even try Debian Jessie and Trusty, the problem is the same) Can you help me ? Sorry for the google translation. Grégory

A great 9.30 min review here, pointing out the issues: Cooling, GPIO expansion, no MIPI, lack of SPI support in Armbian? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MzxLYGWQddA Apparently the much discussed Armbian cooling/Vreg techniques were not known to the author. Other stuff is interesting, with comparison to RPi.

Greetings, I haven't built a new image for awhile. But, I wanted to refresh the process. In the meanwhile, the only change I've made is upgrading my host. My build platform is a VM. I have no idea if that matters, but it was a change. I now have some weird errors/warning and I want to troubleshoot them. How can I enter into the environment to run just the customize script and commands? I'd like to dig into them, but not sure how. Thanks!

Hello All, I have a requirement that we need to enable the watchdog in uboot and kernel. For Kernel I was able to enable it using the config below and using a "watchdog" utility. CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y CONFIG_WATCHDOG_CORE=y # CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT is not set # # Watchdog Device Drivers # # CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_GPIO_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_XILINX_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_CADENCE_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_DW_WATCHDOG is not set CONFIG_SUNXI_WATCHDOG=y # CONFIG_MAX63XX_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_BCM7038_WDT is not set # CONFIG_MEN_A21_WDT is not set Now i'm stuck how to implement it in uboot. BTW, I'm using A20 board and a mainl…

Hi there, i want to stick to the 4.4 kernel an tried to compile kernel 4.4.12 (cubietruck) via: apt-get -y install git git clone https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib--depth 1 cp lib/compile.sh . chmod +x compile.sh ./compile.sh after that, i built the following directory and file: mkdir userpatches vi userpatches/lib.config and added: KERNELBRANCH="v4.4.12" (also tried KERNELBRANCH="v4.5.6") as described here: http://forum.armbian...est-kernel-447/ Whenn running ./compile, i get the following messages: │ LD [M] drivers/media/v4l2-core/tuner.o …

I know it is in development. and only for testing. I have build armbian 5.51 ubuntu 18.04, kernel 4.14 . I have question. max cpu H3 speed is set up on 1100 mhz. All orange pi boards with the same cpu have 1296 mhz. I set up cpu governor on performance all the time 1100mhz. I achieved temperatures on cpu between 53-62 celsius degrees. Could be the max cpu speed bring up to the 1296 MHZ? I have radiator 3.5 cm x 3.5 cm on board tritium H3. And it is not very hot. thanks for reply.

Hi all, I need to add some packages to Armbian in the build phase. I tried two ways, both failed: 1. Had run through docs (https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/), and the suggestion is to add a var PACKAGE_LIST_ADDITIONAL in userpatches/lib.config PACKAGE_LIST_ADDITIONAL="$PACKAGE_LIST_ADDITIONAL watchdog modemmanager iptables iptables-persistent dnsmasq bridge-utils iproute2 openvpn" Building the image I get the following error: [🌱] Using user configuration override [ /home/andrea/armbian/build/userpatches/lib.config ] /home/andrea/armbian/build/userpatches/lib.c…

Hello, I have a problem building the image behind a proxy (company proxy). Is there any way to get my proxy configuration into the chroot - environment?

Hi, not sure if this problem is related to Armbian, but in my case it occurs only on an Armian system. I have mainline kernel (4.7.x) running on a Banana Pro. wlan is configured as access point and works without any problems. eth0 is configured as client with static IP. The Banana is running 24/7, but the ethernet port is used only sporadically. The switch where eth0 is connected to is powered down most time. The problem is that eth0 forgets its IP configuration after a while, ifconfig then reports no IP address for eth0. I have to login via wlan and then ifdown/ifup eth0, then it works again. After a couple of hours (I dont know exactly how long), the IP is lost again. …

I would like to rebuild ffmpeg, and mpv with additional build options. Is there a posted how-to ? The build environment is different. I am used to pulling down the package source, modify , recompile and build the updated package. Also how would I add plexmedia player to the Armbian build ? I have it working.. just need to add hardware acceleration to ffmpeg and mpv before I package it up and get it into the Armbian build.

According to Torvalds github, it seems that Mainline is jumping from 4.20 to 5.0-rc1, there won't be any 4.21 ...

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…

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 …

Hello, guys, I am building mainline "next" for BananaPi M2 with my custom Waveshare 35a dt overlay (source attached) created from the one for RaspberryPi3. The display shows a broken picture. DMESG periodically shows SPI transfer error -110. Any ideas what is going on there ? I am using a similar DTS on OrangePi PC and it works perfectly. Thanks in advance for any help or idea. DMESG output ---------------------------------------------- [ 8.027465] fbtft: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. [ 8.030428] fb_ili9486: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unk…

My only reason for being here is to develop a Kubernetes platform that runs on Armbian, mesh networks, and particularly the type of devices Consumers will typically have... Is anyone else already doing this? And who else here is in the web dev space? or ops? Or has a website on something like Wordpress.com or Wix, and wants to self-host it? What is your favorite open source PaaS? also proprietary like Heroku? Any AWS or GCP or Azure user? Or a Data Scientist? just wanted to get a little survey, of if this has market demand.

I tried to rebuild the Banana Pi image with kernel 3.19.7 adding the configuration from here to the next config before rebuilding. I get a lot of prompts and I said m for modular or Y for yes to each of them. The tuner still isn't showing up in Tvheadend. I can donate some BTC so you have a test unit to help get this working.

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…

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…

This weekend I was revising and testing the OV5640 for some A64 boards. To enable the Camera (OV5640) on NanoPi A64 for the mainline kernel you have to update the following: * DT * GPIO-I2C Here is the excerpt : Spoiler { model = "FriendlyARM ..."; . . reg_vcc3v3: vcc3v3 { compatible = "regulator-fixed"; regulator-name = "vcc3v3"; regulator-min-microvolt = <3300000>; regulator-max-microvolt = <3300000>; }; cam_xclk: cam-xclk { #clock-cells = <0>; compatible = "fixed-clock"; clock-frequency = <24000000>; …

Hello everyone. From some time ago I´m working in an application that comunicates with some external devices, using GPIOs. With this aim, I´ve programmed my own driver with its methods, whose are automatic loaded at startup. My hardware is a BananaPi m2u, and kernel version is 5.4.35-sunxi. Now, I´ve to read an external HW that has 2 data lines, whose idle state is "high" and once per minute sends a packet of 26 bits of data. One of these lines is a Data0 signal, and the other is Data1 signal. Every pulse is around 100us, and there is an idle interval of about 2ms between one bit and the next. There is no way for data line 0 and data …

Hi, I recently noticed that after updating to 24.02 the package "linux-libc-dev" did not receive a update. I have checked the current armbian archives and couldn't find anything for any arch. Just to be sure i've also built armbian 24.5 images for bananapi (noticed this on a bananapi board) and rpi4b (as a well supported board) and no linux-libc-dev[...].deb was built. It seems that with the buildsystem change the files packages/armbian/mkdebian and packages/armbian/builddeb were retired (commit e98c66b, v23.11.1) which previously handled building the kernel packages and included linux-libc-dev. Unfortunately linux-libc-dev is a dependency for libc6-dev a…

I would like to change the image types at https://www.armbian.com/mks-klipad50/ so that Debian Server images ("full-cli-stable-debian") for current and edge kernels are built for this board. Optimal would be, if the "Desktop" and "Minimal/IOT" were omitted, so that only the Server images appear. Something similar is done for "aml-s9xx-box" here: https://github.com/armbian/os/blob/main/userpatches/targets-release-community-maintained.template#L57 So my approach for enabling Server images would be https://github.com/armbian/os/compare/main...torte71:armbian-os:main as PR. But I am not sure a) if adding boards directly to the "items:" proper…

What is the most proper way to calculate battery discharge ratio? I am trying to add this here: Load: 0.10, 0.50, 0.38 - Memory: 974Mb - Battery discharging: 30% AXP209 gives me: http://linux-sunxi.org/AXP209 - voltage - charge / discharge current Battery capacity should be the only parameter I want to set. Is there any advanced calculation script or simply, but not so accurate, direct connection between voltage and percentage?

Hi, the first repositories for the upcomimg cubietruck+ system are online at github: https://github.com/cubieboard Best regards, ireng

Where are config files in source kernel with function to enable next uart port in udoo?

[Ended] Be active, creative, helpful and you can get a powerful board in return. First give away batch is starting 11.6.2016 It's not often that you can work on a software project that actually brings joy and helps people. Armbian is one of those project. It is a system that helps one build a kernel or boot images for several ARM development boards. It's in common interest that we improve level of support and to relieve most active people. Our crew needs an upgrade: we need more coders, kernel hackers, UX designers to find and solve problems. If you are one of them, join our forum, join project at Github. we need properly built, packed and supported desktop wit…

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

Hello. I try to use waveshare 5inch touchscreen. But, while u-boot, it works. And after starting kernel, there is no output. My image is Armbian_5.90_Orangepipcplus_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113_desktop.img (ubuntu 16.04) Thank you for any help. This is video:

hi, starting yesterday the menuconfig (for kernel configuration) seems broken: instead of the menu in the grey box it shows the following inside the gray box. the console settings are UTF8. [(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[…

Perhaps I badly searched, but except for the file makeboarddeb.sh not find the option how you can make changes to the initrd. Perhaps there is some primitive or correct functionality that may make changes in the collected initrd, which gets in the finished image. I need to add some utilities and modify init in the initrd. Возможно Ñ Ð¿Ð»Ð¾Ñ…Ð¾ иÑкал, но кроме файла makeboarddeb.sh не нахожу варианта, как можно внеÑти Ñвои Ð¸Ð·Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð² initrd. Возможно еÑÑ‚ÑŒ како-либо правильный функционал, который может вноÑить Ð¸Ð·Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð² Ñобира…

Hello. When using version 2.4 armbian I changed the settings (work with a chip on AXP209 cubietruck) in /boot/script.bin File is now a reference to /boot/bin/cubietruck.bin file. How can I unpack the file to edit it and pack back?

Using the dev build of Armbian for the OrangePi One, does the SPI driver in the mainline kernel support DMA? According to the mainline status page the work on SPI is done, and DMA has been supported since 4.2 I have enabled the spi interface in the device tree and my driver initialises properly with the master. But in my kernel driver I attempt to allocate some memory with dma_alloc_coherent and it fails. The driver works fine with the legacy kernel and with alternative hardware (raspberry pi). Is there some additional configuration needed or does anyone have any pointers to information on this that I look at? --edit Solved…

I've migrated the patches from sunxi-next into sunxi-dev ! https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/20240e9669055030076e69452cf6a1ccb368cc2e Unfortunately, during my migration of my 3x Olimex-A20-Micro boards, I've faced strange hangs during Armbian Filesystem Resize service. One of the boards, I wait 5 mins, but service was still hanging/looping. I've have then press reset button, reboot, automatic fsck, then resize Ok ! So, can other A20-Micro owner can confirm ? ...

Possible addition for stock Armbian builds...adds quite a bit to the terminal based graphical status https://github.com/cjbassi/gotop Spoiler https://github.com/cjbassi/gotop/raw/master/assets/demo.gif

The rockchip64 kernels are missing wireless drivers for ralink chips.

Hi, I just installed ambian 5.0 legacy wheezy on my bpi-r1 but wondershaper wont run: RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument We have an error talking to the kernel It seems a module is missing. Can someone help me pls? Thanks in advance, hegge

I managed to write H3 HDMI driver for mainline U-Boot. Source can be found here: https://github.com/jernejsk/u-boot You should also add CONFIG_VIDEO=y to defconfig for your board. It should work nicely for standard resolutions (720p, 1080p). Other resolutions might work, but some additional work needs to be done. Currently, this can be used for working with U-Boot (instead of serial console) or splash screen.

It would be nice for the armbian downloads to have GPG signed SHA256SUMS like Ubuntu. Would it be hard to implement? Because currently the images are distributed in 7z files with a checksum file, nothing currently prevents both from being changed. My bad, I found the guide: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/

Hello, I was trying to add the module em28xx (PCTV 460e DVB S2 drivers) but get errors Cubietruck Vanilla 2.81 What I did: 1. make menuconfig in /usr/src/linux-headers-4.3.3-sunxi 2. add Device Drivers -> Multimedia support -> Media USB Adapters -> Empia EM28xx USB devices support -> DVB/ATSC Support for em28xx based TV cards as Module 3. "make scripts" as there was an error with the scripts 4. make modules I get the following error Is there a tutorial how to build additional modules on the cubietruck ? Could you include the module in future releases ( iirc the S2 adapter works with the legacy image out of the box so the d…

Hi, If I build my kernel 'properly' using the armbian compile.sh script with docker, everything works fine. If I run the docker image interactively, go into /armbian-cache/_data/sources/linux-pine64/my-hacks-1.2 and do export PATH=/root/armbian/cache/toolchains/gcc-linaro-5.4.1-2017.05-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/:$PATH make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE="aarch64-linux-gnu-" -j8 $* I get a kernel that seem to work in every way, except it won't load any modules. The 'normal' build uses modules in /lib/modules/3.10.107-pine64. The non-compliant kernel reports uname -r of 3.10.107+. I tried copying the existing /lib/modules/3.10.107-pine64 to /lib/modules/3.1…

Has anyone had the following error when using kernel 4.18 and 19? 1. Start hostapd (with or without dhcpd) 2. Try connecting via WiFi 3. Result... ---------------------------------------------- Aug 01 15:06:24 P2E vmunix: [ 5553.586947] ------------[ cut here ]------------ Aug 01 15:06:24 P2E vmunix: [ 5553.591573] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3902! Aug 01 15:06:24 P2E vmunix: [ 5553.595577] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP ARM Aug 01 15:06:24 P2E vmunix: [ 5553.600707] Modules linked in: cpufreq_userspace realtek sy8106a_regulator evdev dwmac_sun8i mdio_mux stmmac_platform stmmac i2c_mv64xxx sun8i_ths ptp 8189fs sunxi_wdt cfg80211…

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.)

Linux 6.12 mainlined PREEMPT_RT, real-time preemption. As far as I understand, one no longer needs to muck about with patches, the kernel can simply be compiled for real-time use with normal compiler flags on any common architecture. This makes Linux suitable for tasks with precise latency requirements, of which there is a lot of in the embedded space. Has anyone tried this on Armbian 25.2 now that it uses the 6.12 kernel? Does it work? How would one compile Armbian with it?

Valve published native ARM64 Steam in roughly April 2026. The Steam Frame launched September 14th. I built a client that installs the Steam Frame ARM64 Steam client on my RK3588 board. It launches Big Picture mode and firstboot makes you get past the VR Joystick screen. You can run it as desktop mode thereafter. The CLIENT and GAME run natively, naturally on ARM*. No box64 etc workarounds. Why not try to share if I can? *panvk and vulkan are required. This Contains: Vulkan feature layer for Direct3D translation layer Remote Play decode settings for GPU with no Vulkan Video, Privat…

I recently started getting these errors constantly... not sure what's going on. I can ping the address just fine, and even if I modify the lib config sources file to change it to ftp.us.debian.org, I still seem to run into the same errors. Any suggestions on what might be causing the problem? [ error ] Installation failed Failed to fetch http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libn/libnl/libnl1_1.1-7+b1_armhf.deb Could not resolve 'httpredir.debian.org'​ Thanks.

I repurposed my old build system hardware and am trying to build a new one. Nice faster box ;] On this new linux host I create a virtualbox machine and install Hirsute from the link in the documentation. I do an apt update / upgrade. I install git and clone the build directory according to the documentation. Everything seems to go well until it gets through a lot of the .o files and gives [error] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ main.sh:574 -> main.sh:479 -> compilation..sh:506 -> general.sh:0 ] the line above is always the same, although it comes after different .o files for different boards. I've rebuilt the virtu…

This may be a somewhat stupid question, but I just cannot find anything about it. I have custom-compiled the kernel for Allwinner A20/cubietruck as described here on a Virtual Box Ubuntu 18.04 Once done, I took the *.deb files out of output/debs, copied it to the machine and installed them. Everything worked fine and so far so good . But the "build" directory on the host with the compile.sh script is surprisingly empty. However, if I want to cross compile an additional kernel module on the virtual machine, how do I set this up? Is it enough to "make" with CROSS-COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-? or do I also need to somehow consider the linaro stuff in c…

When ./compile.sh command is used to compiling a new Armbian version (especially with some source changes for debugging), in case there was an error during compilation, it can be impossible to find real reason of the problem. Log files located in output/debug folder are not very informative - they just show the last message, which also appears on the screen - failed in script line number . The following command was used to get full log of the compilation process: command | tee -a log.txt Hope this will be useful for somebody else (newbie), who like me spent a lot of time trying to understand, why the compilation failed after some changes in kernel configuration.

Good morning all, how are you?. I'm looking for help on knowing about the buffer strength on an H3 board, I've been looking on the H3 SoC datasheet and found this about GPIO's: Buffer Strength defines drive strength of the associated output buffer. but I don't know if the buffer is the entire port or not because I can't find any other reference to it and I don't want to fry the board. Can anyone explain me this?. Thanks in advance dor the help.

Sorry, I know it is a noob question. I want to add something to the "arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328-roc-cc.dts" file, and tried serval methods to make the patch to build, but no luck: Method1: 1. Directly modify the "arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328-roc-cc.dts" file 2. Add "CREATE_PATCHES="yes" in $ARMBIAN_BUILD_HOME/build/userpatches/config-example.conf 3. Compile After compiled, I found my modification was not on "arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328-roc-cc.dts" file. Method2: 1. Command: cd $KERNEL_SOURCE_HOME cp arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328-roc-cc.dts . 2. Modify ./rk3328-roc-cc.dts 3. Command: …

To help diagnose the issues I'm facing with AP6212 with other boards, I've decide to build an image for the newly received NanoPiM1Plus. It produced the following image : Armbian_5.27_Nanopim1plus_Debian_jessie_dev_4.10.11.img I've plugged an USB-TTL on the board, it booted until the login prompt. Trying the usual root/1234 failed, looking at FriendlyArm site, although I'm not using their image, but an Armbian freshly built, I've try their passwd : root/fa It logged ... looking for AP6212 traces, I've seen some "bcmsdh_sdmmc_probe" ... Doohh ? I did "uname -a" : again, Doohh ? : Linux FriendlyARM 3.10.65 #4 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 24 11:…

I know that the RaspberryPi cannot use netconsole due to the ethernet connector being driven over the USB bus, and thus not suporting polling (which is needed for netconsole). When i look at my LePotato kernel (4.14.57), I see: # CONFIG_NETCONSOLE is not set # CONFIG_NETPOLL is not set # CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER is not set So it is clear netconsole won't work as is. Before I go through the process of building the kernel to enable these, I thought I'd check if I am wasting my time. Is it expected that polling will work? I don't know anything about the 'dwmac_meson8b' driver and what its capabilities might be...

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:…

This is second afternoon I spend trying configure wifi on headless orange pi because we started using nmtui-connect (editing /etc/network/interfaces was much more easier especially when I need make universal image for about 15 same boards). It found wifi but when I try enter password it instead shows message "Could not activate connection: No plugin │ │ │ │ supported adding this connection" I can select which wifi I want but It everytime ends with same message. I tried it on image Armbian_5.25_Orangepizero_Debian_jessie_default_3.4.113.img I made no changes on this image except changing root password. User creation I canceled.

I customized my Armbian install with 2 operating systems on two partitions. In armbianEnv.txt I use rootdev to specify the default partition. I would like to set it so that if booting from the default rootdev fails (triggering panic or root-wait, etc.), it will instead try to boot with rootdev/root set to the other partition. Is that possible?

Build on new kernel (5.1), Ubuntu 18.04. No cpufreq information (0 MHz in htop etc.) also means there's no working frequency scaling. Which for Allwinner H2+ (Banana Pi M2 Zero) means quick hard-hang due to overheating whenever I compile anything non trivial, unless I point a USB Fan on the CPU (which already got a heatsink). Is there any chance of getting cpufreq and dvfs to work?

Hello together, I'm developing a device driver for a network interface controller for MOST bus. So, first of all, I've added a node with all the settings for this IC in my DTS, the IC is connected to second I²C-controller: &i2c2 { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&i2c2_pins_a>; status = "okay"; os8104: os8104@41 { compatible = "smsc,os8104"; reg = <0x41>; master = <0>; /* slave mode*/ bypass = <0>; /* /ABY (all bypass mode) im register bXCR */ reset_gpios = <&pio 8 17>; /* PI17 */ int_g…

Aside from the DNS resolution issue I am having (different thread), I am often getting stuck on the following: Unpacking locales (from .../locales_2.13-38+deb7u8_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up locales (2.13-38+deb7u8) ... Generating locales (this might take a while)... Generation complete. Generating locales (this might take a while)... en_US.UTF-8... done Generation complete.​ It just sits there and nothing further happens. I have left it for 30 minutes or more, and still nothing. I usually end up killing it... rebooting and then restarting. When it does get past this, I typically end up with the debian sources DNS resolution is…

Hi, Could you please add the usbtv driver ? i have an Easycap with UTV007 chip the driver are not present in kernel 3.4.110-sun8i, and are available from 3.13-rc5 I have try to compile using the standart way, and using dkms with no success. I have also try to install the backported version wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v3.18.1/backports-3.18.1-1.tar.xz tar xvfJ backports-3.18.1-1.tar.xz cd backports-3.18.1-1 make menuconfig make ARCH=arm -j4 make install rmmod videobuf2-core rmmod videobuf2-vmalloc rmmod videobuf2_memops modprobe videobuf2_memops modprobe videobuf2-core modprobe videobuf2-vmalloc modprobe usbtv r…

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 ...

Hi, every one! have any of you guys tried to perform SPI loopback tests on any of existing boards ? I mean this driver code http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.13.14/source/drivers/spi/spi-loopback-test.c. I tried to find any information on how to run tests but I completely failed to make it. It would be nice if someone shares a step-by-step instruction. Thanks a lot.