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Hi, I have attempted to boot with edge and current branches with no success. I am now trying vendor since its what its running. My process is: ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepi5pro BRANCH=current kernel-config I enable tunneling GRE and some broadcom wifi drivers. ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepi5pro BRANCH=current kernel sudo dpkg -i output/debs/linux-image-*.deb sudo dpkg -i output/debs/linux-headers-*.deb sudo dpkg -i output/debs/linux-dtb-*.deb sudo reboot and after this the system does not boot or post through HDMI. I have to go back and erase /boot and restore a bac…

Hello, I tried to apply the patch https://github.com/lintweaker/xmos-native-dsd/blob/master/SRPMS/patches/kernel/0001-usb-Add-native-DSD-support-for-Amanero-Combo384-LE.patch in armbian build for orange pi pc and banana pi pro. Neither works. Attached is the error message. Grateful for any help, thanks!

I have an orange pi lite and I'm building my (dev 4.10) image using the Armbian tools. So far I figured out how to enable the DT overlays located in /boot/dtb/overlays by editing the armbianEnv.txt file and adding overlays=sun8i-h3-uart1 sun8i-h3-uart2 sun8i-h3-uart3 sun8i-h3-i2c0 sun8i-h3-spi0-spidev This now enables the various uart, i2c and spi ports I wish to use and that works. I'm trying to now set up a ADS7846 Touch controller using DTB I have copied the file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raspberrypi/linux/rpi-4.4.y/arch/arm/boot/dts/overlays/ads7846-overlay.dts and run dtc -I dts -O dtb ads7846-overlay.dts -o /boot/dtb/overlays/ads7846-ove…

Hello, i want to read from a mcp3008 on my orange pi zero with armbian and python. Sadly i can't read any data from my moisture sensor on channel 0 over the mcp3008. Anyone got an idea or a tutorial for the mcp3008 with orange pi zero? This is what i got right now: pi@orangepizero:~/spi/SPI-Py$ ls -la /dev/spidev* crw------- 1 root root 153, 0 Mar 20 13:17 /dev/spidev0.0 crw------- 1 root root 153, 1 Mar 20 13:17 /dev/spidev1.0 Vdd / Vref on 3,3. Agnd / Dgnd on ground. CLK on SPI1_CLK/PA14 Dout on SPI1_MOSI/PA15 Din on SPI1_MISO/PA16 CS/SHDN on SPI1_CS/PA13 Code: …

Hello, I've just built and installed new Armbian console image on OrangePi PC. I am trying to use the a10disp utility, first of all to get information - info command: sudo a10disp info, but it shows error "kernel sunxi disp driver does not support versioning. This program requires sunxi display driver 1.0 or higher", while dmesg shows error "disp_ioctl, line 1584:para err in disp_ioctl, cmd = 0x0,screen id = 65536". Please advise what is wrong and how to get correct result.

Hello, I tried building current@4c54309b7b1c6 for opi+2e, dev, jessie, console, and saw those: [...] [ warn ] ... scripts-dtc-Update-to-version-with-overlays.patch [ failed ] [...] scripts/kconfig/conf --olddefconfig Kconfig .config:1440:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for RXKAD .config:5691:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE [...] Are they known ? harmless ? EDIT: trying to fix, will PR if it works OK: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/pull/468

Hi, I'm trying to compile an Armbian image for OdroidC2 with btrfs rootfs, I created an Ubuntu Xenial container with systemd-nspawn as building environment. The building process reports these errors: ERROR in function prepare_partitions debootstrap-ng.sh:374 err Unable to find free loop device err Process terminated info ERROR in function unmount_on_exit debootstrap-ng.sh:525 err debootstrap-ng was interrupted err Process terminated info I've done a little search and found that there are no loop device in a default container and that's impossible to create a new one with: mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0 The answer is: mknod: /dev/loop0: Operation not permitted So I …

Hi, I wanted to know if there was an easy way to customize an existing released image or rebuild a released image. I know you can use the customize image option when building, but I would like to not build the latest nightly, but instead just build whatever was released. The customization I am looking to do is installing additional packages, downloading some personal python code, setting timezone and other similar settings. I searched the forums, but didn't see anything helpful, any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

So, Just installed Arbian Xenial mainline/stable on a 32Gb microSD on a Cubietruck. Everything seems to be working well except when I attach an external USB 3.0 1Tb disk. It seems to keep issuing some kind of ATA command to query the disk and cause a clicking. I know its not the disk because it works fine elsewhere and theres some info in the dmesg about it (which I will post when I get a chance). Is this a known bug or not? And if Im able to track down the bug and fix it where should I submit a PR? Thanks for the great project! - Zack

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…

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

I am working on support for the ClockworkPi Gameshell main board. I have patches for the kernel, but it seems that the build system applies kernel patches on a "per family" basis. Indeed, looking at the 'kernel-patch.sh' script it seems the BOARD and TARGET variables that would let board specific patches work are commented out. I've read through the example PR's in the docs, but don't see an example of how applying board specific patches should work. I fear that if I put the patches into the normal flow, it will get applied to other boards within the sunxi family and things may break for other boards. Should kernel patches be crafted in a way that they SHOULD …

Hi there, trying to iterate on making small changes to a kernel driver module, and using armbian to help build the kernel (cross-compiling off the device). I'm aware of kernel-patch mode, but for making small changes, compiling, and iterating like this over and over, making and then putting patches into place on each cycle is quite cumbersome. Is there some way to tell armbian build _not_ to update the kernel, i.e. let me build with dirty tree, as I'm in a dev cycle? I just want to edit something in my local kernel tree, then build the kernel, and repeat

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

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

Hi, I've been trying to setup a Cubox i with a buster image, encrypted root and ssh unlock. I cloned the git on 15th of August at commit `1a06bea5f31767b4983985c6592b78e288a85b99`. I used the following build options: ./compile.sh BOARD=cubox-i CRYPTROOT_ENABLE=yes CRYPTROOT_PASSPHRASE="abc" CRYPTROOT_SSH_UNLOCK=yes CRYPTROOT_SSH_UNLOCK_PORT=2222 KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no BRANCH=next RELEASE=buster I've tried using both 'dd' and 'etcher-cli' to burn the image, with identical results. The board boots, I can see the initial u-boot startup screen, then it goes black. Which something I've seen many times with the Cubox i on various di…

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First a very big "Thank you", Igor. You create wonderful images. But now the problem. I want to boot the A20 from an eMMC Flash. I use a HAOYU New MarsBoard A20 Dev Board. The reason: the CM-A10/A20 PCB has a footprint for an eMMC. So the 8GB NAND was removed and replaced by a 2GB eMMC. Then I took the Pecovnik Olimex Lime2 Jessie 3.4.108 image and added the fex file from the MarsBoard SD image. After a fex2bin the MarsBoard bootet from SD0. Life was beautiful. The problems start if I wanted to contact the eMMC. I changed "[nand_para] nand_used" to 0. And I changed "[mmc2_para] sdc_used" to 1. Then the kernel gets in serious problems: <6>[mmc-msg] sdc2 se…

@Igor, I started a new topic because is more clear. I compiled with the last files in your github and remove the ".disabled" of the file 30-real-time143-full-plus-rt-fixes.patch . I choose the option 5 (full real time) but crashes. I attach the screen of the error. I compiled two times. One in lubuntu 16 and other in Ubuntu 16. The error is the same. Very Thanks!!!

As armbian incorporates some performance tweaks also with regards to IRQ balancing on Allwinner devices, I just wanted to note, that the irqbalance daemon now finally works on armhf in Debian Stretch. I had tried irqbalanced on arm several times over the last two years, and neither the versions shipped in Wheezy or Jessie actually worked (i.e. balanced IRQs over multiple cores). I also tried to compile a more recent version last year but couldn't get it to work. So, now after upgrading one of my BananaPis to Debian Stretch, I gave irqbalanced another shot and am happy to see that interrupts are now nicely balanced, including e.g. ethernet and USB interrupts.

Hi I am getting a memory problem, quite irregular. In any case, for some reason, at different times suddenly decrease the amount of memory available - and so it remains. As the attached image at 2:30 at night when nothing has special - I was sleeping Can anyone advise me how to find the reason? I will be very grateful.

Hello, I have a problem building the image behind a proxy (company proxy). Is there any way to get my proxy configuration into the chroot - environment?

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

Hello, I was trying to add the module em28xx (PCTV 460e DVB S2 drivers) but get errors Cubietruck Vanilla 2.81 What I did: 1. make menuconfig in /usr/src/linux-headers-4.3.3-sunxi 2. add Device Drivers -> Multimedia support -> Media USB Adapters -> Empia EM28xx USB devices support -> DVB/ATSC Support for em28xx based TV cards as Module 3. "make scripts" as there was an error with the scripts 4. make modules I get the following error Is there a tutorial how to build additional modules on the cubietruck ? Could you include the module in future releases ( iirc the S2 adapter works with the legacy image out of the box so the d…

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

But.... this is a great topic where we need to start working on a process / protocol for patches like this

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…

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?

I'm trying to create a custom Armbian image based on the User Configurations documentation. I can see that I can install additional packages by editing `userpatches/lib.config` and adding entries to the `PACKAGE_LIST_ADDITIONAL` variable, and I can work with custom files like scripts by placing them inside `userpatches/overlay` and accessing them in `/tmp/overlay` via `customize-image.sh`. My question is, does `customize-image.sh` support the below commands given that it executes in a chroot environment: NOTE: Some commands below require `sudo`, but because we're already in a chroot environment, I assume we can run them without `sudo`. 1.…

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?

I run Armbian tool ( checked out from https://github.com/150balbes/Build-Armbian )with command ./compile.sh CREATE_PATCHES="yes" , but only see the request for patch the kernel : [ warn ] Make your changes in this directory: [ /home/hanguofu/Build-Armbian/cache/sources/LINUX_DEFAULT/20180925 ] [ warn ] Press <Enter> after you are done [ waiting ] I would like to patch the U-boot ( u-boot-aml-s9xxx ) instead of kernel . Should I manually add the patch to the userpatches/u-boot directory for my aml-s9xxx board ?

Ever since patchfolders were created for different branches and different board families it has become more and more a nightmare to maintain these folders and keep them clean. Instead of taking the approach to clear one or more of these folders by myself, last but not least due to lack of necessary skills, I was thinking maybe I can provide some tools that make such tasks a little easier for somebody else. Last but not least was (and still is) this a perfect opportunity to pratice with my quite new Python skills. https://github.com/EvilOlaf/refactorpatches What this script basically does is break down all patches in a certain folde…

On Black Hat 2017 security researcher Nitay Artenstein showed a vulnerability affecting millions of smartphones he called BroadPwn. The bug/vulnerability sits inside the firmware blobs but I didn't pay that much attention since I thought it would be related to recent smartphones and at least the one I use still receives full security fix support now in the 5th year. But when I heard that latest Raspbian release contains a fix for BroadPwn (RPi 3 and Zero W use BCM43438 to provide wireless capabilities) I asked myself immediately a question: http://www.cnx-software.com/2017/08/17/raspbian-for-raspberry-pi-boards-gets-upgraded-to-debian-stretch/#comment-545270 …

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

Hello there, I'm new to this Forum, so please I been trying to run Kodi as standalone music station with Buster minimal and Kodi 17 on it. This system boots very quick and I've been quite happy when I got kodi starting successfully, but it's very slow. It takes several seconds to switch from one menu item to the next. Next I tried to speed up the graphics using this instructions https://forum.armbian.com/topic/1420-opengl-on-mali-gpu-bananapi-orangepi-pc-etc/ http://wiki.lemaker.org/BananaPro/Pi:GPU But failed with xorg saying: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: There is no /dev/mali, /dev/ump or /dev/disp device available. …

Did a clean build (deleted all cache & sources), for OPi+2E, Ubuntu development, with desktop. (up to commit 633824d) Build ok and copied on SD, yet after boot no HDMI screen came out boot [ OK ] Started Create list of required sta...ce nodes for the current kernel. [ OK ] Started Set console keymap. [FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules. See 'systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service' for details. [ OK ] Started Remount Root and Kernel File Systems. [ OK ] Started Nameserver information manager. root@orangepiplus2e:~# systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service Warning: systemd-modules-load.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl da…

Hello, I have just installed the Armbian_23.11.0-trunk.114_Orangepi5_jammy_edge_6.6.0-rc1_xfce_desktop.img It boots OK, but does not present any desktop, but I can ssh into it and configure In syslog I find lots of errors where lightdm fails due to: Sep 20 16:10:15 orangepi5 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4. Sep 20 16:10:15 orangepi5 lightdm[2103]: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files Sep 20 16:10:16 orangepi5 systemd[1]: lightdm.servi…

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

Hi, I hit a problem on pinebook where docker would hang with defunct processes consuming high cpu. A bit of googling turned up a known problem with aufs as the cause, so I grabbed the patches, combined them and created a pull request https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/772 I gave the resulting kernel a fairly good work-out this evening and it seems to be working fine now.

I am using my orange pi zero 3 with an SPI 4.0" LCD, with driver panel-mipi-dbi-spi. It works great with Linux 6.13.7 (started with a self built image with edge, minimal, Bookworm) and older, but I am having troubles with 6.14.8. Result from armbianmonitor -u after upgrading to linux 6.14.8: sudo apt install linux-image-edge-sunxi64=25.5.1 I reboot and the SPI LCD starts the text mode console, then turns black instead of starting lightdm https://paste.armbian.com/ucoxuwetiq Also xorg log after "sudo startx" fails to start. Spoiler roberto@orangepizero3:~$ tail -n300 /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 234.918] X.Org X Server …

Since linux v5.4 armbian_build enables the CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED config option. Some armbian users use the soft real-time features for either real-time audio (jackd), or control (eg. klipper_host_mcu), However, real-time group scheduling, enabled by this options complicates the user space configuration required to acquire real-time scheduling in applications and daemons. Setting ulimit -r or LimitRTPRIO= is no longer enough, it is also required to allocate CPU time for RT task. In a brutal way this can be done as echo 950000 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/{system,user}.slice/cpu.rt_runtime_us JACK documentation recommends using c…

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…

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.

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…

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 ?

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 …

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) …

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

Hi, I have two meson64 SBCs where one is Khadas VIM 3 and the other is Odroid N2. They have been running almost the same setup and there has been minor differences with time. For the past months, I have had issues with the error Illegal instruction for my Odroid N2 server. I did a clean install earlier today (Armbian_23.02.2_Odroidn2_jammy_current_6.1.11) without success. For instance, I often face the error when running cryptsetup benchmark. Most of the time I have to reboot multiple times, reinstall cryptsetup packages, try the armhf packages and more. I have never had the same issue with Khadas VIM 3. The issue seems to be related to argon2i and…

Hi Igor, I am using nand-install script to boot my Cubieboard2 from nand. However I need some modification in uboot so I need to recompile it by myself. Can you share the sources and patches for this uboot that is running from nand? Thanks in advance.

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

Hello, I want to use the OTG-Port of my cubietruck in normal host mode. According this conversation (link) I've changed script.bin. After that I've rebooted [usbc0] usb_used = 1 usb_port_type = 1 usb_detect_type = 0 usb_id_gpio = port:PH19<0><1><default><default> usb_det_vbus_gpio = port:PH22<1><0><default><0> usb_drv_vbus_gpio = port:PH17<1><0><default><0> usb_restrict_gpio = port:PH00<1><0><default><0> usb_host_init_state = 1 usb_restric_flag = 0 usb_restric_voltage = 3550000 usb_restric_capacity = 5 Unfortunately my cubietruck does not detect a USB-Device (e.g. USB-St…

FYI I've found a problem with the nand-sata-install script after building a 4.6 version for my pcduino, nand-part does not exist in /usr/sbin. Did a full, default compile. Seems the command its in the PATH but if i try to run nand-part i get "/usr/sbin/nand-part now found" lf I go manually in there and do a "ls " its there, but even if im in the folder and do ./nand-part same error appears. The error that I'm getting from nand-sata-install is not enough space on nand2, because nand-part is not able to run and aprtition the disk its trying to copy all root to 16MB(old partitioning from stock linksprite image). To make it work for myself i manually compiled nand…

Currently I am busy getting the new version of Kerberosio video surveillance software (website) to work on Armbian (Debian Jessie). The current version is already working (refer also to this post), and I have also compiled successfully the most recent development version which includes video recording which is not included in the current release. There will be a special Armbian page (I am currently writing it) on the Kerberos.io site in the near future. I am working towards a general Armbian recipe. Because the software originally focuses on the Raspberry Pi Platform, there are some slight differences (library dependencies because of the Raspberry Pi camera which is s…

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.

I am trying to get NanoPi Neo to work with a Murata 2AE module Over USB. The Murata module uses the Infineon CYW4373 chipset. So far I have: Rebuilt the kernel with CONFIG_BRCMFMAC_USB=y. This allowed the device to be recognized, but unable to load a driver Installed linux-firmware. Now the devices loads and even shows up as a wireless interface in ifconfig (wlan0 on bleeding edge, wlx..... on current) However, configuring the interface or scanning does not work. root@nanopineo:~# iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Invalid argument and I can find the following errors in dmesg: …

Hello, I'm trying to make a change for kernel panel driver for custom mipi dsi panel and orangepi-4-lts dts file. I could successfully flashed my armbian and bringed on our orangepi-4-lts board. I have configured to. debian minimal server rootfs and current linux kernel git tree in menuconfig with that command. sudo apt-get -y install git git clone --depth=1 --branch=v24.11 https://github.com/armbian/build cd build/ ./compile.sh ./compile.sh KERNEL_GIT=shallow After bring up, i tried to change existing linux kernel driver to our customized one using userpatches and that worked well. But i forgot the change dts file of orangepi4-lts and i have changed …

Hi Igor, Hi Buddies, with the new changes of *.sh files because of "2>&1" you cannot figure out the compilation errors -- or if any staling questions like patching file tools/include/tools/be_byteshift.h patching file tools/include/tools/le_byteshift.h dpkg-deb: building package `linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi' in `../linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi_4.6_armhf.deb'. gzip: ./debian/dtbtmp/usr/share/doc/linux-dtb-next-sunxi/changelog.Debian.gz already exists; do you wish to overwrite (y or n)? so I have tried and would suggest the following changes in common.sh (or anything better for bash conditional piping) #make $CTHREADS ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE="$CCACHE a…

Hi, I'm using armbian on my Cubieboard running from nand. I'm just curious how do you implement wear-leveling in this armbian on nand implementation on ext4? Thanks in advance. :)

ever since i got to first play with a raspi, i have had a sort of sideproject/goal: to be able to have a desktop i can carry in my pocket. i know that this isn't exactly unique as far as what folks consider something to do with an sbc... but in my case i wasn't thinking about something that could run like, xfce fairly stable... i wanted something vain and flashy with the caveat that i have not yet acquired or even used an rpi4 - or really any board over ~$30 - this dang ol' OPi One+ was the first board where I was able to successfully set up a very fancy desktop (ubuntu + i3wm + compton, with i3 and compton compiled natively) the above image was taken about a …

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 don't know if this is a good place for my post. I added a new mirror: armbian.12z.eu Access via http and https Please check if everything is ok. Can be officially added to your mirrors. Region EU - Polnad Regards, Zbigniew

Hello Igor(?), Armbian Buddies, I have ended being not able to compile a kernel module (and it breaks dkms btw) because files in linux-headers are ELF x86-64 (not ELF ARM) but it is quick & dirty FIXED :-) (Maybe I have messed Armbian tool playing with v4.3 kernel ???) root@bpi:~/kern4.3_4# dpkg -i linux-headers-next-sunxi_4.6_armhf.deb Unpacking linux-headers-next-sunxi (4.6) over (4.6) ... Setting up linux-headers-next-sunxi (4.6) ... root@bpi:~/kern4.3_4# cd /usr/src/linux-headers-4.3.0-sunxi/scripts/basic/ root@bpi:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.3.0-sunxi/scripts/basic# file fixdep fixdep: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically lin…

Hi all, has anyone ever tried to use an atomic firmware upgrade system like rauc or swupdate? https://rauc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://sbabic.github.io/swupdate/swupdate.html I am playing with rauc, in order to do that I have to customize the partitioning of the SD/eMMC: - root1 (4GB) - root2 (4GB) - data (8GB, or remaining space) Can someone suggest how to customize partitioning in such way? I played around setting USE_HOOK_FOR_PARTITION=yes, and hooking the create_partition_table but had no luck. Any hint? Thanks in advance! Andrea

I'm trying to get a clock signal of 32768 from the GPIO1 D4 pin of the rk3328 CPU, but I haven't been able to. I've tried everything, from `overlay dts` to `armbian-add-overlay`, but I can't get any output. I can set the value to 1 or 0 using the `echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio60/value` command, but the system doesn't give a clock output. Please help. Thank you in advance.

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

When i look into the armbian project and would like to get a special chipset and thus search for a armbian board that supports this chipset, i cant filter for those here: https://www.armbian.com/download/ It would be great to be able to filter to for example this kind of chipsets: Amlogic, NXP, Rockchip, ... And not just the maker of the boards.

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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.

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. …

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?

Hi guys! Thank you for your hardwork, we decided to use armbian as our development platform because it is great, well structured and documented! I think I am hitting a problem with u-boot compilation. I am running the compilation as follows: ./compile.sh KERNEL_ONLY=no BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BOARD=cubieboard BRANCH=default RELEASE=jessie PROGRESS_DISPLAY=plain CLEAN_LEVEL=make,cache,debs Then, after the sources are already downloaded, I get an error in the u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin target. This is my screen output: /usr/bin/env: «python»: No such file or directory Makefile:1090: recipe for target 'u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin' failed make: …

Are the rtl8814au drivers updated? I did a custom build and the custom drivers seem to get 25% more throughput. I did a make from this guide Edimax guide: How to install EW-7833UAC in Linux running kernel higher than v4.4 The driver has updates for: {USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDER_ID_REALTEK, 0x8813),.driver_info = RTL8814A}, {USB_DEVICE(0x2001, 0x331a), .driver_info = RTL8814A}, /* D-Link - D-Link */ {USB_DEVICE(0x0b05, 0x1817), .driver_info = RTL8814A}, /* ASUS - ASUSTeK */ {USB_DEVICE(0x0b05, 0x1852), .driver_info = RTL8814A}, /* ASUS - ASUSTeK */ {USB_DEVICE(0x0b05, 0x1853), .driver_info = RTL8814A}, /* ASUS - ASUSTeK */ {USB_DEVICE(0x056E, 0…

Hi guys, New over here. I have been building custom images without issues for some time for Nano Pi M4. From last week it seems it is not longer building them. In case my build env was corrupted, image build process was tested on a clean VM build env with Ubuntu 18.04, without any customization, following instructions in https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/). I am just trying to buildi kernel image at the moment. In any case, I am seeing some of the rockchip kernel patches are not being applied for some reason, and a compiler error is produced when building the kernel (specifically: looback block dev module). Anybody else is …

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

Hi I have 2 questions: 1- can I install Armbian on my nanopi-m1 board? 2-Is there the support of fbtft driver on Armbian kernel or not? Thank you in advanced!

I've been upgrading to the latest nightly mainline kernel every couple of weeks or so and had a problem today whilst updating linux-xenial-root-next-cubox-i dpkg output throws an error : root@JPCuboxi4:/boot# apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: linux-xenial-root-next-cubox-i 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/332 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 177…

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…

Hello, I need to use gprs modem with ppp over uart0, but something blocks the communication. The uart0 runs well over minicom, but not over ppp. When I use another uart, the ppp runs well. But I have to use uart0. The uart0 is set like debug port in u-boot and I think, that this is the reason. I don't know how to disable it. Maybe disable CONFIG_REQUIRE_SERIAL_CONSOLE in u-boot config file ? Thank you Tomas

Hello, I am working on a board that is essentially the AW-A20-SOM with some peripherals on a backplane in which the AW-A20-SOM plugs into. I built armbian from source in the recommended VM configuration using the existing aw-som-a20.csc config. It boots and runs a special build that is installed in eMMC but I want to create an armbian build for it. First I want to boot it from SD card so I had just to change the following Spoiler diff --git a/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/add-awsom-defconfig.patch b/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/add-awsom-defconfig.patch index ee708eb..98bb457 100644 --- a/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/add-awsom-defconfig.patch +++ …

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

Hi! I want to know in what order is executed the patching at compilation? Patched files are written into SRC files? How I can skip selected patch file? Thanks!

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

Does anyone know if it's possible to use the docker-shell to patch linux and compile, but NOT make the .img file? Maybe something like ./compile.sh unpack-linux ./compile.sh apply-patches ALL=THE_SETTINGS ./compile.sh build-kernel but not make .img I'm trying to change some network driver settings and want to just copy the new kernel module to my target board instead of flashing the entire SD card.

Some SBCs, such as PIneA64, provide a built-in RTC on-board while others do not. For those boards that do have a built-in RTC, it appears the kernel driver is configured as a builtin rather than as a module at least in some cases (I only checked a few). This in turn brings up a question: For boards that include a built-in RTC and also have the respective kernel driver configured as a built-in, should the kernel configuration to also set the system clock from that RTC (RTC_HCTOSYS) be enabled by default? There is a dependency that the RTC be built-in as the kernel will try to read from the RTC rather early, before any loadable modules w…

Hi Is there a way to set url for kernel sources for build process of armbian? I want to try this kernel: https://github.com/openedev/linux which has - potentially - fix for my problem described here: and here: https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/lcd-module-dsi-rgb-with-touch-and-s070swv20hg-dc16-lcd-panel-mainline-kernel/11172 But i have no idea how to change default url for kernel sources. Ps. I'm using docker to build and have question: where armbian stores its kernel sources(locally) and how to obtain its urls?

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

I'm building an Ubuntu image and after it compiles the ARM objects it tries to download files from ports.ubuntu.com. For a reason I'm still trying to figure out, it's trying to get files from 127.0.0.1 (which is weird) but that's fixable. What I'd like to do is resume a build that had failed without recompiling all the ARM objects again. I'm using compile.sh. Thanks! Kriston

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…

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

I decided to start my Armbian contribution with something simple as a first step where I will learn how to update the documentation. So far I've cloned and built the docs successfully. But after I built them, I noticed that the new docs I built do not match the documentation on the website (docs.armbian.com). Which files are considered to be correct / what's next (fix the ones in git or the ones on the site?). Thanks!

jeanrhum - France - documentation and debian packaging - July Task from thread http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1325-claim-a-task-set-due-date-and-start-doing-it/#entry9986 @jeanrhum Please provide status for your task on this thread. If possible please assign the GitHub issue to yourself.

I have been trying to Build Armbian for a humming board under debian Stretch. As it will not build directly under Debian I tried building it in an Ubuntu 14.04 container. I encountered one problem with the most recent Armbian. I was building in /usr/src/amp/Armbian While Building linux the imx 6 sdma build failed as it was unable to access /usr/src/amp/source/.... This was clearly an error as the path should have been /usr/src/amp/Armbian/source/.... I was able to build by symbolic linking the source directory to /usr/src/amp. The build now completed However there were warnings Could not stat /dev/loop0p1 --- No such file or directory T…

Gravelrash - UK - Prepare HOWTO's & package "armbian-gc2035-fswebcam package" - June Task from thread http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1325-claim-a-task-set-due-date-and-start-doing-it/?p=10298 @Gravelrash please provide status for your task on this thread. Please associate merge requests to this GitHub Issue

Sorry to ask such a beginner question, but I am still learning about Armbian... When I install debian Kernels from Kernel.org myself, I find this in my source-folder of the distro which I created when unzip/tar the Kernel. But as Armbian does this in the backround for me...where is this folder ? RTLA is a new tool to use osnoise tracer and needs to be compiled from source. https://lwn.net/Articles/869563/ THX

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…

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

I was doing some testing today on aml-s9xx-box builds and noticed that with meson64-current (6.0.13) kernels the boot logo is showing, but with meson64-edge (6.1.0) kernels it does not. I know there was a recent commit that probably is causing this, something about removing the old way of handling boot logos. So my question is, what needs to change to convert to the new way? I suspect it has something to do with the append line that the build process is inserting into the extlinux.conf file: append root=UUID=0ffde9aa-5a6a-4d6f-bbef-0d8daf439537 rw no_console_suspend c onsoleblank=0 fsck.fix=yes fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0 bo…

Hi All, this is my 1st post here. If I'm mistaken where or what placing here, please pardon me and direct me to the right place. Please illuminate my ignorance, concerning the subject. I think it is implementation dependent, how usleep(3) is treated, when found in an interrupt service call back routine. Is it just ignored?, or are ISRs executed as threads and usleep(3) works?? Moreover, the ISR is called from a Real_Timer int (sigalrm). Thank's and best regards hk

In kernel 6.1.24 default configuration for orangepione and orangepiplus2e is not checked module wireguard, which was previously checked. Is it paraticular reason for this or it's jus mistake. Please can devs make it checked in furure, this saves time when building. Thanks in advance.