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I'm currently working on the meson64 family (C2, K2, Le Potato) as a family, and am trying to more or less make their GPIO behaviors similar and matching (as best I can) to the RPi they are form factor clones of. An issue I'm having right now has to do with the spidev driver, these boards don't have hardware spi where the Pi/Tinker does does, so I'm defining spi-gpio devices in the device tree. That part is fine. Where it gets interesting is setting up a spidev node under it. - Calling out a compatible = "spidev" works, enumerates, etc, but throws the typical ugly error during boot that it is wrong to do it that way. - Adding a compatible string to the…

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

Hello, MTK have launced a MT7623 based SOC with the interesting BPI-R2 smart router board : http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-r1-bpi-r2-smart-router-board-comparison-20170612/3390 I am quite enthusiastic about the hardware build features, like network acceleration, QoS and ipsec in this SOC. Will you build an image for thet board? Regards, Serge

Hi all, Is there some documentation or How To on how to debug the boot process ? I posted before I am trying to bring up a AW-SOM-A20 board that gets stuck at boot. I am kind of at a loss so I figure next step is to use the kernel debugger, which I have never done on linux (I have experience with darwin/mac OS and freebsd though) Is there a build option for armbian so that the debuggable kernel image is left around in the build process ? All help appreciated, thanks Bruno

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

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

https://github.com/jernejsk/OpenELEC-OPi2/blob/openelec-7.0/projects/H3/patches/linux/linux-88-enable-tv.patch so this is an openelec patch is there anyone to be kind enough to apply this to armbian?

I've start looking about the Switching DEV to 5.0.y ... I've done a preliminary trial for OrangePiPCPlus after disabling few patches, etc ... Installed with success ... Although it produce at lot of patch rejects, I think we should pursue the move to 5.0.y, even if it looks more painful than the switch from 4.19.y to 4.20.y done few weeks ago ... I'm also calling for help on this move, as I've seen lot of patch rejects in Lima patches : @JMCC are you the expert here ? For all Devs wishing to keep backup images of 4.20.y, build your images ASAP before the switch occurs ! Any concerns ? EDIT: Oh ! I alm…

Ubuntu x64, Bananapi jesie with -next kernel. First try yesterday: everything default, changed only BUILD_DESKTOP to yes image was built with 4.1-rc8 kernel / version of image was 3.1 few errors at the end (perl did not like some locales that were not set and probably some error with resizefs, partial log attached) Image was not bootable, banana did not show anything, behavior was the same as banana without inserted card Second try today: deleted /output/output/* deleted compile.sh and created new one with latest content image was built with 3.19.7 kernel (why that downgrade?), version of image was 3.2 banana boots but cannot remount filesystems. That leads to reb…

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

I tried to compile wireguard from source in armbian xenial with kernel 4.9.7. on a Banana Pro. After compiling and installing the resulting kernelmodule, modprobe fails: sudo modprobe wireguard modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wireguard': Exec format error dmesg shows: [ 5563.012529] wireguard: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 5563.013912] wireguard: unknown relocation: 102 On the wireguard list, one pointed out this might be related to old toolchain, so i checked: the installed gcc is: gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) and the mentiond gcc Version in dmesg is (gcc version 6.2.1 …

Hi, I need to modify the kernel to enable the USB networking ability for my network of development boards. (currently 1master & 10servers) we need to use usb connections for networking functionalities. My question: is it possible to modify the linux kernel without compiling a whole image from scratch. We are now developing a network of mashines and are thinking ahead, doing some planning, to reduce our workload in the future and for avoiding the need to reinstall all the OSes on the whole network. Optimally we would never need to reinstall an image /only reboot a mashine and do meaningful changes on the kernel over ssh. Metaphoricallly speaking…

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…

Hi everyone, I'm new to Armbian, i try to build armbian for my orange pi zero board follow instruction at https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/. I choose create kernel and u-boot packages and i have some debian file: linux-dtb-next-sunxi_5.67_armhf.deb, linux-headers-next-sunxi_5.67_armhf.deb, linux-image-next-sunxi_5.67_armhf.deb, linux-source-next-sunxi_5.67_all.deb, linux-u-boot-next-orangepizero_5.67_armhf.deb. I don't know how to extract it to .img file for my SD card. Anyone can tell me how to do it? Thank you!

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

Hi! 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!

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

Hi This is my patches for using NAND + UBI + UBIFS with legacy kernel and latest u-boot Tested on Cubieboard-1 and Cubietruck. U-Boot: - read-only support for now - i.e. all write/erase ops are locked Kernel: - pooling events - need to convert to interrupts+completions ToDo: - make led support NAND layout - driver will create two MTD partitions: mtd0 - with name "SPL" - 1024K rounded up to eraseblock size. mtd1 - with name "UBI" - all other space excluding last 4 erseblocks - for bad block table. For using with u-boot need to create ubi volume named "boot" with id=0. This volume must contain /boot/* files. For other files I use in tests all …

Hi dev's, please change the script that when you've installed "Bullseye" in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list is allwas "deb [arch=arm64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian buster stable". I think is has to be: deb [arch=arm64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian bullseye stable Greetings Markus

Hi friends, I created a boot SD card with armbian for cubieboard A20 from this web site: http://www.armbian.com/cubieboard-2/ I insert card to cubieboard. System booting, but armbian is restart and shutdown. When I try turn on repeatedly, system booting and system is shut down. Video with the problem is here: https://youtu.be/E-gzpk1PnNQ Any idea, how resolve this problem?

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 ./…

Hi, I just installed ambian 5.0 legacy wheezy on my bpi-r1 but wondershaper wont run: RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument We have an error talking to the kernel It seems a module is missing. Can someone help me pls? Thanks in advance, hegge

Finally got a SPI connected DS3234 RTC for my BananaPi working! Main problem was that a patch is needed to get SPI master mode working reliably on A20: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9567833/ @Igor/staff: it would make Armbian even better than it already is if you could apply this patch on all A20 boards Setup: BananaPi (bought back in 2015 so not exactly sure which "flavour" it is, specs are equal to BPI-M1) DS3234 RTC (SparkFun DeadOn RTC Breakout DS3234) Mainline kernel (4.10 currently) Armbian build/devopment (of course ) Note: wiring and base of DTS according to Science Gizmo - Raspberry PI and your SPI Rea…

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.

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 …

To help diagnose the issues I'm facing with AP6212 with other boards, I've decide to build an image for the newly received NanoPiM1Plus. It produced the following image : Armbian_5.27_Nanopim1plus_Debian_jessie_dev_4.10.11.img I've plugged an USB-TTL on the board, it booted until the login prompt. Trying the usual root/1234 failed, looking at FriendlyArm site, although I'm not using their image, but an Armbian freshly built, I've try their passwd : root/fa It logged ... looking for AP6212 traces, I've seen some "bcmsdh_sdmmc_probe" ... Doohh ? I did "uname -a" : again, Doohh ? : Linux FriendlyARM 3.10.65 #4 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 24 11:…

As bookworm is stable now I want to update my odroid HC2 from bullseye to bookworm? Any experiences welcome. I know this is not supported. But in principle it should work. I did the update from buster to bullseye and that worked perfectly (see link to threat below). I would just do the same for the new update. But maybe there is one special fact to remember that wasn't necessary for the last update. Jürgen

Hello! I have a board based on dual core SoC A20, I can run processes on separate cores? I want run Armbian on the one core and my module on other core. Thanks!

I use 5.32 dev on NanoPi NEO: $ uname -a Linux watchdev 4.11.5-sun8i #11 SMP Fri Jun 23 20:03:23 CEST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux I use NFSv4 and autofs. The number of "[NFSv4 callback]" processes increase each time a volume is mounted, and does not decrease when un-mounting: # ps axwww |grep -i nfsv4 | grep -v grep 1478 ? S 0:00 [NFSv4 callback] 1501 ? S 0:00 [NFSv4 callback] 1515 ? S 0:00 [NFSv4 callback] # umount /storage/motion # ps axwww |grep -i nfsv4 | grep -v grep 1478 ? S 0:00 [NFSv4 callback] 1501 ? S 0:00 [NFSv4 callback] 1515 ? S 0:00 [NFSv4 callback] # ls /storage/motion backup…

I have built an image for BananaPi M3 using build and docker. I can install fine on 16GB cards, but anything larger is failing on the mmcblk0 partition resize and then is going into repeated fsck's and failed boots. I have built armbian debian stretch years before and had it installing and running fine on the BananaPi M3, on 256GB uSD Cards. I tried manually extending the partition from an imaged smaller one running parted followed by resize2fs and it had the same crashing on boot. The boots a bit too fast to ascertain where its crashing but it might be the uDev step. Can anyone offer any help with this

Hi there, i want to stick to the 4.4 kernel an tried to compile kernel 4.4.7 via: apt-get -y install git git clone https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib--depth 1 cp lib/compile.sh . chmod +x compile.sh ./compile.sh In compile.sh, i changed: KERNEL_ONLY="yes" and added KERNELTAG="v4.4.7" After selecting the board "cubietruck" and the branch "next", the script always checks out the sources for kernel 4.5.1. What am i doing wrong? Regards, A.

Build today a new 5.23 jessie 3.4.112 (with rt143) for H3 (NanoPiNEO) Configured all wifi ok (8192cu) Later on, saw the indicated upgrade on 3 packages linux-headers-sun8i linux-image-sun8i tzdata First I installed the tzdata and all were still working ok. The linux-headers-sun8i linux-image-sun8i when installed made wifi (8192cu driver) to vanish. After a hint for install the armbian-firmware-full, the dongle became visible in ifconfig as wlan0 but not being able to connect anymore on any AP although previously, before the upgrade, everything was connecting and working ok. Though it might be proper to report it also here in development sect…

Hi! I'm testing the image for cubieboard (A10 SOC) onto my MK 802 II and the legacy kernel is working fine (USB, OGT, WIFI, HDMI...) I just have changed the script.bin I'm reading some documentation about the device trees and I don't understand how you compile the vanilla kernel. Sorry if is a stupid questions but my board has his own .dts (sun4i-a10-mk802ii.dts), how you get a common vanilla kernel valid for all the configurations without using one specific .dts for each board? Probably I'm missing something very basic for ARM kernels, but this is my 1º aproach.

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!

Hi, I attempted to build armbian for orange pi 5 with these steps (I'm on macos): multipass delete armbian-build multipass purge multipass launch -n armbian-build --disk 50G --mem 8G --cpus 4 multipass shell armbian-build sudo apt install curl build-essential bc bison flex libssl-dev chrpath cmake cpio wget xz-utils curl -LO https://github.com/armbian/build/archive/refs/tags/v25.5.0-trunk.67.tar.gz curl -LO https://github.com/armbian/build/archive/refs/tags/v25.5.0-trunk.32.tar.gz tar -xzvf v25.5.0-trunk.67.tar.gz cd build-25.5.0-trunk.67 ./compile.sh (select edge version for orange pi 5 in the cli) CTRL+D multipass transfer armbian-build:/home/ubuntu/build…

Since about four weeks we encounter out of memory issues when building an Armbian image on GitHub with a customize-image.sh script. We had no big modifications on the build system since then, we have to rebuild from time to time to get the latest version of our application into the image. We already use a more powerful runner (32GB RAM, 8 cores). Our compile call: ./compile.sh \ BOARD=rockpi-4b \ BRANCH=edge \ RELEASE=bookworm \ KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no \ BUILD_MINIMAL=yes \ NETWORKING_STACK="network-manager" \ COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=xz \ KERNEL_BTF=no \ SHARE_LOG=yes Our build is based on the tag v25.8.0-trunk.260 Any ideas for this? Thank…

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

Hello, I would like know, KSZ9031RNX this chip supported in old Armbian Linux 3.4.x? Where I can found information about Linux supported chips in the Linux sources?

Need uinput module to use with tslib but "nanopineo 4.11.0-sun8i" doesn't seem to have it, neither static linked to the kernel or as a dynamic module. What am I missing? Thank you

Hello Igor, I am starting exploring your nice "lib" tools for mainline/lamobo/trusty and end with this error message. the host is trusty / amd64 / quad cores / 8 GB RAM unsure if /bin/mktemp refers to loopback device or host /tmp lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk x Installing Armbian on the top of Ubuntu trusty base system ... x x x x build-essential x …

I customized my Armbian install with 2 operating systems on two partitions. In armbianEnv.txt I use rootdev to specify the default partition. I would like to set it so that if booting from the default rootdev fails (triggering panic or root-wait, etc.), it will instead try to boot with rootdev/root set to the other partition. Is that possible?

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

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

Hello, I'm tempted to load the Siano Mobile Silicon driver (TV adapter) into the Orange Pi PC more I'm not getting. I have performed the following procedures already: I put it in the / lib / firmware folder: isdbt_rio.inp I configured the smsmdtv.conf file (options smsmdtv default_mode = 4) in the /etc/modprobe.d/ folder I installed firmware-siano-rio_1.0_all.deb (sudo dpkg -i firmware-siano-rio_1.0_all.deb) Has anyone already set up the siano drive on linux? Thank you very much

Greetings, I haven't built a new image for awhile. But, I wanted to refresh the process. In the meanwhile, the only change I've made is upgrading my host. My build platform is a VM. I have no idea if that matters, but it was a change. I now have some weird errors/warning and I want to troubleshoot them. How can I enter into the environment to run just the customize script and commands? I'd like to dig into them, but not sure how. Thanks!

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

Hi Everyone, I am trying to compile armbian in my ubuntu 14.04 machine. Can someone identify what is this error Im encountering? Thanks in advcance. Compiling u-boot... │ │──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────│ │ .config:617:warning: override: reassigning to symbol OLD_SUNXI_KERNEL_COMPAT │ │ # …

According to Torvalds github, it seems that Mainline is jumping from 4.20 to 5.0-rc1, there won't be any 4.21 ...

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

Hi, I have been recently working on a couple of extensions: lvm and cloud-init I forked off "v23.11.2" tag when creating my branches, since they are extensions, and wont alter the framework much. Today I noticed that OdroidUX4 is not building, but it was building last week. A patch seems to be failing. I guess it is a kernel/driver patch. Then my question is: is it possible that, on the same tag (v23.11.2), builds break? I am starting to think that the tag is only for the build process/patch set, but excludes, for example a reference to kernel code. I suppose then the situation is that a kernel update…

Hello everyone, I am an old-timer in Debian and Ubuntu and have uploaded and maintained packages there. I've come across an issue in a package that I use that affects 32-bit platforms such as armv7 but not 64-bit platforms. I've already analysed the problem and applied a fix, compiled the package locally and I'm happy. But I'd like to get the fix into armbian as well so others will not run into this fairly serious problem (for the package in question, it is essentially useless at the moment in noble). I looked through the various github repositories but was unable to see how to apply a patch to a userland package and have it published. Given that armbian s…

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.

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

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. :)

Some of you probably saw that I added recently the OrangePi-Prime to the build process. Unfortunately, I'm still struggling to get the WiFi. It is even worst than the WiFi issue still present on OrangePiWin. For the OrangePi-Prime, even the DT doesn't process the WiFi entries, and the mmc1 is still "disabled" in /proc/device-tree at boot time. The strange thing is that if I load a small overlay to change the mmc1 status to "okay", the kernel start processing it. But, unfortunately, I'm seeing "sunxi-mmc 1c10000.mmc: no support for card's volts" error, although I didn't found obvious errors in vqmmc-supply setting of mmc1. I will have to dig f…

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.

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

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 +++ …

Hello, I'm trying to upgrade Armbian on my little OrangePi Lite, and it's been 3 days at it already. It is stuck at "Compiling headers", and it is not hung, I can use it. It does happen from time to time to all my SoCs, sometimes I prefer to re-dd and reconfigure. So I was thinking, if compilation cannot be avoided, can it be done on another computer? Cross-compile?

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

Good morning I have a BPI M1 and M1+ currently running an image from https://banana-pi.org/. Everything works, except it's Ubuntu 16.04. Since yesterday, I've been testing the Armbian images, which are great and up-to-date, but none of them recognize the SATA connection on my SSD. ` fdisk -l ` shows no SATA SSD. Since I absolutely need this connection, I'm stuck. What am I doing wrong, or where do I need to activate the SATA connection? The SATA connection is what makes the BPI M1+ unique. With Ubuntu 16.04, the SATA connection is recognized with both SSD and HDD on the BPI M3. Can someone please help me? I'm completely lost. Regar…

Hi Igor, Here is YAP (Yet Another Patch) for the TBS5520 USB2 DVB-T/T2/C/S/S2 device (Rafael Micro r848 tuner). Sorry again, i tried 'git diff' but it gets only the first file, if you feel this can be added to the build process, please do it. There is a new version released that someone could give a look, but for now you can test this. git clone https://github.com/avafinger/tbs5520.git @lex PS: This should be applied right after rtl2832 patch.

What's the FDT_NO_SPACE error? U-Boot SPL 2017.05-armbian (May 19 2017 - 04:11:50) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2017.05-armbian (May 19 2017 - 04:11:50 +0200) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Zero DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface0 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 38518 bytes read in 162 ms (231.4 KiB/s) Unknown command 'bmp' - try 'help' switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 3559 bytes re…

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, while i was trying to work with the NTC C.H.I.P. i've started to take in consideration the ubifs instead of mounting all the system partition as read only. Someone have experience with ubifs? do it is supported by armbian? Someone can help me with some guide?

@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!!!

Hi there! Issue: Installing required package for Python face_recognition takes almost 15-20 hours to install using my Orange Pi One. These are the commands I manually ran to my Orange Pi one: https://gist.github.com/jmcausing/d89d659ae43dff8f5ea8feea95fe2de3 Goal: I need a custom armbian image that has those package installed already. I tried: - Building armbian image using Virtual Box with ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64 - 30GB of Disk , 4GB of RAM and 6 CPUs - Edited the /build/config/templates/customize-image.sh and added those commands (see gist link above) to install the required packages -…

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

BOARD: bananapim2plus BRANCH: dev RELEASE: stretch did only boot one time through to the login, mostly get stuck at booting. I assume it must be something with memory config or dts setup tried already 3 sdcards, 2boards so looks like not a hardware issue old armbian (5.21 works fine) Did not see a "memory section" in the dts file? Is it mandatoy? where is the memory size defined or how does linux know it? Here the boot log ( adjust boot params with earlyprintk), maybe someone has an idea? Spoiler U-Boot SPL 2018.05-armbian (Sep 20 2018 - 05:54:54 -0400) DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying t…

I've added new patches for OrangePi-ZeroPlus and commited them. Like for OPiPrime done yesterday, the OrangePi-ZeroPlus WiFi still not working. I don't know why yet, although is more encouraging than OPiPrime, since at least the driver comes up in "lsmod" in the OrangePi-ZeroPlus, while for the Prime it didn't. Also another issue : OrangePi-ZeroPlus has an eMMC, I was able to do "nand-install-sata", but I'm unable to boot from it, although the MMC2 DT is part of U-Boot, for some reasons, it doesn't scan it.

Hello everyone. From some time ago I´m working in an application that comunicates with some external devices, using GPIOs. With this aim, I´ve programmed my own driver with its methods, whose are automatic loaded at startup. My hardware is a BananaPi m2u, and kernel version is 5.4.35-sunxi. Now, I´ve to read an external HW that has 2 data lines, whose idle state is "high" and once per minute sends a packet of 26 bits of data. One of these lines is a Data0 signal, and the other is Data1 signal. Every pulse is around 100us, and there is an idle interval of about 2ms between one bit and the next. There is no way for data line 0 and data …

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

Is there an example of how to prepare the image with ...(for example) pre-Installed webmin ,Apache and own www start page ?

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

Can someone tell me the difference between [uart_force_debug] and [uart_para]? [uart_para] uart_debug_port = 0 uart_debug_tx = port:PB22<2><1><default><default> uart_debug_rx = port:PB23<2><1><default><default> [uart_force_debug] uart_debug_port = 0 uart_debug_tx = port:PF02<4><1><default><default> uart_debug_rx = port:PF04<4><1><default><default> Thanks..

After the upgrade from Armbian 5.11 to actual one, linux automatically loads the module BMP085 (I do not need it, I have my own program to support BMP180). How to block the loading of the module during restart of program? (rmmod removes temporarily only) Thank you for your help

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

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

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…

nightly install from https://dl.armbian.com/rockpi-4b/nightly/Armbian_5.96.190907_Rockpi-4b_Debian_buster_dev_5.3.0-rc4_minimal.7z Boot up error Failed to start Advanced IEEE 802.11 AP and IEEE802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticator Reinstalling the package hostapd resolves this issue. sorry if this is not the correct place to post this error.

Hi there. Did anyone tried to get a recent kernel running under NanoPi M2? I got one board some days ago and would like to get a kernel running with DTS support. Thanks for any hints.

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.

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…

Hi. I trying to build image for orange pi3. I have fresh Ubuntu, "19.10 (Eoan Ermine)" sources 20.05.0-trunk and I got error: ... [ o.k. ] Extracting focal-desktop-arm64.f64...4db.tar.lz4 [ 0 days old ] [ .... ] focal-desktop-arm64.f64...4db.tar.lz4: 932MiB [44.8MiB/s] [======================================================================================================>] 100% [ o.k. ] Adding Armbian repository and authentication key [ /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list ] chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory [ o.k. ] Applying distribution specific tweaks for [ focal ] chroot: failed to run command ‘/bi…

Hi, i will integrate a touchscreen ft5x_ts, resolution of 1024x600, gpu and uart0 debug. My system says that can't not found filesystem. Please take a look to the picture. I use: ubuntu 1404 lts server amd64 without gui and cubieboard2. If i compile it without modifiy boot.cmd it works. Red is modified. setenv bootargs "console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait rootfstype=ext4 cgroup-enable=memory swapaccount=1 sunxi_ve_mem_reserve=190 sunxi_g2d_mem_reserve=16 sunxi_no_mali_mem_reserve sunxi_fb_mem_reserve=32 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 disp.screen0_output_mode=1024x600p60 panic=10 consoleblank=0 enforcing=0 loglevel=1" In the attachment (pdf) is the…

Hello I am using a Debian 12 VM on Qubes OS 4.2 to attempt to build an Armbian image for a Rockpro64. As you can see by the build logs, these 3 commands are failing: update-binfmts --enable qemu-arm update-binfmts --enable qemu-aarch64 update-binfmts --enable qemu-riscv64 Then arch-test command output causes script to error out with: arm64: not supported on this machine/kernel So far I have attempted to enter the docker container and manually run the command but I get this error: root@1631353b980f:/armbian# update-binfmts --enable qemu-arm update-binfmts: warning: qemu-arm not in database of installed binary formats. upd…

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

Hi, i'm building the latest "cubietruck next" (5.77) code and the platform doesn't boot. i used the same building with older version and it's working fine. the latest version got stuck on boot. does any one else have same issue? [ o.k. ] Creating board support package [ cubietruck next ] [ .... ] Fingerprinting [ o.k. ] Building package [ linux-xenial-root-next-cubietruck ] [ o.k. ] Building desktop package [ armbian-xenial-desktop_5.77_all ] [ o.k. ] Kernel build done [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Target directory [ /BananaPi_M1/project/build/output/debs/ ] [ o.k. ] File name [ linux-image-next-sunxi_5.77_armhf.deb ] [ o.k…

Does Armbian Kernel support aufs? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufs I was wondering if FatDog a Arm version of Puppy Linux could be built by someone using Armbian as the base. I started a thread conversation on Puppy Linux forum. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=902082#902082

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…

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

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…

Task from thread http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1325-claim-a-task-set-due-date-and-start-doing-it/page-2#entry10580 @Xer0 please provide status here and assign GitHub Task to yourself if possible

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…

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

Hi! Just wondered, if it would make more sense to use zram instead of a SD-card based swapfile by default? Andreas

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

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.

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