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Hi all, I have a bananapi and I have installed the debian Wheezy image with kernel 3.19.0. Now, I’d like to upgrade to kernel 4.0.4 to see wether the ananlog audio output is supported; so I downloaded all the deb packages from the website and installed them, but after reboot the system is still using kernel 3.19.0. How can I switch it to use kernel 4.0.4? I guess I should edit something in boot.cmd and convert it to boot.scr, but what should I change exactly? Thanks in advance for your help!

A great 9.30 min review here, pointing out the issues: Cooling, GPIO expansion, no MIPI, lack of SPI support in Armbian? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MzxLYGWQddA Apparently the much discussed Armbian cooling/Vreg techniques were not known to the author. Other stuff is interesting, with comparison to RPi.

Hi all, I need to add some packages to Armbian in the build phase. I tried two ways, both failed: 1. Had run through docs (https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/), and the suggestion is to add a var PACKAGE_LIST_ADDITIONAL in userpatches/lib.config PACKAGE_LIST_ADDITIONAL="$PACKAGE_LIST_ADDITIONAL watchdog modemmanager iptables iptables-persistent dnsmasq bridge-utils iproute2 openvpn" Building the image I get the following error: [🌱] Using user configuration override [ /home/andrea/armbian/build/userpatches/lib.config ] /home/andrea/armbian/build/userpatches/lib.c…

Hello everyone. From some time ago I´m working in an application that comunicates with some external devices, using GPIOs. With this aim, I´ve programmed my own driver with its methods, whose are automatic loaded at startup. My hardware is a BananaPi m2u, and kernel version is 5.4.35-sunxi. Now, I´ve to read an external HW that has 2 data lines, whose idle state is "high" and once per minute sends a packet of 26 bits of data. One of these lines is a Data0 signal, and the other is Data1 signal. Every pulse is around 100us, and there is an idle interval of about 2ms between one bit and the next. There is no way for data line 0 and data …

Hi, I just installed ambian 5.0 legacy wheezy on my bpi-r1 but wondershaper wont run: RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument We have an error talking to the kernel It seems a module is missing. Can someone help me pls? Thanks in advance, hegge

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: …

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

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

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…

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 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…

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 tempted to load the Siano Mobile Silicon driver (TV adapter) into the Orange Pi PC more I'm not getting. I have performed the following procedures already: I put it in the / lib / firmware folder: isdbt_rio.inp I configured the smsmdtv.conf file (options smsmdtv default_mode = 4) in the /etc/modprobe.d/ folder I installed firmware-siano-rio_1.0_all.deb (sudo dpkg -i firmware-siano-rio_1.0_all.deb) Has anyone already set up the siano drive on linux? Thank you very much

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 found what a likely duplicate out-of-tree driver after investigating a warning from the kernel build: CC [M] drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple-dsi.o drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple-dsi.c: In function 'panel_simple_get_modes': drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple-dsi.c:310:73: warning: passing argument 3 of 'of_get_drm_display_mode' makes pointer from integer without a cast …

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

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

Hi friends, I created a boot SD card with armbian for cubieboard A20 from this web site: http://www.armbian.com/cubieboard-2/ I insert card to cubieboard. System booting, but armbian is restart and shutdown. When I try turn on repeatedly, system booting and system is shut down. Video with the problem is here: https://youtu.be/E-gzpk1PnNQ Any idea, how resolve this problem?

Hello, fresh installed Armbian desktop OS detects attached HDMI display as full HD with correct resolution 1920x1080. But after some restarts it loads in u-boot with correct resolution and then, on kernel startup switches to 1024x768 and also desktop opens with this resolution without an option to increase it. The armbianEnv.txt file in /boot folder contains string disp_mode=1920x1080p60 and was not changed. Please advise.

I'm having trouble trying to do a custom kernel configuration using this image on my hc4. It's just not opening menuconfig, I get the screen to select the board ( odroid hc4), then the LTS/Edge kernel screen, then this is the only output: ~/build$ ./compile.sh BOARD=odroidhc4 BRANCH=current BUILD_MINIMAL=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_ONLY=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=sha,img [🌿] Applying cmdline param [ 'BUILD_MINIMAL': '(empty)' --> 'no' early ] [🌿] Applying cmdline param [ 'COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE': '(empty)' --> 'sha,img' early ] [🌿] Applying cmdline param [ 'BUILD_DESKTOP': '(empty)' --> 'no' early ] [🌿] Applying cmdline param […

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.

I've downloaded the latest stable Release of the source code: https://github.com/armbian/build/releases/tag/v25.8.1 When doing a Build, when it allows you to select the kernel branch: [vendor, mainline, edge], the only edge available for selection is the bleeding edge (i.e. latest trunk version). I've downloaded the 25.8.1 source code, and that's the edge version I want to compile. How do you build an image with the latest (relatively) stable edge kernel, as available in Armbian-Config? (i.e. currently v6.16.1-edge at Armbian 25.8.1)? Update #1 When compiling the image with the edge kernel, it downloaded it from the internet and i…

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

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?

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

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…

Hello, I have a bunch of boards (rpi4b, rpi5, orangepi5, orangepi5-plus, nanopct6, rock3a, rock5b, vim4) in a Kubernetes cluster using Cilium. Cilium requires CONF_SCHEDSTATS=y in the kernel, which is dependent on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y but... in build/lib/functions/compilation/armbian-kernel.sh we have # DONE: Disable: debug option kernel_config_set_n DEBUG_KERNEL # Armbian doesn't know how to package a debug kernel. Which invalidates the option I enabled during ./compile.sh BOARD=... BRANCH=... kernel-config Except for the VIM4, with DEBUG_KERNEL enabled in build/config/sources/families/meson-s4t7.conf …

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,

Now that Debian stable has moved from Jessie to Stretch, what would it take to move the Debian branch of Armbian to Stretch? Would it break anything if I just s/jessie/stretch/g in /etc/apt/sources.list and do sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade?

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

Hello everyone, I wanted to propose that the q8 tablets be included in the compilation script, I have several q8 tablets, at the beginning I used my own rootfs, but armbian is fantastic !! counting the modifications I make to the armbian rootfs I think it would be easy, in the firmware repository you already have the majority of hardware such as 8723 and other Wi-Fi chips, with respect to the uboot the templates that already incorporate the main repository work almost perfectly, no I know, could I help, I have the components, the dtb and the compiled uboot, how do you see it? Greetings

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

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…

You may have read about the recent (one month ago, but hey, what's a month between friends?) security vulnerabilities discovered in dnsmasq. They have been patched in version 2.78 and, quoting the author: This is a bugfix release, and, amongst other things, addresses a set of serious security vulnerabilities. Update should be mandatory. The dnsmasq shipped with Armbian is a rather old 2.75 and it is enabled by default, so I see this as a rather significant risk. I have compiled the latest version and installed it by hand, following the instructions located here (obviously, with 2.78 instead of 2.76). Is there any chance of getting this package updated in …

Is there an example of how to prepare the image with ...(for example) pre-Installed webmin ,Apache and own www start page ?

Hi I think the subject I am interested in, called Kiosk OS or computer. I like to build a computer that when you turn it on, it does only execute one or some programs that I want. how can I do that? Is it a simple thing or should I spend weeks or months to learning and doing that? (I am a newbie linux user but know the C language). Very thank you in advanced!

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 …

Hello. I have troubles with the new version from source. The main reason i compile it from source, instead of downloading pre-build images is to enable CMA in kernel config. And now i try to apply some patches like in this last post - Kodi/XBMC on Armbian with hw Accleration possible? . The version i try is CLI Armbian_5.07_Lamobo-r1_Debian_jessie_3.4.111. First there are some errors at the very beginning, then first boot is freezing at recreating SSH keys and after long time some messages for disconnecting and reconnecting USB devices appears and that's all, no reboot. I thought those patches are the problem and try without them, same condition. I have builded image from…

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?

Need uinput module to use with tslib but "nanopineo 4.11.0-sun8i" doesn't seem to have it, neither static linked to the kernel or as a dynamic module. What am I missing? Thank you

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

Hello, when I try apt update, I got this message: W: Failed to fetch http://apt.armbian.com/dists/jessie/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) My /etc/apt/sources.list.d: deb http://apt.armbian.com jessie main jessie-utils jessie-desktop Is any error on my side or how to correct this please? Thanx

Based on post "http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/120-f2fs-for-rootfs/" Can be added an optional choice to build image with F2FS root? Ext4 filesystem is crap for microSD/SD card and should not be used with expected large writes for example when you are running a mysql database. or tkaiser could you please post your modified compile.sh script for this purpose?

Ever since I read through THIS POST a while back, I started digging through the cpufrequtils init script, and was a more or less disappointed with what I found. It's largely a product of the CPUs that were available around that time (eg - Pentium 3). Namely that all cores in the system are the same, and there's should be only one master policy that controls everything. Of course ARM big.LITTLE totally breaks these assumptions, and leaves the script with no viable way to specify different schedulers or frequency ranges for each CPU cluster. It still runs, but not really correctly. For example, you can't set the RK3399 little cores above 1.4 GHz, but that's basi…

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.

I've decided to give a try by building new image with the refactoring of 4.8.x. So the image I've done is Armbian_5.21_Orangepipcplus_Debian_jessie_4.8.3.img I placed it on sdcard and look at the boot using serial debug. Unfortunately, the 4.8.3 Kernel is broken and get stuck the this last line ... U-Boot 2016.09-armbian (Oct 20 2016 - 12:18:44 -0400) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi PC I2C: ready DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0, SUNXI SD/MMC: 1 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface0 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 Hit any key to…

I runned once again in same isssue. After compiling last image for bananapro and copying these to the sd card, the sata device not appears anymore. I changed the bananapro with the bananapi dtb file, but this doesn't help. root@bananapipro:~# dpkg -l | grep next ii linux-dtb-next-sunxi 5.07 armhf Linux DTB, version 4.5.1-sunxi ii linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi 5.07 armhf Linux kernel firmware, version 4.5.1-sunxi ii linux-headers-next-sunxi 5.07 armhf Linux kernel headers for 4.5.1-sunxi on armhf ii linux-image-next-sunxi 5.07 …

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

Hi all, I have the clearfog base - Armbian 5.32 works great on it. Now let's say I need to develop an application which uses Boost. I can create a custom user config to install the appropriate packages, but how do I compile against it? rootfs seems to be deleted every time I create an image to be flashed. How can I package my own application into the sd card image? I have done this before with openwrt and their custom packages, but if I could do it in Armbian that would be great.

Dear Community, Everytime I build a new Armbian OS, it comes with "configng" which dosent support the Feature to enable I2C, SPI & UART, the category "Hardware" isnt available in my build. How can I add the armbian-config to my automated build-system which adds the armbian-config with support of enabling this? I add a picture of the armbian-config, which comes with the currently build. At "system" is an entry with "armv7l" , but I build the OS for sunxi8. What I need to do, to support the Hardware entry in my armbian-config?

Can someone tell me the difference between [uart_force_debug] and [uart_para]? [uart_para] uart_debug_port = 0 uart_debug_tx = port:PB22<2><1><default><default> uart_debug_rx = port:PB23<2><1><default><default> [uart_force_debug] uart_debug_port = 0 uart_debug_tx = port:PF02<4><1><default><default> uart_debug_rx = port:PF04<4><1><default><default> Thanks..

Hi, I'm very happy with running armbian on an Asus Tinkerboard. But now I have a little issue: I want to build a kernel module using DKMS. I tried to install the kernel headers, but the latest version on apt.armbian.com is 5.32 and the kernel is 5.34. Is there any solution to get the headers for the 5.34 kernel image? Thanks, Alex

Hi all, Armbian v23.11 build fails while compiling ATF, reporting weird "cannot find cr" message: https://paste.next.armbian.com/evewilodap Can you please help? Thanks in advance!

Hello I have a problem to generate my kernel 3.x and jessie for may board A10 lime. I followed the procedure well but unfortunately I always get this error message after u-objcopy boot.nin: ./scripts/dtc-versions.sh: ligne17: dtc: command not found ./scripts/dtc-versions.sh: ligne18: dtc: command not found *** Your DTC is too old, please upgrade to 1.4 or newer dtc make: *** [checkdtc] error 1 I use a VM vmware ubuntu 14.04 x86 server as recommended in the documention. (I have even try Debian Jessie and Trusty, the problem is the same) Can you help me ? Sorry for the google translation. Grégory

Hi there, i want to stick to the 4.4 kernel an tried to compile kernel 4.4.12 (cubietruck) via: apt-get -y install git git clone https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib--depth 1 cp lib/compile.sh . chmod +x compile.sh ./compile.sh after that, i built the following directory and file: mkdir userpatches vi userpatches/lib.config and added: KERNELBRANCH="v4.4.12" (also tried KERNELBRANCH="v4.5.6") as described here: http://forum.armbian...est-kernel-447/ Whenn running ./compile, i get the following messages: │ LD [M] drivers/media/v4l2-core/tuner.o …

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.

The rockchip64 kernels are missing wireless drivers for ralink chips.

Linux 6.12 mainlined PREEMPT_RT, real-time preemption. As far as I understand, one no longer needs to muck about with patches, the kernel can simply be compiled for real-time use with normal compiler flags on any common architecture. This makes Linux suitable for tasks with precise latency requirements, of which there is a lot of in the embedded space. Has anyone tried this on Armbian 25.2 now that it uses the 6.12 kernel? Does it work? How would one compile Armbian with it?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hello, once I developed my appliance based on Armbian with Kernel 3.4. And the goal of the appliance was to work as custom USB gadget. The appliance was based on sunxi_usb_udc. Now, after big delay I returned to the need of bulding a new appliance with similar functionality. As far as I understand, there is a problem with UDC module in kernel 5.x. Am I right? Can I build my custom system based on legacy (v.4.x) kernel to workaround the problem or there is a better suggestion with available information for fast startup? Please advise. Thanks in advance.

Hello I am using a Debian 12 VM on Qubes OS 4.2 to attempt to build an Armbian image for a Rockpro64. As you can see by the build logs, these 3 commands are failing: update-binfmts --enable qemu-arm update-binfmts --enable qemu-aarch64 update-binfmts --enable qemu-riscv64 Then arch-test command output causes script to error out with: arm64: not supported on this machine/kernel So far I have attempted to enter the docker container and manually run the command but I get this error: root@1631353b980f:/armbian# update-binfmts --enable qemu-arm update-binfmts: warning: qemu-arm not in database of installed binary formats. upd…

Hi, while i was trying to work with the NTC C.H.I.P. i've started to take in consideration the ubifs instead of mounting all the system partition as read only. Someone have experience with ubifs? do it is supported by armbian? Someone can help me with some guide?

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

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?

We developed so called Cloud images, which are a combination of minimal images + kernel with minimal set of drivers. Images also doesn't have any firmware packages, so bare OS comes down to 700Mb. Build from sources: ./compile.sh \ BETA=no \ BOARD=uefi-x86 \ BRANCH=cloud \ BUILD_DESKTOP=no \ BUILD_MINIMAL=yes \ ENABLE_EXTENSIONS=image-output-qcow2 \ IMAGE_VERSION=25.2.3 \ RELEASE=noble \ VENDOR="Company" \ VENDORCOLOR="5;100;115" \ KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no \ KERNEL_BTF=yes Customization: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Overview/ Details in promo style: Spoiler Very Fast Boot Time: Optimi…

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…

Hi Everyone, I am trying to compile armbian in my ubuntu 14.04 machine. Can someone identify what is this error Im encountering? Thanks in advcance. Compiling u-boot... │ │──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────│ │ .config:617:warning: override: reassigning to symbol OLD_SUNXI_KERNEL_COMPAT │ │ # …

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…

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

Hello! I have a board based on dual core SoC A20, I can run processes on separate cores? I want run Armbian on the one core and my module on other core. Thanks!

I am compiling H5 boards, Nano Pi Neo 2 (wip) and Nano Pi Neo Plus 2 (disabled board) and getting errors building u-boot. [ o.k. ] Compiling u-boot [ 1.0.0 ] [ o.k. ] Compiler version [ aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc 7.1.1 ] [ .... ] Checking out sources [ o.k. ] Started patching process for [ u-boot sun50iw2-nanopineo2-dev ] [ o.k. ] Looking for user patches in [ userpatches/u-boot/u-boot-sun50i-dev ] [ warn ] ... [l][c] add-FIT-config-name-match-function.patch [ failed ] [ warn ] ... [l][c] add-FIT-support-A64-spl.patch [ failed ] [ warn ] ... [l][c] add-FIT-support-H5-spl.patch [ failed ] [ warn ] ... [l][c] add-disp2-video-driver-jernej.patch [ fail…

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

Dear All I Need to implement : http://www.bananapi.com/index.php/forum/interfacing/1575-socketcan-dirver-for-a10-a20 Based on http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/379-learning-device-tree/ I have to do patch to arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20.dtsi (to add can port) and arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-cubieboard2.dts (to move led pins to another PE04/PE05) I take copies of dts and dtsi files from my previous build (so it's touched by igor's script), and make some modification and create a patch 1. cb2can-dtsi.patch : patch to activate can0 at PH20 and PH21 --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20.dtsi 2015-11-02 13:10:58.000000000 +0700 +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20.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…

Hello everyone, I'm in the process of building a file/download server with a Banana Pi Pro using the JMB 321 SATA port multiplier. Right now I'm just trying to build an image that will allow me to boot from an SSD, then I will deal with adding the JMB. I compiled a fresh image following the menu options after executing ./compile.sh selecting bananapi/jessie/next and it boots up correctly except it does not detect the SSD I have connected directly to the SATA port.(does not show in blkid or fdisk -l) Image name provide: Armbian_4.83_Bananapipro_Debian_jessie_4.3.4 Going thru the kernel logs, I found this: Jan 26 20:22:03 localhost kernel: [ 3.49848…

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!

A touch of bravery got me to install mainline on my Nanopi Neo using the orangepi one dtb. It worked OK. Today I updated the system and got a nice new kernel 4.9.4 but also had bit of bother in the form of the absence of network devices. It seems there is an issue with the new sun8i-h3-nanopineo.dtb as reverting back to the orangepi one restores that capability. It's all a bit mysterious to me but I do notice that the alias "ethernet0" is absent from the nanopi dts and the configuration of ethernet further down seems quite different. I'd be quite interested in trying a new version of the dtb if someone's ahead of me with this.

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

Please move this message to correct folder, if I used the wrong one. There is a grave bug in the ext4 FS, which was introduced in kernel around 6.1.55 and is fixed in kernel 6.1.66. The bug is causing data coruption and data loss, like new packages aren't installed properly. A fix was introduced today into kernel, in version 6.1.66 Armbian Bookworm 23.11.1 (Debian) comes with 6.1.63 and, according to my knowledge, is affected. When will new kernel packages from armbian be available? References: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843 https://fulda.social/@Ganneff/111551628003050712

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

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? …

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…

Hi there, I have a hummingboard edge and I need to add a RTL8111 based PCIe card. As I saw in the iMX6Rex web I need to add some drivers to the kernel. http://www.imx6rex.com/software/imx6-rex-basic-hw-verification-tests/#pcie I tried to modify the file linux-cubox-default.config but when I try to compile there are errors. How could I do this? Regards.

I apologize if this is a basic question. I'm trying to make a minimal Orange Pi Zero 3 Trixie image with a btrfs file system and NetworkManager for the networking stack using Docker without having to compile a new kernel (i.e., I just want to use the precompiled kernel found in the CSC version). I created a `config-myimage.conf` file under `build/userpatches`: BOARD=orangepizero3 BRANCH=current RELEASE=trixie CLEAN_LEVEL=cache KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no BUILD_KSRC=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes NETWORKING_STACK=network-manager DOCKER_ARMBIAN_BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:jammy ROOTFS_TYPE=btrfs BTRFS_COMPRESSION=zlib CONSOLE_AUTOLOGIN=yes #BOOTSIZE=96 # need larger boot size to…

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

Hi, I tried update/repair kernel on cubietruck today. I have /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw... and /dev/nand1 on /mnt type vfat (rw) and I am running Ubuntu on this board. I entered command below as root: wget -q -O - http://upgrade.armbian.com | bash Last messages on screen: NAND install Converting and copying kernel. mkimage: Can't open /boot/zImage: No such file or directory Visit: forum.armbian.com in case of troubles or just for fun

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

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

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

I used the buster version and when I typed armbian-confg->system->hardware, there is nothing display except some square brackets. Anybody know why?

During Assembly of images Armbian, faced with a situation where the build process creates a new\updated packages (kernel etc.). These packages are used to created images and it is desirable to update those who are already using older versions of the images. How to organize a network repository that would enable users to connect, get and install packages via regular means. For example using synaptic ? Maybe there are already rules for how it should be arranged for Armbian.

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

I customized my Armbian install with 2 operating systems on two partitions. In armbianEnv.txt I use rootdev to specify the default partition. I would like to set it so that if booting from the default rootdev fails (triggering panic or root-wait, etc.), it will instead try to boot with rootdev/root set to the other partition. Is that possible?

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…