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

Hi, Please help. I am building kernel using armbian build system for a long time, but in past two releases of current kernel (5.15.23 and 5.15.53) I am getting errors while installing: modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/5.15.24-sunxi/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko.xz not found. modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/5.15.24-sunxi/kernel/fs/isofs/isofs.ko.xz not found. modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/5.15.24-sunxi/kernel/fs/jfs/jfs.ko.xz not found. modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/5.15.24-sunxi/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko.xz not found. modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/5.15.24-sunxi/kernel/fs/udf/udf.ko.xz not found. modinfo: ERROR: Mod…

Hi, I'm trying to compile the Odroid-XU4 kernel using a make -C KERNEL_SOURCES O=SOMEWHERE_ELSE/mybuild. This command will failed when it reaches these drivers in drivers/net/wireless: rtl8188eu, rtl8189es, rtl8189fs, rtl8192eu, rtl8723ds, rtl8723du, rtl8811cu, rtl8812au, rtl8822bs, rtl88x2bu, rtl88x2cs. To be able to compile the Kernel outside of the source tree I had to modify this list of files below. This is an output of my scipt wich is searching an replacing and replacing "-I$(src)" with "-I$(souce)/$(src)" Fixing compilation for driver rtl8188eu .. Makefile phydm.mk sd4_phydm_2_kernel.mk ap_makefile.mk Fixing compilation for …

We had a custom script that would perform kernel updates. As part of the update, we would look for this package and would make sure it was install. We are erroring out as this package is no longer installed. I am currently using 5.10.34-sunxi and was trying to update to 5.10.60-sunxi. The error is : E: Can't find a source to download version '21.02.3' of 'linux-buster-root-current-orangepizero:armhf' This was working as of a couple of months ago. (Looking at the armbian-config scripts, we are essentially following the same logic. We imagine this script would have the same issues. We tried running armbian-config, but did not have the switch op…

I'm building an Ubuntu image and after it compiles the ARM objects it tries to download files from ports.ubuntu.com. For a reason I'm still trying to figure out, it's trying to get files from 127.0.0.1 (which is weird) but that's fixable. What I'd like to do is resume a build that had failed without recompiling all the ARM objects again. I'm using compile.sh. Thanks! Kriston

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…

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…

Hi Is there a way to set url for kernel sources for build process of armbian? I want to try this kernel: https://github.com/openedev/linux which has - potentially - fix for my problem described here: and here: https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/lcd-module-dsi-rgb-with-touch-and-s070swv20hg-dc16-lcd-panel-mainline-kernel/11172 But i have no idea how to change default url for kernel sources. Ps. I'm using docker to build and have question: where armbian stores its kernel sources(locally) and how to obtain its urls?

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

Since linux v5.4 armbian_build enables the CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED config option. Some armbian users use the soft real-time features for either real-time audio (jackd), or control (eg. klipper_host_mcu), However, real-time group scheduling, enabled by this options complicates the user space configuration required to acquire real-time scheduling in applications and daemons. Setting ulimit -r or LimitRTPRIO= is no longer enough, it is also required to allocate CPU time for RT task. In a brutal way this can be done as echo 950000 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/{system,user}.slice/cpu.rt_runtime_us JACK documentation recommends using c…

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] …

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

Hi everyone, I am just looking around for a low cost 64bit processor for a future design with raspbian/ubuntu OS server only. Some few alternatives I saw where..: Amlogic S905X3 Allwinner H6 Any other alternatives? regards,

Hello, I am looking the way how to create a new board after cloned https://github.com/armbian/build in my local. I am woking on a A20 (allwinner) project. The Idea is copy the current configuration of eg. cubieboard2 and modify it in order to fit my requirements. I already read the Armbian documentation and I spent 1 day searching in the forum for that receipt. Customize things are pretty easy but no info about how to create a new board. Basically I looking for: 1) How and where to clone an existing A20 board configuration locally (in my PC). 2) How to enable locally (in my PC) that new board in the Armbian develop…

Hello there, i just exporting android dtb from /root/dev/dtb and convert it to dts, here's the screenshot : i'm confused to translate it (android dts) to armbian (linux dts) is there any complete tutorials / guides / software to convert / translate that android dts to armbian dts ?

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

Hi! I’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…

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…

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

root@nanopi-r4s:~# armbianmonitor -u System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x80 Please post the URL in the forum where you've been asked for. Well whatever: https://paste.debian.net/1181283/ I disabled all patches in misc that related to bootsplash because I didn't bother sorting out which patch especially was causing building to fail. code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } general-rkvdec_nv15.patch needed to be disabled in order to compile successful. Other patches that fail did not d…

Maybe my grep-fu is not powerful or following endless includes, but I ended up changing build/cache/sources/linux-mainline/orange-pi-5.9/arch/arm/boot/dts/sunxi-h3-h5.dtsi which seems like it would change other boards. Is there a surefire way to make the changes in the proper place for the Duo? I tested the image I built and indeed this changes the dtb correctly, but will it effect orange pi, etc boards too (h3-h5 boards)? @Igor I have the changes ready to commit, but I didn't want to do something that effects multiple boards.

My objective is to boot Armbian on my NanoPi Neo2 from a network server. I've got Armbian running on the NanoPi Neo2 and u-boot recognizes the ethernet interface. Also, I have a DHCP server and TFTP server running. If I press space during start-up, I get in the U-boot environment. When I give the dhcp command in the U-boot environment, the NanoPi Neo2 get's an IP address and loads /boot/boot.scr from the network. So, the pre-requisites seem to work fine. But then.... I just can't figure out how to start Armbian (preferrably in read only mode) from the network. Maybe someone can tell me what needs to be done. I've got the following qu…

I added a missing memory region from /dev/gpiomem and tested it. gpiomem { compatible = "samsung,exynos-gpiomem"; status = "okay"; reg = <0x13400000 0x1000 0x14010000 0x1000 0x03860000 0x1000>; }; I didn't see where to make PR on github.

➜ ~ 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…

With just a few local test hacks, I was able to bring up kernel 5.10-rc1 on sunxi this morning (based on the new megous branch): root@air's password: _ _ ____ _ _ _ | \ | | _ \(_) / \ (_)_ __ | \| | |_) | | / _ \ | | '__| | |\ | __/| | / ___ \| | | |_| \_|_| |_| /_/ \_\_|_| Welcome to Armbian 20.08.14 Buster with Linux 5.10.0-rc1-sunxi System load: 2% Up time: 11 min Memory usage: 14% of 491M IP: 172.24.18.151 CPU temp: 34°C Usage of /: 24% of 7.2G Last login: Tue Oct 27 07:20:02 2020 from 172.24.18.20 root@air:~# cat /proc/version Linux version 5.10.0-rc1-sunxi (root@35504…

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 am trying to convert my recent experience into something more generalized, in order to improve documentation. I already split off into a new page of docs Recovery, now I would like to add a new section to that page about manually replacing u-boot. In my case, sunxi was pretty easy, but trying to generalize this it gets more complex. I am not too familiar, so I researched for a while today and I think I have some idea, but before I start writing I want to make sure I am recommending the right approach. Basically I think I will recommend in 2 parts: 1. Explain how to extract u-boot from deb package after downloading from e.…

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

In recent armbian for orangepi-pc (Fossil 5.8.y) I encountered /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 I disabled both video and csi devices in dtb, but /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 did not disappear. Same happened with serial ports also. In dtb file 4 serial ports are described. Only one port is enabled, but /dev/ ttyS* contains 8 serial devices /proc/device-tree/soc/serial* directory contains exact number of serial ports as it is described in dtb. does anybody have an experience in disabling devices via device tree? Or the devices are hardcoded in the kernel?

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.…

I tried to build the espressobin u-boot only with the command given in the docs: ./compile.sh 'compile_uboot' But I get ... COPY u-boot.bin CFGCHK u-boot.cfg rm: missing operand Try 'rm --help' for more information. [ o.k. ] Building flash-image-DDR3-512m_1cs_0-600_600.bin cp: cannot stat 'build/a3700/debug/flash-image.bin': No such file or directory [ o.k. ] Building flash-image-DDR3-512m_2cs_0-600_600.bin cp: cannot stat 'build/a3700/debug/flash-image.bin': No such file or directory ... Do I need more/different parameters or a different config-default.conf ? Sorry for these maybe stupid questions, I am aware that I don't really see through …

I find quite strange that CONFIG_DM_MIRROR is not set in the kernel. It makes impossible under lvm to have logical volume mirror, and I just experienced an impossibility to make a pvmove to change one drive for another one. All my filesystems are built upon lvm, the only possibility would be to rebuild a kernel. But I find it quite heavy, since I have to platforms bananapi and espressobin; and it needs to be done for each release. But why no have built dm-mirror as module with the usual CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=m ?

We are starting a HW design for a board that will probably be using RK3328. We want this board to be running Armbian. We need to select BT and Wifi chips. Would like to use chips that are already supported by Armbian. Is there a list of Bluetooth and Wifi chips that Armbian supports? Any recommendations?

Now that 5.9 will be released ( LTS early October / end September?) , DVFS is also present for H5 boards as well @megi provides his 5.9 branch so let's move on to this topic testing / patching/ building.

Hi - Would it be possible to switch dev builds to 5.8 rc kernels? It looks like megous is already prepared for it ( atm rc1 ). Certainly I do realise the massive work filtering DT duplicates and applying fixes, etc ( the usual ) does come in here ... But rgd H6 this 5.8 kernel should hold important additions rgd: CPUFreq (DVFS), IOMMU, and MsgBox ( as well H3,H5 ) Therefore kindly requesting to skip 5.7 in dev and go straight for 5.8 which allows +/- two months of testing wich should be perfect for upcoming "Caple"-release in August.

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

Hi, I have downloaded `Armbian_20.05.2_Pine64so_buster_current_5.4.43.img` I have a script that mount the iso, chroot into it and run a big script to generate a flavoured version of armbian. First thing the script do is `apt update && apt upgrade` And I recently started to have the following error: Preparing to unpack .../06-linux-dtb-current-sunxi64_20.08_arm64.deb ... Error while loading /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: Exec format error dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-xF9W1s/06-linux-dtb-current-sunxi64_20.08_arm64.deb (--unpack): new linux-dtb-current-sunxi64 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit …

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…

The latest build fails if this driver is selected to be build with the kernel. Realtek 8192E USB WiFi (RTL8192EU) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) y --> fails / m --> succeeds If 'm' or module is selected then the build succeeds. -R

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

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

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…

Just to let people know that since I'm running kernel 5.0.y, I found that most of the WiFi firmware is now trying to load their NVRAM using a new file naming scheme, for example : On my OrangePi3, it try to load "brcmfmac43455-sdio.xunlong,orangepi-3.txt" instead of the normal "brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt", until I copied the file, no WiFi available. On my OPiZeroPlus2, it try to load "brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.xunlong,orangepi-zero-plus2.txt", but on this one it seems to fall back using the normal file and WiFi is working. On my OPiLite2, it try to load "brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,pine-h64.txt", revealing a mistake in the DT compatible ... ... I will …

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

I put some fresh armbian buster image to my cubieboard (1). Although no (real) application was installed, a load of around 20-30% could be seen. First I located the K-worker problem on A20 based boards thread and blacklisted sun4i_gpadc and sun4i_gpadc_iio. But after removing my display and booting the system still there was some kworker load almost stopping the system every 5-10 seconds. Digging deeper I found a description and a possible solution of the problem. Looking a my Olimex A20 Lime2 which I am currently testing with the new olimage by Olimex because of the never solved gigabit problems of my board, the same behaviour could be seen. The modules sun4i…

Tested Armbian_20.05.0-rc.149_Nanopim1_focal_current_5.4.43.img and I even tried hooking up video to see what was going on and nothing. Image doesn't expand on SD. I know this isn't supported, but would be nice to have focal on my old M1s. Also, I've tried the 5/24 image and the same issue.

According to the documentation: If a previous (complete) build has successful, is it possible to start subsequent builds at the 'customize-image.sh' stage? I'd like to fine tune my post-install process, but it takes awhile to get there due to package assembly, etc. Thank you

Hi all. I have a Rock64 board with 1GB RAM. I downloaded this image https://dl.armbian.com/rock64/Ubuntu_xenial_default_nightly.7z and I wrote it on the SD card (Samsung EVO 16GB) using both Etcher and dd command. But when I power the board, all 3 leds light up and remains on, nothing else happens. I have the same behaviour with the 0.6.0 stretch-minimal image downloaded here https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/releases The only images that works are the 0.5.10 downloaded here https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/releases/tag/0.5.10 What's wrong? I can exclude problems with power supply (I bought the one they sugges…

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. …

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…

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 …

Are the rtl8814au drivers updated? I did a custom build and the custom drivers seem to get 25% more throughput. I did a make from this guide Edimax guide: How to install EW-7833UAC in Linux running kernel higher than v4.4 The driver has updates for: {USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDER_ID_REALTEK, 0x8813),.driver_info = RTL8814A}, {USB_DEVICE(0x2001, 0x331a), .driver_info = RTL8814A}, /* D-Link - D-Link */ {USB_DEVICE(0x0b05, 0x1817), .driver_info = RTL8814A}, /* ASUS - ASUSTeK */ {USB_DEVICE(0x0b05, 0x1852), .driver_info = RTL8814A}, /* ASUS - ASUSTeK */ {USB_DEVICE(0x0b05, 0x1853), .driver_info = RTL8814A}, /* ASUS - ASUSTeK */ {USB_DEVICE(0x056E, 0…

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

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 ...

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, …

Hi, Igor. I am trying to compile armbian kernel for N6 Max rk3399 box, based on Armbian/Build: https://github.com/armbian/build I met the following issues: 1. The "Current" branch does not boot up the system; 2. The "Legacy" version of rk3399 for overclock patch https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/master/patch/kernel/rk3399-legacy/overclock-rk3399-to-1.5-2.0.patch cannot be integrated in the debs, and the cpu speed is always A53@1.4GHz/A72@1.8GHz; 3. The "Legacy" verion of rockchip64 are A53@1.5GHz/A72@2.2GHz, but wifi does not work; 4. The released debs on apt/armbian,com behave same; 5. Tried to play with the config files but …

Hi all, First place, sorry if it´s a very basic question, I was searching info and reading topics, but I did not found a solution for my problem. I`m working with Linux version 5.4.29-sunxi I´m trying to compile my own char device driver. I noticed that I forgot adding kernel-headers in my build, so I tried to add them via apt install linux-headers-next-sunxi After that, I can see a new directory /usr/src/linux-headers-4.19.62-sunxi but if I´m not wrong, modules compiled with this headers won´t work in my kernel, cause headers version does not match with my kernel version. So, could please …

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!

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…

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

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

Hi. I trying to build image for orange pi3. I have fresh Ubuntu, "19.10 (Eoan Ermine)" sources 20.05.0-trunk and I got error: ... [ o.k. ] Extracting focal-desktop-arm64.f64...4db.tar.lz4 [ 0 days old ] [ .... ] focal-desktop-arm64.f64...4db.tar.lz4: 932MiB [44.8MiB/s] [======================================================================================================>] 100% [ o.k. ] Adding Armbian repository and authentication key [ /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list ] chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory [ o.k. ] Applying distribution specific tweaks for [ focal ] chroot: failed to run command ‘/bi…

The rockchip64 kernels are missing wireless drivers for ralink chips.

Just a minor problem: uptime from procps-nf 3.3.15 (Armbian buster) - as used in 30-armbian-sysinfo to get uptime/logged-in users/load - generates different outputs if the uptime is either less or more than 1 day or less than 1 hour ("hh:mm" or "d days, hh:mm" or "nn min") - this gets the 30-armbian-sysinfo confused on gathering the logged-in user count resp. load. I suggest the below fix: ... # get uptime, logged in users and load # fix for uptime from procps-ng 3.3.15: reports uptime less then a day as "hh:mm," # but uptime larger than a day as "nn days, hh:mm," or "nn days, mm min", and less than 1 hour as "mm min," # which mixes up the assig…

I've done private builds using Megous's 5.4.0 branch for almost all my SUNXI boards, so, I'm pretty confident that we can switch to it soon ...

Linux odroidn2 5.5.5-meson64 btrfs is missing in this Kernel... Are there any bugs or why is there no btrfs in 5.5 and 5.4?

https://dl.armbian.com/orangepipc/archive/ Armbian_20.02.1_Orangepipc_buster_current_5.4.20_desktop.7z Just checked a fresh buster desktop image. And found a tiny issue. If you will try to install linux-headers-current-sunxi using the latest v20.02.1 image (buster, K5.4.20), you will get the v5.3.9 headers It would be nice to get the v5.4.20 headers instead Quick tip for other users - headers package can be found here - https://apt.armbian.com/pool/main/l/linux-5.4.20-sunxi/

Hi all, I´m trying to install pyCurl with command as root pip install pycurl after 10 seconds, console show me this error: (venv)root@cubox-i:~/pyCA# pip install pycurl Collecting pycurl Using cached pycurl-7.19.5.1.tar.gz Installing collected packages: pycurl Running setup.py install for pycurl Complete output from command /root/pyCA/venv/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-yYNrnD/pycurl/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-3uzAV0-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /…

Hi, Is it possible to delay loading USB drivers ? I don't want it to be loaded at the boot but after a few seconds after it for some reasons. uname -a returns

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

Since update to 5.5.0 kernel (-rc2) my Orange PI often freezed after uptime of several hours up to 3 days (usually less than 24 hours). Since downgrade to 5.4.10 it seems to be stable again (1 day for now, so I still keep my fingers crossed). (Before upgrade to 5.5. it was up for several weeks - and I don't remember any unplanned reboot). Unfortunately I have no logs (it logs to ram), but in one case if was connected via ssh and had "htop" running - it showed nothing special at freeze time (CPU temperature around 50°C, no high load (around 0,5 load avg, only one CPU cure with a CPU % > 50% (still < 80%)). When I noticed the frozen system, I n…

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

ever since i got to first play with a raspi, i have had a sort of sideproject/goal: to be able to have a desktop i can carry in my pocket. i know that this isn't exactly unique as far as what folks consider something to do with an sbc... but in my case i wasn't thinking about something that could run like, xfce fairly stable... i wanted something vain and flashy with the caveat that i have not yet acquired or even used an rpi4 - or really any board over ~$30 - this dang ol' OPi One+ was the first board where I was able to successfully set up a very fancy desktop (ubuntu + i3wm + compton, with i3 and compton compiled natively) the above image was taken about a …

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

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

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

While 5.4.y is not in ( sunxi64_common.inc ) current yet, at this time of writing I like to explore " KERNELBRANCH="branch:orange-pi-5.5" ". Except for just updating to this branch, I noticed it is just too early as megous github branch is not prepared yet for 5.5-RC1. I am curious to see if any of these have been applied already and what new fun stuff needs to be considered in the kernel .config

Kernel 5.3.y has just been labelled as EOL which was anyway expected to happen soon and most of our "current" kernels are already at 5.4.y ... Is sunxi/sunx64 ready for this upgrade? Don't care about 5.5.y at this moment which means DEV branch can remain as is or if someone out of the regulars take it further.

Armbians board support philosophy leads sometimes to frustration. Cause this topic came up from time to time in various threads. The aim of this thread is to summarize all those discussions and have them 'in one thread'. Current situation: There's no strict rule what is needed for getting 'armbian support' neither to drop support for a specific board. 49 boards are supported, 8 are WIP and 13 are deprecated. Supported SoCs: i.MX6, A20, A33, A64, H2+/H3, H5, ARMADA 388, RK3288, S805, S905x, Exynos 5422, WIP SoCs: ARMADA 3720, RK3328, S5P6818, S905, Opinions: I'm sure, I don't catch all opinions here, but instead of merging from various …

Just curious, it has exists as patches for years, is there anything prevent it from being merged into mainline? This chip is quite widely used in TV boxes.

Hello, is there a parameter one can pass to ./compile.sh in order to limit which toolchains are being downloaded? I just checked and cache/toolchains is taking up 14 GB on my VM and given that I only ever build odroidxu4 kernels this is quite an overkill. I could of course delete the cache manually but this would mean that the toolchains need to be re-downloaded for the next rebuild. Thanks!

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

When building a kernel the device driver configuration asks which rtc should a system use for NTP and startup synchronisation . By default this is rtc0. The question is: In case there are more hardware RTCs in one embedded system ( in my case onboard RK808 and Dallas DS1307 over I2C), which one would be numbered as rtc0? Threre are several RTC device drivers available and checked by default, some marked as M and other as '*' , supposing 'module' or 'driver' respectively. Now if I have two hardware RTCs, I presume they should load as rtc0 and rtc1, but which part does numbering? I can't know this 'a priori' , I would like to use DS1307 for synchronisation…

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…

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

Hi, 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.

ROCK64 is a RK3328 Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 board with up to 4 GB of RAM. Unfortunately it has a non-functional RTC (/dev/rtc0), which is not battery backed. If your board is not connected to internet 7/24, you can not use the NTP or systemd-timesyncd. Therefore you need to connect a battery-backed external RTC module to the ROCK64 header, and get the time via the i2c protocol. The good news is, the GPIO headers on ROCK64 is compatible with Raspberry Pi headers. Therefore almost any Raspberry Pi RTC module will work on ROCK64. But you need to do some tweaking to communicate with the RTC module. I will explain the required steps which worked for me. 1. Buy an e…

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lima/mesa/issues/85#note_213894 as said by Lima maintainer: Qiang Yu, xfce4 runs OK on lima now we could start to integrate lima to Armbian. @Igor do you agree?

Hello everyone First congratulations for this project. I just started playing with it recently and I am very impressed. Good job! I am the developer of NextCloudPi, which basically consists on providing Nextcloud images for the Raspberry Pi, but has evolved to other flavours such as docker x86 and docker ARM. It also features many scripts for managing the instance that can be run from a classic whiptail like TUI or a simple web interface. The initial goal of the project is to drive as many people away from dropbox into selfhosting, so there's also a Wizard and I try to ease the process of DDNS, certificates and so on. I am a…

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…

Hello, I am working on a board that is essentially the AW-A20-SOM with some peripherals on a backplane in which the AW-A20-SOM plugs into. I built armbian from source in the recommended VM configuration using the existing aw-som-a20.csc config. It boots and runs a special build that is installed in eMMC but I want to create an armbian build for it. First I want to boot it from SD card so I had just to change the following Spoiler diff --git a/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/add-awsom-defconfig.patch b/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/add-awsom-defconfig.patch index ee708eb..98bb457 100644 --- a/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/add-awsom-defconfig.patch +++ …

Hi all, Is there some documentation or How To on how to debug the boot process ? I posted before I am trying to bring up a AW-SOM-A20 board that gets stuck at boot. I am kind of at a loss so I figure next step is to use the kernel debugger, which I have never done on linux (I have experience with darwin/mac OS and freebsd though) Is there a build option for armbian so that the debuggable kernel image is left around in the build process ? All help appreciated, thanks Bruno

I have some patch files, and one of them leads to a .dts file not being compiled. I'd like to find what is wrong with the dtc compilation but I do not know what the exact command the armbian build script runs, so I can't reproduce... Is there a way to make the build totally verbose and see the command being executed ?

Hey , I need to get the official source code for the last stable version of armbian for orangepi (mainly the kernel): https://www.armbian.com/orangepi/ meaning version 4.19.y by the given link, but as I look at the source code in github, all I can find are tags and commits for 4.14 and 4.20. Is there a way to find the commit with the source code for the official release in the given link?

I've made my first build for OPiPC+ with 5.3.0-rc3 ... Things are not looking very good : Wifi 8189fs is crashing, but eth0 is working. I will investigate more ...

armbian has XFCE (hw accelerated where possible) desktop images - is there interest in getting Wayland running on as many SBCs as possible so we can have smooth, high quality desktop?

nightly install from https://dl.armbian.com/rockpi-4b/nightly/Armbian_5.96.190907_Rockpi-4b_Debian_buster_dev_5.3.0-rc4_minimal.7z Boot up error Failed to start Advanced IEEE 802.11 AP and IEEE802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticator Reinstalling the package hostapd resolves this issue. sorry if this is not the correct place to post this error.

Hi guys, New over here. I have been building custom images without issues for some time for Nano Pi M4. From last week it seems it is not longer building them. In case my build env was corrupted, image build process was tested on a clean VM build env with Ubuntu 18.04, without any customization, following instructions in https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/). I am just trying to buildi kernel image at the moment. In any case, I am seeing some of the rockchip kernel patches are not being applied for some reason, and a compiler error is produced when building the kernel (specifically: looback block dev module). Anybody else is …

Hi Igor, Hi Everyone, I am very new here. I have Orange Pi R1 and using Armbian everything is working, however I have proprietary software and want to secure it ( as much as possible ) Read a lot of articles and read about Armbian supporting CRYPTROOT_ENABLE , so decided to try to build my own image. I have succeeded in building 5 images but unfortunatelly none of them boots correctly. I decided to first build image without CRYPTROOT_ENABLE but still cannot succeed. It gives me KERNEL PANIC after truing to load/uncompress Linux. I Basicly want default Armbian image for Orange Pi R1 + CRYPTROOT_ENABLE. My second question will follow …