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Hi, in case somebody is looking for working example of USB gadget built for H3 processor (Orange Pi PC) on top of GadgetFS, please look at the link: https://github.com/prife/ptp-gadget The only adaptation required for Orange Pi PC is in autoconfig() function: else if (stat(DEVNAME = "sunxi_usb_udc", &statb) == 0) { HIGHSPEED = 1; fs_source_desc.bEndpointAddress = hs_source_desc.bEndpointAddress = USB_DIR_IN | 1; EP_IN_NAME = "ep1in-bulk"; fs_sink_desc.bEndpointAddress = hs_sink_desc.bEndpointAddress = USB_DIR_OUT | 1; EP_OUT_NAME = "ep1out-bulk"; source_sink_intf.bNum…

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

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…

Hello, I was able to complete custom (with USB gadget support) build of current Armbian version (5.17) for desktop using tip about workaround for u-boot compiling problem. But when I run h3disp in order to allow DVI monitor connection (-d), after the restart I still get no output to DVI monitor, while remote Putty connection works. I understand that this is version-in-development, but is there any way to fix (workaround) the problem?

What kind of work is needed to upgrade Orange Pi 2E+ from legacy to kernel 4.x? Thanks, Kriston

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 …

Hi, I'm in need of help with the I2S "drivers" for Arch Linux ARM and the A20 processor. I need to create a 4-wire I2S output. 1. BCLK 2. LRCLK 3. DATA 4. MCLK = 256xfs I can't seem to work out how to make #4, a Master Clock fixed at 256 * Fs. I've been using this code as a starting point: https://github.com/dan-and/linux-sunxi/tree/dan-3.4.current/sound/soc/sunxi/i2s and I am not a Kernel developer. At all. Thanks.

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

I am using Armbian 5.x images on the Orangi PI plus box since it appeared as it is stable and the most complete. root@orangepiplus:/usr/src/h3monitor# uname -a Linux orangepiplus 3.4.110-sun8i #18 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 8 20:03:32 CET 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux The LED visual board status is helpful during initial launching or headless usage. There is currently only one RED light for all the board statuses. It is somewhat confusing as for the Good running status. It is worth switching to GREEN, once the Armbian is loaded successfully and back to RED during the shutdown procedure. It is worth turning the red LED off after shutdown. This LED behavior has be…

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.

Was in dire need of Armbian on my new toy, the HBP with a iMX8Q CPU ;-) The board features dual WWAN (PCIe + M.2) sockets for highspeed 3G/4G/5G modems with a SIM socket. The Debian build from SolidRun did not have any modem drivers enabled in the kernel so there was headache. Wipped up this WIP configuration and it builds and runs with: ``` $ ./compile.sh BOARD=hummingboardpulse-imx8q BRANCH=legacy RELEASE=buster BUILD_MINIMAL=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no ``` NOTE: It uses the HDMI and LPDDR4 binary blobs from NXP. You will get a prompt during build to accept the license. The board is default configured to boot from SD using …

I'm looking for Orange Pi RV2 RISC-V support. This board is gaining popularity due to the Orange Pi manufacturer's good reputation with Arm. I have successfully built both Orange Pi and Raspberry Pi aarch64 builds on Debian from source so I'd like to know how to build Armbian for Orange Pi RV2 riscv64. What would I need to modify in the build process? Thanks!!

Shall we start to finalise and prepare for images rebuild? Some new features were already documented, but there are some ongoing things and we are also preparing new download organisation, which could be included. - it looks like I manage to disable / merge little too much images, which needs to be built. @tkaiser was right I made a mistake, so please check .conf if I forgot something. - beta builds. we can't check all images, but some should be enough to assume everything is o.k. ... Do we have a minimum set yet? - I will try to enable beta testing protocol / call for testing within this build. What else should be included / finished and pushed into this buil…

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…

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

Hi, the building of 4.14.17 ended up with the following error: CC [M] drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/xmit_linux.o LD [M] drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/r8723bs.o AR drivers/staging/built-in.o Makefile:1028: recipe for target 'drivers' failed make: *** [drivers] Error 2 [ error ] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ compilation.sh:341 ] [ error ] Kernel was not built [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Process terminated Any hints? Regards, A.

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

Hello! I make an image for my device on the base Orange PI PC. As you know there is a built-in bad hardware RTC. There is no battery for clock. I make an image with the built-in off the RTC. It works fine! I want to connect RTC DS3231 or DS1307 i2c bus. How can I apply them in the kernel at boot time? How to tell the kernel that his master clock are i2s bus? How to remove fake-hwclock step build of the image? Sorry for bad english. I have tried

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

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

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

Finally Canonical launches an official Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Beta for Raspberry Pi 3 boards http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04/beta/ Maybe is interesting to check the repos.

Hi, can you add CONFIG_USBIP_CORE=m CONFIG_USBIP_VHCI_HCD=m CONFIG_USBIP_HOST=m CONFIG_USBIP_DEBUG=n to kernel config? 3.4.112-sun8i These modules are needed for usbip. Thanks

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

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

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

Hi, I have a Cubieboard A80 unused right now, is it possible to build Armbian for this device? It does not seem to be officially supported. Thank you, Terence Haddock

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

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

Hello, Just returning after a little while, I cannot get ethernet working on my opi+2e with mainline kernel, direct cable connection to PC, no serial console at hand, neither HDMI output, so I had the habit of blindly booting then sshing into the box... I tried my personal config + megous repo, xenial or jessie, current armbian repo nothing coming out of eth on the PC (tcpdump -i eth0). LEDs, green solid on, red heartbeating, orange eth led blinking slowly. I then reverted back to montjoie's repo (default for dev BRANCH), for identical results. Could this be the updated u-boot (I think I saw a new version being used) ? Or is this expected to be…

Hi !!!!!!! Anybody try the SPI protocol (python or c)? Thx all for your future anwser

Hi all, I need to customize the /etc/fstab during the build to mount a mtd partition and also to override some mountpoints with tmpfs in order to reduce wearing on mmc. So, have added the following lines to customize-image.sh: cat <<EOT >> /etc/fstab # Reduce SD wearing by storing log files into ram (no need as overlayroot is used to freeze all the rootfs) tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev 0 0 tmpfs /run tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev 0 0 tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev 0 0 tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 tmpfs /var/lib/logrotate tmpf…

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

Recently U-Boot has acquired support for UEFI (the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). how may this effect ARMbian's boot system roadmap? see: https://www.suse.com/docrep/documents/a1f0ledpbe/UEFI on Top of U-Boot.pdf

First time armbian user and poster here. Since this is not the right time and place for an introduction, lets keep it with a simple "Hi all!" and get straight to the topic: for completeness, my system: BOARD=orangepizeroplus BOARD_NAME="Orange Pi Zero Plus" BOARDFAMILY=sun50iw2 VERSION=5.59 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi64 BRANCH=next ARCH=arm64 IMAGE_TYPE=testing BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm64 KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image logging, in particular logrotate with ram-logging As far as I understand: - Three different cron files are responsible to handle ram-logging and logrotate -- /etc/cron.daily/logrotate -- /etc/cron.daily/armbian-ram-logging …

Hi, can you add CONFIG_USBIP_CORE=m CONFIG_USBIP_VHCI_HCD=m CONFIG_USBIP_HOST=m CONFIG_USBIP_DEBUG=n to kernel config? These modules are needed for usbip. Thanks

Hello, I've finally gotten around to writing the GitHub Actions based Linux Kernel Shallow git trees exporter. It's very simple, a single shell script and GHA workflow. It prepares shallow bundle (and ready-to-go .tar too) everyday on a schedule and publishes to GitHub Releases. Please take a look https://github.com/rpardini/armbian-git-shallow - theres a README that shows how to use the bundles outside of Armbian. If this is a good idea, I'd move it to armbian/kernel-git-shallow in GitHub. And then I'd start using those in armbian-next first as a test ground. I mention I few people I know are interested in the subject @Igor and…

Hi, after update to stable v23.11 branch i cannot build anymore under WSL2 i get the following error when the process starts to create the image: "Error: Partition(s) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 on /dev/loop0 have been written, but we have been unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use. As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in use. You should reboot now before making further changes." …

I'm trying to compile the tv.ko driver for the NanoPi M1 (to see if I can bake overscan compensation into it). First I compiled the whole of Armbian to see if I can produce the .ko in such a roundabout way, but besides being a very dumb/slow way of going about it, I can't find any file called "tv.ko" after running all of that (it probably gets cleaned up). Short of mounting the generated Armbian image manually and extracting tv.ko, is there a way to compile just the driver? It normally sits at: /lib/modules/3.4.112-sun8i/kernel/drivers/video/sunxi/disp2/tv/tv.ko And sources for it are under: sources/linux-sun8i/sun8i/drivers/video/sunxi/disp2/tv/ The modin…

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

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/…

I am trying to create my own USB gadget based on sunxi_usb_udc and GadgetFS with Orange Pi PC. I can't find any details about sunxi_usb_udc and after successful startup and detection, I am unable to get data sent by host side. How can I proceed?

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

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 …

Hello, i was wondering, how Armbian images are different compared to official orangepi images available on their webiste? clearly, orangepi official images are not well maintained or regularly updated, but what's armbian policy here? are official images using proprietary drivers that armbian doesn't? for example, mali450 (on H5) for armbian is not available, is it the same on official images? what the difference? avoiding non-free software?

Wifi does not work with dev branch (4.17) on H2+/H3 systems: [ 10.807592] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database [ 10.857239] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7' [ 10.916465] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2 [ 10.916479] platform regulatory.0: Falling back to user helper [ 11.432051] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db any hints?

Some SBCs, such as PIneA64, provide a built-in RTC on-board while others do not. For those boards that do have a built-in RTC, it appears the kernel driver is configured as a builtin rather than as a module at least in some cases (I only checked a few). This in turn brings up a question: For boards that include a built-in RTC and also have the respective kernel driver configured as a built-in, should the kernel configuration to also set the system clock from that RTC (RTC_HCTOSYS) be enabled by default? There is a dependency that the RTC be built-in as the kernel will try to read from the RTC rather early, before any loadable modules w…

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

I have been trying to compile a legacy kernel for Orange Pi PC for 48 hours. (I want to add the DisplayLink driver for USB monitor like the Lilliput 10") I have a very poor network connection , wifi to my boat in the marina work yard, Philippines. Then I tried each of these via the cell phone network (my phone as a hotspot) ./compile.sh fails so I tried cloning the repo by cmdline, and at github and ssh vs http: git clone -n https://github.com/igorpecovnik/linux.gitsun8i -b sun8i --depth 1 git clone -n https://github.com/svkatielee/linux.gitsun8i -b sun8i --depth 1 git clone -n git@github.com:svkatielee/linux.git sun8i -b sun8i --depth 1 Each time it f…

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.

Hallo, the Armbian Debian jessie dhclient does not handle a served hostname reliable. Deleting /etc/hostname (or replacing it with an empty file) and setting the hostname option at the DHCP Server doesn't always work. In some cases the Armbian client still has its default name 'bananapim2'. http://blog.schlomo.schapiro.org/2013/11/setting-hostname-from-dhcp-in-debian.html describes the problem, a cause and a solution. I can confirm the problem with the leases file. Following step 2 works for me. It would be really fine if the unset_old_hostname file could be added to Armbian by default. Kind regards, Steve

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

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…

Hi, Based on this topic it should be possible to open PWM0 and PWM1 on a RockpiS, Yet I like to do the same thing on a Rockpi4A+ ( fdtfile=rockchip/rk3399-rock-pi-4a-plus.dtb ), in order to enable the fan on a PoE HAT Without any overlay it shows: root@rockpi-4a:/sys/class/pwm# ls /sys/class/pwm/ -la total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Mar 19 05:20 . drwxr-xr-x 71 root root 0 Mar 19 05:20 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 19 05:20 pwmchip0 -> ../../devices/platform/ff420020.pwm/pwm/pwmchip0 I tried some of radxa's suggestions using their " rockpi-poe.dtbo " overlay ( user_overlays=rockpi-poe ) and indeed that m…

Yes, this is another rookie question: if I only modify the dts file of the kernel or a certain part of the driver code, I run ./compile.sh, need to wait a long time for the compilation process of uboot and various libraries. How can I only compile the kernel part? I see there is a compile option: KERNEL_ONLY, is this possible? How do I need to update the kenel part after compiling?

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

There is a problem, can someone tell me the solution. There is a library of video surveillance systems manufacturer Assembly for Windows Linux x86 64 and Android. Is it possible to start the assembly of its application in the ARM Linux using the library for Android if it is assembled with the Bionic. I could not get: > LC_ALL=c g++ test.cpp -L. -lxmnetsdk -Wl,-rpath,. -o testsdk /usr/bin/ld: warning: liblog.so, needed by ./libxmnetsdk.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/bin/ld: warning: libstdc++.so, needed by ./libxmnetsdk.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/bin/ld: testsdk: hidden symbol `fstat' in /usr/lib/arm-linux-g…

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

We have 6.6.rc1 kernel installed using Armbian_23.11.0-trunk.105_Orangepi5_jammy_edge_6.6.0-rc1_xfce_desktop.img.xz. I've also installed the Armbian Linux edge headers 6.6.0-rc1-edge-rockchip-rk3588 (linux-headers-edge-rockchip-rk3588 23.11.0-trunk.107). I am able to compile externel kernel modules. I would like to get the kernel source for the 6.6.rc1 kernel. I have cloned the main branch using: git clone --branch=main https://github.com/armbian/build And used the menu system by running compile.sh to select orangepi5 and other options. When it started building I could tell right away it was not working towards the 6.6.rc1 kernel…

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

Hello, I noticed that the official armbian images for this board(s) are based on Jessie -> https://www.armbian.com/odroid-hc1/ NCP only supports Stretch, but that is ok, because I build the armbian images from source. The Odroid XU4/HC1/HC2 NCP images I build ( https://ownyourbits.com/downloads ) are using Stretch and everything seems to be working fine so far. My question is, what is your testing procedure to consider an image stable? Would it help if I built the plain Armbian image as well so it can be shared in https://www.armbian.com/odroid-hc1 ? I would be happy to help with this Apologies if this has been asked bef…

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

Hi All, I have a requirement to boot a whole a20 system over USB as discussed in the link below. http://linux-sunxi.org/FEL/USBBoot#Boot_the_system_over_USB It requires U-Boot + kernel + initramfs to do this. Right now the only part that I succeed is booting on uboot, but not yet in kernel as well as initramfs (which is I dont have yet). I cant find a good tutorial how to do this. Hope someone can help. Thanks in advance.

Hello, I'm using the armbian trusty image with legacy kernel and try to setup an iscsi target server with it. Actually I tried to build my own kernel with the instruction list and the tools of armbian and activated the iscsi target in the kernel configure. In compile.sh I set kernel configure to yes and then I start compiling. Maybe you can tell me how to do it in the right way? Thanks and greetings

Hi Igor, Hi Buddies, with the new changes of *.sh files because of "2>&1" you cannot figure out the compilation errors -- or if any staling questions like patching file tools/include/tools/be_byteshift.h patching file tools/include/tools/le_byteshift.h dpkg-deb: building package `linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi' in `../linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi_4.6_armhf.deb'. gzip: ./debian/dtbtmp/usr/share/doc/linux-dtb-next-sunxi/changelog.Debian.gz already exists; do you wish to overwrite (y or n)? so I have tried and would suggest the following changes in common.sh (or anything better for bash conditional piping) #make $CTHREADS ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE="$CCACHE a…

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...) …

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

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

Hi all, first post here. I have an orange pi zero and I want to develop some C++ apps on it. My app is going to be a bit big, and at the moment compiling it on the ZERO takes FOREVER (I guess its just the RAM, not CPU)! Compiling it on my intel i9 PC is just a matter of seconds. So I managed to find gcc-linaro-10.2.1-2021.04-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf and I can cross compile and then remotely debug it on the ZERO....life is much better now all of the sudden. But I have some concerns, would be nice if you walk me though: 1) I am running Armbian 20.04 on the ZERO which I believe is compiled with GCC 9.3.0. I could not find a Linaro pack…

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

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

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

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.…

I'm trying to learn a little more about uboot and device tree, I already managed to create my own boot.scr, but I'm not having any success with device tree overlay, especially when typing the command. fdt apply ${load_addr} before I can type all these commands successfully setenv kernel "zImage" setenv ramdisk "uInitrd" setenv fdtfile "sun8i-h3-nanopi-neo-core.dtb" setenv load_addr "0x44000000" setenv rootdev "/dev/mmcblk0p1" setenv verbosity "1" setenv console "both" setenv disp_mem_reserves "off" setenv rootfstype "ext4" setenv consoleargs "console=ttyS0,115200" setenv uuid "UUID=7ac33e6e-fa92-4fd2-bb7c-bde01b119803" setenv rootfstype "ext4" part uuid…

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.

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

Hi! I have a problem with my Orange Pi Lite 2 I tried to connect my device to my home WiFi. But the device does not see the wifi, at a distance of 10 centimeters. I try to launch commands: nmtui-connect *name to my WIFI* nmtui-connect for show all WiFi Network. But in neither case does the device manage to identify the network. I tried using: vim /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf I tried to edit the file and to insert the data of my network but nothing. Can anyone give me a hand to solve this problem? Thanks everyone in advance!

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

Hi all, Another newbie question. I want to clone my ubuntu image from NAND (cb A20) to be able to flash to my other boards. Is it possible? What will be the process? Thanks.

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

Hi all, I'm building a rpi5b image with some success. My build machine is a x86_64 GNU/Linux with a 1gb ssd and 32gb of ram . The image builds and boots fine but there is no wlan0 device available in the booted image. I can get it by installing the armbian-firmware-full package and rebooting apt install -y armbian-firmware-full reboot I thought I could include the install in the customize-image.sh script but I get an error E: Unable to locate package armbian-firmware-full ( line 515 in the log ) - any ideas guys

How do i compile MT7601 Wifi Dongle Driver on armbian for orangepi one. I have an loboris image for Orangepi PC which has driver for MT7601. How i import driver from loboris kernel to armbian sd card. Please Help

Hello igor, do you know the same script but to build freebsd for cubietruck ?

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

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…

My recent RK3588 kernel adventure: - dual-core H.265 (HEVC) encoding working live at full 4K@60 on armbian-build edge kernel (6.19-rc8) for Rock 5B[+] and Orange Pi 5 Ultra. - fix for setting HDMIRX EDID (this didn't work in mainline on any of my tested hardware) This is out-of-tree (practical focus over upstream goals), but it's stable and producing clean bitstreams. Repo: https://github.com/rcawston/rockchip-rk3588-mainline-patches Feedback welcome.

Hi, I'm wondering if there is any environment variable to enable the compilation and of the mali and nand drivers for orangepipc board. ./compile.sh docker KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_ONLY=no INSTALL_HEADERS=no BOARD=orangepipc BRANCH=default RELEASE=xenial In the cache folder, I see those drivers at linux-sun8i/sun8i/modules/ Also, there is a script apparently to build those drivers -> linux-sun8i/sun8i/scripts/build_sun8iw8p1.sh I appreciate any help, thank you!

I made a similar board with reference to Renegade, but modified some peripherals (remove the gmac chip, remove the infrared sensor, etc.), directly use the image of Renegade, and the debug log will show as follows: U-Boot 2021.07-armbian (Mar 04 2022 - 10:47:46 +0800) Model: Firefly roc-rk3328-cc DRAM: 1022 MiB PMIC: RK8050 (on=0x10, off=0x00) MMC: mmc@ff500000: 1, mmc@ff520000: 0 Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial@ff130000 Out: serial@ff130000 Err: serial@ff130000 Model: Firefly roc-rk3328-cc Net: eth0: ethernet@ff540000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1 is curre…

Hello Everyone, I would like to share my experience about how to boot Orange Pi almost silently in console mode (eliminate a lot of kernel messages on startup) without desktop and remove cursor blinking that can cause black rectangle appearing over white background, when painting to framebuffer. Many options that proposed as being able to reduce kernel messages on boot didn't work for me. So based on Armbian documentation I started to experience with armbianEnv.txt file in the /boot folder. The extraargs setting was not part of the default armbianEnv.txt file, but appeared in BOOT.CMD file. The setting extraargs=vt.global_cursor_default=0 quiet sol…

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

Hi there, I've tried to migrate from my old 16.04 ubuntu build machine to 18.04 regarding the documentation there is no need for extra packages. To get compile.sh running I've added build-essentials, ccache, make & libpython. Now there is a problem with openssl/bio.h. Is there a complete list of packages needed? I've set up my VM using the ubuntu-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso image. Is it solely failing by not using the mini.iso? Regards, Sebastian

Hello, I'm trying to make a change for kernel panel driver for custom mipi dsi panel and orangepi-4-lts dts file. I could successfully flashed my armbian and bringed on our orangepi-4-lts board. I have configured to. debian minimal server rootfs and current linux kernel git tree in menuconfig with that command. sudo apt-get -y install git git clone --depth=1 --branch=v24.11 https://github.com/armbian/build cd build/ ./compile.sh ./compile.sh KERNEL_GIT=shallow After bring up, i tried to change existing linux kernel driver to our customized one using userpatches and that worked well. But i forgot the change dts file of orangepi4-lts and i have changed …

Hi there, I have now finally managed to apply the RT Kernel patch on the Bananapi. (Original Patch here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/3.4/patch-3.4.108-rt136.patch.gz) The patch did not work out of the box and I had a bit of hassle to fix all of the rejected bits. To me the Banana Pi is best suited for audio production since it is very affoedable and it already comes with a usable audio out. To get the full benefit of the RT kernel patch it was necessary to thrn also reduce the buffer size of the inbuilt sunxi -codec audio driver. I can now play a synth using a buffer size of 512 samples glitch free. Here are some numbers: ansum@ba…

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 …

Hi all! I use Linux 3.4.112-sun7i on Limo2 (A20), how to I can do update libstdc++6 from current 4.8.4 to >= 5.2? Regards,

Hi, Anyone here ever tried to build a mainline uboot for sunxi-3.4 kernel. As mentioned here v2015.10 support NAND spl. https://linux-sunxi.org/Mainline_U-Boot#v2015.10 I'm in the first part of doing it, but unfortunately I'm always stuck with this error. OBJCOPY examples/standalone/hello_world.srec OBJCOPY examples/standalone/hello_world.bin LDS u-boot.lds LD u-boot DTC arch/arm/dts/sun7i-a20-ainol-aw1.dtb In file included from arch/arm/dts/sun7i-a20-ainol-aw1.dts:10:0: arch/arm/dts/sun7i-a20.dtsi:47:54: fatal error: dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/arm-gic.h: No such file or directory #include <dt-bindings/interrupt-control…

Hi, I'm trying to compile an Armbian image for OdroidC2 with btrfs rootfs, I created an Ubuntu Xenial container with systemd-nspawn as building environment. The building process reports these errors: ERROR in function prepare_partitions debootstrap-ng.sh:374 err Unable to find free loop device err Process terminated info ERROR in function unmount_on_exit debootstrap-ng.sh:525 err debootstrap-ng was interrupted err Process terminated info I've done a little search and found that there are no loop device in a default container and that's impossible to create a new one with: mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0 The answer is: mknod: /dev/loop0: Operation not permitted So I …

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.

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

I got an issue from a user on a bash script I am sharing on github. The script is to make shrunk img backups on a running system on a lot of different sbc:s. After some testing on the users side (I did not have access to hardware to test) it turned out the script fails because of the partition table, it is GPT while in the past they have always been MBR (msdos). I downloaded the latest opi5 gnome desktop image and looped it and parted shows it is in GPT. We figured out a way to solve it but my question is: is this because rpi5 uses gpt partition table (I do not own a rpi5 either)? Will this be the future of most armbian builds? …