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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 ./…

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…

Any idea how to make this u-boot compiler tool chain mess a bit human / armbiantoolchain friendly? http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_K2

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'm using this community maintained Bookworm image published for OrangePi Zero . I cannot unload this minimal kernel module for some reason. Some information that could be useful: `uname -a` output: Linux orangepizero 6.12.23-current-sunxi #2 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:39:41 UTC 2025 armv7l GNU/Linux `zcat /proc/config.gz | grep UNLOAD` output CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y # CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD_TAINT_TRACKING is not set Some information to replicate the issue: install required packages: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade # reboot sudo apt install build-essential linux-headers-current-sunxi -y Source code…

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

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…

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

The Rock-s0 has the same rk3308b processor and the build uses a BL31binary, with u-boot. The SV06Ace has the same cpu and BL31/u-boot. I reviewed this thread and was trying to follow the example commit provided. It is a little difficult to work through a commit as not all of the paths to the files are present in my depth=1 git clone. Is it possible to download the commit for the Rock-s0 and use it to patch the build directory? If I could run the patch, then I would have some actual files to copy and edit. The maintainer of the Rock-s0, linked on the Armbian Info page for the s0 has not made any recent commits. The last Rock-s0 commit was where it was …

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?

Dear Community, Currently Im playin with my Banana Pi M2 Berry and therefore I need a fusion of the LATEST Armbian -System with the compilers needed by the Boards Offical "GPIO-Libarys", which are outdated 7years ago. The most important libary would be the RPi.GPIO. RPi.GPIO The problem is, that this libary was using python2 and python3, python2 isnt my future i think, but for compiling the lib with python3 I need some pip-packages and the right arm-gcc compiler = 4.8 i think. DO i may need a cross-compile libary or whats are the requirements to build the lib on the latest system? To avoid hardware-d…

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 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 …

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

Hi all. In response to aarch64 because the images have been distributed to the official NanoPC-T3 and NanoPC-M3 arm7l and Armbian you want to distribute. From the official not working so actively hard? http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPC-T3 https://github.com/friendlyarm/ Thanks.

I'm currently trying out various features before going through the tools in detail and attempting to tackle all scenarios. I'll write down some thoughts in this thread for now.

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

https://dl.armbian.com/orangepipc/archive/ Armbian_20.02.1_Orangepipc_buster_current_5.4.20_desktop.7z Just checked a fresh buster desktop image. And found a tiny issue. If you will try to install linux-headers-current-sunxi using the latest v20.02.1 image (buster, K5.4.20), you will get the v5.3.9 headers It would be nice to get the v5.4.20 headers instead Quick tip for other users - headers package can be found here - https://apt.armbian.com/pool/main/l/linux-5.4.20-sunxi/

While 5.4.y is not in ( sunxi64_common.inc ) current yet, at this time of writing I like to explore " KERNELBRANCH="branch:orange-pi-5.5" ". Except for just updating to this branch, I noticed it is just too early as megous github branch is not prepared yet for 5.5-RC1. I am curious to see if any of these have been applied already and what new fun stuff needs to be considered in the kernel .config

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

The versioning within Armbian seems to be inconsistent. On a up to date RPi4 The login message states that it is running Armbian 23.11.1: Welcome to Armbian 23.11.1 Jammy with Linux 6.6.18-current-bcm2711 /etc/os-release is listing both 22.04 and 24.2.1: PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 24.2.1 jammy" VERSION_ID="22.04" VERSION="22.04.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)" ARMBIAN_PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 24.2.1 jammy" /etc/armbian-release says it is 23.11.1: VERSION=23.11.1 REVISION=23.11.1 So these are three different versions, making it confusing. Any idea what is going on here?

I am coming from a yocto build for a dev board. I had to make u-boot patches, kernel config changes, and custom DTS tree. I'm trying to adapt this to Armbian, one step at a time. I started with building am image for sk-am62b.conf. I did not expect u-boot to boot from correctly. I was glad to see console messages, but expectedly, u-boot didn't continue. I made a new board config for this, duplicating sk-am62b.conf, but changing a critical line I made to get this to work previously. TIBOOT3_FILE="tiboot3-am62x-gp-evm.bin" Now, the boot process gets through u-boot and loads the Linux kernel. However, the kernel halts because it cannot find…

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

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

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

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lima/mesa/issues/85#note_213894 as said by Lima maintainer: Qiang Yu, xfce4 runs OK on lima now we could start to integrate lima to Armbian. @Igor do you agree?

I created a pull pull request to add gpu support for radxa rock3a. Since this the first time I do this I need a maintainer to approve running workflows. Does anybody have the permission to do this so that we can make this support merged?

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

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 would like to use a CI service to build Armbian images, ideally BitBucket pipelines since that is where most of my projects are. Has anyone had any success doing something similar? I thought it would be easy since docker based builds are supported, but it seems the supported technique is to run a command on the host that starts a separate docker container. Most CI build now are already running in a container and while I think running docker inside docker is possible, I have not been able to get that to work well in the past.

Hi all, I´m trying to install pyCurl with command as root pip install pycurl after 10 seconds, console show me this error: (venv)root@cubox-i:~/pyCA# pip install pycurl Collecting pycurl Using cached pycurl-7.19.5.1.tar.gz Installing collected packages: pycurl Running setup.py install for pycurl Complete output from command /root/pyCA/venv/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-yYNrnD/pycurl/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-3uzAV0-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /…

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

I'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…

Linux odroidn2 5.5.5-meson64 btrfs is missing in this Kernel... Are there any bugs or why is there no btrfs in 5.5 and 5.4?

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

From time to time I searched for a somewhat precise power meter that produces not only a simple visual output but data that can be integrated into a monitoring system (be it RPi-Monitor, SNMP or something else). The ODROID Smart Power looked somewhat promising but was rather expensive and seems to be sold out in the meantime. Zador told me some time ago some details about different ADC measurements with Lime2, I checked this some days ago when combining Lime2 with a H3 board and am now thinking about simply using a Banana Pro to be used as such a power meter since I'm currently preparing measurements of a few H3 boards to arrive soon (see for some preparations this th…

Dear Igor, Thank you very mutch for tis great job! I did some tests based on your image with udoo-quad, works perfect! But I do have some trouble on udoo-dual, kernel stops without any console output (just loading kernel...) so I decided to compile my own, but I get [ o.k. ] Compiling uboot [ o.k. ] Compiler version [ arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc 5.4.0 ] make: *** Keine Regel, um „udoo_qdl_config“ zu erstellen. Schluss. What do I have to change? Best regards Marcus

Does anyone here have any experience with getting the RT patch to run on Linux? Tried to get it to compile last week for a Micro A20 but while it did compile with some manual patching, it did not run.

I had great success with building a mainline kernel / distribution image for my banana pi pros and my orange pi pluses. Now I have a rack of Orange Pi PC because they are only $15 each!!! Sadly, I can't find "Orange Pi PC" in the list of supported boards in the build script. The only one listed with H3 chip is the orange pi plus, and that image does not run on an orange pi pc. So my question is.... What would it take to get the opiPC support? If its not a huge job, and you are willing to give a few pointers to get me headed in the right direction, I'll take a look and see if I can add it. Thanks, Blade.

Those past days, I was working on getting DT ConfigFS Overlays into sun8i-dev. Today, I've suddenly saw that the version from that we are using from https://github.com/megous/linux(branch orange-pi-4.6) change from 4.6.2 to 4.6.4. I didn't care much until I figured out that we loose all the UART1/2/3/4 (only keeping the debug UART0) as well as all I2C (except the one on r_pio for PMIC). So, "megous" github is back to almost what linux-sunxi github is providing, without all the patches for UART/I2C that I had prepared 3 months ago. I get I will have to re-integrate them on our side until there merge into real linxx-sunxi branch.

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

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 …

Hi, I'm trying to compile the Odroid-XU4 kernel using a make -C KERNEL_SOURCES O=SOMEWHERE_ELSE/mybuild. This command will failed when it reaches these drivers in drivers/net/wireless: rtl8188eu, rtl8189es, rtl8189fs, rtl8192eu, rtl8723ds, rtl8723du, rtl8811cu, rtl8812au, rtl8822bs, rtl88x2bu, rtl88x2cs. To be able to compile the Kernel outside of the source tree I had to modify this list of files below. This is an output of my scipt wich is searching an replacing and replacing "-I$(src)" with "-I$(souce)/$(src)" Fixing compilation for driver rtl8188eu .. Makefile phydm.mk sd4_phydm_2_kernel.mk ap_makefile.mk Fixing compilation for …

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

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

A small patch addressing some power monitoring related issues: 1. The script was always writing to the "REG 82H: ADC Enable 1" register (on each login). 2. The value being written (0xC3, raising bit 6) was overwriting the old one, wiping out other bits that may have been enabled. On my cubietruck for instance it defaults to 0xFF, not 0x83, so that "i2cset" call was effectively disabling/zeroing the /sys/class/power_supply/ac/current_now thing that I use for calculating and graphing the power usage in munin. 3. Raising that flag (bit 6, Battery current ADC enable) seems irrelevant to the bash.bashrc.custom script, as it doesn't appear to read that curren…

Hi, I'm trying to build an image for the Orangepi Zero Plus 2 (H3) using the following instructions: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/. After putting the produced image onto a microSD card using dd, I put the card into the board, connect the serial and power, and then seems to fail and drops me to the u-boot prompt. Here is the output of the terminal. U-Boot 2017.07-armbian (Jul 18 2017 - 16:01:02 +0100) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Zero Plus DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0, SUNXI SD/MMC: 1 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial…

Tested Armbian_20.05.0-rc.149_Nanopim1_focal_current_5.4.43.img and I even tried hooking up video to see what was going on and nothing. Image doesn't expand on SD. I know this isn't supported, but would be nice to have focal on my old M1s. Also, I've tried the 5/24 image and the same issue.

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

Hello, I'm looking for armbian 23.8.1 repository on github for building my own image. On github site there is on only the latest and after the 23.08 is more recent one. So where can i download the branche 23.8.1 ?

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!

Hello, I have been building images for the NanoPC-T4 with armbian successfully in the past. However I now get the error "could not resolve 'ports.ubuntu.com'" when the build tries to install ping_5.1-1_arm64.deb (full log below). Do you have any idea what this comes from and how I could solve/debug this ? Thank you Additional info : I added 8.8.8.8 as an alternative DNS server on my machine, I can ping ports.ubuntu.com successfully. I have cloned the armbian build and head points to this commit https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/5b8d86ae5f6f34cf6cc13edf6b1def2773f66f0a Best regards, Rick …

I recently installed Armbian Jammy on my Hardkernel Odroid-HC1. By monitoring the storage usage through SNMP, I quickly realised that something was filling up the /var/log mountpoint at an alarming rate (40 % usage after three weeks). At a closer inspection, it turned out to be the sysstat logs. Even though sysstat was set (out of the box) to only keep 7 days of history, I could see files that were several weeks old. Having looked into the way that logs are synced to disc (or to the SD card rather), then rotated and synced back every night, it seems that the armbian-ramlog script is rather broken. It will move all of the sysstat logs, then expect the logrotati…

I just install the development enviroment to build custom images. Works pretty fine. Thanks to all of you. It makes it easy to test custom kernels on development boards. I went a step further, trying to use the userpatches/customize-image.sh script. Correct if i am wrong. It's possible to make a generic building process to add new drivers like the media_build does? I tried but the building fails because some variable references like the kernel version and driver modules path that the building script gets are from the host building machine and not the chroot guest. I suppose that inside this building image process there are some profile variables that could be reused. that…

Hi there, I realized that in the documentation for Marvell Mainline SFP is listed as unsupported. ( https://docs.armbian.com/Hardware_Marvell/#mainline ) So I tested that with some SFP Module I had laying around (SFP -> 1Gbit/s TP, no fiber though), and everything seems to be working fine. I will attach armbianmonitor -u and some proof. Maybe you can then put SFP as supported for mainline armada. Armbianmonitor -u: http://ix.io/1APB Used module: https://www.ebay.de/itm/142747822671 (maybe this can also be added as tested to the download page) ethtool output with attached sfp module (and cable): root@…

Discussion thread for github issue 423 - glshim packaging. Related discussion is here. Glshim development happens here. Current status: build script is mostly working, I'm fixing minor issues before making a github commit: - avoid hardcoded dependencies - make sure OpenGL apps can be built on target system Once these are resolved, I'll post a link to my commit for an eventual review and will be ready to create a pull request. ---------- Unrelated topic: armbian build script fixes for Debian Jessie Although only Ubuntu distribution is supported by armbian build scripts, Debian sid and above have all the necessary packages and should work fine. For Debian Je…

Hi all, special thanks to Igor for his work and all who are involved, thank you for reading this, THE MISSION:I am trying to install Armbian 5.25 Cubietruck Ubuntu xenial onto a cubietruck v1.0-0606. THE SITUATION:My computer I am creating the SD-Card from is: First I tried to copy Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.9.7_desktop.img then I copied root root 2946498560 Feb 5 12:04 Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.10.0_desktop.img root root 2942304256 Feb 5 02:43 Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.9.8_desktop.img sudo dd bs=1M if=Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.10.0_desktop.img of=/dev/sde sync My cardrea…

Armbians board support philosophy leads sometimes to frustration. Cause this topic came up from time to time in various threads. The aim of this thread is to summarize all those discussions and have them 'in one thread'. Current situation: There's no strict rule what is needed for getting 'armbian support' neither to drop support for a specific board. 49 boards are supported, 8 are WIP and 13 are deprecated. Supported SoCs: i.MX6, A20, A33, A64, H2+/H3, H5, ARMADA 388, RK3288, S805, S905x, Exynos 5422, WIP SoCs: ARMADA 3720, RK3328, S5P6818, S905, Opinions: I'm sure, I don't catch all opinions here, but instead of merging from various …

Certainly not a new item but havn't found an Armbian how-to. Hardware: Rockchip rk3588 based hardware with both SDcard slot and eMMC memory. Wish: make a SD card image that, when inserted in the SDcard slot, causes a bootable Armbian OS image to be written to eMMC from that SDcard, followed by boot from eMMC. The bootable image should remain in its most compact form, to limit copy time, and only upon first boot from eMMC be made to use the entire eMMC. Has this been explored already? Ideas on how-to?

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

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.

Hi, Where should I place a .patch in order to be taken into account on a next custom armbian built? This is for building legacy images. Need to have a modified nanopineo.fex and got a .patch for it, where should I place it in order to be applied on top of the armbian-provided one? P.S. Seen this -> https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/ but it only mentions u-boot and kernel.

Hi all. I have a Rock64 board with 1GB RAM. I downloaded this image https://dl.armbian.com/rock64/Ubuntu_xenial_default_nightly.7z and I wrote it on the SD card (Samsung EVO 16GB) using both Etcher and dd command. But when I power the board, all 3 leds light up and remains on, nothing else happens. I have the same behaviour with the 0.6.0 stretch-minimal image downloaded here https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/releases The only images that works are the 0.5.10 downloaded here https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/releases/tag/0.5.10 What's wrong? I can exclude problems with power supply (I bought the one they sugges…

In the following window the cursor keys (arrow up, down, left, right) aren't working: the raw terminal control chars appear instead. And the window is kind of "distorted" (for example the G char of General setup appears at the right side of the window, same with the following lines): Tried in a X console as well on tty8, same behavior. One can press only CTRL-C to get out of this window, this of course also aborts the build: How to fix this? My system: x86_64 Debian 8 (jessie) with LXDE desktop, using a Debian 8 in a LXC container for building Armbian for an A20 device. .config - Linux/arm 4.19.25 Kernel Configuration ───────────…

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

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…

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

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

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...

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

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

Hi! I am creating an Image that uses Cloud Init for customization. It involves creating an extra vfat partition for the CloudInit meta data. This is becoming an industry standard way to initialize virtual machines and now physical too. MAAS and Ubuntu on RPI also use it. What is the cleanest way to remove or disable equivalent scripts in Armbian ? In particular firstlogin and firstboot ?

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…

Hello, using mk_format_patch and for <LOCAL GIT URL> am getting bad url its NOT git git config [remote "origin"] physical look up or and any of git remote show origin - git remote -v etc will give the url if you dont know it already. Any suggestions configuring the url for mk_format_patch

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 …

Hi, I am using mainline 4.10.0-sun8i and to enable I2C I added: overlays=sun8i-h3-i2c0 to armbianEnv.txt and rebooted, then I checked: cat /proc/device-tree/soc/i2c\@01c2b400/status and still found that it was disabled, I feel that I may be missing a step, like having to compile armbianEnv.txt into the config script, is that so? Just to make sure it wasn't working, i changes the pins to I2C using: sunxi-pio -m PA11'<2>' sunxi-pio -m PA12'<2>' BTW. sunxi-pio has very few code comments, did not specify the field order and finding which bits to flip in the H3 data sheet was annoying, did you want me to fix and submit a pull …

I find quite strange that CONFIG_DM_MIRROR is not set in the kernel. It makes impossible under lvm to have logical volume mirror, and I just experienced an impossibility to make a pvmove to change one drive for another one. All my filesystems are built upon lvm, the only possibility would be to rebuild a kernel. But I find it quite heavy, since I have to platforms bananapi and espressobin; and it needs to be done for each release. But why no have built dm-mirror as module with the usual CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=m ?

root@nanopi-r4s:~# armbianmonitor -u System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x80 Please post the URL in the forum where you've been asked for. Well whatever: https://paste.debian.net/1181283/ I disabled all patches in misc that related to bootsplash because I didn't bother sorting out which patch especially was causing building to fail. code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } general-rkvdec_nv15.patch needed to be disabled in order to compile successful. Other patches that fail did not d…

I want to compile a matching build for: https://armbian.com/boards/odroidhc4 Debian 13trixie Minimal (CLI)—current6.18.33 https://dl.armbian.com/odroidhc4/Trixie_current_minimal Matching the img is fine (rather than the img.xz). I haven't compiled a matching build yet. I am doing this to debug my issue with the stock builds. Running: ./compile.sh BOARD=odroidhc4 BRANCH=current RELEASE=trixie BUILD_MINIMAL=yes BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no Logs forthcoming.

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.

Hello, I'm using armbian debian Jessie server, kernel 4.6.3 for banana pi m1+. Before, I built device driver with kernel 3.x and was working well, but decided to higher the kernel version because of SPI. (cpu isolation for the thread with SPI communication did not work in kernel 3.x) In the kernel 4.6.3, cpu isolation was working perfectly. When I used bcm2835 library, SPI also worked. However, when I tried to use the same device driver code in the kernel 4.6.3, it just crashed and froze. I had to turn it off and on again to use the pi again. After debugging, I found out that the point of the crash was the method gpio_direction_output(pinNumber, fal…

Dear gurus good afternoon. I ask for help because itself I don't understand any more what not so I do. I should make a clone of my sdcard, but nothing leaves. I tried so: I find the sdcard fdisk - l I create the empty file of an image dd if=/dev/zero of=armbian.img bs=2048 count=1402144 also I add him to loop losetup/dev/loop0 armbian.img now I clone the sdcard in loop the device dd if=/dev/sdd of=/dev/loop0 now I write down a half-scientific image on new sdcard dd bs=2048 if=armbian.img of=/dev/sdd As a result my sdcard doesn't seem on linux and I can't mount sections and loading doesn't happen to sdcard. Prompt please in what a mistake and as to me to make a clone of …

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

I'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…

Igor, I noticed that your build script automatically parses a URL to determine what the current stable release is for "Next". Since 4.3 is now officially released and has a number of features worth checking out, it would be nice if the build script offered an option to pick from stable vs. mainline. For now I am just manually setting the KernelTag to "4.3", but it would be nice not to have to modify any of the scripts manually and have this be an option you can pick from. Just a suggestion... Thanks.

If I want to have HC1 in motd when using XU4 image -> firstrun.sh if lsusb | grep "Bus 004 Device 002: ID 152d:0578" -> renaming: /etc/armbian-image-release /etc/armbian-release /etc/hostname /etc/hosts systemctl restart systemd-logind.service Safe and worth doing it?

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

Hi 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?

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

Hi, I have got Rock-3C board recently. It is not Rockpi4 C. Main difference compared to Rock-3A is missing pci-e connector form back of the board, soldered wifi module and only 5V input power. There is no system available for this board. Any ideas how to get this board working?

Hello I'm trying to netboot a Rock 5C lite SBC via U-boot and a TFTP + NFS server. U-boot is working fine and is able to fetch the armbian.Image and fdt file (rk3588s-rock-5c.dtb) I provide through pxelinux.cfg/{device_mac_addr} file: LABEL Armbian MENU LABEL Armbian KERNEL /srv/tftp/armbian.Image FDT /srv/tftp/rk3588s-rock-5c.dtb APPEND root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.46:/srv/nfs/armbian,vers=3 rw ip=dhcp rootwait (To be complete I have U-boot installed on a SPI flash module configured to fetch the files with pxe commands: pxe get; pxe boot). To create the armbian.Image (kernel) I used the build repository and edited the kernel confi…

Current main Armbian build hardware is a desktop based "server" running Ubuntu Xenial - i7 4790 / 16 / SSD. We already made lots's of optimisations within the build process but for 140 images I still need up to 14 hours where kernels were already cached. How is it possible to cut this time down significantly - to few hours, perhaps on a server grade hardware and further code optimisations? Currently I don't have access to any much better hardware to just run "build all" and see. I am looking for specific ideas for a build server upgrade and sponsored rent / exchange for advertisement. I was already advised by a friend, who knows something about server hardware: "J…

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.

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

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

I have to use beta.armbian.com site with my Orange Pi zero and today when I have run apt update I have see following errors: Błąd http://beta.armbian.com jessie/main armhf Packages 404 Not Found Błąd http://beta.armbian.com jessie/utils armhf Packages 404 Not Found Błąd http://beta.armbian.com jessie/jessie-desktop armhf Packages 404 Not Found Pobrano 128 kB w 20s (6179 B/s) …

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…

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

The latest build fails if this driver is selected to be build with the kernel. Realtek 8192E USB WiFi (RTL8192EU) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) y --> fails / m --> succeeds If 'm' or module is selected then the build succeeds. -R

Hello all. Trying to get PCIe/NVMe working (even to show on microSD boot, let alone boot NVMe) on a custom compile on my Orange Pi 5 SBC version 1.3.2, because the official images aren't working either for me. No idea where to go from here and need some assistance as NVMe is required for my purpose. Here is what I did during compile.sh > Show kernel config > Board: orangepi5 > Kernel: current > Target: jammy > Image with desktop > Gnome desktop > Base configuration > Tick: Browsers > Device Drivers > PCI support > (default values) > Device Drivers > NVME Support > (default values) I used "SHARE_LO…