Advanced users - Development

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 …

Hi, Thank you for your interest, you won't be disappointed. You have probably read that the developer want to do some changes - and some of this changes are now ready to get tested in the BETA's of armbian. Do not test with your 'production' SDcard unless you have done a backup ;-) Once done that, please go to 'armbian-config' System switch to BETA (Nightly), do an update/upgrade, reboot, check if your system still performs as before. If it does work like before - please let us know and post your 'armbianmonitor -u' link If it doesn't work, please try a reboot, check if the problem is reproduceable and if so explain the s…

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…

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?

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

Using the dev build of Armbian for the OrangePi One, does the SPI driver in the mainline kernel support DMA? According to the mainline status page the work on SPI is done, and DMA has been supported since 4.2 I have enabled the spi interface in the device tree and my driver initialises properly with the master. But in my kernel driver I attempt to allocate some memory with dma_alloc_coherent and it fails. The driver works fine with the legacy kernel and with alternative hardware (raspberry pi). Is there some additional configuration needed or does anyone have any pointers to information on this that I look at? --edit Solved…

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

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

How can I disable the first run scripts that force you create a new user on a fresh install? And how do I get it to accept simple passwords?

Hi guys, I'm new on linux, In the last week, I have downloaded armbian source code to build a light-weight kernel for my orangepi zero. Now, I don't need those packages that installed by armbian compile tool during building image (installed on (host/my laptop) Ubuntu 18.04 OS). How can I remove them without breaking my OS?

Since kernel 4.18, on my rk3288 tv-box USB devices have always had problems when plugged in after the box boot (ie: USB device not working at all) I found that the problem is described and solved by this patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10535905/ Applying it to latest 4.18.4 kernel the functionality is restored, and I can't see similar patches in rockchip-dev. I think it should be applied to all rockchip SoCs at least until it gets merged into mainline

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...

hi, i'm pretty new to armbian, i'd like to setup a arm-gcc cross compilation toolchain in my current (old) suse-linux distribution i've read this thread which suggest to use the Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 x64 image in a virtual machine i've also read some other sites on the gcc / g++ tool chain http://linux-sunxi.org/Toolchain https://www.linaro.org/latest/downloads/ https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/latest-7/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ for the linaro toolchains, there are many releases the latest being 7.3.1. as of this post my qu…

Try to get armbian compiled for PineH64. Unfortunately, hitting this roadblock. drivers/net/wireless/xradio/sdio.c:17:10: fatal error: asm/mach-types.h: No such file or directory #include <asm/mach-types.h> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. scripts/Makefile.build:312: recipe for target 'drivers/net/wireless/xradio/sdio.o' failed make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/xradio/sdio.o] Error 1 scripts/Makefile.build:559: recipe for target 'drivers/net/wireless/xradio' failed make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/xradio] Error 2 scripts/Makefile.build:559: recipe for target 'drivers/net/wireless' failed make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wirele…

I use the officiel git build tool ... Easy options or upgrade possible to build with the kernel mainline 4.9 and not 4.17 for the orange pi zero ! txh you !

Can somebody confirm that this driver work on mainline opi0 kernel? https://github.com/avafinger/ov5640

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

I know it is in development. and only for testing. I have build armbian 5.51 ubuntu 18.04, kernel 4.14 . I have question. max cpu H3 speed is set up on 1100 mhz. All orange pi boards with the same cpu have 1296 mhz. I set up cpu governor on performance all the time 1100mhz. I achieved temperatures on cpu between 53-62 celsius degrees. Could be the max cpu speed bring up to the 1296 MHZ? I have radiator 3.5 cm x 3.5 cm on board tritium H3. And it is not very hot. thanks for reply.

U-boot is always a great source of amusement, did anyone try that combination? Just yesterday got v2018.05 in, and it just does not work. I don't get any serial from u-boot SPL, do I don't know what is happening. I compiled it with #define DEBUG, and still no serial output at all. At last I downloaded latest mainline u-boot (v2018.07-rc2) from github, applied manually the patches, complied and it worked. It seems something very specific for v2018.05 and rockchip/rk3288

Hello, I want to ask, which Bluetooth driver is used in mainline kernel for AP6210. I know for WiFi is used brcmfmac. Thank you.

Dear Armbian community, I'm trying to make a minimal size Armbian image ( Ubuntu 16.04 with default kernel). Build system works great, but when I'm building the system without GUI (Image wit console interface "server") a bluetooth system doesn't work. I tried to build same system with same configs, but set "Image with desktop environment". In this case bluetooth system works great. I tried to solve this problem by myself, but..... It seems like I can not fix it. So, why I'm thinking that bluetooth system doesn't work. When I'm using bluetoothctl list it is void output. hciconfig -a void output I tried to start systemctl st…

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.

Ubuntu Server edition doesn't use the fundamentally limited Network Manager for a reason. For any kind of semi-complex networking configuration, (say VLANs, bridges, per-network firewall rules, any kind of policy based routing and so on and so on). Also, conversely on little, largely headless servers with static network configurations, Network Manager is a big, bloaty and intrusive process that adds boot time and complications. Just recently I have struggled hugely with difficult to replicate networking issues. I thought (and Network Manager reported) that NM didn't touch the interfaces specified in e/n/i. Turns out not to be the case. Is there an…

Hi guys I'm working to port the bpi-m2m to armbian. Right now i'm having a strange behaviour. I'm new to armbian development. I only use it for a npi-neo back in time. Anyway, my problem is quite simple. I have a working uboot and a working kernel (I think). the decive tree is in mainline. Looking the schematic, the DTS looks it is ok. I crated the armbian configuration, buit an image and it started "working" (you will se why is inside teh quote mark later) . Somehow i got a shell via UART. I configured the wireless AP and I got a working image. (Only BT was not working, no idea why). Due to the BT problem I decided to reboot the SBC and the problem I got b…

Note : feel free to move this topic "where it can be" or point location where to post. I'm aware it's a cross way between hardware and software. I'm currently using an Orange board PI R1, that have 2 ethernet, one came from internal Allwinner H2+ EMAC and EPHY, the other is an USB bridge I have a full custom setup (based on armbian Linux version 4.13.9+ (root@bat-virtual-machine) (gcc version 7.1.1 20170707 (Linaro GCC 7.1-2017.08)) #113 SMP PREEMPT). I only used kernel, then have custom init and app. I use ethernet in USB bridge like standard one (Linux kernel driver, TCPs sockets on it), I can reach 5Mo/s in both way (at same time), and that enoug…

Hello all, I have something that you might find useful. I created an image for the Ubuntu 16.04 core for the firefly roc-rk3328-cc board. I followed the firefly docs to compile the firefly 4.4.114 kernel and build out the u-boot image. I followed this guide http://docs.khadas.com/social/BuildUbuntuRootfsViaUbuntuBase/ to get the ubuntu rootfs. I then created a disk image with the u-boot kernel, ubunutu rootfs, and the SoC. It actually worked. This is a very minimal install to the point where I have to modify the rootfs guide above to include the eth0 interface and probably install the network-manager. …

I would like to build a hard realtime Linux kernel for Orange Pi SoC. Using Xenomai technologies (Installing Xenomai 3.x , Xenomai Documentation). This would be a great extension of the SoC application area. I did this for the x86 architecture. And I've already assembled the core using your Arabian technology. But building the realtime Xenomai kernel requires pre-patching from a third-party project Adeos (Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems). Patch files for different architectures can be found here: Index of /downloads/ipipe/v4.x Is it possible to build a realtime kernel using Arabian? P.S. I apologize for my poor …

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 every devs ! (some of you know that I was on other duties those past months, mainly constructing my new house and moving in it, but I'm now back to Armbian builds those recent days after more then 6 busy months) I've noticed yesterday that USB1-DRVVBUS/PD7 was not activated any more in my recent build, although the fix-many-orangepiwin-dts.patch should take care of that and this one is successfully applied. After digging the issue, I've found out that the sunxi64-hdmi-thermal-dma-pmw-enable.patch is reverting many of those, probably unintentionally, and since this patch is applied after the first one, things are revert silently. …

sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for servadmin: Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic InRelease Get:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB] Ign:3 http://beta.armbian.com bionic InRelease Err:4 http://beta.armbian.com bionic Release 404 Not Found [IP: 185.158.177.155 80] Get:5 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-updates InRelease [83.2 kB] Hit:6 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-backports InRelease Get:7 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-updates/main armhf Packages [94.3 kB] Get:8 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-updates/universe armhf Packages [78.3 kB] Re…

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

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

Hi, I'm running the next branch on a NanoPi NEO. Having built my own xenial image from current sources, I notice that an apt-get upgrade brings old kernel and dtb packages (4.14.18). It looks like these old packages are coming from http://apt.armbian.com/pool/main/l/linux-4.14.18-sunxi/ (these are dated 10th Feb). Would it be possible to remove these packages from this location, please? Thanks, Edwin.

Hello I created this topic as I wrote issue on github https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/960 and it looks like forum is better place I want to fix odroid c2 dev So when I use general-packaging-4.17-dev.patch(from sunxi-dev) and when I fix zImage to vmlinux-4.17.0-rc3-odroidc2 symlink all works fine But I don't understand this in general-packaging-4.17-dev.patch Anybody can explain why zImage one time and Image other ? current odroid uboot script load/expect zImage case $ARCH in +aarch64|arm64) + image_name=Image +arm*) + image_name=zImage

I see you gentlemen, you are going after nanopi k1 plus. But it was nice to finish the nanopi k2. Because it's in the testing phase and it's on the well-known Amlogic chip 905. By the way, I'm waiting for K1 - I already ordered :-)))

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

Hello together, I'm developing a device driver for a network interface controller for MOST bus. So, first of all, I've added a node with all the settings for this IC in my DTS, the IC is connected to second I²C-controller: &i2c2 { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&i2c2_pins_a>; status = "okay"; os8104: os8104@41 { compatible = "smsc,os8104"; reg = <0x41>; master = <0>; /* slave mode*/ bypass = <0>; /* /ABY (all bypass mode) im register bXCR */ reset_gpios = <&pio 8 17>; /* PI17 */ int_g…

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

Hi, I've built my own Ubuntu Armbian image for the NanoPi Duo so I could use Ubuntu Snaps without classic confinement (The pre-built images don't seem to have SquashFS Compiled in the kernel). The image seems to be working perfect. However I've noticed one thing which I'm not sure if it's the image or a generic armbian issue but I've noticed that every time I reboot it the mac address updates. I'm using it for a server so having it generate a new IP each time I need to reboot it for development is a bit of an issue. Is there a recommended way to set a static one or such?

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

I want to have a "dual boot" system with Openelec for video and Armbian for the rest :-) The boot files are named different except 'boot.scr'. So the idea is to rename it, so the right one is used and then do a reboot. Not the PC dual boot with a menu, but good enough for me :-D So I copied the files from the /boot folder to an existing FAT partition and copied the rest to a newly created ext4 partition (mmcblk0p3). I modified 'boot.scr' to this: gpio set PL10 gpio set PG11 setenv machid 1029 setenv bootm_boot_mode nonsec if fatload mmc 0 0x00000000 /boot/.verbose then setenv verbosity 7 else setenv verbosity 1 fi setenv bootargs "console=tty1 r…

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…

I have build armbians img for orangepi pc2 and prime. No 5.41 debian stretch both + XFCE4. I compressed it to tar.gz. Linux -*.deb and armbian-*.deb. How can I upload it to your server?

Upcoming week I am having an initial meeting with WEB/UX redesigners, which should focus on overall navigation, entry, download ... The quick Armbian intro video is also in the making process by somebody else - to replace those 4 images on the entry page. I know we already talked about those problems, some issues were resolved, some not. Since ideas are scattered around many topics I am opening a new one. Roughly: Navigation: unified on all pages. Entry page: rework + intro video Download selection: search on devices must be somehow implemented Download board page: rethink and rework Documentation under common theme …

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

Looks like A10/A20 audio codec support got merged to linux-next tree. Igor, can you please add these patches? I'll try to find all related bits. There are too many commits to link them one by one. Here is merge commit, it's easier to remove not needed bcm2835 and sun6i stuff from it. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit?id=2030deefd5bfb68317732d8f64c69c7cb5169e9d

Hi All, I am not new to kernel building. I have been building kernels since the early days of Gentoo. Kernels on boards however, is something a bit different. I have an roc-rk3328-cc but this would be applicable to a variety of boards. Right now Firefly has their 4.* kernel at 4.4.114. I guess at some point that was what they went with. The current kernel is at about 4.15.14. I couldn't figure out how to patch from 4.4.114 to 4.15.14 (if you could provide help with that, please do so) so I downloaded the tarball and extracted it into the firefly's git directory. What should have happened was any kernel related file got u…

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

Hi, No matter I am using master or development branches, both were failed to build uboot/kernel by bl31 target. Spoiler $ ./compile.sh [ o.k. ] Using config file [ config-default.conf ] [ warn ] This script requires root privileges, trying to use sudo [ o.k. ] Using config file [ config-default.conf ] [ o.k. ] This script will try to update Already up-to-date. Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin. Switched to a new branch 'master' [ o.k. ] Command line: setting LIB_TAG to [ development ] [ o.k. ] Preparing [ host ] [ o.k. ] Build host OS release [ xenial ] [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] ... [ o.k. ] Downloading sources […

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

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

Hi All, I have looked at the "How to build your own image/kernel post", but am wondering what the best way for me is to contribute. Basically, I often use the pine64 running armbian as an IoT control hub/gateway where it is running an install of nginx/php/mysql/mosquito/nodered. The php part is mostly because of phpmyadmin, so nginx comes in that case configured with node-red mounted on / and phpmyadmin on /phpmyadmin. I could create my own image with all this stuff on it, and also configure some default usernames, passwords and wifi setup, but I also noticed the "Software" section in armbian-config. So my question is which of these 3 options would b…

Hello, We've enabled pps-gpio in armbianEnv and will hopefully soon have our GPS/PPS source sync'ing the Neo2. We are also trying to have the Neo2 as a PPS generator when there is no local GPS/PPS connected and it's sync'd on the LAN from another Neo2 that has the GPS/PPS. To make all this work we'd like to be able to activate a PPS generator (output), along the lines of: https://github.com/jsln/pps-gen-gpio Think we understand the device-tree process well enough, but how (and where) would we put the driver code and have it compiled in and usable? Is this something that can be done on top of the nightly build we're using, or would we have to do this in t…

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

Hi all! I'm new in armbian, and I'm just starting to fun:) I want add new video mode to kernel: 800x600 (0x45) 36.000MHz +HSync +VSync h: width 800 start 824 end 896 total 1024 skew 0 clock 35.16KHz v: height 600 start 601 end 603 total 625 clock 56.25Hz I have read about this on the forum but I do not know how to calculate table ptbl[] in: drivers/video/sunxi/disp2/hdmi/aw/hdmi_bsp_sun8iw7.c static struct para_tab ptbl[] = { {{6 , 1 , 1, 1, 5, 3, 0, 1, 4, 0, 0, 160, 20, 38, 124, 240, 22, 0, 0 }}, {{21 , 11, 1, 1, 5, 3, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0, 160, 32, …

martinayotte - Canada - maintain/fix DTS entries for some devices such I2C/SPI/W1 - ASAP Task from thread http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1325-claim-a-task-set-due-date-and-start-doing-it/?p=11253 @martinayotte I know you already have a lot of dialog for this task on the forum and Github. If you can consolidate to here that would be fantastic. If it's too much work I understand. Please at least provide a status here as you progress. If possible please reference merge requests to this GitHub Issue

Hi! In doc page": https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Process/#downloading-sources in "Directory structure" is listed folder "source". But when i cloning repo and build kernel there is no such directory "source". how to add this folder with kernel source ? Best Regards

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

Dear All, Thank you so much for your efforts for such a nice project. I searched for the forum, but couldn't find a similar topic. I also checked the documentation, but couldn't find about "What are the steps for a new device" ? I have a new Allwinner A64 based SoM + Carrier based system, used for smart home. The board's name is DR47. A samples photo is below: Currently, latest Armbian SOPINE image (which I downloaded from here: https://dl.armbian.com/pine64so/nightly) works perfectly on my board, at least it boots without any errors, and my rtl8152 USB-Ethernet works too. I have studied "Building A…

I've installed a pristine copy of Armbian_5.38_Nanopiair_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.15 onto an SD card, booted up my NanoPi Neo Air successfully. I even managed to get wifi to work, etc. When trying to enable the SPI interface (ls -la /dev/ | grep -i spi returns no devices) I ran sudo armbian-config which suddenly started to flash my eMMC. The strange thing is that my keyboard seems to be just fine, no other application on my machine is "typing automatically". The screen during the flash is also seemingly broken. Did anyone experience the same? Thanks. (Is there another way to enable SPI without the armbian-config utility if i…

Hi guys, Given the not so great durability of SD cards (and limited storage...I try to keep everything on NFS mounts, but there's always some log that decides to randomly fill the SD card full of crap), and the incapability of run properly docker (it runs, but it NEEDS to use damn local storage, and won't take an NFS mount for some reason...it gets full real quick), I was considering to boot to a iSCSI target. This would let me expand storage anytime I need, plus it would make backup and snapshots a piece of cake. Is there a way to do this?

Hi all, since i didnt want to manualy start building images for the boards i have, i decided to make a automated script for this. Now i finished the script i wanted to share it with everyone: cd /home/alexander/build ./compile.sh KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no BOARD=orangepiplus2e BRANCH=next RELEASE=xenial BUILD_DESKTOP=no FORCE_USE_RAMDISK=yes USE_CCACHE=yes ./compile.sh KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no BOARD=orangepiplus BRANCH=next RELEASE=xenial BUILD_DESKTOP=no FORCE_USE_RAMDISK=yes USE_CCACHE=yes ./compile.sh KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no BOARD=orangepizero BRANCH=next RELEASE=xenial BUILD_DESKTOP=no FORCE_USE_RAMDISK=yes USE_CCACHE=yes ./…

@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, 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.

A while ago we added some logic to set LINUXFAMILY=sunxi in /etc/armbian-release and this breaks completely the IRQ affinity settings in /etc/init.d/armhwinfo (prepare_board function). Sunxi boards upgrading to 5.35 get slower with some use cases unless a fix in 5.36 is provided (though I've no idea how the fix should look like) It seems board support packages on apt.armbian.com have been built a few days ago not containing latest fixes. Is this possible?

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

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

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

Hi, first of all thank you for the great work. Let me tell you my story. I bought a Pinebook laptop some months ago and in my spare time I was playing with numerous OS-es. Installing and testing one by one. In total I've tested every single OS and so far Armbian is the winner. Why? Well because it is super fast, very stable, lightweight and with very simple xfce desktop look and feel. Now, like everything in life, there are some bad sides of Armbian. I am not sure if I will say something false or strange but I don't consider my self expert for hardware nor Linux world. So far I have also Raspberry Pi with Raspbian installed and don't see any bad si…

i've cross-compiled all possible backported drivers for legacy 3.4.112 kernel could someone who has some usb tuners or video grabbers test it? download and untar http://d-h.st/k4kZ cd there and run sudo make install

Dear All ... My board is cubie2. Let's say I want to move led pins to pins other than PH20-PH21. In 3.x kernel , all we need to do is edit the fex file and compile it to script.bin. The edited parts is (from PH20/PH21 to PE10/PE11) : [gpio_para] gpio_used = 1 gpio_num = 8 gpio_pin_1 = port:PE04<3><default><default><1> gpio_pin_2 = port:PE05<3><default><default><1> gpio_pin_3 = port:PE06<3><default><default><1> gpio_pin_4 = port:PE07<3><default><default><1> gpio_pin_5 = port:PE08<3><default><default><1> gpio_pin_6 = port:PE09<3><default&g…

Hi, I try send parameters to Kernel via U-boot, but that is not worked. From U-boot command line: setenv bootargs 'isolcpus=0' saveenv boot After Linux boot I don't see system changes, for test cat /proc/cmdline How to send bootargs 'isolcpus=0' to Kernel? My system image Armbian_5.12_Lime2_Debian_jessie_4.5.5

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

Happy new year everyone, I am working on a project where I want to control two brushed DC motors equipped with a magnetic encoder and driven by a H-bridge circuit. All this has to be done on a tiny arm board (with enough cpu power for other computations), and I decided to go for the NanoPi NEO Air. I compiled the actual mainline Kernel with realtime capability (turned PREEEMTIVE on in menuconfig, hope that's enough) and debian streched. One issue might be the tight and constraining timing when sampling the magnetic encoder, which generates two 1.6kHz (about 0.6ms) pulses for each motor. I guess it would be best to get an interrupt generated at each…

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?

It's been decades since I did application development but I want to get started again. I see that Ubuntu IDE SDK is included in the 'software boutique' but when I install it there are numerous errors when trying to configure. Do you guys have a preferred IDE for application dev on Armbian and do you have any tutorial how to build it? The Ubuntu IDE SDK looks good but so do several other IDEs that include GUI designers such as QDevelop. Before I go down a long path I'd rather try what you kids are already successfully using. I know, most guys use Vi(m) and command line, but I want to give the IDE style of development a go. This is a ver…

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

Hello, I've got an Orange Pi Zero (Allwinner H2+) and an .img 4GB with OS for it and some custom software in the image. I have source code of this custom software and need to compile its modified version and build/change the .img with my changes, and load it all into the Zero. 7zip opens the .img, I can see that it has Armbian Jessie with legacy kernel. QEmu on Ubuntu coudn't mount the .img, is it possible to emulate the image, or should I modify my software on the device itself? How it could be done? I need some help with development for Zero and an existing .img. Thanks in advance.

When building fresh jessie images the last days I always got somewhere in between: W: Failed to fetch http://apt.armbian.com/dists/jessie/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'jessie-utils/binary-armhf/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) Such an image then also reports this as a problem when doing an 'apt update': ... W: Failed to fetch http://apt.armbian.com/dists/jessie/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'jessie-utils/binary-armhf/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. root@odroidxu4:~# …

Hi all Is it possible to compile a full 32bit Armbian (32bit Kernel and 32bit userland) for targets that run aarch64 SoC (H5, A64, etc....)? Bye

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

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

Hi, Please have a look at the list of supported devices by a patching framework https://github.com/seemoo-lab/nexmon Mostly bcm43430a1 devices, I believe patch should also be suitable for AP6212 WiFi chip, as it's patches only or mostly mac driver ? (Not an expert here). Patches apply smoothly on RPi3. Would be really nice to have this functional on Friendly ARM NanoPi Neo Air.

Hello, I've made patch that should autodetect A20-OLinuXino variant. Currently supported boards by this patch are: A20-OLinuXino-Lime A20-OLinuXino-Lime2 A20-OLinuXino-Micro With their own modifications the count is 14 different configurations. Why this is possible: All boards uses the same DDR freq - 384MHz. The routing is almost the same All the boards have small EEPROM capable of storing the configuration Major differences between the boards includes: 5 different ethernet PHYs Different pins used for USB phys Different pins used for MMC card detect Different p…

For some time there is NAND driver for both SPL and u-boot for Allwinner SoCs. You can check boards/sunxi/README.nand. I'm currently testing this. What I'm thinking is, if this option works fine, should nand-sata-install script to be reworked? Instead of using the old SDK u-boot, mainline spl+u-boot to be packed in the bootloader deb and then written somehow? At this point as I can see only CHIP_pro has this feature enabled.

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

Let's sum up major concerns/problems and unify/create a plan of actions. We already decided to wait with mainline H3-H5-A64 ... which means old stable/legacy kernels/a10-20-xu4 (what else?) mainline should be rebuilt and what remains goes under nightly? Images can be made one board at the time, they can be made in exactly 4 days or not. Perhaps I should emphasize "approximately" more? Or remove this date since it only creates an extra pressure? Or is it ok? This should be fun. For me, most of the time is even sometimes days are wasted and frustration or stress builds up to insane levels. We know which kernels are not done and there is nothing we…

Hi, every one! have any of you guys tried to perform SPI loopback tests on any of existing boards ? I mean this driver code http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.13.14/source/drivers/spi/spi-loopback-test.c. I tried to find any information on how to run tests but I completely failed to make it. It would be nice if someone shares a step-by-step instruction. Thanks a lot.

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

In order to make armbian better, we need your help with testing. Why? there are simply too many boards to handle, there are task which can't be automatized, there are bugs which are not seen from our perspective. What kind of tests? booting, user creation, updates, upgrades checking if basic supported functions work: video, audio, network, wireless, AP mode do nasty thing to your board and report. How to test? Download nightly images from here. You want to test image which is not there? Add those two parameters with desired targets to board's config and create a pull request. and / or cha…

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

Hello everyone, I am new to this forum. Apologize if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it. I do docker run -it -P --privileged lib /root/compile.sh I get the following towards the end of the build process Fetched 68.1 MB in 60s (1,130 kB/s) Reading package lists... Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... hostapd is already the newest version (2:2.6-4~armbian5.34.171017+1). The following NEW packages will be installed: sunxi-tools 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 36.9 kB of archives. After this operation, 134 kB of additional disk …

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

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

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 …

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

Hello, I want to use touchscreen on my lcd. To do this I do the following: Compile my own dtbo and load it: /dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { compatible = "allwinner,sun7i-a20"; fragment@0 { target = <&rtp>; __overlay__ { allwinner,ts-attached; }; }; }; Blacklist gpadc modules: blacklist sun4i_gpadc_iio blacklist sun4i_gpadc After reboot the touchscreen is working. However I cannot see what is loading these two modules? Also is there any other way getting working touchscreen? I'm using armbian 5.34 with kernel version 4.13.11.

This way it works with 720p or whatever less than 1080p. There kernel logo doesn't want to show. Good on 1280x1024 or 720p Spoiler [ 3.336551] simple-framebuffer 7fb00000.framebuffer: framebuffer at 0x7fb00000, 0x500000 bytes, mapped to 0xf0900000 [ 3.336562] simple-framebuffer 7fb00000.framebuffer: format=x8r8g8b8, mode=1280x1024x32, linelength=5120 [ 3.363471] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64 [ 3.365113] simple-framebuffer 7fb00000.framebuffer: fb0: simplefb registered Broken on 1080p: Spoiler [ 3.337435] simple-framebuffer 7f817000.framebuffer: framebuffer at 0x7f817000, 0x…

It's time to unify GPIO for the other PIs with WiringOtherPI and bundle it with Armbian! Inspired from these discussions: https://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/2808-orange-pi-zero-went-to-the-market/page-4#entry20302 http://tech.scargill.net/banana-pi-m2/#comment-27946 Goals WiringPI GPIO support for most AllWinner H2/H3 boards using legacy kernel WiringPI GPIO support for most AllWinner H2/H3 boards using mainline kernel Compatiblity with code using WiringPI dependencies Make my Orange Pi Zero blink my christmas lights Produce a distro-friendly package to be included with Armbian releases Todos Compile todos from other discussions Resources WiringOtherPi R…