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Hi @balbes150 thank you for a lot of great work on Khadas VIM. could you make it offically support by Armbian?

The problem: I want to run my Banana Pi M2 Zero from a battery / powerbank setup. It works like a charm from a beefy powerbank capable of consistent 2A output [1], even with added 5" LCD screen to power at the same time and wireless keyboard transmitter. BUT it does hang up hard, I guess due to undervoltage, when powered from a smaller, weaker powerbank with a single 18650 cell and max output of about 500mA (theoretically 1A but let's underestimate, I'll try to measure it with an oscilloscope). Armbian with 4.19 kernel and Ubuntu 18.04 (but booting in text mode, without any GUI). The hangup occurs during services startup, usually around networ…

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…

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.

Let's first recap from the other thread : And here is Zador's first reply : And my first reply : Now, here is my latest investigations : Both H5 and A64 doesn't probe RTC driver successfully, explaining why dmesg doesn't mentioned it (I hate driver which are not verbose on failures !) But, why H5 doesn't react the same as A64 ? I will have to wait until issue re-appear to dig further in /var/log/syslog , maybe tomorrow ! BTW, Zador, the -EINVAL seen on "date" command is only shown when symptom occurred, not after reboot... (let's wait tomorrow to see) As I said, I suspect "systemd" compatiblilty issue here. BTW, each time the issu…

I've started the job of switching both rockchip64-dev and rk3399-dev to 5.2.y ...

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…

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

Since the two last days, I'm working on switching SUNXI-DEV to 5.2.y ... I'm almost done, tested few of my boards, I will do more boards and probably commit my work tomorrow !

Is it my fault or the thermal trip points and cooling steps disappeared in Linux 5.1 on (at least) RK3288 devices? The "C/St." field from armbianmonitor -m disappeared: root@xt:/home/paolo# uname -a Linux xt 5.1.7-rockchip #5.88 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 8 13:06:26 UTC 2019 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux root@xt:/home/paolo# armbianmonitor -m Stop monitoring using [ctrl]-[c] Time CPU load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq CPU 12:03:51: 1608MHz 0.58 7% 1% 5% 0% 0% 0% 58.6°C 12:03:56: 696MHz 0.54 4% 1% 3% 0% 0% 0% 58.6°C 12:04:01: 696MHz 0.49 4% 1% 3% 0% 0% 0% 56.8°C and if I launch a stress test the SoC happi…

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:

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

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!

I already saw similar posts on this here, here and here. It looks like the combination of Kernel and Kernel-Header 5.89.190617 again is not complete to build own modules. Based on the configure script: Then I tried to check the headers: Since it was already a few times on the forum and sometime there was a new build created and it was fixed again, I would like to know if I just came over the same error again or if I did something wrong. cheers, Daniel

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?

I've struggled the whole day on that task using v2019.01 ... It is even worst than my struggling back in early December, even using Method #2 give me headache with Pinctrl not initialize and boot device been garbage : channel 0 training pass! channel 1 training pass! change freq to 800MHz 1,0 ch 0 ddrconfig = 0x101, ddrsize = 0x20 ch 1 ddrconfig = 0x101, ddrsize = 0x20 pmugrf_os_reg[2] = 0x3281F281, stride = 0x9 OUT U-Boot SPL board init Pinctrl init failed: -19 Trying to boot from m�iYk~Ⱥ�C��+J)H�^J!������wZ��q�+����q����!

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 …

Simple library for 128x64. Works fine with SH1106 1.3" OLED and OrangePi Zero (4.9 kernel). You just need to activate I2C interface by replacing "disabled" with "okay" in device tree file (or in the fex). Connect display and test with "sudo i2cdetect -y 0" (or 1). If your display has 3d address instead 3c, change OLED_I2C_ADDR parameter it in the oled.h. Enter "make" to compile and run demo with "sudo ./oled_demo /dev/i2c-0". This library was written by Sonal Pinto for Arduino and ported to Linux by Vladimir Komendantskiy. I just wrote functions for text drawing and add three little fonts. This library only can draw text at X Y with specified font and draw cu…

I installed the linux-image-dev-sunxi64 and linux-dtb-dev-sunxi64 packages, which pulls in the 5.1.5 kernel, and it seems something is amiss in the pinebook dtb. On the 4.19 kernel, pwm-backlight powers on, and you get video output, however, on 5.1.5 once u-boot loads the kernel and it is starting, video output goes away. In the 4.19 kernel, the kern.log shows the following output during boot: May 29 19:15:10 localhost kernel: [ 3.937999] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p1): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. Opts: (null) May 29 19:15:10 localhost kernel: [ 5.573863] random: lvmconfig: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read) May 29 19:…

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

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

Good morning, I hope you all are fine. I am working on orange pi pc plus with mainline kernel 4.4, I tried to use the on board button but it didn't work in spite of its existence in the device tree (after dumping the already running dtb) and I found that: pinctrl@01f02c00 { compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-h3-r-pinctrl"; reg = <0x1f02c00 0x400>; interrupts = <0x0 0x2d 0x4>; clocks = <0x2d 0x3 0x1c 0x1d>; clock-names = "apb", "hosc", "losc"; gpio-controller; #gpio-cells = <…

Hello. I'm just wondering if anyone here has successfully built the latest Linux Kernel 5.2 rc for any of the RK3288 based sbc's. I'm using the Tinkerboard S specifically and have read about several improvements that have been included in this kernel and including panfrost support which seems rather exciting.

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…

It isn't documented anywhere, where to put the public key file for dropbear before compiling the image with the enabled cryptroot parameter. Does anybody know where the key should be placed and in which format?

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 everyone, I have problems with compilation patched kernel 3.4.113 My patches uses header file customize.h, I copy this file into build directory - cache/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/include/linux/ I get an error during the build process fatal error: linux/customize.h: No such file or directory What location should I use for my header file?

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…

Currently all of the Armbian kernel defconfigs include the actual build configuration statically as part of the kernel. The standard Armbian build process also includes a copy of the .config file in /boot/config-<version>-<platform>. Are both required, or should the kernel configurations be updated to make Kernel .config support an LKM instead of static bind? True this is a minor item. The actual kernel configuration takes up a very small amount of memory, though on many SBCs with limited memory to start with every byte not used by the kernel can help. This would amount to changing from: CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y to: CO…

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

I've done an experimental build of 5.0.y for my NanoPiK2. It seems that most of the current rejected patches are simply not needed anymore. The only thing I'm not sure what to do is in patch 0038-media-meson-add-v4l2-m2m-video-decoder-driver.patch. I've comment out this line since it seems that v4l2 API has changed : // .vidioc_cropcap = vdec_cropcap, If some of you are more familiar, please, give some help here. Should I proceed to the commits ?

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: …

I try Armbian's OrangepiA64 Win Mainline Linux 4.19,But jack sound don't work always,I try many a time.Finally,I decide build image from mainline linux 5.0,Yes,Everything ok except usb,all usb port don't work. root@OrangepiWin:~# lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub root@OrangepiWin:~# dmesg |grep -i usb [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait rootfstype=ext4 console=ttyS0,115200 panic=10 consoleblank=0 loglevel=8 ubootpart=bc38bc54-01 ubootsource=mmc usb-storage.quirks=0x2537:0x1066…

I've started looking at switching Rockchip64-DEV to 5.0.y ... I've now my RockPro64 under 5.0.y ... It look much more easier task than the previous one with Sunxi-DEV ! @Igor , I've pushed a "rockchip64-4.20" tag that will allow to bring 4.20.y into NEXT if we wish ... Also, is there any reason why RockPro64 still using U-Boot SPL 2017.09-armbian (from Ayufan's branch) instead of Mainline U-Boot such v2019.01 ? If No, I will switch that too ...

Hi, I bought the edimax EW-7822ULC usb wifi device (based on rtl8822). I was able to build the driver, install it, and test it (works!). Edimax provides the sources on their site. Is anyone working on incorporating this into Armbian? Steve

Hi, i'm building the latest "cubietruck next" (5.77) code and the platform doesn't boot. i used the same building with older version and it's working fine. the latest version got stuck on boot. does any one else have same issue? [ o.k. ] Creating board support package [ cubietruck next ] [ .... ] Fingerprinting [ o.k. ] Building package [ linux-xenial-root-next-cubietruck ] [ o.k. ] Building desktop package [ armbian-xenial-desktop_5.77_all ] [ o.k. ] Kernel build done [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Target directory [ /BananaPi_M1/project/build/output/debs/ ] [ o.k. ] File name [ linux-image-next-sunxi_5.77_armhf.deb ] [ o.k…

Hello everyone, My hardware is Orange Pi PC2. I'm netbooting with latest armbian kernel compiled from src: root@hello-PC:/home/hello/armbian# cat /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default default menu.c32 prompt 1 menu title Boot Menu Label Armbian menu label Manual load Armbian kernel armbian/vmlinuz-4.19.20-sunxi64 fdt armbian/sun50i-h5-orangepi-pc2.dtb append initrd=armbian/uInitrd netboot=nfs nfsroot=192.168.100.1:/var/nfs debug=y Everything is loaded and mounted, but I can't see any echoes from init script (initramfs). Even after I added: root@hello-PC:/home/hello/armbian/init# diff init ../init_bak 30,31d29 < mknod…

I wish you all good health. Using the "Armbian" build system, I noticed two bad points: 1 - incomplete cleaning of the source code before starting a new compilation, seen when patches add new files to the tree. 2 - Debian kernel source package includes the git directory. 1) All I do I'm fixing the version kernel (KERNELBRANCH="tag:v4.14.40") and collect several variants for one Board, changing the patchset for each version, adding or removing some. Before each new compilation I'm doing a test of the purity of the source. clean_repo() { display_alert "clean_repo $PWD" #git status -s git reset --hard HEAD # First, return the modified f…

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 ───────────…

During all my board migrations under 5.0.y, I've seen that copying OS into eMMC using "nand-sata-install", it now much faster !!! I don't know if it 5.0.y related or if some tweaks have been done to "nand-sata-install", but time shrink from 20minutes to 4 or 5minutes...

We are facing an issue on Pinebook Desktop A64 HDMI under 5.0.y ... It is booting, but as soon as HDMI is switching from plain text console to graphic, the screen stays blank ... I didn't get chance to investigate, I need help here from any Devs who has a Pinebook !

I've done a discovery : when using current Armbian overlays in 5.0.y thru dynamic loading (aka : /sys/kernel/config/devices-tree/overlays) , although working, it produced the following warning in "dmesg" : WARNING: memory leak will occur if overlay removed Example, loading i2c overlays produce : [ 80.494728] OF: overlay: WARNING: memory leak will occur if overlay removed, property: /aliases/i2c0 [ 80.494745] OF: overlay: WARNING: memory leak will occur if overlay removed, property: /aliases/i2c1 [ 80.494752] OF: overlay: WARNING: memory leak will occur if overlay removed, property: /aliases/i2c2 [ 80.494789] OF: overlay: WARNING: memor…

I'm a newbie to Armbian, just a hobby user, no company behind me. While building Armbian for my Banana Pi R1 (aka Lamobo R1) [Allwinner A20, sunxi] the build system gave the following warnings originating from the U-Boot project. I think some maintainers and/or experienced users should take a look at the following. ===================== WARNING ====================== This board does not use CONFIG_DM_MMC. Please update the board to use CONFIG_DM_MMC before the v2019.04 release. Failure to update by the deadline may result in board removal. See doc/driver-model/MIGRATION.txt for more info. ==================================================== …

I've start looking about the Switching DEV to 5.0.y ... I've done a preliminary trial for OrangePiPCPlus after disabling few patches, etc ... Installed with success ... Although it produce at lot of patch rejects, I think we should pursue the move to 5.0.y, even if it looks more painful than the switch from 4.19.y to 4.20.y done few weeks ago ... I'm also calling for help on this move, as I've seen lot of patch rejects in Lima patches : @JMCC are you the expert here ? For all Devs wishing to keep backup images of 4.20.y, build your images ASAP before the switch occurs ! Any concerns ? EDIT: Oh ! I alm…

It is appearing like that only in recent builds ...

Earlier today I pushed a fairy large patchset containing various functional improvements of many boards. If you have Allwinner board and some spare time: 1. Build DEV image/kernel with https://github.com/armbian/build (you need to add EXPERT="yes" to the config to unlock) 2. Install DEV kernel from beta repository Optional Defreeze kernel updates Switch to nightly kernel (armbian-config -> system -> Nightly) Reboot Switch to other kernel (armbian-config -> system -> Other -> DEV) When board came up, do some exploration. Most important information is to find out if there is a regression toward ker…

Hello, I have had a look to the new Development Image (Armbian_5.76.190228_Tinkerboard_Debian_stretch_dev_5.0.0-rc8_desktop.7z) My SixFfab Hat which was working like a charm on 4.19-20 kernel. Any changes to add supoort for this Hardware again? Do you need any additional information? Many Thanks Roman

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 …

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

A bit of software that might be interesting to those that wish to use the IO's of Pi type boards https://github.com/Nikolay-Kha/PyCNC Typically there is no way to control stepper motors from Linux runtime environment due to the lack of real time GPIO control. Even kernel based modules can not guarantee precise control of pulses for steppers. However, we can use a separate hardware module, DMA (Direct Memory Access) which provides high precision for GPIO outputs. This module can copy bytes which represent GPIO states from RAM buffer directly to GPIO with some clock based on main chip internal oscillator without using CPU's cores. Using such approach…

Just thought you developers might enjoy this... It uses a CRAZY cheap module, becomes a serial to wifi bridge, outputs on the module can then be connected to a standard serial tx/rx, 5v/gnd, and not only does it have a webgui, but also a web console https://github.com/jeelabs/esp-link The esp-link firmware connects a micro-controller to the internet using an ESP8266 Wifi module. It implements a number of features: transparent bridge between Wifi and serial, useful for debugging or inputting into a uC flash-programming attached Arduino/AVR microcontrollers and LPC800-series and other ARM microcontrollers via Wifi built-in stk500v1 p…

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@…

Hi, thanks for the efforts making armbian very well and very stable for all the distributions, I'm running with a Cubieboard 1 and other arm devices.. I don't want to disturb, but I'll be a headache to support or add in repository this old A10 device Mele A1000/A2000? I know that is old chip, but I'm feel nostalgia, because was one of firsts devices supported in linux-sunxi, and Tom Cubie worked at mele, and sell this litlle joys overseas in 2012, and there are a lot of people now that have this devices too. a lot now sure in the dust and is in mainline kernel also. Tom left Mele, and maked Cubieboard 1, this Mele A1000 I think that have the same configurat…

I found this project very interesting and I would like to try Armbian for this new board Turris MOX. I've got your build environment working and tested my own build for a couple of supported boards. It was successful. I would like to ask you if you could help me in preparing the .config file for this board. Board Specification: https://mox.turris.cz/en/specification/ Documentation: https://doc.turris.cz/doc/en/howto/mox/mox-a-cpu Indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turris-mox-modular-open-source-router

Hi, running Armbian Ubuntu on Nanopi Neo2 and it is working really great. I would like to implement HPN-SSH but I can't compile any of the OpenSSH versions against OpenSSL 1.1.x present on system. Any idea if OpenSSL 1.1.x can be safely downgraded to the latest OpenSSL 1.0.x release? I would use for example the method described here Not sure if OpenSSL 1.0.x would break anything on the system or not? Thanks for your help and advise!

Hello, I'm new to Armbian which i just installed on a Rock64 board (Armbian_5.65_Rock64_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.4.162.7z). I have to say that my first impressions are that Armbian is a nice Os and that this is the one that causes me the less troubles on the Rock64 to install and to start. My goal is the write/port an application in C++ preferably by using Qt. Here, it is the problem. I tried to install it using command: sudo apt-get install qtcreator sudo apt-get install qt4-designer "Qt 4 Designer" seems installed correctly and seems working properly. Qt Creator was not installed completely, the IDE is installed but there i…

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

https://github.com/armbian/documentation/commit/9d43fb8b2baf45258b5ef84dafc31585889cfc70 In case you want to squeeze in something. DUE: Sunday.

http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Merged_into_5.0 At the moment, the kernel version is 4.19.16, this version does not support the camera, but 2 new versions have already been released. Help compile, or explain what to do if I want to use the gc2035 CSI camera.

Hello, I'm using the Tinkerboard S and I'm just curious. My understanding is that the latest mali user space drivers released by rockchip no longer have x11 support. I'm wondering if this user space driver is capable of running say a desktop environment utilising wayland. Would say, Gnome, Plasma or Enlightenment work with this proprietary driver? My apologies i'm in no way shape or form a developer, just curious about the capabilities of the driver. I

I tried to used AppArmor under the Linux cubietruck 4.4.1-sunxi #10 SMP Wed Feb 17 17:57:20 CET 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux. But I get a kernel panic after i rebooted the system. Some questions: 1. Did you integrate AppArmor into the kernel? 2. Did you use an alternative mandatory access control? 3. Need I an additional kernel argument in the /boot/boot.cmd other than these "apparmor=1 security=apparmor"? 4. Is there a major diffenrece between your kernel and that from danad.de? Unluckily I was not capable of getting a dump from the kernel panic. If you need it, I would take a photo.

Hello, In december, it was possible to install 4.19 kernel for Rock64. Unfortunately this kernel was removed from Armbian repo. 4.20 kernel is bogus, USB doesn't work and SD card is very slow. 4.19 was fine. Is it possible to make it available again in in the repo ? Thank you

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

It's a good idea, but it still leaves a question of loading u-boot and kernel/script.bin/initrd initially. If SPL doesn't want to boot from available SD card this won't help much... ... unless FEL is used to "bootstrap" the process. Just for experiment I compiled sunxi-fel for Windows and installed libUSB driver in single click with Zadig tool. So we could provide an application/set of scripts for Linux and Windows to do this.

Hellow, I would like to report an issue with Orange Pi PC+ I tried to run the board with a manually built image (with kernel version 'next' and 5.71). While in the past I was able to create Wifi hotspots without any issues, with a new image I encountered weird issues where the hotspot was listed from Wifi clients, but trying to connect triggered some scarry traceback such as this one : Spoiler Jan 21 00:09:50 hostname kernel: [ 99.828931] ------------[ cut here ]------------ Jan 21 00:09:50 hostname kernel: [ 99.833571] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3901! Jan 21 00:09:50 hostname kernel: [ 99.837580] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] …

Stumbled across this while working on something else not ARM related, but it's pretty cool - since Armbian is looking at devices that have eMMC, this might be useful https://github.com/pepe2k/u-boot_mod Short story - it's a uBoot with a micro web server that supports flashing images, including uBoot itself - basically it turns things into a bit of a fail-safe as long as uBoot can execute... (those playing with the fire that is uBoot, keep your UART connections handy) Do I have some security concerns - absolutely yes... but no different than the UEFI that is on many x86 boards these days.

Sorry for this novice question, I am sure I am missing this in the documentation somewhere... When creating Armbian images using the included build system, I notice that the kernel is downloaded each time I run a build. This of course takes a decent amount of time to pull via git. Is there a way to simply point the build system to a local cached folder that already contains kernel sources already downloaded? That would speed up my iterations significantly. Thanks!

Hi all, I have a Orange Pi Zero Plus H5 board running with Armbinan 5.65 Ubuntu Bionic image downloaded from armbian.com/download. The kernel version is 4.14.78. I want to build a custom kernel module for this kernel but where I can get linux-headers-next-sunxi64_5.65 package? I did with apt-get but the lasted version only 5.60. Please help

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

Hi to all Armbian Devs, According to my local experience done today with newly Ayufan's 4.20.0 tag done this morning, it seems to be quite ready ... (Except for my failure to get eMMC running on RockPro64, but works well on OPi-RK3399 and NanoPC-T4) So, I'm asking you if I should commit all those stuff !!! @TonyMac32 during those builds, I see 2 patches broken, I didn't investigated, but maybe those patches are simply not relevant anymore and can be deleted : [ warn ] * [l][c] renegade-add-uhs.patch [ failed ] [ warn ] * [l][c] rk3328-add-GRF-GPIO.patch [ failed ] One my side, I need to fix some patches to…

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

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.

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

Hello, I would like know, KSZ9031RNX this chip supported in old Armbian Linux 3.4.x? Where I can found information about Linux supported chips in the Linux sources?

Prior to entering an issue... One of the challenges of using an image based install is how to cover to machine unique items... Good example here is the systemd-machine-id... some systemd units can use machine-id in place of gethostid... https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-id.html It's supposed to be a unique qualifier for installation - but if this is written into the image, it's going to likely be the same for every image out there... Can always regen it on the shell - but this could also be in the first run script... $ cat /etc/machine-id \ && sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dbus/…

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

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

Hello I use compile.sh and customize-image.sh to make my own custom image and every think is all right and work great. This is my command line to compile: sudo ./compile.sh KERNEL_CONFIGURE="no" KERNEL_ONLY="no" BOARD="orangepipc2" BRANCH="next" RELEASE="xenial" BUILD_DESKTOP="yes" After burned my image and lounch Armbian I have to do two steps: 1) go to armbian config and set taggle hardware config "i2c0" option to "true" (like on picture 1.png) 2) go to armbian config and set time zone = Europe/Moscow I tried to set KERNEL_CONFIGURE="yes" and try to find this options in configmenu = I did not find I tried to add option T…

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.

I'm currently working on the meson64 family (C2, K2, Le Potato) as a family, and am trying to more or less make their GPIO behaviors similar and matching (as best I can) to the RPi they are form factor clones of. An issue I'm having right now has to do with the spidev driver, these boards don't have hardware spi where the Pi/Tinker does does, so I'm defining spi-gpio devices in the device tree. That part is fine. Where it gets interesting is setting up a spidev node under it. - Calling out a compatible = "spidev" works, enumerates, etc, but throws the typical ugly error during boot that it is wrong to do it that way. - Adding a compatible string to the…

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!

Now that I've done builds for NanoPiM1Plus2 and BananaPiM2Plus, along with the previous series OPiZeroPlus-H3/OPiZeroPlus-H5/OPiWin/OPiPrime, and that all of those boards has the same symptoms of missing AP6212 (+/- some have mmc-sdio appear, some not), I've continue my search for hints. To my discovery, I found the following quote in http://linux-sunxi.org/Sinovoip_Banana_Pi_M2%2B I hope that is not true any more ...

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...) …

for compiling Next LTS 4.19.y images I did try to update my build-system, but I do get errors on 2 packages which I cant resolve Does anyone had this problem and could tell me how to solve this? Or would it be more easy to reinstall the build-system? The following packages will be upgraded: libc6-armhf-cross libc6-dev-armhf-cross 2 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade. Need to get 2,904 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 libc6-dev-armhf-cross all 2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1 [1,899 kB] Get:2 http://de…

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

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

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

Hi Team, With very straight forward documentation for building the image for Orange PI one board (All Winner H3), I was able build image. The experiment I am trying to do here is to run a simple service on boot (It may do nothing as of now, but should be listed as running when status is checked). Now since, the experiment is simple, I am trying to get some inputs on removing/excluding kernel modules that are not required and also build the image in release mode (not debug mode). Highly appreciate teams help in getting the inputs. Looking forward for the response. Thanks, Kedar

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

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 ?

You have a build framework that works pretty good, is it out of the question to have an extremely simple configuration framework? Maybe framework is more advanced than needed, probably just a script? It it doesn’t need to be part of the normal build process but could just simply inject a configuration profile into a completed rootfs, image or actual sd card Just the basics: Single network manager profile hostname default user and pass serial console config log2ram status remote login status (ssh, xrdp) I don’t mind writing a simple v0.1 to get started

Since there is a well-known security issue at s905(x) SOCs : https://fredericb.info/2016/10/amlogic-s905-soc-bypassing-not-so.html Is it possible to disable serial console at s905 u-boot ? Does the setting at device tree apply to kernel only or both kernel and u-boot drivers ? Regards ! Guofu Han

Hello, I know that when a new LTS kernel gets released, that has very considerable impact and importance here at Armbian. Are you stoked about the upcoming 4.19 release? I know I am. No doubt many forum members have their favorite "pet" boards, and will be eager to see some currently-"experimental" features become "stable". Which of these features matter the most to you? Can you give examples of which use cases you'll be most eager to get a 4.19 kernel into? Myself, I'll be excited to see which already-Supported boards get a new Armbian Stretch or Bionic released with 4.19. This will help me get a sense which boards (and SBC makers) have the …

Did anyone try to support a Xilinx Zynq (ARM A9 + FPGA) or ZynqMP (ARM A53 + FPGA) board? https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc/zynq-ultrascale-mpsoc.html Xilinx provides Petalinux (https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/embedded-software/petalinux-sdk.html), but I like the flexibility of Armbian. If I had to try to support one of those boards, what should I look at? Thank you

Namely the Network Manager. I recently just made a Debian Stretch Image for the ROC-RK3328-CC (Renegade) with the help of this and I would like to know for future reference, how to omit and add software to the final build. The build seemed to go fine and working like a charm, but Network Manager just gives me a headache and every now again doesn't come up during boot. Be real nice if I didn't have to depend on it or remove it after the fact, every time I wanna make a new image. Thanks!

I am referring to s905(x) series SOCs. Is it possible to create a cryptpasswd at encrypted OTP and use it to unlock root file system on boot ? If not , is it possible to use a security chipset such as ATSHA204 / DX81C04 / ZW30I8 / SMEC98SP to feed s905(x) the key ? Regards ! GuoFu Han

On Which image can I test? Any How? Go to armbian-config -> System -> Nightly and proceed. If this option is not there, defreeze upgrading Restart and after your system is up, proceed to one of those areas: - desktop install from armbian-config on top of CLI (any board) - set first_run_network configuration, setting ip within /boot/armbian_first_run.txt (any board except Espressobin) - kernel switching or upgrade (any board, especially Odroid XU4 NEXT) - setting fixed/dhcp network with armbian-config (any board except Espressobin) - configure frame buffer within h3disp utility (any h3 board with a legacy kernel) - DTS s…

I'm curious as to why we explicitly specify CPUMIN and CPUMAX values in the Armbian board configs, for most/all boards... These values of course propagate their way into the MIN_SPEED and MAX_SPEED settings in the target /etc/default/cpufrequtils configuration file (e.g., see lib/makeboarddeb.sh). If these values aren't specified, then the cpufreq driver will base its speed ranges on what the underlying H/W supports (e.g., specified via the board DT(s)). So...if the underlying driver configuration provides the supported speed range, then we actually need to specify these values? I ask because I'm running my H5 boards with my overlays t…

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 …