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Hi! I made a custom kernel with Buildroot. This give me a file called sdcard.img and other files. I want only the kernel to replace the existent kernel of my armbian distribution on my orange pi zero. What files I need? How I copy and replace the existent kernel? Very Thanks!

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…

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

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

Hi I have 2 questions: 1- can I install Armbian on my nanopi-m1 board? 2-Is there the support of fbtft driver on Armbian kernel or not? Thank you in advanced!

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

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

First at all, I'm running in an unsupported Android TV, Sunvell R69 with ARMBIAN 5.67 user-built and kernel 4.14.81. the question is, after running some exported X application launched from remote CLI, I find an entry for every launched app in the file system: ~ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on ... ... overlaid 1.2G 20K 1.2G 1% /run/user/1000/firefox-esr overlaid 1.2G 20K 1.2G 1% /run/user/1000/epyphani overlaid 1.2G 20K 1.2G 1% /run/user/1000/chromium overlaid 1.2G 20K 1.2G 1% /run/user/1000/vivaldi I can umount all, but all entries reappear after reboot the system without launching the apps.

Since about four weeks we encounter out of memory issues when building an Armbian image on GitHub with a customize-image.sh script. We had no big modifications on the build system since then, we have to rebuild from time to time to get the latest version of our application into the image. We already use a more powerful runner (32GB RAM, 8 cores). Our compile call: ./compile.sh \ BOARD=rockpi-4b \ BRANCH=edge \ RELEASE=bookworm \ KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no \ BUILD_MINIMAL=yes \ NETWORKING_STACK="network-manager" \ COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=xz \ KERNEL_BTF=no \ SHARE_LOG=yes Our build is based on the tag v25.8.0-trunk.260 Any ideas for this? Thank…

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

Hi there, i want to stick to the 4.4 kernel an tried to compile kernel 4.4.9 via: apt-get -y install git git clone https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib--depth 1 cp lib/compile.sh . chmod +x compile.sh ./compile.sh after that, i built the following directory and file: mkdir userpatches vi userpatches/lib.config and added: KERNELBRANCH=â€v4.4.9†as described here: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1008-how-to-compile-latest-kernel-447/ Whenn running ./compile, i get the following messages: [ o.k. ] Using user configuration override [ userpatches/lib.config ] …

hello! I need to create my own initial ramdisk during the armbian build process by supplying a value to this kernel tag:- grep CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE /home/andrew/armbian/build/cache/sources/linux-kernel-worktree/6.18__sunxi__armhf/.config CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="usr/sideinitrd.cpio" my build runs under docker, and no matter where i place the CPIO file, i get this error: [🐳|🔨] make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'usr/sideinitrd.cpio', needed by 'usr/initramfs_inc_data'. Stop. [🐳|🔨] make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:556: usr] Error 2 [🐳|🔨] make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... just specula…

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

'Upstream' the idea to ship OS images with Firefox/Iceweasel has been dropped in the meantime due to horribly low performance in favour of chromium-browser. As far as I understood that's partially related to firefox acting single threaded (while Chromium uses all CPU cores). Here's longsleep's latest config and the mostly accepted 'fix' for Chromium complaining about running insecure due to missing sandboxing is disabling exactly this. (that's Hardkernel's method to 'fix' Chromium on ODROID-C2). Users will be happy with a fast(er) browser not throwing annoying error messages at them they click away without reading them anyway and surfing the web on Pinebook wi…

tonight as I was about to head to bed, I noticed low buzz coming from my Tinker board as if my fan was running. Sure enough it was running, I checked top and a couple processes were trying to read from the cifs share and had the cores pinned using 100%... I did some testing, I could read files from the cifs share but whatever I used would hang at the end of the file, cat, cp, etc... I also tried almost everything, nothing fixed the issue until I rolled back my kernel from Dev (4.14.0-rc1) to Next (4.13.2) then all the problems were gone. I also noticed on the 4.14.0-rc1 kernel booting and shutdown times were much longer... at least double of whats normal, this was true w…

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

So, I am working on a Clearfog Pro here, having compiled a 4.14.17 kernel and built a Debian Buster image on the m2 ssd via debootstrap. The board boots, and all the network ports behave as expected, but for the SFP cage. After spending some time digging through menuconfig, and not finding the appropriate option, I hunted a little, and found that sfp.c, sfp-bus.c, and phylink.c are all in the kernel code, but no manner of configuration can access them. I have dug up a couple of patchsets which seem necessary, but the dts patches (2nd link, january 2nd-7th, 2017 patches, near the bottom of the page) at least seem not to be merged into the mainline tree. I have not exam…

Hi there, I realized that in the documentation for Marvell Mainline SFP is listed as unsupported. ( https://docs.armbian.com/Hardware_Marvell/#mainline ) So I tested that with some SFP Module I had laying around (SFP -> 1Gbit/s TP, no fiber though), and everything seems to be working fine. I will attach armbianmonitor -u and some proof. Maybe you can then put SFP as supported for mainline armada. Armbianmonitor -u: http://ix.io/1APB Used module: https://www.ebay.de/itm/142747822671 (maybe this can also be added as tested to the download page) ethtool output with attached sfp module (and cable): root@…

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

Dear gurus good afternoon. I ask for help because itself I don't understand any more what not so I do. I should make a clone of my sdcard, but nothing leaves. I tried so: I find the sdcard fdisk - l I create the empty file of an image dd if=/dev/zero of=armbian.img bs=2048 count=1402144 also I add him to loop losetup/dev/loop0 armbian.img now I clone the sdcard in loop the device dd if=/dev/sdd of=/dev/loop0 now I write down a half-scientific image on new sdcard dd bs=2048 if=armbian.img of=/dev/sdd As a result my sdcard doesn't seem on linux and I can't mount sections and loading doesn't happen to sdcard. Prompt please in what a mistake and as to me to make a clone of …

Hi! I am creating an Image that uses Cloud Init for customization. It involves creating an extra vfat partition for the CloudInit meta data. This is becoming an industry standard way to initialize virtual machines and now physical too. MAAS and Ubuntu on RPI also use it. What is the cleanest way to remove or disable equivalent scripts in Armbian ? In particular firstlogin and firstboot ?

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.

Hello! I have orange pi zero. I want to install a "clean" operating system - Debian. How can I build a kernel with the necessary drivers, modules and install. Does anyone have any experience installing? The image downloaded from the website debian.org I apologize in advance for bad English.

I'm attempt to do two simple switches via GPIO on OrangePi R1 LTS Plus using RK3328 using .Net Core and here my code snippet. GpioController ioc = new GpioController(PinNumberingScheme.Logical, new RockchipDriver(gpioRegisterAddresses: new uint[] { 0xFF21_0000, 0xFF22_0000, 0xFF23_0000, 0xFF24_0000 })); int iPin=RockchipDriver.MapPinNumber(???) // where do I find the information to do logical pin number mapping? ioc.OpenPin(iPin); ioc.SetPinMode(iPin, PinMode.InputPullUp); PinValue v=ioc.Read(iPin); Thanks for reading and any suggestion is appreciated.

Hello, When patching or generally compiling, "dialog" is not my friend for reading & testing I would propose adding a wrapper in common.sh (as in branch "second") dialog_wrapper () { ARGS=$(getopt -o b:p: -l "backtitle:,progressbox:" -n "$0" -- "$@"); if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit 1; fi eval set -- "$ARGS"; unset cmdl while true; do case "$1" in -b|--backtitle) shift; if [ -n "$1" ]; then cmdl="$cmdl --backtitle '$1'"; shift; fi ;; -p|--progressbox) shift; if [ -n "$1" ]…

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

I want to compile a matching build for: https://armbian.com/boards/odroidhc4 Debian 13trixie Minimal (CLI)—current6.18.33 https://dl.armbian.com/odroidhc4/Trixie_current_minimal Matching the img is fine (rather than the img.xz). I haven't compiled a matching build yet. I am doing this to debug my issue with the stock builds. Running: ./compile.sh BOARD=odroidhc4 BRANCH=current RELEASE=trixie BUILD_MINIMAL=yes BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no Logs forthcoming.

I tried the latest image for my Orange Pi one, but that one doesn't boot. So I tried to build an image with the compile script, but that crashes with the following message: ^ │ LD drivers/gpio/built-in.o │ │ LD drivers/sound/built-in.o │ │ LD drivers/spmi/built-in.o │ │ LD drivers/thermal/built-in.o │ │ LD …

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…

I have searched all the forums, can't find a way to use compile.sh build a image with the kernel to be 4.9.0 version. Is there a variable some where to set this? the latest 4.9.4 and 4.9.3 are not working well for my nanopi or my orange zero. and yes, i went through all the docs, and tried I can. -jerry

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 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 all, I've been building armbian images for my nanopim4 boards for some time with great success, however I refreshed the build scripts today and I'm seeing LOADS of errors flashing by and then It crashes - my build machine is an intel nuc I5 with 16gb RAM running Debian bookworm - I hope I've got the log url correct

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 …

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

Hi, I'am Patrick from France, it is my first post on the forum. I am porting the Zortrax m200 plus 3D printer to Armbian and my last important step would be to have the LCD screen working. I cross compiled my module but I have this message when installing it: # insmod panel-himax-hx8394.ko [ 1760.189919] BPF: [120533] Invalid name_offset:2238391 [ 1760.195183] failed to validate module [panel_himax_hx8394] BTF: -22 insmod: ERROR: could not insert module panel-himax-hx8394.ko: Invalid parameters Then I added the module source code to the sources, but calling ./compile.sh seems to update the repo and revert my changes such as I do not see my m…

Hello, Im trying to compile armbian without internet connection in local. For first time, I connected to internet and compiled a minimal image for Orange pi 5 plus successfully. cache folder is 14 GB now. When I cut off internet connection and start ./compile.sh, compile process stucks. See log below. [🌱] artifact [ firmware :: firmware() ] [🌱] Using cached [ GIT_INFO_ARMBIAN_FIRMWARE ] [🌱] Reversioning package [ re-version 'armbian-firmware(deb)::1-SAfc30-B6c7f-R448a' to '25.5.1' ] [🌱] artifact [ armbian-base-files :: armbian-base-files() ] curl: (7) Couldn't connect to server [🚸] Could not find package filename for 'base-files' in distro repo [ loo…

Building a dev-kernel currently seems to fail to produce something like "linux-dtb-dev-sunxi_5.41_armhf.deb" in /build/output/debs/ Any idea why?

Just started with creating custom images for an Orange Pi R1+ LTS board. In my build I'd like to compile some custom C++ applications using CMake, then install them onto the root file system to run on the board. Couldn't find much on this on the docs, though maybe I haven't looked hard enough! A couple of questions: I noticed the customize-image.sh script in the build repository - would amending this script be the intended method for this kind of functionality or is there another, better way? How would I provide CMake the relevant info to compile correctly for the board. Thanks in advance.

Since I was experiencing the eMMC corruption issue with u-boot 2017.11 & mainline, I'm back to the Armbian Xenial (legacy kernel) image. Everything works great, except I need to tweak the u-boot config slightly. To start, I'm just building the defconfig and then going from there. So for what I'm doing on my Ubuntu Bionic devel VM: $ git clone --single-brach --branch odroidc2-v2015.01 --depth 1 https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot.git $ <apply the 2 patches from https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/master/patch/u-boot/u-boot-odroidc2 > $ export CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- $ make odroidc2_defconfig && make …

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…

Some more info about the devfreq bug. I have tried many possible fixes unsuccessfully. But I have noticed that, no matter what changes I make in the kernel config with the Armbian build script, the file "/boot/config-4.4.119-rockchip" never changes. And, worst of all, it includes the following lines: # DEVFREQ Governors # CONFIG_DEVFREQ_GOV_SIMPLE_ONDEMAND is not set # CONFIG_DEVFREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set # CONFIG_DEVFREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE is not set CONFIG_DEVFREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y # DEVFREQ Drivers # CONFIG_ARM_ROCKCHIP_DMC_DEVFREQ is not set # CONFIG_PM_DEVFREQ_EVENT is not set I think those can be causing the problem. But, as I say, I can't seem to change that c…

Hi, Can anyone tell why I cant export PH3 as gpio? It is the default "usb2_vbus-supply" for usb2 of allwinner A20. In my application I need to control this "usb2_vbus-supply". Example : exporting PH3 root@cubieboard2:~# echo 227 > /sys/class/gpio/export -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy Im using armbian vanilla for my cb2. Thanks in advance.

Dear Armbian ARM64 6.6.x kernel people: Orange Pi 5 delivers incorrect larger SCTP chunks to SCTP. from lower IP stack in kernel. This can be seen from the computed CRC-32 checksum below. The packet length is right. This CRC-32 checksum process works correctly on OpenSuSE x86_64 Tumbleweed with kernel 6.5.4-1. It also works correctly on Armbian ARM64 5.10.110. Hence we believe the IP code is faulty in the 6.6.x kernel "stable rolling release" from Armbian. This SCTP driver is used in Telecom by companies like Nokia and Ericsson instead of Linux kernel SCTP and we would like to get it working on the OrangePi 5. Shorter packets like the SCT…

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

When i look into the armbian project and would like to get a special chipset and thus search for a armbian board that supports this chipset, i cant filter for those here: https://www.armbian.com/download/ It would be great to be able to filter to for example this kind of chipsets: Amlogic, NXP, Rockchip, ... And not just the maker of the boards.

Running latest Ubuntu 18.04 for NanoPi Duo with updates as of last night and CPU governor stays at ondemand even though I set it to conservative in /etc/default/cpufrequtils and reboot. CPU frequency settings do take effect, just not the governor.

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 everyone, I'm new to Armbian, i try to build armbian for my orange pi zero board follow instruction at https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/. I choose create kernel and u-boot packages and i have some debian file: linux-dtb-next-sunxi_5.67_armhf.deb, linux-headers-next-sunxi_5.67_armhf.deb, linux-image-next-sunxi_5.67_armhf.deb, linux-source-next-sunxi_5.67_all.deb, linux-u-boot-next-orangepizero_5.67_armhf.deb. I don't know how to extract it to .img file for my SD card. Anyone can tell me how to do it? Thank you!

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

What kind of platform can i use to CROSS_COMPILE for armbian and OrangePI? Some of LINARO? Can someone help?

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

I believe this question goes to @rpardini as maintainer of patches for Rockchip series in the `build` repo: I'm trying connect camera to Orange Pi 3B (yes, it boots from community support on edge kernels), but spent 2h digging to find no drivers for CSI2 from Rockchip's fork are ported to patches for recent kernels (for example: https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/blob/rk-5.10-rkr6/drivers/phy/rockchip/phy-rockchip-csi2-dphy.c and corresponding device trees to instantiate these drivers). This is a little chicken egg problem as I need recent kernels to have access to open source GPU drivers - they're not present on 5.10 based original system i…

Hi everyone, I need to ask about GPIO pins. I have Cubieboard2 with Armbian (Jessie, Legacy) and I cannot export any GPIO pin as described here http://linux-sunxi.org/GPIO#Accessing_the_GPIO_pins_through_sysfs_with_mainline_kernel, chapter " Accessing the GPIO pins through sysfs with mainline kernel". I was able to play with GPIO this way on Cubian nicely but since Cubian is more or less dead without much support I moved to Armbian. I am able to export only pins with adress 1 or 2 as these are in the script.bin. I quite suspect that I need to change script.fex from GIT, convert to script.bin and replace original one on my Cubieboard. Am I correct? And next thing is that …

Hello Igor, Good day. I just want to ask some question regarding cubieboard2 vanilla, hope you can find time to reply. 1. Which kernel source you are using ? 2. What configuration you use? 2. What are the patches you use? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Javer

Hi Igor, I am using nand-install script to boot my Cubieboard2 from nand. However I need some modification in uboot so I need to recompile it by myself. Can you share the sources and patches for this uboot that is running from nand? Thanks in advance.

Hello, I want to use the OTG-Port of my cubietruck in normal host mode. According this conversation (link) I've changed script.bin. After that I've rebooted [usbc0] usb_used = 1 usb_port_type = 1 usb_detect_type = 0 usb_id_gpio = port:PH19<0><1><default><default> usb_det_vbus_gpio = port:PH22<1><0><default><0> usb_drv_vbus_gpio = port:PH17<1><0><default><0> usb_restrict_gpio = port:PH00<1><0><default><0> usb_host_init_state = 1 usb_restric_flag = 0 usb_restric_voltage = 3550000 usb_restric_capacity = 5 Unfortunately my cubietruck does not detect a USB-Device (e.g. USB-St…

Hello Igor, Good day. I have two questions regarding cubietruck(A20) kernel 4.9.7 source. 1. Where can I get kernel source 4.9.7 you use ? 2. Where can I get cubietruck(A20) patches for this kernel source you use ? I need this sources to clear some moments in a way of 2nd CPU start. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Andrey

Hi folks, I've got Igor's debian stretch server image for cubietruck running, compiled sunxi kernel 4.16.0-rc1 without power management options, but can't get USB autosuspend disabled. There are a few posts regarding this issue, but they don't resolve my issue, since in the stretch system I don't have entries for /power/level or /power/control of the usb devices, it just doesn't exist. Thus I can't fix this issue setting /power/control to 'on'. /sys/bus/usb/devices/$device/power DOES NOT EXIST /sys/bus/usb/devices/$device/power/level DOES NOT EXIST /sys/bus/usb/devices/$device/power/control DOES NOT EXIST /sys/bus/usb/devices/$device/power/autosuspend D…

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

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…

I've recently bought a Rock Pi 4a Board and can't get running armbian (The Image provided by Radxa works) but I want to get running the latest version. I've tried both nightly builds Armbian Bionic nightly development branch 4.20.y (22.05.2019)and Armbian Stretch nightly development branch 4.20.y Both Image boots U-Boot but cannot start the kernel: U-Boot 2017.09-armbian (May 22 2019 - 04:11:32 +0200) Model: RockPi-4B DRAM: 3.9 GiB DCDC_REG1@vdd_center: ; enabling DCDC_REG2@vdd_cpu_l: ; enabling DCDC_REG3@vcc_ddr: ; enabling (ret: -38) DCDC_REG4@vcc_1v8: set 1800000 uV; enabling LDO_REG1@vcc1v8_dvp: set 1800000 uV; enabling…

In the following window the cursor keys (arrow up, down, left, right) aren't working: the raw terminal control chars appear instead. And the window is kind of "distorted" (for example the G char of General setup appears at the right side of the window, same with the following lines): Tried in a X console as well on tty8, same behavior. One can press only CTRL-C to get out of this window, this of course also aborts the build: How to fix this? My system: x86_64 Debian 8 (jessie) with LXDE desktop, using a Debian 8 in a LXC container for building Armbian for an A20 device. .config - Linux/arm 4.19.25 Kernel Configuration ───────────…

Hello i successful compile kernel for my chinese tablet and work but usb host no work. # modprobe g_ether modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'g_ether': No such device I use this configuration in kernel: https://pastebin.com/gWJWtRav i use base image cubieboard 1 legacy, script.bin for A13-SOM and uboot from archlinux uboot-a13-olinuxino-2017.01-2-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz .. Work: Wifi Realtek RTL8188CUS Nand read/write sdcard Audio jack 3.5 No tested/No know: LCD no can test at broken. Touch Guddix GT811 how to test? HYM8563S Real Time Clock (I2C). how to test? MMA7660FC 1.5 g 3-Axis Accelerometer (I2C…

Hi! I have been using Armbian for long, but I am new to the Development/build system. I have however set the environment and I can build images. Now, I want to create a custom Armbian image with the following customization: - Separate ext2 partition for boot - second partition for LVM - Root Filesystem in Logical Volume and fixed size. - Cloud Init, with an extra partition for NoCloud Datasource. I see in the documentation how to install new packages, but not how to partition the SD card. How can I change the partitioning? On the other hand. Can I just build an image without compiling the Kernel? …

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

For anyone who wants a minimal "network-install" like image for orangepizero. Does this with the customize-image.sh and armbian build scripts. Could be cleaner but would be much easier to just hack the build scripts. I've tested with jessie and stretch, and with branches default, next, and dev. The image should boot up, get eth0 dhcp address, and have serial console on ttyS0. Script option to remove systemd and use sysvinit. Might be modded to work with other boards? Set the following options and use the customize-image.sh. If script breaks due to upstream changes, use last tested commit: git checkout -f a66121 # required options f…

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.

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

hello dear armbian developers, building jessie or stretch with btrfs-root ends up in an boot-loop. this is due to an wrong entry in boot.ini setenv rootfstype "ext4" changing it manually to "btrfs" fixed the Problem the config I used: KERNEL_ONLY="no" # leave empty to select each time, set to "yes" or "no" to skip dialog prompt KERNEL_CONFIGURE="no" # leave empty to select each time, set to "yes" or "no" to skip dialog prompt CLEAN_LEVEL="make,debs,oldcache" # comma-separated list of clean targets: "make" = make clean for selected kernel and u-boot, …

The topic of Stretch came up in the Odroid C2 Mainline testing thread, and turns out we don't have a thread about making Stretch available. I've done some testing with several boards using the Upgrading Debian Jessie to Stretch thread and had great success. But, I wanted to start a discussion about what is needed to get official Stretch support in place. I have several projects where I need to use Stretch instead of Jessie, so I'm exited to help try and contribute where I can. I also wanted to discuss the idea of possibly making two stretch images: one using systemd and one using openrc (which is supported in Stretch). 99% of the work is identical, the only ma…

Hi! Sorry if this is kind of wrong posting, but I had an failure on compiling first for the Banana Pi for the Debian Stretch, complette image but without any other changes. Just wanted to compile a complete image for the Banana Pi, but got an error that terminated the compilation. After that I made a new image with the Ubuntu version with any problems. Thought that it might have something to do with the old hardware so I tried to compile another one for the Asus Tinker board for the Debian Stretch, but that gave me similar problems with termination of the compilation. Here is the some few lines of the output chip_5.34_all.deb". [ o.k.…

When I used the Debian image, it looks like the wireless-regdb's were not in the correct location. Using this guide I was able to get CRDA to work. wireless-regdb: Missing support for kernel direct loading Did I miss something in the initial setup?

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…

Hello! I'm trying to build xunlong kernel from https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/linux-orangepi/tree/orange-pi-5.10-rk3399. I see a .dts file for OrangePi 4 ... but no suitable defconfig or any description what defconfig to use. What I'm doing wrong?

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

i am user language spanish: The error apt text: apt-get install chromium-browser-l10n Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho Creando árbol de dependencias Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho No se pudieron instalar algunos paquetes. Esto puede significar que usted pidió una situación imposible o, si está usando la distribución inestable, que algunos paquetes necesarios aún no se han creado o se han sacado de «Incoming». La siguiente información puede ayudar a resolver la situación: Los siguientes paquetes tienen dependencias incumplidas: chromium-browser-l10n : Depende: chromium-browser (= 1:92.0.4503.0-0ubuntu1~pp…

Hello, I am trying to create custom USB gadget using GadgetFS on OrangePi PC. I found some example of USB user-mode driver based on GadgetFS and was able to adapt it for sunxi H3 platform. If I only change the VID and PID in this example, the device is still detected correctly in Windows (my part gets initial requests), but no data buffer is received after the detection. I see the data is sent from my PC module (using WireShark). I think the data is either locked or handled in unexpected way by sunxi_usb_udc module. How can I get detailed debug messages (using dmesg) of the sunxi module? I hope this will let me re-design my solution.

I have been running a "stock" DEV kernel (5.0.y) on my PineA64+ while trying to wait for the previously noted (by others) date-setting issue to occur. "stock" being a 'compile.sh' using 'BRANCH="dev" using the PineA64 defconfig (BOARD="pine64" with no config changes) A date/time setting problem just happened a little while ago and as I was about to start to try to figure out where the kernel went wrong when I got a process crash with an apparent CPU stalled error: [154619.384626] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU [154619.390319] rcu: 2-...0: (1 GPs behind) idle=78a/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=1062220/1062259 fqs=1174 [154619.399880] rcu: …

Hello guys, hope I'm in the right subforum. If not, please postpone. I have a question about the device tree and pinctrl... I have added a chip to my I2C-0, the configuration looks like this: &i2c0 { clock-frequency = <400000>; status = "okay"; os8104: os8104@41 { compatible = "smsc,os8104"; reg = <0x41>; master = <0>; /* slave mode*/ bypass = <0>; /* /ABY (all bypass mode) im register bXCR */ pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&os8104_reset &os8104_int &os8104_aint &os8104_error &os8104_3dB>; }; }; Then, under pinctrl I have added this b…

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 have an orange pi lite and I'm building my (dev 4.10) image using the Armbian tools. So far I figured out how to enable the DT overlays located in /boot/dtb/overlays by editing the armbianEnv.txt file and adding overlays=sun8i-h3-uart1 sun8i-h3-uart2 sun8i-h3-uart3 sun8i-h3-i2c0 sun8i-h3-spi0-spidev This now enables the various uart, i2c and spi ports I wish to use and that works. I'm trying to now set up a ADS7846 Touch controller using DTB I have copied the file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raspberrypi/linux/rpi-4.4.y/arch/arm/boot/dts/overlays/ads7846-overlay.dts and run dtc -I dts -O dtb ads7846-overlay.dts -o /boot/dtb/overlays/ads7846-ove…

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 ?

I'm familiar with the armbian-config tool and while I think its cool, it may not be the best thing for the beginner. The hardest part of beginning anything is not knowing what you don't know. I've begun writing a simple tool using curses and python which hopefully disambiguates some of the features of each board. I'm currently focusing on H3 boards, since thats what I have and I'm most familiar with them. Currently I have the ascii art and setup for the Orangepi PC, One, Zero, and Nanopi Neo. The idea is to use the arrow keys to navigate, spacebar to select, 'b' for back, and (most importantly) 'h' for help. The help menu should have enough information to ge…

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?

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.

Hi, I'm working with an armbian installed on a Banana Pi M2S and I'm having problems using GPIOX_12, GPIOX_13 and GPIOX_4, because the Wifi/Bluetooth drivers are introducing garbage data by default into them and making it difficult to use them for communication in my project. I need to know how to disable these drivers from the kernel so that they don't interfere with the UART communication that I'm creating on those pins, since they are enabled by default and take control of the port automatically (even without having any module connected). Question: Is there any way to disable them in the kernel during the image building process? Fo…

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

I'm using banana pi M1 plus and armbian legacy kernel. I wanted to use uart0(ttyS0), uart2(ttyS1) and uart3(ttyS2), so I tested those three uarts with an echo server in banana pi and a program sending a data in a PC. When I tested uart2 and uart3, I was able to get the data that I had sent without any problem. For the uart0, however, there was some error messages. I was also able to get the data, but I want to deal with the error message so that I can prevent any future problem. It seems that the error is caused because the ttyS0 is sending some console messages. I've found some articles about getting rid of console output from ttyS0. Most of them said to modify …

rpi4b8gb device. I am trying to disable wifi, bluetooth and ipv6 like I do on raspberry pi OS, but it won't play nice with me. Bluetooth & wifi I read https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian_overlays/ (it says it's WIP so that might be why?) and looked for the dtolverlays I use on rpiOS: $ ls -1 /boot/dtb/overlays/disable* | cut -d / -f 5 disable-bt.dtbo disable-bt-pi5.dtbo disable-emmc2.dtbo disable-wifi.dtbo disable-wifi-pi5.dtbo $ ls -1 /boot/dtb-6.12.31-current-bcm2711/overlays/disable* | cut -d / -f 5 disable-bt.dtbo disable-bt-pi5.dtbo disable-emmc2.dtbo disable-wifi.dtbo disable-wifi-pi5.dtbo They are there, ie disable-bt…

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

Hi, I found problem below today. I have stability problems with services running on BananaPro and therefore this is second problem after "kswapd was killing some tasks" I decided revert back to older kernel 3.4.109. I am only letting you know... Division by zero in kernel. [10616.338198] [<c0015098>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x134) from [<c03e7ab8>] (Ldiv0+0x8/0x10) [10616.350152] [<c03e7ab8>] (Ldiv0+0x8/0x10) from [<c00e87ac>] (vmpressure_work_fn+0x80/0x180) [10616.360314] [<c00e87ac>] (vmpressure_work_fn+0x80/0x180) from [<c004ca00>] (process_one_work+0x12c/0x3b0) [10616.370009] [<c004ca00>] (process_one_work+0x12c/0x3b0) from …

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

Hello all, I wrote up this documentation mostly as notes to myself about how I successfully built a kernel and ubuntu core rootfs. If you could let me know how to improve it, please let me know. I don't generally write documentation. I focused on the roc-rk3328-cc but it should work okay for a variety of the Firefly chips. Thanks, ~Ben barebone_to_ubunutu.md

Hello, I recently learned to generate Armbian images using Docker, and I found the official documentation incomplete on this. I ended up asking in the forums, so I have compiled the info in this little blog post for other's reference https://ownyourbits.com/2017/11/30/building-armbian-images-faster-using-docker/ If there's any suggestions or improvements, please let me know. Also, if you want, I can send a PR to your documentation to clarify how to build using docker. Cheers, Nachoparker

Does Armbian Kernel support aufs? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufs I was wondering if FatDog a Arm version of Puppy Linux could be built by someone using Armbian as the base. I started a thread conversation on Puppy Linux forum. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=902082#902082

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

Hi All, as I understand, new kernel does not support script.bin any more and uses something called Device Tree Blob. In source (DTS) file of this hell are two sections concerning LEDs: pinctrl at 01c20800 { led_pins_lamobo: led_pins at 0 { allwinner,pins = "PH2"; allwinner,function = "gpio_out"; allwinner,drive = <1>; allwinner,pull = <0>; } and this one: leds { compatible = "gpio-leds"; pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&led_pins_lamobo>; green { label = "lamobo:green:usr"; gpios = <&pio 7 24 0>; default-state = "on"; }; }; Is here somebody, who und…

Hi TKaiser / Igor, FYI i manually prepared a patch for devices that use rtl2832u that i think may interest you to add this patch to the build process. You can patch against legacy kernel 3.4.111 and give users a chance to get their device recognized. Sorry, i can't couple with the automated armbian process yet, i usually do the things manually. I hope this can be useful (and hopefully works for someone). clone here: https://github.com/avafinger/rtl2832 @lex

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