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Regardless of whether I use the main or v25.08 branch, set REGIONAL_IMAGE to china or not, or switch between noble and trixie base images, I consistently encounter a 403 Forbidden error right after the customization step. I've tried various configurations, but the issue persists. Any help?🤔

New here, first of all congrats for the good work. I am using Armbian (Debian vanilla) on a Bpi R1 with iperf throughput of 860 MBit. Not bad.... My question: do you plan to upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 as Freedombox (deb available on Launchpad for 16.04) needs several packages from 16.04. I tried a partial upgrade with Debian to testing, however the R1 did not boot after the upgrade.

Hi, I'm working with bananapi M1+ and downloaded a raw image for banana pi A20 from armbian.com Now I want to work in a root account so that later, I possibly remove the pi account and use only the root account.(for embedded) Is there any way to boot as root? Thanks in advance!

Hi, on a lime2 the firstrun script hangs as it doesn't seem to have a red or blue LED. So I'd like to propose the following change which shouldn't break anything but add the green one. Unless some vendor adds even more colors. Not sure if the trailing "|| true" is the best solution to make sure the script will never fail? diff --git a/scripts/firstrun b/scripts/firstrun index 760cf0d..2f2b222 100644 --- a/scripts/firstrun +++ b/scripts/firstrun @@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ adjust_sunxi_settings() { sed -i "s/^MAC_ADDR=.*/MAC_ADDR=${MACADDR}/" /etc/default/brcm40183 \ echo -e "\n### [firstrun] Use MAC address ${MACADDR} for Bluetooth from now" >>${Log})…

Hello, I'm building a device driver which controls gpio pins. When I developed one in the kernel 3.x, I could get the proper gpio pin number from script.fex(converted from script.bin in /boot/bin/ folder) For example, if the pin I'm using is PB03, I was able to use 3 to control that pin in device driver program. gpio_pin_1 = port:PH10<1><default><default><0> gpio_pin_2 = port:PH20<1><default><default><0> gpio_pin_3 = port:PB03<0><default><default><default> However, from kernel 4.x, script.bin file is not used anymore. Instead of this, there is a dtb file, but I have no idea where I can…

ROCK64 is a RK3328 Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 board with up to 4 GB of RAM. Unfortunately it has a non-functional RTC (/dev/rtc0), which is not battery backed. If your board is not connected to internet 7/24, you can not use the NTP or systemd-timesyncd. Therefore you need to connect a battery-backed external RTC module to the ROCK64 header, and get the time via the i2c protocol. The good news is, the GPIO headers on ROCK64 is compatible with Raspberry Pi headers. Therefore almost any Raspberry Pi RTC module will work on ROCK64. But you need to do some tweaking to communicate with the RTC module. I will explain the required steps which worked for me. 1. Buy an e…

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

Since volatile journald logging is done in-memory in /run/log/journal, and made persistent in /var/log.hdd/journal, the rsync of /var/log/journal in nand-sata-install no longer works because it is a symlink to /var/log.hdd/journal in the live system, and will create a circular symlink when booting from NAND. On the target image /var/log is the folder that is directory-mounted to /var/log.hdd during boot. I propose to exclude /var/log from the rsync, and rsync /var/log.hdd to /var/log on the target image. Another solution could be to exclude only /var/log/journal from the rsync, and create an empty /var/log/journal in the target image. Kind reg…

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

We are facing an issue on Pinebook Desktop A64 HDMI under 5.0.y ... It is booting, but as soon as HDMI is switching from plain text console to graphic, the screen stays blank ... I didn't get chance to investigate, I need help here from any Devs who has a Pinebook !

Hello everyone, I’ve been working with 25-30 USB 3G/4G dongles successfully on Debian and Ubuntu, where all connections work without issues. However, on Armbian, I can only establish around 10 PPPoE connections. Here are the details of my setup: OS: Armbian based on Debian 10 (I also tried updating to Debian 11) - IMG: Sunvell rkship and Kernel Version: linux-image-current-sunxi 24.11.1 Packages Used: ppp, eject, and usb-modeswitch (tested with the latest versions) Logs: /var/log/ppp.log doesn’t show any errors. Isos: Armbian 21.05.1 stable, kernel 4.4 (SoC Rockchip rk322x) Armbian 20 - Debian 10 ARM (SoC Al…

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.

Hello Igor, Good day. I just want to ask some question regarding cubieboard2 vanilla, hope you can find time to reply. 1. Which kernel source you are using ? 2. What configuration you use? 2. What are the patches you use? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Javer

Hello, i was wondering, how Armbian images are different compared to official orangepi images available on their webiste? clearly, orangepi official images are not well maintained or regularly updated, but what's armbian policy here? are official images using proprietary drivers that armbian doesn't? for example, mali450 (on H5) for armbian is not available, is it the same on official images? what the difference? avoiding non-free software?

Hi Igor, Hi Everyone, I am very new here. I have Orange Pi R1 and using Armbian everything is working, however I have proprietary software and want to secure it ( as much as possible ) Read a lot of articles and read about Armbian supporting CRYPTROOT_ENABLE , so decided to try to build my own image. I have succeeded in building 5 images but unfortunatelly none of them boots correctly. I decided to first build image without CRYPTROOT_ENABLE but still cannot succeed. It gives me KERNEL PANIC after truing to load/uncompress Linux. I Basicly want default Armbian image for Orange Pi R1 + CRYPTROOT_ENABLE. My second question will follow …

Hello, I work on a gateway built around an orange PI 2. The orange PI has to manage 3 spi devices (an RTC, a flash and a radio). So I have enabled the spidev module on the orange PI and I use two overlay to get 3 /dev/spidev1.x (x=/dev/spidev1.,1 and2) devices with 3 distinct CS. See my the armbianEnv.txt file: # cat /boot/armbianEnv.txt verbosity=1 logo=disabled console=both disp_mode=1920x1080p60 overlay_prefix=sun8i-h3 overlays=i2c0 pwm spi-spidev usbhost2 usbhost3 rootdev=UUID=64a7c5d3-32a7-4eaf-9e69-a0dd046580ae rootfstype=ext4 param_spidev_spi_bus=1 param_spidev_max_freq=100000000 user_overlays= spi1-triple-spidev-cs sun8i-h3-spi1-add-cs1-cs…

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

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

Hello, I'm using the armbian trusty image with legacy kernel and try to setup an iscsi target server with it. Actually I tried to build my own kernel with the instruction list and the tools of armbian and activated the iscsi target in the kernel configure. In compile.sh I set kernel configure to yes and then I start compiling. Maybe you can tell me how to do it in the right way? Thanks and greetings

Hi, I have a OPi lite board and the U-boot model name shows Orange Pi One. Reason: It's patched as a "one" in u-boot-99-add-missing-boards.patch. I copied this file to the userpatches/u-boot/u-boot-dev directory and made some changes so it refered to the sun8i-h3-orangepi-lite.dts I created. (According to the user provided patches section) This didn't do the trick because it didn't override the original patch. No change and the patching log shows that the original patch is applied. So obviously I did something wrong but I have no idea what. What I would like to achive is that I can control the green led on my board. (Pin PL10, signal name PWR-LED, signal name LED1 an…

I got an issue from a user on a bash script I am sharing on github. The script is to make shrunk img backups on a running system on a lot of different sbc:s. After some testing on the users side (I did not have access to hardware to test) it turned out the script fails because of the partition table, it is GPT while in the past they have always been MBR (msdos). I downloaded the latest opi5 gnome desktop image and looped it and parted shows it is in GPT. We figured out a way to solve it but my question is: is this because rpi5 uses gpt partition table (I do not own a rpi5 either)? Will this be the future of most armbian builds? …

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?

First time armbian user and poster here. Since this is not the right time and place for an introduction, lets keep it with a simple "Hi all!" and get straight to the topic: for completeness, my system: BOARD=orangepizeroplus BOARD_NAME="Orange Pi Zero Plus" BOARDFAMILY=sun50iw2 VERSION=5.59 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi64 BRANCH=next ARCH=arm64 IMAGE_TYPE=testing BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm64 KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image logging, in particular logrotate with ram-logging As far as I understand: - Three different cron files are responsible to handle ram-logging and logrotate -- /etc/cron.daily/logrotate -- /etc/cron.daily/armbian-ram-logging …

Currently all of the Armbian kernel defconfigs include the actual build configuration statically as part of the kernel. The standard Armbian build process also includes a copy of the .config file in /boot/config-<version>-<platform>. Are both required, or should the kernel configurations be updated to make Kernel .config support an LKM instead of static bind? True this is a minor item. The actual kernel configuration takes up a very small amount of memory, though on many SBCs with limited memory to start with every byte not used by the kernel can help. This would amount to changing from: CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y to: CO…

Hi all, I need to customize the /etc/fstab during the build to mount a mtd partition and also to override some mountpoints with tmpfs in order to reduce wearing on mmc. So, have added the following lines to customize-image.sh: cat <<EOT >> /etc/fstab # Reduce SD wearing by storing log files into ram (no need as overlayroot is used to freeze all the rootfs) tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev 0 0 tmpfs /run tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev 0 0 tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev 0 0 tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 tmpfs /var/lib/logrotate tmpf…

Hi there, I have a hummingboard edge and I need to add a RTL8111 based PCIe card. As I saw in the iMX6Rex web I need to add some drivers to the kernel. http://www.imx6rex.com/software/imx6-rex-basic-hw-verification-tests/#pcie I tried to modify the file linux-cubox-default.config but when I try to compile there are errors. How could I do this? Regards.

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…

Hello i successful compile kernel for my chinese tablet and work but usb host no work. # modprobe g_ether modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'g_ether': No such device I use this configuration in kernel: https://pastebin.com/gWJWtRav i use base image cubieboard 1 legacy, script.bin for A13-SOM and uboot from archlinux uboot-a13-olinuxino-2017.01-2-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz .. Work: Wifi Realtek RTL8188CUS Nand read/write sdcard Audio jack 3.5 No tested/No know: LCD no can test at broken. Touch Guddix GT811 how to test? HYM8563S Real Time Clock (I2C). how to test? MMA7660FC 1.5 g 3-Axis Accelerometer (I2C…

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

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

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…

In recent armbian for orangepi-pc (Fossil 5.8.y) I encountered /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 I disabled both video and csi devices in dtb, but /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 did not disappear. Same happened with serial ports also. In dtb file 4 serial ports are described. Only one port is enabled, but /dev/ ttyS* contains 8 serial devices /proc/device-tree/soc/serial* directory contains exact number of serial ports as it is described in dtb. does anybody have an experience in disabling devices via device tree? Or the devices are hardcoded in the kernel?

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…

Hello there, i just exporting android dtb from /root/dev/dtb and convert it to dts, here's the screenshot : i'm confused to translate it (android dts) to armbian (linux dts) is there any complete tutorials / guides / software to convert / translate that android dts to armbian dts ?

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

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

According to the documentation: If a previous (complete) build has successful, is it possible to start subsequent builds at the 'customize-image.sh' stage? I'd like to fine tune my post-install process, but it takes awhile to get there due to package assembly, etc. Thank you

Hi guys, I am running bananapi and cubietruck boards and these board are axp209 power management unit equipped (tech details about this unit: http://linux-sunxi.org/AXP209).One advantage of this unit is showing informations about actual voltage and current of power source because as you know we are surrounded with many bad cheap power sources and microusb cables and monitoring of these informations can help explain corrupted data on microsd cards or random reboots. It show informations about battery status and usb voltage and current as well if battery is connected. I am using axp209 enabled RPi-Monitor from link https://github.com/XavierBerger/RPi-Monitorand I am sur…

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

Simple library for 128x64. Works fine with SH1106 1.3" OLED and OrangePi Zero (4.9 kernel). You just need to activate I2C interface by replacing "disabled" with "okay" in device tree file (or in the fex). Connect display and test with "sudo i2cdetect -y 0" (or 1). If your display has 3d address instead 3c, change OLED_I2C_ADDR parameter it in the oled.h. Enter "make" to compile and run demo with "sudo ./oled_demo /dev/i2c-0". This library was written by Sonal Pinto for Arduino and ported to Linux by Vladimir Komendantskiy. I just wrote functions for text drawing and add three little fonts. This library only can draw text at X Y with specified font and draw cu…

Hello everybody, I have a loftq of Mixtile at home for 2 weeks and try to install linux since that time. The Howto of Mixtile I have tried with the Mainline Kernel I get the error message pxelinux.cfg Timeout of several different files. If I use the legacy kernel I get no error handling it stops only after the message Linux kernel. I took the Armbian desktop version of Bananapi M2 and copied my * .dtb file with into the dtb folder in the directory boot. Here I get also the message startin Linux kernel but then the monitor is black. Can you help me please? Many Thanks.

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

Hello everyone, My hardware is Orange Pi PC2. I'm netbooting with latest armbian kernel compiled from src: root@hello-PC:/home/hello/armbian# cat /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default default menu.c32 prompt 1 menu title Boot Menu Label Armbian menu label Manual load Armbian kernel armbian/vmlinuz-4.19.20-sunxi64 fdt armbian/sun50i-h5-orangepi-pc2.dtb append initrd=armbian/uInitrd netboot=nfs nfsroot=192.168.100.1:/var/nfs debug=y Everything is loaded and mounted, but I can't see any echoes from init script (initramfs). Even after I added: root@hello-PC:/home/hello/armbian/init# diff init ../init_bak 30,31d29 < mknod…

Hello, I have a bunch of boards (rpi4b, rpi5, orangepi5, orangepi5-plus, nanopct6, rock3a, rock5b, vim4) in a Kubernetes cluster using Cilium. Cilium requires CONF_SCHEDSTATS=y in the kernel, which is dependent on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y but... in build/lib/functions/compilation/armbian-kernel.sh we have # DONE: Disable: debug option kernel_config_set_n DEBUG_KERNEL # Armbian doesn't know how to package a debug kernel. Which invalidates the option I enabled during ./compile.sh BOARD=... BRANCH=... kernel-config Except for the VIM4, with DEBUG_KERNEL enabled in build/config/sources/families/meson-s4t7.conf …

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

Hello, I'm currently working on embedded and now I need to connect my banana pi A20 with lemake LCD. Because of chromium issues and bugs for lower kernel, I want to use vanilla kernel. What I want to do is to run a server suing asp.net and start a kiosk mode chromium and check in the LCD. I've checked you posted this link http://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/master/patch/kernel/sunxi-next/bananapipro_lemaker_lcd.patch.disabled ​I also heard that I might deal with this problem by kernel compile, but I'm pretty new to Linux, and actually a little bit overwhelmed about the sources and information. ​Can you give me any suggestion about kernel compile, where to st…

Hello, I was able to complete custom (with USB gadget support) build of current Armbian version (5.17) for desktop using tip about workaround for u-boot compiling problem. But when I run h3disp in order to allow DVI monitor connection (-d), after the restart I still get no output to DVI monitor, while remote Putty connection works. I understand that this is version-in-development, but is there any way to fix (workaround) the problem?

My board is OrangePI PC. I use Armbian5.27_Ubuntu_xenial_desktop (kernel 4.10.1-sun8i). My display is "Innolux AT070TN90": 7", HDMI. I can't expose resolution 800x480. Prompt how to change resolution?

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

I've been trying to build a nanopiduo2 firmware for the last couple of days, and I keep getting an error on the 048-humanity-icon-theme_0.6.15_all.deb. It says corrupted filesystem tarball. I don't know where to report this. Is this a packaging error in Armbian or Ubuntu? I'm trying to build the bionic firmware. Any suggestions on getting around this error would be much appreciated.

Hi, totally new at this but here goes. I have been working on a IoT project involving the pcDuino and have been having issues with the image supplied by linksprite and WiFi drivers etc. I came across armbian, noticed the pcduino wheezy image and downloaded, installed all good and very impressed. I then went to run my python scripts to test gpio ports and sensors but received the following error: File "/home/iotadmin/gpio/__init__.py", line 43, in pinMode with open(_MODE_FD_PATH % id, 'w') as f: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/sys/devices/virtual/misc/gpio/mode/gpio1' I assume that the device mapping is different? I would appre…

I was using usb otg(microusb) as host mode in kernel 3.x. I was using this port to connect banana pi to touch&PWR in LCD. With kernel 3.x, there was no problem, but in the kernel 4.x the touch did not work. I was searching about the structure of usb port, and found out that to use micro usb as a host mode, the forth pin(sense) and the fifth pin(GND) should be connected. I checked this had been causing a touch problem by trying soldering the forth and the fifth pin of the usb otg port in banana pi, and the touch worked. Isn't there any way I can handle this situation in software-wise, not by soldering? I had also considered buying a microusb wire which has …

I've struggled the whole day on that task using v2019.01 ... It is even worst than my struggling back in early December, even using Method #2 give me headache with Pinctrl not initialize and boot device been garbage : channel 0 training pass! channel 1 training pass! change freq to 800MHz 1,0 ch 0 ddrconfig = 0x101, ddrsize = 0x20 ch 1 ddrconfig = 0x101, ddrsize = 0x20 pmugrf_os_reg[2] = 0x3281F281, stride = 0x9 OUT U-Boot SPL board init Pinctrl init failed: -19 Trying to boot from m�iYk~Ⱥ�C��+J)H�^J!������wZ��q�+����q����!

I've done private builds using Megous's 5.4.0 branch for almost all my SUNXI boards, so, I'm pretty confident that we can switch to it soon ...

I apologize if this is a basic question. I'm trying to make a minimal Orange Pi Zero 3 Trixie image with a btrfs file system and NetworkManager for the networking stack using Docker without having to compile a new kernel (i.e., I just want to use the precompiled kernel found in the CSC version). I created a `config-myimage.conf` file under `build/userpatches`: BOARD=orangepizero3 BRANCH=current RELEASE=trixie CLEAN_LEVEL=cache KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no BUILD_KSRC=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes NETWORKING_STACK=network-manager DOCKER_ARMBIAN_BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:jammy ROOTFS_TYPE=btrfs BTRFS_COMPRESSION=zlib CONSOLE_AUTOLOGIN=yes #BOOTSIZE=96 # need larger boot size to…

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. :)

Found an old (2015) Ugoos UT3+ / UT3 Plus with an rk3288 - the neat thing about this board is it has HDMI-IN ! Also has PIP Specs: I'm was eventually able to successfully screen capture @ 1920 x 1080 ~29 fps using the Android 5.1.1 firmware V3.0.7 for UT3+ https://mega.nz/#!cQpl0ICS!8EgHddI3_PXQsSe-TSrkHfxdHCmkbckNWBYuLhfuA7w The firmware crashes frequently and the painful part is the IR remote is required to start recording.. so I'll be porting gentoo / armbian to this device to turn this paper weight into a linux friendly screen capture device. It maybe …

Dear all, I recently perched a SINA33 from SINLINX after a week of test i download the Armbian source code that is very interesting and started to create an Armbian image for this board. I created a csc file to start the building. Spoiler The csc file code: # A33 quad core 1Gb SoC BOARD_NAME="Sina33" BOARDFAMILY="sun8i" BOOTCONFIG="Sinlinx_SinA33_defconfig" MODULES="hci_uart gpio_sunxi rfcomm hidp bonding spi_sun7i 8021q a20_tp" MODULES_NEXT="brcmfmac" OVERLAY_PREFIX="sun8i-a33" KERNEL_TARGET="default,next,dev" The compile is done and the image is created. I flash the image w…

Just a minor problem: uptime from procps-nf 3.3.15 (Armbian buster) - as used in 30-armbian-sysinfo to get uptime/logged-in users/load - generates different outputs if the uptime is either less or more than 1 day or less than 1 hour ("hh:mm" or "d days, hh:mm" or "nn min") - this gets the 30-armbian-sysinfo confused on gathering the logged-in user count resp. load. I suggest the below fix: ... # get uptime, logged in users and load # fix for uptime from procps-ng 3.3.15: reports uptime less then a day as "hh:mm," # but uptime larger than a day as "nn days, hh:mm," or "nn days, mm min", and less than 1 hour as "mm min," # which mixes up the assig…

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

Hello, I know that when a new LTS kernel gets released, that has very considerable impact and importance here at Armbian. Are you stoked about the upcoming 4.19 release? I know I am. No doubt many forum members have their favorite "pet" boards, and will be eager to see some currently-"experimental" features become "stable". Which of these features matter the most to you? Can you give examples of which use cases you'll be most eager to get a 4.19 kernel into? Myself, I'll be excited to see which already-Supported boards get a new Armbian Stretch or Bionic released with 4.19. This will help me get a sense which boards (and SBC makers) have the …

I just got a copy of the dev branch armbian comipled (2017-04-10). I'm here with the grand goal of getting libsurvive running with the HTC Vive on the Orange Pi. In order to do this, I need to coax the OrangePi to output to the vive. I was skeptical at first, but it appears you guys support 4k@30, so it should be okay on the pixel-clock front. The vive is 2160x1200@90Hz. You can't underclock it. Just won't go then. It's sadly the only mode the thing supports. I've seen shreds and bits here and there of information about how to do this, but, it seems that most of it is out-of-date for the "dev" branch. Any hints on how I can get the OrangePi to output as per …

When building a kernel the device driver configuration asks which rtc should a system use for NTP and startup synchronisation . By default this is rtc0. The question is: In case there are more hardware RTCs in one embedded system ( in my case onboard RK808 and Dallas DS1307 over I2C), which one would be numbered as rtc0? Threre are several RTC device drivers available and checked by default, some marked as M and other as '*' , supposing 'module' or 'driver' respectively. Now if I have two hardware RTCs, I presume they should load as rtc0 and rtc1, but which part does numbering? I can't know this 'a priori' , I would like to use DS1307 for synchronisation…

Hi guys, Since I'm out of GPIOs I would like to reuse the Debug UART0 RX/TX in "release" if no serial module is attached. I'm using a nanopi Duo2 but that question applies to the general strategy. The NanoPi UART0 RX can be used as PA5, PWM output. I did already play successfully with overlay files for other purposes so I know a little how that works. Can I create a overlay with shared usage, and depending on the loaded module (tty*) the RS232 is operating, or when this is stopped i can use the PWM out? Is this "Shared overlay" in general the right approach? If yes could someone point me to some hints ho…

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

Hi all, I'm using armbian on a cubietruck for various purposes. One of them is HAM radio. BUt I just noticed we don't have support for AX25. In fact, we're missing all HAM-related stuff, so I think it isn't possible to build just the modules: # CONFIG_HAMRADIO is not set What I would need is this: CONFIG_HAMRADIO=y # # Packet Radio protocols # CONFIG_AX25=m # # AX.25 network device drivers # CONFIG_MKISS=m # uname -a Linux cubie.acasa.local 4.3.3-sunxi #3 SMP Mon Dec 28 11:27:16 CET 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux Thanks for your support. Marius

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

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

Hi! I recently managed to boot Armbian on the QuartzPro64 board (RK3588) from Pine64. I also installed Proxmox, which worked out of the box. This is really amazing to me! To do this, I manually replaced the kernel and DTB file from the Armbian image for the OrangePi5 board, since it's based on the same CPU. Now, I would like to build the image for the QuartzPro64 using the Armbian build script. So far, I've already : added a new .conf file in config/boards (based on orangepi5-plus.conf) added a new .config file in config/kernel added a new entry in the list of branch in config/sources/families/rockchip-rk3588.conf. …

I found various information from various places about running minimal egl programs on the OrangePi. Suggesting I need to do things such as modify various .fex's, etc. http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=53 However, I can't seem to find anything that's up-to-date, and much less one that doesn't rely on X to run. And, I'd really like to avoid a dependency on X. 1) Is the most up-to-date userspace driver still https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-mali I find it hard to believe that that is right considering its age. It is also referenced here: http://linux-sunxi.org/Mali_binary_driver. In addition, no mali modu…

Hi all! I use Linux 3.4.112-sun7i on Limo2 (A20), how to I can do update libstdc++6 from current 4.8.4 to >= 5.2? Regards,

In the very beginning of the building I got such error *** [cmd] Ошибка 2ude/generated # error bmp_display() requires CONFIG_LCD or CONFIG_VIDEO inclmake: *** Ожидание Ð·Ð°Ð²ÐµÑ€ÑˆÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð·Ð°Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ð¹â€¦ ^ make[1]: *** [cmd/bmp.o] Ошибка 1 [ error ] ERROR in function compile_uboot [ common.sh:119 ] [ error ] U-boot file not found [ u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin ] [ o.k. ] Process terminated Sorry for russian, but I hope it still can be understood

Now that Debian stable has moved from Jessie to Stretch, what would it take to move the Debian branch of Armbian to Stretch? Would it break anything if I just s/jessie/stretch/g in /etc/apt/sources.list and do sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade?

Why does Armbian include both include ifupdown AND NetworkManager by default? I'm not aware of anything that ifupdown can do that NM cannot and ifupdown doesn't have a TUI/GUI like NM so as far as I'm concerned ifupdown is just clutter that causes config clashes and boot delays. Isn't it time to strip ifupdown from Armbian? On a related note, I've never got any of the (ifupdown) network config options in armbian-config to work.

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

Hi, 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 […

Hi, I'm working with an armbian installed on a Banana Pi M2S and I'm having problems using GPIOX_12, GPIOX_13 and GPIOX_4, because the Wifi/Bluetooth drivers are introducing garbage data by default into them and making it difficult to use them for communication in my project. I need to know how to disable these drivers from the kernel so that they don't interfere with the UART communication that I'm creating on those pins, since they are enabled by default and take control of the port automatically (even without having any module connected). Question: Is there any way to disable them in the kernel during the image building process? Fo…

Hi TKaiser / Igor, FYI i manually prepared a patch for devices that use rtl2832u that i think may interest you to add this patch to the build process. You can patch against legacy kernel 3.4.111 and give users a chance to get their device recognized. Sorry, i can't couple with the automated armbian process yet, i usually do the things manually. I hope this can be useful (and hopefully works for someone). clone here: https://github.com/avafinger/rtl2832 @lex

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 @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

I have 2 usb interfaces. The enx* interface is a cell connection and wlx* is wifi. It looks like the route metrics are causing all the traffic to go through the cell modem? Where is the route metric configured and how can I change these in a general way? I'd like to configure several computers without having to know the unique name of each interface. route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 0.0.0.0 192.168.225.1 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 enx169cc859c209 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 600 0 0 wlx3c3300700ede 169.254.0.0 0.…

Hello Armbian community, I am working on adding support for a new RK3568 board to Armbian. Besides the board support, there are some hardware-specific kernel driver patches, for example: - RS485 driver modifications - TP2815 related driver changes - GT9xx touchscreen driver changes - Other hardware-specific drivers These drivers are only required for this hardware platform. What is the recommended way to maintain these driver patches in Armbian? Should they be submitted together with the board support? Or should they be maintained separately and applied through: userpatches/kern…

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?

Since there is a well-known security issue at s905(x) SOCs : https://fredericb.info/2016/10/amlogic-s905-soc-bypassing-not-so.html Is it possible to disable serial console at s905 u-boot ? Does the setting at device tree apply to kernel only or both kernel and u-boot drivers ? Regards ! Guofu Han

Hello, I am trying to port my developed module to the newest Armbian system. Once I had everything worked in very old Armbian developed in 2018 based on kernel 3.4. There is a hardware module connected via i2c1. When my program tries to communicate with it, it doesn't work and I get errors kernel: i2c i2c-1: mv64xxx: I2C bus locked, block: 1, time_left: 0 I've uploaded the diagnosis information to URL: https://paste.armbian.com/aciwalafah There was a problem also in Armbian 22.11 system. I upgraded it after found information about some solution for i2c probem with similar error messages. Please advise. Thanks.

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

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

I am trying to create my own USB gadget based on sunxi_usb_udc and GadgetFS with Orange Pi PC. I can't find any details about sunxi_usb_udc and after successful startup and detection, I am unable to get data sent by host side. How can I proceed?

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

Hello, is there a parameter one can pass to ./compile.sh in order to limit which toolchains are being downloaded? I just checked and cache/toolchains is taking up 14 GB on my VM and given that I only ever build odroidxu4 kernels this is quite an overkill. I could of course delete the cache manually but this would mean that the toolchains need to be re-downloaded for the next rebuild. Thanks!

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.

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

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…

Hi, I tried update/repair kernel on cubietruck today. I have /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw... and /dev/nand1 on /mnt type vfat (rw) and I am running Ubuntu on this board. I entered command below as root: wget -q -O - http://upgrade.armbian.com | bash Last messages on screen: NAND install Converting and copying kernel. mkimage: Can't open /boot/zImage: No such file or directory Visit: forum.armbian.com in case of troubles or just for fun

Hi, Can anyone tell why I cant export PH3 as gpio? It is the default "usb2_vbus-supply" for usb2 of allwinner A20. In my application I need to control this "usb2_vbus-supply". Example : exporting PH3 root@cubieboard2:~# echo 227 > /sys/class/gpio/export -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy Im using armbian vanilla for my cb2. Thanks in advance.

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…

Just thought you developers might enjoy this... It uses a CRAZY cheap module, becomes a serial to wifi bridge, outputs on the module can then be connected to a standard serial tx/rx, 5v/gnd, and not only does it have a webgui, but also a web console https://github.com/jeelabs/esp-link The esp-link firmware connects a micro-controller to the internet using an ESP8266 Wifi module. It implements a number of features: transparent bridge between Wifi and serial, useful for debugging or inputting into a uC flash-programming attached Arduino/AVR microcontrollers and LPC800-series and other ARM microcontrollers via Wifi built-in stk500v1 p…

Since update to 5.5.0 kernel (-rc2) my Orange PI often freezed after uptime of several hours up to 3 days (usually less than 24 hours). Since downgrade to 5.4.10 it seems to be stable again (1 day for now, so I still keep my fingers crossed). (Before upgrade to 5.5. it was up for several weeks - and I don't remember any unplanned reboot). Unfortunately I have no logs (it logs to ram), but in one case if was connected via ssh and had "htop" running - it showed nothing special at freeze time (CPU temperature around 50°C, no high load (around 0,5 load avg, only one CPU cure with a CPU % > 50% (still < 80%)). When I noticed the frozen system, I n…

Hi, I have downloaded `Armbian_20.05.2_Pine64so_buster_current_5.4.43.img` I have a script that mount the iso, chroot into it and run a big script to generate a flavoured version of armbian. First thing the script do is `apt update && apt upgrade` And I recently started to have the following error: Preparing to unpack .../06-linux-dtb-current-sunxi64_20.08_arm64.deb ... Error while loading /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: Exec format error dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-xF9W1s/06-linux-dtb-current-sunxi64_20.08_arm64.deb (--unpack): new linux-dtb-current-sunxi64 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit …

Hello I am unable to install a key 3g ..to Odroid C2have you a solution thank you