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BOARD: bananapim2plus BRANCH: dev RELEASE: stretch did only boot one time through to the login, mostly get stuck at booting. I assume it must be something with memory config or dts setup tried already 3 sdcards, 2boards so looks like not a hardware issue old armbian (5.21 works fine) Did not see a "memory section" in the dts file? Is it mandatoy? where is the memory size defined or how does linux know it? Here the boot log ( adjust boot params with earlyprintk), maybe someone has an idea? Spoiler U-Boot SPL 2018.05-armbian (Sep 20 2018 - 05:54:54 -0400) DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying t…

I know this is not the correct area (I have no permissions to post there) but i'm looking to add some basic support for Odroid N2 (and a mainline linux kernel) which others can help utilise for development purposes. Its very early stages as the board was released to testers only weeks ago and for the moment only vendor uboot is working so what is best practice here for Armbian? The old Odroid C2 way of things with uboot might some back for a bit as much as I would like it or not. Baylibre and Neil Armstrong have made a very good start (Thanks Neil!!!!) with alpha style patches for 5.0 and N1. Although there priorities will be working to impleme…

Hi! I’ve been trying to build a kernel with custom settings for a couple of days now, but am facing some issues. My build setup is a virtual machine (running in VMWare Workstation Pro v15) based on the mini.iso image that's recommended in the Armbian documentation (and post here in the forums). The target is an Odroid N2+ SBC. There was no apparent issues setting up the build framework, installing git and cloning the repository. I then executed the compile.sh script and manually set the kernel configuration via the menuconfig interface that pops up. This however yielded an output image that, surprisingly enough, does not use my supplied configurati…

But.... this is a great topic where we need to start working on a process / protocol for patches like this

Hi Armbians, (If this question is already asked/answered please help me find the link.) I need the "ceph" and "rbd" kernel modules for my orange and banana pi. I am starting with the most recent images released: Armbian_4.5_xxxx_Debian_jessie_4.2.3. What are the minimum required steps to build the additional kernel modules? Where is the source tree for that kernel build (4.3.3-sunxi)? I would prefer to build directly on the PI (as opposed to x-compile) but either is ok. I tried a few things, including git clone of Igors "lib" project with build scripts. Runnig that pulled a kernel source tree: "sources/linux-vanilla/v4.3.3" which I am able to use to…

This way it works with 720p or whatever less than 1080p. There kernel logo doesn't want to show. Good on 1280x1024 or 720p Spoiler [ 3.336551] simple-framebuffer 7fb00000.framebuffer: framebuffer at 0x7fb00000, 0x500000 bytes, mapped to 0xf0900000 [ 3.336562] simple-framebuffer 7fb00000.framebuffer: format=x8r8g8b8, mode=1280x1024x32, linelength=5120 [ 3.363471] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64 [ 3.365113] simple-framebuffer 7fb00000.framebuffer: fb0: simplefb registered Broken on 1080p: Spoiler [ 3.337435] simple-framebuffer 7f817000.framebuffer: framebuffer at 0x7f817000, 0x…

Hello, I've made patch that should autodetect A20-OLinuXino variant. Currently supported boards by this patch are: A20-OLinuXino-Lime A20-OLinuXino-Lime2 A20-OLinuXino-Micro With their own modifications the count is 14 different configurations. Why this is possible: All boards uses the same DDR freq - 384MHz. The routing is almost the same All the boards have small EEPROM capable of storing the configuration Major differences between the boards includes: 5 different ethernet PHYs Different pins used for USB phys Different pins used for MMC card detect Different p…

I've started the work of switching SUNXI-DEV to 5.6.y, as usual, few DT duplicates and fixes ... But I've faced also a big change related to 'file_operations' been changed to 'proc_ops' in all places over the kernel, which cause that all our EXTRAWIFI needs to be fixed. I hope to get it done by the end of this evening ...

Hi all, I have a bit of an odd application, but given the recent effort being put into UEFI boot, I thought I'd ask for some help. I have a Gigabyte R152-P30, which is an Ampere 80 core, single socket server. Flash drive boot works just fine, but nand-sata-install onto the server's NVMe SSD has been troublesome. I've tried several permutations of having partitions and not having partitions on the NVMe drive, but none seem to actually create a bootable result. I see on the generic armbian image page that it suggests creating an EFI partition which I do (nvme0n1p1). It then proceeds to leave that partition empty. I also have another btrfs…

hello, i try to update my armbian and i got this E: Release file for http://security.debian.org/dists/bookworm-security/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 2d 3h 4min 26s). Updates for this repository will not be applied. E: Release file for http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm-updates/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 2d 2h 59min 29s). Updates for this repository will not be applied. E: Release file for http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm-backports/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 2d 2h 59min 29s). Updates for this repository will not be applied. E: Release file for http://apt.armbian.com/dists/bookworm/InRe…

Hello Everyone, Does anyone know, which script contain the mounting part in the repo? I would like to mount my HDD as it's mounted in the ubuntu trusty desktop version. I'm using debian wheezy(legacy kernel) Thanks, Sp0T

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

How to I generate `.img` files? When I run `.compile` I end up with `.deb` files. I've been looking through the scripts but there are so many of them and I want to get to how to do this without having to use commands like: find . -name '*.sh' -print0 | xargs -0 grep compile_uboot | less for a long time. Thank you

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…

Hi, Does anyone have some Information on how to set up an wap on a Hummingboard using a 4.x kernel? I made it run with kernel 3.14 but would prefer a newer kernel Version!

Hello all, I am iterating the build process, debugging some user build scripts and it would be nice to be able to avoid recompiling the kernel and generating its debs every time, in order to be able to iterate faster and make faster progress. I didn't see a way of doing this in the documentation. Any suggestions? Thanks

Hello, I've got an Orange Pi Zero (Allwinner H2+) and an .img 4GB with OS for it and some custom software in the image. I have source code of this custom software and need to compile its modified version and build/change the .img with my changes, and load it all into the Zero. 7zip opens the .img, I can see that it has Armbian Jessie with legacy kernel. QEmu on Ubuntu coudn't mount the .img, is it possible to emulate the image, or should I modify my software on the device itself? How it could be done? I need some help with development for Zero and an existing .img. Thanks in advance.

there is this particular version of dtc by Pantelis Antoniou https://github.com/pantoniou/dtc which allows dynamic overlays and use of symbols instead of numeric addresses as references https://events.static.linuxfound.org/sites/events/files/slides/dynamic-dt-elce14.pdf after doing a bit of research i found that the more recent version of device-tree-compiler shipped with the kernel and armbian has built-in the dynamic overlays as well https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git however, i found out that even with the nightly builds the current dtc version 1.4.2 isn't as recent as the updated version that could be found in …

I am having trouble with my SPI LCD, which uses driver panel-mipi-dbi It works great when I use a minimal Armbian image, but with a desktop image it doesn't work. This is because package "plymouth" does something in the ko loading order: it loads panel-mipi-dbi too early. Plymouth provides a graphical boot animation. The driver depends on a binary file /lib/firmware/panel-mipi-dbi-spi.bin (but the file name could change depending on the DTS) At boot time, I saw that the panel-mipi-dbi.ko is loaded BEFORE the EXT4 in the microSD is mounted... and the binary file is not in the initrd.img-version (checked with lsinitramfs) …

Hi, I've built my own Ubuntu Armbian image for the NanoPi Duo so I could use Ubuntu Snaps without classic confinement (The pre-built images don't seem to have SquashFS Compiled in the kernel). The image seems to be working perfect. However I've noticed one thing which I'm not sure if it's the image or a generic armbian issue but I've noticed that every time I reboot it the mac address updates. I'm using it for a server so having it generate a new IP each time I need to reboot it for development is a bit of an issue. Is there a recommended way to set a static one or such?

I received at least one PM so far that I did not know the answer to. So, rather than all of us spend a lot of effort duplicating info, I thought maybe good idea to compile these in one place. Especially as we have an influx of new Board Maintainers at the moment. I also encourage people to stop by IRC and say hello. I shall also endeavor to copy the most useful bits from IRC into this thread as they come up. Maybe later can be distilled even further into some docs page or ...? Anyway... So, first up: Q: How /what checks/tests to run? A: OK, I guess I thought armbian/autotests was more about that (long in deve…

Building some more custom banana Pi images with the Igor repo. Tried to install plex and it seems to succeed but when finalizing the image these errors occur 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded.Need to get 109 MB of archives.After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.Get:1 http://dev2day.de/pms/wheezy/main plexmediaserver armhf 0.9.12.3.1173-937aac3-1~wheezy [109 MB]Fetched 109 MB in 1min 9s (1,567 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package plexmediaserver.(Reading database ... 39625 files and directories currently installed.)Unpacking plexmediaserver (from .../plexmediaserver…

Hello, I would like to use armbian on a custom board with an arm processor. I' am a beginner and I don't know many things about o.s and board. My questions regards what issues will I have to face? Why I can't just install it like i do with desktop? Why I need to customize it? What things I need to customize? Is O.S customization an "easy" job or it will take months? What are the advantages of starting with armbian instead of starting from ubuntu (xenial)? What are the critical component of a board (what need customization)? Thanks in advance.

I was hoping that while moving to ASUS Tinker Board from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ I would still be able to use my Google Voice Kit AIY (v1), but it looks like Armbian right now supports v2 only? I tried installing everything needed, but all I got were loads of error/not found messages. May I hope to be able to use the kit by some workarounds or do I have to stick with the Raspberry in the meantime? I am not really willing to spend extra money for some USB solution and I would like to fix it so that I can learn something new.

➜ ~ 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…

Is it possible to make an image for RK3368?Only rk3399 and rk3288 are supported officially.What can I do for that.

I think I'm finally managing to understand this Armbian build system. It's an amazing piece of work! However, after the build, many source files end up owned by the root user. There's just a lot of activity going on "as root" that probably doesn't need to be run with that privilege. Disaster seems just one build script error away. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a simple way to avoid this (without resorting to virtualization of the build environment). Has this not bothered anyone else?

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! …

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…

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…

Could some one advice or point to documentation for these tasks On some images the first boot is automatically restarted probably due to the filesystem expansion. I would like to do it myself or detetch some not yet done trigger file. Secondary avoid the forced account creation on first login. I have a bootstrap task which I start by using the external usb media which does all these things and starts my application install process. But to avoid the restarts and apt-get locks the plain image should not do things automatically... example on raspbian my process takes around 15minutes but installs all my required tools.

I ask this question purely out of curiosity - why is the userpatches folder not in the build folder when it is first cloned

clone the latest armbian/build repo, run ./compile.sh but fail. I try native or docker build, all fail.

I've decided to give a try for a Mainline PineA64 Armbian Full Image build. Unfortenately, it seems that U-Boot is not in good shape, it stall right at the beginning without even trying to load kernel : HELLO! BOOT0 is starting! boot0 commit : 045061a8bb2580cb3fa02e301f52a015040c158f boot0 version : 4.0.0 set pll start set pll end rtc[0] value = 0x00000000 rtc[1] value = 0x00000000 rtc[2] value = 0x00000000 rtc[3] value = 0x00000000 rtc[4] value = 0x00000000 rtc[5] value = 0x00000000 DRAM driver version: V1.1 rsb_send_initseq: rsb clk 400Khz -> 3Mhz PMU: AXP81X ddr voltage = 1500 mv DRAM Type = 3 (2:DDR2,3:DDR3,6:LPDDR2,7:LPDDR3) DRAM clk = 672 MHz DRAM zq valu…

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 all, I am new to kernel development, and I found an old ASUS tinkerboard. I want to give it a second life with some fun projects. The project I am building is another IP KVM, so I bought an HDMI to CSI module. After tinkering around for a while, I found I supplied the wrong clock for that module: [ 8.469299] tc358743 2-000f: unsupported refclk rate: 50000000 Hz [ 8.483069] kernel BUG at drivers/media/i2c/tc358743.c:593! I have no idea about the clock value to put in the dts file, so I just copied some values from the ASUS kernel source. From the driver code drivers/media/i2c/tc358743.c, it shows that there are only…

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

Hi All, Can someone tell me how to update the script.bin in sd card and nand. I am using a custom board, which has different usb pin config. So Im trying enable it in script.bin. This is what I done so far. For SD card 1. I delete /boot/script.bin 2. Write new config in /boot/script.bin 3. Reboot Then the usb is still not detected, it seems that I did something wrong. For nand: 1. I boot via sd card 2. mount /dev/nanda /mnt/nanda 3. rm /mnt/nanda/script.bin 4. cp new_script.bin /mnt/nanda/script.bin 5. umount /mnt/nanda 6. reboot Again, nothing happens. The usb is still not detected Thanks in advance.

Sometimes I get in trouble building a new image. This could be caused by a variety of reasons, e.g an Armbian patch does not work with the latest kernel, a new u-boot version makes trouble or some functionality is broken in the image like the USB and v4.6.1. stuff here: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1338-a20-lamobo-r1-kernel-461-usb-issue/ How could I step back to working Armbian main build libraries and a working kernel and stay on both? Will this work? cd lib/ git checkout 2a2e190 # commit form June 1, 2a2e190: Move up to 5.14 since we need to ... cd .. touch .ignore_changes echo "KERNELBRANCH=\"v4.5.6\"" > userpatches/lib.config # add # KERNELT…

Hi all! Try build the kernel module on the Lime2 Debian jessie 4.6.3, but failed. I use src files from here - https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi/tree/sunxi-3.4/sound/soc/sunxi/i2s Makefile KERNELDIR := /lib/modules/4.6.3-sunxi/build obj-m += sndi2s.o all: $(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) M=`pwd` modules clean: $(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) M=`pwd` clean Ouput make all make -C /lib/modules/4.6.3-sunxi/build M=`pwd` modules make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.6.3-sunxi' CC [M] /root/src/sndi2s.o /root/src/sndi2s.c:24:29: fatal error: plat/sys_config.h: No such file or directory #include <plat/sys_config.h> …

Armbian provides its own hostapd. Why? This is relevant because of the recent WPA2 bug. Upstream hostapd has been patched: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/hostapd I don't understand the precise relation between Debian and Armbian. Will this patch percolate down? Thanks

Hi, After 2 tests with recent images (5.77) with debian stretch for s912 (balbes ilmages) and dev image for pineh64, I get the same issue when configuring locales. I selected fr_FR.UTF-8 in armbian-config and I also ran manually dpkg-reconfigure locales and locale-gen, but I ended each time to default locales settings (ANSI_X3.4-1968). Only the LANG variable is set to fr_FR.UTF-8 and all LC_XXX variables are set to C. To solve this issue, I have modified manually the /etc/environment to set LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8. Does anybody else have this issue and is it specific to debian? With a 5.75 stretch image the locale configuration worked well.

Dear all, I occasionally have a full /var/log at startup on various boards, probably because the logs are not rotated /vaccuumd at boot (we had a thread about this in the old opi1 forum). The rotating /vaccuum is currently done every 15 minutes, so I figured why not do it directly at boot as well? For this purpose I updated /etc/cron.d/armbian-truncate-logs with an extra @reboot line: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin */15 * …

Hi, I attempted to build armbian for orange pi 5 with these steps (I'm on macos): multipass delete armbian-build multipass purge multipass launch -n armbian-build --disk 50G --mem 8G --cpus 4 multipass shell armbian-build sudo apt install curl build-essential bc bison flex libssl-dev chrpath cmake cpio wget xz-utils curl -LO https://github.com/armbian/build/archive/refs/tags/v25.5.0-trunk.67.tar.gz curl -LO https://github.com/armbian/build/archive/refs/tags/v25.5.0-trunk.32.tar.gz tar -xzvf v25.5.0-trunk.67.tar.gz cd build-25.5.0-trunk.67 ./compile.sh (select edge version for orange pi 5 in the cli) CTRL+D multipass transfer armbian-build:/home/ubuntu/build…

Good morning I have a BPI M1 and M1+ currently running an image from https://banana-pi.org/. Everything works, except it's Ubuntu 16.04. Since yesterday, I've been testing the Armbian images, which are great and up-to-date, but none of them recognize the SATA connection on my SSD. ` fdisk -l ` shows no SATA SSD. Since I absolutely need this connection, I'm stuck. What am I doing wrong, or where do I need to activate the SATA connection? The SATA connection is what makes the BPI M1+ unique. With Ubuntu 16.04, the SATA connection is recognized with both SSD and HDD on the BPI M3. Can someone please help me? I'm completely lost. Regar…

The script /etc/init.d/armhwinfo is executed on boot and gathers information about the machine's capabilities to tweak some settings. On my Cubieboard2 running Debian Jessie, it sometimes takes up to 20 seconds to execute. For example, last boot: $ systemd-analyze critical-chain multi-user.target @30.700s └─armhwinfo.service @12.831s +17.867s └─basic.target @12.155s └─timers.target @12.130s └─systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer @12.130s └─sysinit.target @12.097s └─networking.service @4.315s +7.732s └─systemd-random-seed.service @3.979s +112ms └─systemd-remount-fs.service @3.672s +286ms …

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.

Since I've been asked recently why Armbian doesn't ship with F2FS by default I thought let's have a look again what to gain from F2FS (a filesystem specially designed for use with flash media by Samsung few years ago). For a history of F2FS discussion please use the search function: https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/search/&q=f2fs Armbian fully supports F2FS partitions for a long time now but we don't provide OS images with F2FS for a couple of reasons: F2FS still doesn't support resizing so our default installation variant (ship with a minimized rootfs that gets resized on first boot automagically to the size of SD card / eMMC) wouldn't wo…

Hi, How could I add application to armdebian source, that is change which apps will be default on OS when it is builded? Thanks

after quite a few frustrating attempts to setup a built environment, fixing some issues, jumping over some hoops for the build, I managed to get to the 'starting point' of a build ./compile.sh [🌱] uuidgen not found [ uuidgen not installed yet ] [🌱] Using prebuilt Armbian image as base for 'ubuntu-jammy' [ DOCKER_ARMBIAN_BASE_IMAGE: ghcr.io/armbian/docker-armbian-build:armbian-ubuntu-jammy-latest ] [🌿] Docker info [ Docker 19.03.11 Kernel:4.12.14-lp151.28.91-default RAM:31.28GiB CPUs:8 OS:'openSUSE Leap 15.1' hostname 'snoopy1.internal' under 'Linux' - buildx:yes - loop-hacks:yes static-loops:no ] [🌱] Creating [ .dockerignore ] [🌱] Docker launcher [ enabling all …

I'm trying to turn on the SPDIF transmitter in the H3 mainline kernel (v4.10). To do this I'm copying sun4i_spdif.c from sunxi-next kernel (spdif marked as working starting from kernel v4.11) and make some changes in .dts files for OrangePi PC: diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dts index 90a767f..29980a8 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dts +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dts @@ -91,6 +91,24 @@ gpios = <&r_pio 0 3 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>; }; }; + + sound { + compatible = "simple-audio-card"; + simple-audio-card,name = "On-board SPDIF"; + + simple-audio-card,c…

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!

I have several users following my move Linux to SATA on the Banana Pi guide using Armbian with Kernel 4.1 and they are saying that uEnv.txt on the boot partition isn't there. Is this a bug or is the procedure different for armbian? Can you shed any light on this?

I can compile the kernel 4.14 for H3 , modify the device tree and then put this to my bananapi M2 ultra with R40 Core and can enable the HDMI connector success. I get an image on the screen on my monitor. But now I can enable the LCD (RGB pinouts port H) to get image on my display 7" but I do not know how to do on the device tree file to enable a PANEL or something more . Someone have a device tree file that have enable the LCD (RGB ouput) to take an example to know how to do that because on the web almost all the people usually use the hdmi connector. Thanks at all ... PD: I get success on R40 to modify the SPI, smartcard, ethernet drivers a…

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.…

armbian-firmware_20.08.14_all.deb 20-Oct-2020 22:04 6917020 armbian-firmware_20.08.15_all.deb 24-Oct-2020 21:01 1120 armbian-firmware_20.08.16_all.deb 24-Oct-2020 22:12 1120 https://armbian.systemonachip.net/apt/pool/main/a/armbian-firmware/ $ sudo dpkg -L armbian-firmware-full /. /lib /lib/firmware /lib/firmware/3com /lib/firmware/RTL8192E /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU /lib/firmware/acenic /lib/firmware/adaptec /lib/firmware/advansys /lib/firmware/amd /lib/firmware/ap6210 /lib/firmware/ap6212 /lib/firmware/ar3k /lib/firmware/ar3k/1020200 /lib/firmware/ar3k/1020201 /lib/firmware/ar3k/1020201coex /lib/firmware/ar3k/30000 /lib/firmware/ar3k/30101 /lib/firmware/ar3k/…

Hello, everybody. I managed to succefully pu to work my recently acquired Orange Pi PC, using Ubuntu server. Now, I'm trying to configure my new Orange Pi 2g IOT as well. However, I just found out it doesn't have a monitor out, and I don't know how to access it via USB. So I had an idea: The 2g IOT has TX, RX, GND connections, and so does my Pi PC... Can anybody tell me How I can use the Pi PC to run linux commands on th 2g IOT? I don't have a Usb-ttl-uart connector, and it's veru hard to get one on my region... Thnak you very much.

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

While doing the build, I initially ran into various NO_PUBKEY ... error messages accessing security.ubuntu.com, archive.ubuntu.com repositories. e.g. [🔨] 3.570 W: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-backports/InRelease: The key(s) in the keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2018-archive.gpg are ignored as the file is not readable by user '_apt' executing apt-key. [🔨] 3.570 W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not ava…

How can I disable the first run scripts that force you create a new user on a fresh install? And how do I get it to accept simple passwords?

I run Armbian tool ( checked out from https://github.com/150balbes/Build-Armbian )with command ./compile.sh CREATE_PATCHES="yes" , but only see the request for patch the kernel : [ warn ] Make your changes in this directory: [ /home/hanguofu/Build-Armbian/cache/sources/LINUX_DEFAULT/20180925 ] [ warn ] Press <Enter> after you are done [ waiting ] I would like to patch the U-boot ( u-boot-aml-s9xxx ) instead of kernel . Should I manually add the patch to the userpatches/u-boot directory for my aml-s9xxx board ?

Ever since patchfolders were created for different branches and different board families it has become more and more a nightmare to maintain these folders and keep them clean. Instead of taking the approach to clear one or more of these folders by myself, last but not least due to lack of necessary skills, I was thinking maybe I can provide some tools that make such tasks a little easier for somebody else. Last but not least was (and still is) this a perfect opportunity to pratice with my quite new Python skills. https://github.com/EvilOlaf/refactorpatches What this script basically does is break down all patches in a certain folde…

hi I've been using the flag compile.sh PREFER_DOCKER=no while building in a systemd-nspawn container: Building Armbian using Ubuntu (jammy) in a systemd-nspawn container This time I managed to make a complete successful build with my work arounds for loop devices in systemd nspawn. However, the flag PREFER_DOCKER=no Didn't seem to be documented in the build options https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Options/ can the documentation be updated to add PREFER_DOCKER=no flag (at least under 'advanced users') ? note that it isn't possible to run docker normally within systemd-nspawn o…

Hi, Yesterday, I reinstalled my NanopiM1 and I noticed the download link for H3 devices uses many different versions : orangepipcplus : 5.14 orangepiplus2e : 5.14 orangepilite : 5.13 nanopim1 : 5.10 bananapim2plus : 5.13 orangepi2h3 : 5.10 orangepioneh3 : 5.13 orangepipch3 : 5.14 orangepiplush3 : 5.14 tkaiser explained me why there were both 5.13 and 5.14 (see here) so no problem here. But the 5.10 are quite old and for the Nanopi M1, the dvfs_table included is buggy. I do remember reading of a difficulty to detect the difference between Orange Pi PC and NanoPi M1 but I don't know if that may be the reason. Anyway, I can also add an issue if Github should be p…

Hello, I'm trying to upgrade Armbian on my little OrangePi Lite, and it's been 3 days at it already. It is stuck at "Compiling headers", and it is not hung, I can use it. It does happen from time to time to all my SoCs, sometimes I prefer to re-dd and reconfigure. So I was thinking, if compilation cannot be avoided, can it be done on another computer? Cross-compile?

Hi all, I'm doing experiments with WiFi monitor mode on AP6212(bcm43430)-based boards with nexmon (driver/fw patching framework for wifi monitor mode). I tried it on OPi Zero Plus 2 (Kernel 4.14) and it works pretty much "out of the box", but sometime crashes. I'm still investigating about it, since the same fw+driver work flawlessy on RPi Is there anyone else who played around with it?

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…

Hi! I try make a patch file, but after image building my patched code do not work. What I do wrong? SRC=$(pwd) # source file SOURCES=$SRC/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/sound/soc/sunxi/i2s/ # create user patch file diff -u $SOURCES/sunxi-i2s.c $SRC/mod/sunxi-i2s.c > $SRC/userpatches/kernel/sun7i-default/9999-i2s-mod.patch

Hello guys I tried to build an image for Banana Pi M2, build itself went OK but image is not working. Any help is appreciated. Logs attached. Thanks compilation.log debootstrap.log install.log output.log patching.log tools-build.log bpim2-minicom.log

It seems the Linux kernel 5.8+ on aarch64 is incompatible with the U-Boot from 2017, at least on the RK3328 boards. This apparently affects the Rock64 as well as my own Renegade. Essentially U-Boot gets stuck on "Starting kernel..." In this post https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=14657&start=10 they fix it by recompiling u-boot, newer version from upstream In addition to the existing rock64 defconfig, it seems that the defconfig for the Renegade was finally upstreamed on May! https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/bab972948e152e468fa5ab34764769fc4cddcaab No more 2017 U-Boot from rockchip for me, perharps... I modified http…

I am having the exact same hw configuration as described here. I am using latest (stable) mainline kernel 4.0.5, SPI is enabled in DTB like this: spi0: spi@01c05000 { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&spi0_pins_a>; status = "okay"; spi0_0 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; compatible = "spidev"; reg = <0>; spi-max-frequency = <50000000>; }; }; I am loading the driver like this and the displays back light goes on - so far is o.k. modprobe fbtft_device name=adafruit22a rotate=90 speed=4800000 fps=30 gpios=reset:272,led:226,dc:245 busnum=32766 This way, with different GPIO…

Hello Igor, I am starting exploring your nice "lib" tools for mainline/lamobo/trusty and end with this error message. the host is trusty / amd64 / quad cores / 8 GB RAM unsure if /bin/mktemp refers to loopback device or host /tmp lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk x Installing Armbian on the top of Ubuntu trusty base system ... x x x x build-essential x …

Hi, just to let you guys know - i'm getting the error (in the middle of December 2018 it was OK). Last messages are: CC [M] drivers/bluetooth/hci_h5.o drivers/bluetooth/hci_h5.c:958:12: error: ‘h5_btrtl_setup’ undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean ‘h5_setup’? .setup = h5_btrtl_setup, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ h5_setup drivers/bluetooth/hci_h5.c:959:11: error: ‘h5_btrtl_open’ undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean ‘h5_btrtl_setup’? .open = h5_btrtl_open, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ h5_btrtl_setup drivers/bluetooth/hci_h5.c:960:12: error: ‘h5_btrtl_close’ undeclared here (not in a function…

In my opinion ntp should be replaced by chrony. Benefits of Chrony include: 1. Faster synchronization requiring only minutes instead of hours to minimize the time and frequency error, which is useful on desktops or systems not running 24 hours a day. 2. Better response to rapid changes in the clock frequency, which is useful for virtual machines that have unstable clocks or for power-saving technologies that don’t keep the clock frequency constant. 3. After the initial synchronization, it never steps the clock so as not to affect applications needing system time to be monotonic. 4. Better stability when dealing with temporary asymmetric delays, …

Ubuntu x64, Bananapi jesie with -next kernel. First try yesterday: everything default, changed only BUILD_DESKTOP to yes image was built with 4.1-rc8 kernel / version of image was 3.1 few errors at the end (perl did not like some locales that were not set and probably some error with resizefs, partial log attached) Image was not bootable, banana did not show anything, behavior was the same as banana without inserted card Second try today: deleted /output/output/* deleted compile.sh and created new one with latest content image was built with 3.19.7 kernel (why that downgrade?), version of image was 3.2 banana boots but cannot remount filesystems. That leads to reb…

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…

I found it very confusing that Armbian doesn't seem to follow the Ubuntu/Debian traditional scheme for naming kernel modules: linux-image-*, linux-modules-* and linux-headers-*. I need them to cross compile out-of-tree kernel module in `schroot`. Armbian seem to have only `linux-image-edge-rockchip64` and `linux-headers-edge-rockchip64`. What's the reasoning behind such design decision? Moreover, I've noticed kernel packages incorporate all the logic that make the board bootable, instead having more generic kernel binaries and relying on `flash-kernel` tool that both Ubuntu and Debian widely use. I wonder why not? What are chances in future `linux-im…

I created a Wheezy and Jessie image. Whenever I try extracting the Jessie image, I get a CRC error. I am using 7zip. I tried extracting the zip also using Windows Explorer (Win10) and it also runs into an error. It seems like there might be an issue with the Jessie images being created. I cleaned my output folder and created a new clean image and still run into the same problem. This is using the latest libs and creating a 4.2.3 image (the default settings in the lib config). FYI, the Wheezy image extracts without any problems. Any ideas why the Jessie image is corrupt? Thanks.

Hi!I already compile new kernelArmbian_5.27_Orangepipc_Debian_jessie_dev_4.11.3.imgUSB and networks work fine, but button power off dont wokrItry toacpi_listenBut no change (acpid version (1:2.0.23-2)Thank you! Please help!

Hi, Thank you for your interest, you won't be disappointed. You have probably read that the developer want to do some changes - and some of this changes are now ready to get tested in the BETA's of armbian. Do not test with your 'production' SDcard unless you have done a backup ;-) Once done that, please go to 'armbian-config' System switch to BETA (Nightly), do an update/upgrade, reboot, check if your system still performs as before. If it does work like before - please let us know and post your 'armbianmonitor -u' link If it doesn't work, please try a reboot, check if the problem is reproduceable and if so explain the s…

As ubuntu 22.04 has realy up to date compiler. Is it possible to force armbian to use local copiler? linaro gcc compiler is 8.x but gcc in ubuntu 22.04 is 11.x. Is it possible to force armbian to use local compilers? Or can armbian update gcc to 11. x ??

I am trying to build an image for both the Orange Pi PC and One I am on a slow cellular network and pay by the gigabyte for access. Is there a way to cache the packages for: Installing base system [ Stage 1/2 ] , and all the rest? Each time I try a compile.sh it take hours to re-download the whole set of packages, because the there is almost always at least a few packages that could not be fetched due to network errors, then they are unpacked and a corrupt tar image is saved and the packages are removed. If I save the create_rootfs_cache file with the missing packages, it does not try to reload them, it just errors out cause they are missing. I am building i…

WireGuard is a modern VPN service for Linux. For best performance it is requred to build WireGuard as kernel module (described at https://www.wireguard.com/install/) Right now after each update of kernel of Armibian WireGuard stops work as new kernel has no compiled wireguard.ko module Is it possible to integrate WireGuard to Armbian kernel?

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…

Hello Armbian Community, I am running Armbian on a Raspberry Pi 4 with a RAID 1 setup for my root filesystem. I've come across a warning in a guide for RaspiOS (link below) suggesting that firmware upgrades could disrupt the RAID setup. Robert Alexa's Guide on GitHub Given this, I have a few questions about handling Armbian kernel updates in a similar RAID configuration: How are kernel updates managed in Armbian when using RAID for the root filesystem, and are there any known issues similar to the one described in the guide? What precautions should I take when applying apt upgrade to ensure that my RAID remains bootable? Is…

Hi, after pure installation Armbian_4.5_Lamobo-r1_Debian_wheezy_3.4.109.zip, the log is full of GMAC messages: [43099.518189] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43099.521192] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43099.524646] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43111.775611] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43112.963963] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43112.980989] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43112.986370] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43112.989681] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43112.992410] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43112.996184] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43113.002038] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43113.973308] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43113.976078] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43114.143583] GM…

Is it possible to bring this wonderful os to the odroid c1?

When I reboot my Orange Pi PC 2 with my Realtek USB Dongle so the firmware is already loaded onto the Dongle I am seeing this: [ 31.659072] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: examining hci_ver=0a hci_rev=097b lmp_ver=0a lmp_subver=ec43 [ 31.659815] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: unknown IC info, lmp subver ec43, hci rev 097b, hci ver 000a [ 31.659830] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: assuming no firmware upload needed [ 31.659852] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000002 [ 31.668671] Mem abort info: [ 31.671488] ESR = 0x96000004 [ 31.674561] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 31.679880] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 31.682937] …

I am not sure if it is a configuration error on my side or intended behaviour, but I am getting apticron emails about armbian-config almost daily due to releases being made by CI/CD. Is there a "release" branch I could switch to to make it stop? Or do I need to blacklist armbian-config from apticron reports? Thanks!

Hi all Is it possible to compile a full 32bit Armbian (32bit Kernel and 32bit userland) for targets that run aarch64 SoC (H5, A64, etc....)? Bye

Hi, I'm using banana pi m1+ with armbian legacy kernel. I'm building an application with c sharp and using mono to run in in the banana pi. My application needs to change gpio output levels multiple times while running, so I installed bcm2835 library in the banana pi to control the output level from the application. Using the library, I was able to control those as I want, but I'd noticed that there are default gpio output levels, which are different from each gpio pins. I'm using CON3-P36 and CON3-P38. Right after the boot up, CON3-P38 goes high, while CON3-P36 goes low. I want to adjust the CON3-P38 to go low in the boot up, so that both two have low output as d…

If someone is interested I found the way to have BT working on orange pi Prime. Unfortunately default kernel config is missing the following options and need to be manually recompiled: CONFIG_SERIAL_DEV_BUS=m CONFIG_BT_HCIUART_SERDEV=y CONFIG_BT_HCIUART_3WIRE=y With these changes and adding "uart1" to the overlays in armbianEnv.txt it's possible to use the driver in: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723bs_bt.git and start manually with: ./rtk_hciattach -n -s 115200 /dev/ttyS1 rtk_h5 to have bluetooth working. Alternatively it's possible to use a modified driver and some sta…

eth0 get link on the N2 with 5.6.18-meson64 (root@builder) but after switching to nightly 5.7.9-meson64 (root@stable) link errors with [ 76.174115] meson8b-dwmac ff3f0000.ethernet eth0: PHY [0.0:00] driver [RTL8211F Gigabit Ethernet] (irq=25) [ 76.278174] meson8b-dwmac ff3f0000.ethernet: Failed to reset the dma [ 76.278892] meson8b-dwmac ff3f0000.ethernet eth0: stmmac_hw_setup: DMA engine initialization failed [ 76.287895] meson8b-dwmac ff3f0000.ethernet eth0: stmmac_open: Hw setup failed I've tracked this to a needed delay in the overlay, a patch is available here: https://forum.khadas.com/t/vim2-ethernet-problem…

Hello, I am using my Renegade with the Armbian I compiled myself. Now there is only one partition on my system: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 0.03MiB 16.0MiB 16.0MiB Free Space 1 16.0MiB 5580MiB 5564MiB primary ext4 5580MiB 7620MiB 2040MiB Free Space I want to add a boot partition like Raspberry OS, so I can make some configration on the PC through boot partition. Raspberry OS's partition always like that: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 0.02MiB 4.00MiB 3.98MiB Free Space 1 4.00MiB 260MiB 256MiB primary fat32 …

Where I can read the changelog about the last armbian release 5.27? Github shows only 5.24 https://github.com/armbian/build/releases and on the docs 5.25 https://docs.armbian.com/Release_Changelog/

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 …

Dear Armbian community, I'm trying to make a minimal size Armbian image ( Ubuntu 16.04 with default kernel). Build system works great, but when I'm building the system without GUI (Image wit console interface "server") a bluetooth system doesn't work. I tried to build same system with same configs, but set "Image with desktop environment". In this case bluetooth system works great. I tried to solve this problem by myself, but..... It seems like I can not fix it. So, why I'm thinking that bluetooth system doesn't work. When I'm using bluetoothctl list it is void output. hciconfig -a void output I tried to start systemctl st…

Hello! I do everything according to the instructions, but I get the same error every time: I'm using the latest version of Docker, include my user in Docker group, no spaces in full path to /build directory etc... In the error text clearly states that the required package is not found, but why?? Where it must be found? On another computer it's all fine worked and build, and version of host OS almost the same. I attached two files. The first is the output.log which is obtained with a successful build. I renamed it to builded.log Second is the output.log which is obtained with a UNsuccessful build. I renamed it to not_builded.log …

Hello there, I'm new to this Forum, so please I been trying to run Kodi as standalone music station with Buster minimal and Kodi 17 on it. This system boots very quick and I've been quite happy when I got kodi starting successfully, but it's very slow. It takes several seconds to switch from one menu item to the next. Next I tried to speed up the graphics using this instructions https://forum.armbian.com/topic/1420-opengl-on-mali-gpu-bananapi-orangepi-pc-etc/ http://wiki.lemaker.org/BananaPro/Pi:GPU But failed with xorg saying: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: There is no /dev/mali, /dev/ump or /dev/disp device available. …

I don't want to torture my SD card with full OS image rewrites or compilation on the device itself, so I would like to cross-compile. I just set up a ubuntu/bionic64 VirtualBox through Vagrant using https://github.com/armbian/build Currently, I don't want to build entire image or kernel from scratch but I noticed that compile.sh and related scripts contain many convenience functions and tools. I already started compile.sh once to let it prepare the virtual machine for cross-compile tasks and it successfully installed all the dependencies. I got especially interested in extras-buildpkgs folder. As I understand, I can put my own package d…