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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…

Hello everyone, I have a screen of 1280x800 resolution. while connecting the screen to my rockpi-4b, the resolution is set to 1024x768, and there is no 1280x800 option in the display setting panel. after learning from Internet for days, I think the root is that my screen doesn't have a correct EDID information. so I made some changes to let the kernel ignores the screen's edid information and use specified edid file. The resolution is successfully set to 1280x800, the only problem is that the screen display is shaking, as the attached video shows. The edid file's timing settings are shown as below: I tried to change the settings but it doesn't wo…

Hello, how i can change this message: I checked /etc/motd but is empty. Regards

Test version with EFI\Grub support (with HDMI output) for rk3399. for station p1 https://disk.yandex.ru/d/HZ34T76zxS9pnw for nanopc t4 https://disk.yandex.ru/d/SjBMYJ37U6699A firefly-rk3399 https://disk.yandex.ru/d/BfrzRRyvdtavIg

Hi all, Does anyone ever tried to use an EMMC to an A20 boards? Can you share your setup, uboot configs, emmc brand, etc. to make it work? Thanks in advance.

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...

Hi, i'm trying to write a small routine to be executed by u-boot, but i need to enable debug messages output on serial console in entire u-boot. How to do that?

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>; …

I can compile the kernel 4.14 for H3 , modify the device tree and then put this to my bananapi M2 ultra with R40 Core and can enable the HDMI connector success. I get an image on the screen on my monitor. But now I can enable the LCD (RGB pinouts port H) to get image on my display 7" but I do not know how to do on the device tree file to enable a PANEL or something more . Someone have a device tree file that have enable the LCD (RGB ouput) to take an example to know how to do that because on the web almost all the people usually use the hdmi connector. Thanks at all ... PD: I get success on R40 to modify the SPI, smartcard, ethernet drivers a…

Hello All, I have a requirement that we need to enable the watchdog in uboot and kernel. For Kernel I was able to enable it using the config below and using a "watchdog" utility. CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y CONFIG_WATCHDOG_CORE=y # CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT is not set # # Watchdog Device Drivers # # CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_GPIO_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_XILINX_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_CADENCE_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_DW_WATCHDOG is not set CONFIG_SUNXI_WATCHDOG=y # CONFIG_MAX63XX_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_BCM7038_WDT is not set # CONFIG_MEN_A21_WDT is not set Now i'm stuck how to implement it in uboot. BTW, I'm using A20 board and a mainl…

FYI - seeing the following error on completion of a build... I suspect it's transient since it just seems to be verifying the image... "Re-reading the partition table failed.: Invalid argument​" Image build seems to otherwise complete successfully. Haven't tested the image yet. This was building a BPi image for Jessie using the "next" (latest) kernel.

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

First of all, happy 2017! May Armbian be the great OS it is, forever more. Now, I wanted to compile Armbian from scratch so I can see if I manage to hardcode some overscan into the tv module (it seems there's no way around it), but for some reason I can't seem to get the compilation going. I downloaded ubuntu, put it in a VM (so fresh, aside from VMWare guest tools) with 60GB storage, got it up to date, and tried to compile Armbian (since I don't know how to compile a single module). Steps taken: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install git git clone https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib --depth 1 cp lib/compile.sh . sudo ./compile.sh Then "Ke…

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 │ │ # …

Hi, I own a Orange PI One and I wanted to create a compile environment in a virtualbox as I did not find any available. So I followed the instructions found here: http://www.armbian.com/using-armbian-tools/ 1) downloaded "ubuntu-14.04.4-server-amd64.iso" 2) create a new virtual box image (ubuntu 64bit) 3) Execute the following command: apt-get -y -qq install git git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib cp lib/compile.sh . sudo ./compile.sh The process end with the following lines: [ o.k. ] Building deb [ linux-u-boot-orangepih3-5.07-armhf.deb ] [ error ] ERROR in function compilte_uboot [ common.sh:155 ] [ error ] Building u-b…

I repurposed my old build system hardware and am trying to build a new one. Nice faster box ;] On this new linux host I create a virtualbox machine and install Hirsute from the link in the documentation. I do an apt update / upgrade. I install git and clone the build directory according to the documentation. Everything seems to go well until it gets through a lot of the .o files and gives [error] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ main.sh:574 -> main.sh:479 -> compilation..sh:506 -> general.sh:0 ] the line above is always the same, although it comes after different .o files for different boards. I've rebuilt the virtu…

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 …

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…

Hello, I am trying to build a new system for Orange Pi PC with kernel v.3.4 and Ubuntu xenial desktop. After getting updated sources and compilers, during u-boot compiling I get the following error message: Assembler messages: {standard input}:314: Error: push/pop do not support {reglist}^ -- `pop {r0,r1,r2,r3,r4,r9,ip,pc}^' make[2]: *** [arch/arm/cpu/armv7/sunxi/psci.o] Error 1 and compilation ends. Any suggestion?

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

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 …

Hi, not sure if this problem is related to Armbian, but in my case it occurs only on an Armian system. I have mainline kernel (4.7.x) running on a Banana Pro. wlan is configured as access point and works without any problems. eth0 is configured as client with static IP. The Banana is running 24/7, but the ethernet port is used only sporadically. The switch where eth0 is connected to is powered down most time. The problem is that eth0 forgets its IP configuration after a while, ifconfig then reports no IP address for eth0. I have to login via wlan and then ifdown/ifup eth0, then it works again. After a couple of hours (I dont know exactly how long), the IP is lost again. …

Hi Pulled latest git repo and build mainline image (Ubuntu/Debian both) 4.9.2-sun8i kernel. Eth0 now stuck at 100mb/s and half duplex. I have tried using ethertool to make it full duplex. Not working. The previous image which I used and suggested was Armbian_5.24.170109_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_xenial_4.9.0 This image works with full duplex. Is this a bug or there is more configs needed when I building my own images? From ethtool output, looks like problem with auto negotiation. pi@orangepizero:~$ sudo ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Ha…

I have having the same issue as discussed here & it also provided solution for it https://github.com/IceWhaleTech/CasaOS/issues/1136 I have added cgroup_enable=cpuset cgroup_enable=memory cgroup_memory=1 to armbianEnv.txt The dmesg logs indicate that these arguments are failing [ 15.630904] Kernel command line: root=UUID=eb6a27ef-3932-431f-92fd-e61fea75356c rootwait rootfstype=ext4 splash=verbose console=ttyS2,1500000 console=tty1 consoleblank=0 loglevel=1 ubootpart=f3aeb909-d11b-ec42-a52c-4507e474335c usb-storage.quirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u,0x1058:0x25a2:u cma=256M cgroup_enable=cpuset cgroup_enable=memory cgroup_mem…

Since I've been asked recently why Armbian doesn't ship with F2FS by default I thought let's have a look again what to gain from F2FS (a filesystem specially designed for use with flash media by Samsung few years ago). For a history of F2FS discussion please use the search function: https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/search/&q=f2fs Armbian fully supports F2FS partitions for a long time now but we don't provide OS images with F2FS for a couple of reasons: F2FS still doesn't support resizing so our default installation variant (ship with a minimized rootfs that gets resized on first boot automagically to the size of SD card / eMMC) wouldn't wo…

Hello All, Does someone knows a possible reason why AXP 209 on some boards are failing? That will result to an error message "Failed to set core voltage! Can't set CPU frequency". After that we cannot probe the i2c bus address of the AXP209 anymore. Hope someone can share some insights. U-Boot SPL 2015.10-rc5-gc387326-dirty (May 19 2016 - 19:02:38) DRAM: 1024 MiB Failed to set core voltage! Can't set CPU frequency Card did not respond to voltage select! …

Hello, I have build my own armbian image and successfully flash it to Miqi board. everything works well from command line. And I need the desktop and I run sudo armbian-config and click the "lightdm: enable desktop" but the desktop are not shown in HDMI output the log /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log shows: [+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.18.3, UID=0 PID=10738 [+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d [+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration from /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-disable-log-backup.conf [+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration from /usr/sh…

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.

Hi all, since we're currently collecting tasks to be done by community to get a nice board (OPi Plus 2E) in return I thought I sum up where we currently are regarding working H3 OS images with mainline kernel: Our main showstoppers for releasing H3 images with mainline kernel are still: missing/non-working THS stuff (see explanation here), native Ethernet driver not finished and a few minor bits. My last attempt to check situation has been a few days ago. Since megi rebased his THS stuff (also containing the various USB and Ethernet patches) I chose his 4.6 branch to give it a try (see commit 224550b). Unfortunately I ran into kernel panics when testing on my …

Built an Edge/Jammy firmware for a rk3588s2 based system(Radxa CM5). Panthor firmware for GPU G610 is not the right version though in this image. So after boot changed the firmware file, in the /lib/firmware/arm/mali/arch10.8/ folder, to the right version. Reboot produces the same problem though. It does not see the modified file, but still the original, wrong, one. With boot complete and going to the firmware folder the changed firmware is there. I presume that the changes I make end up in an overlay that only is mounted after the boot process. Rewriting the whole 6 GB image, just to change one file, is a bit cumbersome. Is there a way to chan…

I noticed today that there was no build created yet for Radxa Rock 3C. I found the Rock 3A config file at build/config/boards/rock-3a.conf : # Rockchip RK3568 quad core 1-8GB SoC GBe eMMC USB3 BOARD_NAME="Rock 3A" BOARDFAMILY="rk35xx" BOOTCONFIG="rock-3a-rk3568_defconfig" KERNEL_TARGET="legacy,current,edge" FULL_DESKTOP="yes" BOOT_LOGO="desktop" BOOT_FDT_FILE="rockchip/rk3568-rock-3a.dtb" BOOT_SCENARIO="spl-blobs" WIREGUARD="no" BOOT_SUPPORT_SPI="yes" BOOT_SPI_RKSPI_LOADER="yes" IMAGE_PARTITION_TABLE="gpt" BOOTFS_TYPE="fat" And copied it to build/boards/rock-3c.conf . Then modified it to # Rockchip RK3566 quad core 1-8GB SoC GBe eMMC USB3 BOARD…

As ubuntu 22.04 has realy up to date compiler. Is it possible to force armbian to use local copiler? linaro gcc compiler is 8.x but gcc in ubuntu 22.04 is 11.x. Is it possible to force armbian to use local compilers? Or can armbian update gcc to 11. x ??

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

Hi, I updated the gc2035 driver, kernel 3.4.x. The driver can be loaded with parameter, so you can choose to have different window size and/or image quality on the fly (well, kind of). Parameter: hres=[0,1,2] hres=0 (default without parameter) 640x480, 15 fps, good quality (fps with good light condition) 1280x720, 13 fps, poor quality (fps with good light condition) 1600x1200, 10 fps, poor quality (fps with good light condition) hres=1 800x600, 12 fps, good quality (fps with good light condition) 1600x1200, 8 fps, medium quality (fps with good light condition) hres=2 320x240, 20 fps, poor quality (fps with good light condition) 640x480, 18 f…

I compiled the Armbian on renegade board, based on mainline linux, compiling was stopped as the output: LD vmlinux.o MODPOST vmlinux.symvers MODINFO modules.builtin.modinfo GEN modules.builtin LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1 [ error ] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ main.sh:589 -> main.sh:490 -> compilation.sh:506 -> general.sh:0 ] [ error ] Kernel was not built [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Process terminated And the logs files are in the attachments. Today the linux kernel auto updates to 5.15.36, I haven't this issue using 5.15.35 before. Anybody know why? logs.zip

Hi all. I'm new at this. Please, tell me, how can I download the image Armbian for Orange Pi One along with the source codes? It need me in order to change them a little for myself and compile them myself. What I download from the link contains only packages and patches. https://github.com/armbian/build But I need the *.cpp and *.h files...

When ./compile.sh command is used to compiling a new Armbian version (especially with some source changes for debugging), in case there was an error during compilation, it can be impossible to find real reason of the problem. Log files located in output/debug folder are not very informative - they just show the last message, which also appears on the screen - failed in script line number . The following command was used to get full log of the compilation process: command | tee -a log.txt Hope this will be useful for somebody else (newbie), who like me spent a lot of time trying to understand, why the compilation failed after some changes in kernel configuration.

Hi all, I have a bit of an odd application, but given the recent effort being put into UEFI boot, I thought I'd ask for some help. I have a Gigabyte R152-P30, which is an Ampere 80 core, single socket server. Flash drive boot works just fine, but nand-sata-install onto the server's NVMe SSD has been troublesome. I've tried several permutations of having partitions and not having partitions on the NVMe drive, but none seem to actually create a bootable result. I see on the generic armbian image page that it suggests creating an EFI partition which I do (nvme0n1p1). It then proceeds to leave that partition empty. I also have another btrfs…

Hi, I managed to compile a working 4.6.2 Linux kernel for my Allwinner H3 powered Orange Pi PC using the Armbian lib build scripts. But where I'm completely stuck is when it comes to get all four CPU cores up and running. lscpu shows only cpu0 as online, and a syfs entry to enable cores 1..3 does not exist. Having applied 20151223-h3-mainline-smp-hack patch, cpu1..3 seem to get set online, but the booting process stalls (rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU, etc.). http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matrixmarked SMP as "done", and mentioned this patch. A log file of the failed boot process is attached. My setup: Lin…

Aside from the DNS resolution issue I am having (different thread), I am often getting stuck on the following: Unpacking locales (from .../locales_2.13-38+deb7u8_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up locales (2.13-38+deb7u8) ... Generating locales (this might take a while)... Generation complete. Generating locales (this might take a while)... en_US.UTF-8... done Generation complete.​ It just sits there and nothing further happens. I have left it for 30 minutes or more, and still nothing. I usually end up killing it... rebooting and then restarting. When it does get past this, I typically end up with the debian sources DNS resolution is…

Hi, after pure installation Armbian_4.5_Lamobo-r1_Debian_wheezy_3.4.109.zip, the log is full of GMAC messages: [43099.518189] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43099.521192] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43099.524646] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43111.775611] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43112.963963] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43112.980989] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43112.986370] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43112.989681] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43112.992410] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43112.996184] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43113.002038] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43113.973308] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43113.976078] GMAC TX status: VLAN frame [43114.143583] GM…

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.

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

Hello, I'm building a device driver which controls gpio pins. When I developed one in the kernel 3.x, I could get the proper gpio pin number from script.fex(converted from script.bin in /boot/bin/ folder) For example, if the pin I'm using is PB03, I was able to use 3 to control that pin in device driver program. gpio_pin_1 = port:PH10<1><default><default><0> gpio_pin_2 = port:PH20<1><default><default><0> gpio_pin_3 = port:PB03<0><default><default><default> However, from kernel 4.x, script.bin file is not used anymore. Instead of this, there is a dtb file, but I have no idea where I can…

Hi guys, Since I'm out of GPIOs I would like to reuse the Debug UART0 RX/TX in "release" if no serial module is attached. I'm using a nanopi Duo2 but that question applies to the general strategy. The NanoPi UART0 RX can be used as PA5, PWM output. I did already play successfully with overlay files for other purposes so I know a little how that works. Can I create a overlay with shared usage, and depending on the loaded module (tty*) the RS232 is operating, or when this is stopped i can use the PWM out? Is this "Shared overlay" in general the right approach? If yes could someone point me to some hints ho…

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

Hello Armbian Community, I am running Armbian on a Raspberry Pi 4 with a RAID 1 setup for my root filesystem. I've come across a warning in a guide for RaspiOS (link below) suggesting that firmware upgrades could disrupt the RAID setup. Robert Alexa's Guide on GitHub Given this, I have a few questions about handling Armbian kernel updates in a similar RAID configuration: How are kernel updates managed in Armbian when using RAID for the root filesystem, and are there any known issues similar to the one described in the guide? What precautions should I take when applying apt upgrade to ensure that my RAID remains bootable? Is…

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.

Would be anyone interested helping me collecting or making kernel fixes for H3? I already collect some fixes here: https://github.com/jernejsk/linux Question remains what to do with out of tree drivers like mali and wireless. I will probably add those which can be found in most SBCs. Igor, what is the plan with mali driver? Would be r4p0 acceptable? Userspace libraries can be found here.

I came across Icenowy's patchset for current stable Linux version (currently 4.13) here. Since it contains almost every out of tree functionality for 32 bit Allwinner SoCs, should we just use it here? But beware, at least HDMI functionality there lags a bit - Armbian uses newer patches with audio enabled...

@zador.blood.stained I think Icenowy's linux git is only A64 oriented. For example, she added non-optional regulator to HDMI driver, which doesn't exist on OrangePi PC2. There may be more hidden issues...

Hi all, I'm using armbian on a cubietruck for various purposes. One of them is HAM radio. BUt I just noticed we don't have support for AX25. In fact, we're missing all HAM-related stuff, so I think it isn't possible to build just the modules: # CONFIG_HAMRADIO is not set What I would need is this: CONFIG_HAMRADIO=y # # Packet Radio protocols # CONFIG_AX25=m # # AX.25 network device drivers # CONFIG_MKISS=m # uname -a Linux cubie.acasa.local 4.3.3-sunxi #3 SMP Mon Dec 28 11:27:16 CET 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux Thanks for your support. Marius

Hi! I try make a patch file, but after image building my patched code do not work. What I do wrong? SRC=$(pwd) # source file SOURCES=$SRC/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/sound/soc/sunxi/i2s/ # create user patch file diff -u $SOURCES/sunxi-i2s.c $SRC/mod/sunxi-i2s.c > $SRC/userpatches/kernel/sun7i-default/9999-i2s-mod.patch

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?

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

I'm trying to turn on the SPDIF transmitter in the H3 mainline kernel (v4.10). To do this I'm copying sun4i_spdif.c from sunxi-next kernel (spdif marked as working starting from kernel v4.11) and make some changes in .dts files for OrangePi PC: diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dts index 90a767f..29980a8 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dts +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dts @@ -91,6 +91,24 @@ gpios = <&r_pio 0 3 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>; }; }; + + sound { + compatible = "simple-audio-card"; + simple-audio-card,name = "On-board SPDIF"; + + simple-audio-card,c…

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.

Hello I want to do a special sdcard to my use of multiple card without reconfigure all the time. If I install into a 4gb sdcard after can I write a iso and copy to another sdcard and write to 128gb and when can I resize it into the new card? Thanks

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

Igor, to add some applications ( for example, https://github.com/Freescale/gstreamer-imx), it would be nice to have the possibility, to enter at some point into the chroot, and compiling software, and installing it. Or, add a "just mount exisiting image" function to your scripts. For example, base image is finished, and then I can use a function, that unpack, mount, the existing image, and allow "the costumer" to enter into chroot. What do you think? Peter

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

Hi, Does anyone have some Information on how to set up an wap on a Hummingboard using a 4.x kernel? I made it run with kernel 3.14 but would prefer a newer kernel Version!

From linux kernel 4.x, using patch to upgrade without reboot. This is source: https://github.com/dynup/kpatch Who had use it in arm, or have a tutorial?

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?

I want use OPIZero as print-server for Samsung ML-1865w. But there are not hard-float samsung's proprietary utilities. Explain please how I can build SD image for OPIZero with soft-float version Ubuntu or Debian server. Or may be anybody knows way to run soft-float in hard-float OS.

Lets say I wish to creat three kernels with different timer settings like 100Hz/250Hz/1000Hz. The name of the generated SDcatd image is always the same which is not helpful. When I want to use them later as well for a multiboot scenario, so swtchable kernels, I need as well different names, so it is not only to rename the image files. USing Menuconfig, I could normally put a localization extension to it...when I do this, the image creation process fails as the system looking into wrong folder names. So, is there an alrernative path ? Or is this a bug ?

Hello all, I am iterating the build process, debugging some user build scripts and it would be nice to be able to avoid recompiling the kernel and generating its debs every time, in order to be able to iterate faster and make faster progress. I didn't see a way of doing this in the documentation. Any suggestions? Thanks

Hello, I don't want the linux version often change on different Armbian compiling, for example, use linux 5.15.34 every time. Can I ?

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!

Please take a look on CPU usage precision on the new kernel for x64 and arm64. It is 1 milliseconds. But kernel 6.13 on armv7 still provides 4 milliseconds of precision. How do I tune CPU usage precision on image build?

i.e. git clone -b main --depth 1 https://github.com/armbian/build.git cd build # I want to find out what kernel my board is building befor here. ./compile.sh kernel BOARD=orangepi5b BRANCH=vendor EXPERT=yes PREFER_DOCKER=yes KERNEL_GIT=shallow I need to do this so I can apply patches based on the selected kernel verison (e.g. 5.10, 6.1, 6.12) as they are all different patches due to Makefile changes. I don't see a clean way to do this with the builder unless I build the kernel first, search the kernel sources and then determine the kernel that way.

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

I'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…

Armbian is written to a µSD card as a small file (a gig or two if I recall). If the card is 64gigs, the image is still just a few gigs written to that card. When booted on the device, though, it automatically expands the file system to the full size of the card. How exactly does it do that? And... How do I do the reverse? Take the file system from a working armbian install and create a small image that when written to a µSD card, will stay small, but then auto-expand when booted on a device?

How does compile.sh display the nice little icons like 🔨 when building an image

I tried poking around /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device*. The old way was /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp, but now cat sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp returns Invalid argument.

I have 2 usb interfaces. The enx* interface is a cell connection and wlx* is wifi. It looks like the route metrics are causing all the traffic to go through the cell modem? Where is the route metric configured and how can I change these in a general way? I'd like to configure several computers without having to know the unique name of each interface. route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 0.0.0.0 192.168.225.1 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 enx169cc859c209 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 600 0 0 wlx3c3300700ede 169.254.0.0 0.…

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) …

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…

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…

I want to add a private package with C source code in custom image. Extensions maybe are one approach— are there any other more standard practices?

Hello, I am using my Renegade with the Armbian I compiled myself. Now there is only one partition on my system: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 0.03MiB 16.0MiB 16.0MiB Free Space 1 16.0MiB 5580MiB 5564MiB primary ext4 5580MiB 7620MiB 2040MiB Free Space I want to add a boot partition like Raspberry OS, so I can make some configration on the PC through boot partition. Raspberry OS's partition always like that: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 0.02MiB 4.00MiB 3.98MiB Free Space 1 4.00MiB 260MiB 256MiB primary fat32 …

Hello, I try build kernel for NanopiNeo board with user kernel patch, but I don't understand with path needed put my patch. In previous version armbian's builds I just put files to userpatches/kernel/sunxi-current how it described in docs. But now with current version Armbian build system it's not working. I put my custom linux-sunxi-current.config to userpatches folder, my patch to userpatches/kernel/sunxi-current and try build kernel with command: ./compile.sh BOARD=nanopineo BRANCH=current kernel I see that linux-sunxi-current.config found and applied but not patch isn't.

Hi. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask. I was basically running my Radxa Rock 5 ITX home server on Armbian, on the edge upstream kernel for a long time. Somewhere during the 6.19 release candidate kernel series an instability arised, where the machine would hard lock "at random", so I switched to the current kernel since, which to this day remains on unaffected 6.18. But from time to time I try with edge again, and the instability is still present with the 7.1 upstream kernels. Moreover, with the load the machine has I can consistently trigger the lock up just by ssh-ing into the machine once it's been up for 10 minutes or …

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

Hello, everybody I have a task to make "easy install image" to orange pi pc2. I build already Armbian_5.46_Orangepipc2_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.14.47_desctop.img and its actualy what i need and now I need to make it "easy install" - becouse we have a lot of SD card to burning. Could you recommend me, how to: 1. Scip first boot user creation. (Armbian on the first boot ask to set the new root password and create new user). Can i preinstalled this information? I need that Armbian on first boot just load without some user inputs. 2. Add my program to start up. I have a A ) zip with my program and B ) bash script which unzip program and set it lunch on s…

HI! Im using lamobo r1. How to build custom rootfs in armbian? Or If the related documents, plz leave a link.

Hi all! Try build the kernel module on the Lime2 Debian jessie 4.6.3, but failed. I use src files from here - https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi/tree/sunxi-3.4/sound/soc/sunxi/i2s Makefile KERNELDIR := /lib/modules/4.6.3-sunxi/build obj-m += sndi2s.o all: $(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) M=`pwd` modules clean: $(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) M=`pwd` clean Ouput make all make -C /lib/modules/4.6.3-sunxi/build M=`pwd` modules make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.6.3-sunxi' CC [M] /root/src/sndi2s.o /root/src/sndi2s.c:24:29: fatal error: plat/sys_config.h: No such file or directory #include <plat/sys_config.h> …

Preparation Supported build environment is Ubuntu Focal 20.04 x64 (minimal iso image). a guest inside a VirtualBox or other virtualization software, a guest managed by Vagrant . This uses Virtualbox (as above) but does so in an easily repeatable way. Please check the Armbian with Vagrant README for a quick start HOWTO, inside a Docker , systemd-nspawn or other container environments (example), running natively on a dedicated PC or a server (not recommended), 20GB disk space or more and 2GB RAM or more available for the VM, container or native OS, superuser rights (configured sudo or root access). Execu…

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?

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

I would like to change the image types at https://www.armbian.com/mks-klipad50/ so that Debian Server images ("full-cli-stable-debian") for current and edge kernels are built for this board. Optimal would be, if the "Desktop" and "Minimal/IOT" were omitted, so that only the Server images appear. Something similar is done for "aml-s9xx-box" here: https://github.com/armbian/os/blob/main/userpatches/targets-release-community-maintained.template#L57 So my approach for enabling Server images would be https://github.com/armbian/os/compare/main...torte71:armbian-os:main as PR. But I am not sure a) if adding boards directly to the "items:" proper…

My board is OrangePI PC. I use Armbian5.27_Ubuntu_xenial_desktop (kernel 4.10.1-sun8i). My display is "Innolux AT070TN90": 7", HDMI. I can't expose resolution 800x480. Prompt how to change resolution?

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.

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 …

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

Hi, I am having some trouble to compile the kernel after I have made some minor changes to one of the source files. to minimize recompilation of unchanged code files I chose the following settings in compile.sh: KERNEL_ONLY="yes" SOURCE_COMPILE="yes" KERNEL_CONFIGURE="no" KERNEL_CLEAN="no" to avoid having my changes overwitten by the original files I set FORCE_CHECKOUT="no" # igre manual changes to source I am afraid I have not managed to recompile the kernel using these settings. What happens instead is: (1) the script still tries to sync with the source but produces some error messages: error: Your local ch…

Hi there, i want to stick to the 4.4 kernel an tried to compile kernel 4.4.7 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 In compile.sh, i changed: KERNEL_ONLY="yes" and added KERNELTAG="v4.4.7" After selecting the board "cubietruck" and the branch "next", the script always checks out the sources for kernel 4.5.1. What am i doing wrong? Regards, A.

Hi, I try to compil module from http://github.com/matzrh/sunxi-lirc. I updated my cubietruck to trusty with 3.4.109 kernel but y not find kernel header. Where is? Thanks!

Hi I have a nanopi-m1 board and connected a simple dc motor to GPIO15(pin10). I used this commands to run the mtor but nothing happend else making a folder named gpio15 in /sys/class/gpio path! echo 15 > /sys/class/gpio/export echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio15/direction echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio15/value Also I tried it with GPIO18 (pin12) and didn't work!