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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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 all, I wrote up this documentation mostly as notes to myself about how I successfully built a kernel and ubuntu core rootfs. If you could let me know how to improve it, please let me know. I don't generally write documentation. I focused on the roc-rk3328-cc but it should work okay for a variety of the Firefly chips. Thanks, ~Ben barebone_to_ubunutu.md

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. …

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

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

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…

On Which image can I test? Any How? Go to armbian-config -> System -> Nightly and proceed. If this option is not there, defreeze upgrading Restart and after your system is up, proceed to one of those areas: - desktop install from armbian-config on top of CLI (any board) - set first_run_network configuration, setting ip within /boot/armbian_first_run.txt (any board except Espressobin) - kernel switching or upgrade (any board, especially Odroid XU4 NEXT) - setting fixed/dhcp network with armbian-config (any board except Espressobin) - configure frame buffer within h3disp utility (any h3 board with a legacy kernel) - DTS s…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hi 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 ./…

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

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

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

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

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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…

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 …

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?

Hello everyone First congratulations for this project. I just started playing with it recently and I am very impressed. Good job! I am the developer of NextCloudPi, which basically consists on providing Nextcloud images for the Raspberry Pi, but has evolved to other flavours such as docker x86 and docker ARM. It also features many scripts for managing the instance that can be run from a classic whiptail like TUI or a simple web interface. The initial goal of the project is to drive as many people away from dropbox into selfhosting, so there's also a Wizard and I try to ease the process of DDNS, certificates and so on. I am a…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Armbian provides its own hostapd. Why? This is relevant because of the recent WPA2 bug. Upstream hostapd has been patched: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/hostapd I don't understand the precise relation between Debian and Armbian. Will this patch percolate down? Thanks

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

Hi, If I build my kernel 'properly' using the armbian compile.sh script with docker, everything works fine. If I run the docker image interactively, go into /armbian-cache/_data/sources/linux-pine64/my-hacks-1.2 and do export PATH=/root/armbian/cache/toolchains/gcc-linaro-5.4.1-2017.05-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/:$PATH make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE="aarch64-linux-gnu-" -j8 $* I get a kernel that seem to work in every way, except it won't load any modules. The 'normal' build uses modules in /lib/modules/3.10.107-pine64. The non-compliant kernel reports uname -r of 3.10.107+. I tried copying the existing /lib/modules/3.10.107-pine64 to /lib/modules/3.1…

Hello, guys, I am building mainline "next" for BananaPi M2 with my custom Waveshare 35a dt overlay (source attached) created from the one for RaspberryPi3. The display shows a broken picture. DMESG periodically shows SPI transfer error -110. Any ideas what is going on there ? I am using a similar DTS on OrangePi PC and it works perfectly. Thanks in advance for any help or idea. DMESG output ---------------------------------------------- [ 8.027465] fbtft: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. [ 8.030428] fb_ili9486: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unk…

Hello, I'm newbie to armbian, I am trying to build my own image, and i following the steps of this link: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ (i am not using Virtualvox) My OS is: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial And my GCC version: gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5) 5.4.0 20160609 I apologize, since I'll probably be asking some nonsense. I follow the steps to build my own image, and I get the following error: [ o.k. ] Building deb [ linux-u-boot-next-lime_5.33_armhf.deb ] [ error ] ERROR in funct…

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

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

hello dear armbian developers, building jessie or stretch with btrfs-root ends up in an boot-loop. this is due to an wrong entry in boot.ini setenv rootfstype "ext4" changing it manually to "btrfs" fixed the Problem the config I used: KERNEL_ONLY="no" # leave empty to select each time, set to "yes" or "no" to skip dialog prompt KERNEL_CONFIGURE="no" # leave empty to select each time, set to "yes" or "no" to skip dialog prompt CLEAN_LEVEL="make,debs,oldcache" # comma-separated list of clean targets: "make" = make clean for selected kernel and u-boot, …

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) …

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…

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.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-gets-blasted-by-blueborne-too/ Not sure if we'd seen this/had exposure.

Hi, On the main site: https://www.armbian.com/ it says only 60 days to go for the next release :-) Well, to have a good user experience and squash bugs I think we should do a feature-freeze from about day 50 onwards - what is your take on that ? To do so, I was thinking about how you could handle this period on Github. Will “pull request’s” after feature-freeze be tagged for later integration? Everybody is welcome in squashing bugs (only the ones in code) eg. updating or adding configuration file for armbianmonitor ? eg. updating or adding information to the documentation ? Last but not least, if you can help with s…

I'm struggling with XU4/HC1 and the try to have the rootfs on a connected USB disk. All attempts end up with: Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! Rebooting automatically due to panic= boot argument I tried USB disks on USB3 and USB2 ports, according to leds and spin-up sound the SSDs/HDDs get power but device doesn't show up. I remember vaguely that we had such issues on other platforms where it was just a small missing bit in kernel config. But I …

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

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

Recently U-Boot has acquired support for UEFI (the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). how may this effect ARMbian's boot system roadmap? see: https://www.suse.com/docrep/documents/a1f0ledpbe/UEFI on Top of U-Boot.pdf

I do not impose, this is only a proposal for discussion. What would users have a single point of entry into the build system (the main armbian GIT/build), I propose to add into the main master branch additional variable that will be used in the script "compile.sh" to specify what branch to use when building. This will allow to quickly combine the main branch to build images Armbian with my fork for assembling the images for TV boxes and boards based on the Amlogic platform. Under the add , my changes do not conflict with the existing system in the main branch and at the same time, users will be able to collect their own versions based on the amlogic branch of a single GIT…

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?

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!

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

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 …

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

It would be nice for the armbian downloads to have GPG signed SHA256SUMS like Ubuntu. Would it be hard to implement? Because currently the images are distributed in 7z files with a checksum file, nothing currently prevents both from being changed. My bad, I found the guide: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/

Hi there! I am new to this forum, so hopefully I am at the right place to open my discussion. We use our own made iMX6DL based board to run a semi-professional amateur radio. We choose armbian as it worked almost out of the box, but we use a kernel 4.11+ probably 4.12+ next week with some small extra drivers for an SPI OLED and some special keyboard drivers. However these modifications are not relevant for the issue I have, but I should mention, that I added the etnaviv kernel drivers and all related things to activate HDMI. We have not fully encountered the way to merge in our BSP to armbian, however I found the very instructional vide…

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

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!

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

Apologies if this is a FAQ. I'm trying to diagnose OV5640 camera issues on my NanoPiM1 using the headless xenial distro with the legacy kernel. Is there an accessible version of the compile.sh that built this distro? I'd really prefer to be able to rebuild all on a proper desktop machine ... TAIA Jerry. nanopim1:~$ uname -a Linux nanopim1 3.4.113-sun8i #28 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 2 02:01:28 CET 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

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…

Issue identified by Hardkernel folks with ODROID XU4 and 4.9 kernel: 'When a bunch of sequential data(inode) is being sent to the UAS driver, the UAS driver is increasing the DMA block memory allocation dynamically for more efficient ring-buffer management. But the Kernel coherent-pool memory size was limited at 256KB by default and it was not sufficient for the UAS drivers.' I added this as a temporary workaround to my OMV installation routine but would like to see this fixed on normal installations and also all affected boards too. I've to admit that I neither know how to determine coherent-pool memory size nor what potential downsides of increasing this are…

HI @Igor: I need to download and compile this image (with the 4.11.7 kernel) https://dl.armbian.com/orangepizero/archive/Armbian_5.32_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.11.7.7z How I can get from github the source code of this version? Very thanks

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…

Where can I follow detailed changes in (legacy) Armbian builds? Things such as: motd structure change introduce/remove Network Manager ... I have lots of setup scripts manipulating (e.g. using sed) the default Armbian files and they break if stuff changes... Are these changes coming from Ubuntu or from Armbian? Thanks a lot.

Hi! I made a custom kernel with Buildroot. This give me a file called sdcard.img and other files. I want only the kernel to replace the existent kernel of my armbian distribution on my orange pi zero. What files I need? How I copy and replace the existent kernel? Very Thanks!

Hello guys I tried to build an image for Banana Pi M2, build itself went OK but image is not working. Any help is appreciated. Logs attached. Thanks compilation.log debootstrap.log install.log output.log patching.log tools-build.log bpim2-minicom.log

Spoiler ___ _ _ _ ____ ____ / _ \ __| |_ __ ___ (_) __| | / ___|___ \ | | | |/ _` | '__/ _ \| |/ _` | | | __) | | |_| | (_| | | | (_) | | (_| | | |___ / __/ \___/ \__,_|_| \___/|_|\__,_| \____|_____| Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.32.170701 nightly Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS 4.12.0-odroidc2 System load: 0.00 0.02 0.00 Up time: 4 min Memory usage: 2 % of 1855MB IP: 172.16.100.183 Usage of /: 19% of 7.0G [ General system configuration: armbian-config ] root@odroidc2:~# Download: https://dl.armbian.com/odroidc2/Ubuntu_xenial_next_nightl…

I'm testing with bananapi m1 plus(ARMBIAN 5.31 stable Debian GNU/Linux 8 jessie 4.11.6-sunxi) I want to remove booting output both in the lcd screen and the serial console(because I am using the ttys0 for other purpose), so changed /boot/boot.cmd. I found these two line, if test "${console}" = "display" || test "${console}" = "both"; then setenv consoleargs "console=tty1"; fi if test "${console}" = "serial" || test "${console}" = "both"; then setenv consoleargs "${consoleargs} console=ttyS0, 115200"; fi and changed it with those two lines below. if test "${console}" = "display" || test "${console}" = "both"; then setenv consoleargs "console=tty…