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Currently on the latest version of armbian I am experiencing high background internet data usage. I am limited to a 50MB plan which works fine with other devices, but seems to not be enough for more than 10 days on this distro. I have tried disabling all periodic checks for updates, but I am still seeing high data usage. Any ideas on where these might be coming from? I can provide a wireshark PCAP if needed.

Hi Wondering if anyone knew the algorithm that assigns mac addresses to orange zero. Is it based on something static/cpu id /...? or it is purely random. Will this mac change over time or after it is generated, it will stay the same? I have one zero that mac is pretty static and another changed mac after I did a upgrade. If I want better control of the mac address, what's the best way to make it static? this is on the mainline -jerry

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

Looks like A10/A20 audio codec support got merged to linux-next tree. Igor, can you please add these patches? I'll try to find all related bits. There are too many commits to link them one by one. Here is merge commit, it's easier to remove not needed bcm2835 and sun6i stuff from it. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit?id=2030deefd5bfb68317732d8f64c69c7cb5169e9d

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

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.

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

Hi, Anyone here ever tried to build a mainline uboot for sunxi-3.4 kernel. As mentioned here v2015.10 support NAND spl. https://linux-sunxi.org/Mainline_U-Boot#v2015.10 I'm in the first part of doing it, but unfortunately I'm always stuck with this error. OBJCOPY examples/standalone/hello_world.srec OBJCOPY examples/standalone/hello_world.bin LDS u-boot.lds LD u-boot DTC arch/arm/dts/sun7i-a20-ainol-aw1.dtb In file included from arch/arm/dts/sun7i-a20-ainol-aw1.dts:10:0: arch/arm/dts/sun7i-a20.dtsi:47:54: fatal error: dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/arm-gic.h: No such file or directory #include <dt-bindings/interrupt-control…

Hello, In december, it was possible to install 4.19 kernel for Rock64. Unfortunately this kernel was removed from Armbian repo. 4.20 kernel is bogus, USB doesn't work and SD card is very slow. 4.19 was fine. Is it possible to make it available again in in the repo ? Thank you

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

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

Hello, I'm using the Tinkerboard S and I'm just curious. My understanding is that the latest mali user space drivers released by rockchip no longer have x11 support. I'm wondering if this user space driver is capable of running say a desktop environment utilising wayland. Would say, Gnome, Plasma or Enlightenment work with this proprietary driver? My apologies i'm in no way shape or form a developer, just curious about the capabilities of the driver. I

Ever since I read through THIS POST a while back, I started digging through the cpufrequtils init script, and was a more or less disappointed with what I found. It's largely a product of the CPUs that were available around that time (eg - Pentium 3). Namely that all cores in the system are the same, and there's should be only one master policy that controls everything. Of course ARM big.LITTLE totally breaks these assumptions, and leaves the script with no viable way to specify different schedulers or frequency ranges for each CPU cluster. It still runs, but not really correctly. For example, you can't set the RK3399 little cores above 1.4 GHz, but that's basi…

I tried to build the espressobin u-boot only with the command given in the docs: ./compile.sh 'compile_uboot' But I get ... COPY u-boot.bin CFGCHK u-boot.cfg rm: missing operand Try 'rm --help' for more information. [ o.k. ] Building flash-image-DDR3-512m_1cs_0-600_600.bin cp: cannot stat 'build/a3700/debug/flash-image.bin': No such file or directory [ o.k. ] Building flash-image-DDR3-512m_2cs_0-600_600.bin cp: cannot stat 'build/a3700/debug/flash-image.bin': No such file or directory ... Do I need more/different parameters or a different config-default.conf ? Sorry for these maybe stupid questions, I am aware that I don't really see through …

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

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

hi, starting yesterday the menuconfig (for kernel configuration) seems broken: instead of the menu in the grey box it shows the following inside the gray box. the console settings are UTF8. [(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[…

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

Hi Experts, I am using Readily available MFRC522 NFC reader board. It works fine on Raspberry Pi but we are not able to read card on Orange Pi Zero. I followed steps in the below posts. Both are same and person posted confirmed that it works for him https://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/617-wip-orange-pi-one-support-for-the-upcoming-orange-pi-one/page-9#entry5747 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41350031/dual-rc522-on-orange-pi Person who published the post says that he tested on 5.04 and I am using image Armbian_5.24_Orangepizero_Debian_jessie_3.4.113.img We have checked wiring again and again and wiring looks all OK. read.py runs but when card is …

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

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…

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

Hi Armbians, (If this question is already asked/answered please help me find the link.) I need the "ceph" and "rbd" kernel modules for my orange and banana pi. I am starting with the most recent images released: Armbian_4.5_xxxx_Debian_jessie_4.2.3. What are the minimum required steps to build the additional kernel modules? Where is the source tree for that kernel build (4.3.3-sunxi)? I would prefer to build directly on the PI (as opposed to x-compile) but either is ok. I tried a few things, including git clone of Igors "lib" project with build scripts. Runnig that pulled a kernel source tree: "sources/linux-vanilla/v4.3.3" which I am able to use to…

Greetings. Trying Armbian on this board instead of using the usual Buildroot mechanisms. Thanks for the project. Armbian repo cloned etc as per https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/. Ran ./compile.sh which updated various things. Selected the 4.x development version of the kernel, and Debian Jessie, then server option, then things fired up but failed attempting to apply the u-boot config file. nanopi_m1_defconfig is definitely missing. That defconfig is definitely not present in the u-boot repo I use with buildroot. What have I missed here? TIA Jerry [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ o.k. ] …

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…

Hello, once I developed my appliance based on Armbian with Kernel 3.4. And the goal of the appliance was to work as custom USB gadget. The appliance was based on sunxi_usb_udc. Now, after big delay I returned to the need of bulding a new appliance with similar functionality. As far as I understand, there is a problem with UDC module in kernel 5.x. Am I right? Can I build my custom system based on legacy (v.4.x) kernel to workaround the problem or there is a better suggestion with available information for fast startup? Please advise. Thanks in advance.

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

Hi, I 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

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, Please help. I am building kernel using armbian build system for a long time, but in past two releases of current kernel (5.15.23 and 5.15.53) I am getting errors while installing: modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/5.15.24-sunxi/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko.xz not found. modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/5.15.24-sunxi/kernel/fs/isofs/isofs.ko.xz not found. modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/5.15.24-sunxi/kernel/fs/jfs/jfs.ko.xz not found. modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/5.15.24-sunxi/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko.xz not found. modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/5.15.24-sunxi/kernel/fs/udf/udf.ko.xz not found. modinfo: ERROR: Mod…

Hi Team, With very straight forward documentation for building the image for Orange PI one board (All Winner H3), I was able build image. The experiment I am trying to do here is to run a simple service on boot (It may do nothing as of now, but should be listed as running when status is checked). Now since, the experiment is simple, I am trying to get some inputs on removing/excluding kernel modules that are not required and also build the image in release mode (not debug mode). Highly appreciate teams help in getting the inputs. Looking forward for the response. Thanks, Kedar

In order to make armbian better, we need your help with testing. Why? there are simply too many boards to handle, there are task which can't be automatized, there are bugs which are not seen from our perspective. What kind of tests? booting, user creation, updates, upgrades checking if basic supported functions work: video, audio, network, wireless, AP mode do nasty thing to your board and report. How to test? Download nightly images from here. You want to test image which is not there? Add those two parameters with desired targets to board's config and create a pull request. and / or cha…

Good afternoon dear gurus. help to transfer please system with sdcard to sata hdd in OrangePI +2. Debian jessy and additional software is established. what needs to be made? if it is possible, then on steps. the point is that I want to refuse completely loading with sdcard and emmc. To be loaded only with sata hdd. Thanks in advance.

I have several users following my move Linux to SATA on the Banana Pi guide using Armbian with Kernel 4.1 and they are saying that uEnv.txt on the boot partition isn't there. Is this a bug or is the procedure different for armbian? Can you shed any light on this?

Installed image Jessie server (Legacy) on the board BananaPi. Connected HDD SATA, create two partitions /dev/sda1 (swap) and /dev/sda2 (ext4). The system moved to /dev/sda2. How to move a swap of the /var/swap (in /etc/fstab) on /dev/sda1? How does the script /tmp/create_swap.sh? It starts with the system?

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

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: …

Should we use Mutex to prevent writing on same file / device by 2 or more threads? Any alternate suggestion? Nbird

Dear Igor, I'am trying to make an image with 3.19 kernel now for a while, but I couldn't make it work. It won't boot. A few weeks ago there was some problems with the patchings, so I tried to do it manually. But it lead me to the same result. Now I deleted everything, related to the image building, and started everything over again. I noticed that your building script has been updated. Now the patching errors disappeared, but I still get the same result, a non booting image. The error says, that "File not found /boot/.next" then "File not found /boot/zImage", "Unrecognized filesystem type", "Bad Linux ARM zImage magic!", ..... Picture from it here. I tried whe…

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

Hi 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 …

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, Just yesterday I had to reinstall my server (odroid-xu4 based). I've been using Armbian a few years now. But this time, no matter if just after a fresh install or after firmware and packages update/upgrade, it fails to reboot I no long have the release number of the previous install I've used, but tryied this time with 22.11.1 and 23.01.1 and both fail the same way After a few debuging it turned out to be that the /etc/fstab entry for the microSD starts just with the UUID code, but adding the "UUID=" string to the line begin, solves the issue Don't know when the bug began or where to properly report the bug, so I started this thread, but I'll be gl…

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

Hi, I am working on H3 based Nano Pi Neo board. my task is to enable audio and kernel version is 4.4. I tested Armbian image, Audio is working fine(good) and capture working too. Enabled sun4i-codec.c (which has h3 support). I struck with major problem. I am unable to write AC registors(physical address: 1c22c00) but i can read them using readl. writel is not showing any effect on register. I enabled audio_pll, codec clock, bus codec gate registers and reset deasserted. I have cross-checked H3 datasheet for clock tree. Everything looks fine. why writel is not working?? any suggestion.?? help me. …

Hi to everyone! I've just bought an orange pi pc+, and i've seen that the script that should install armbian into mmc is not working for me. The script only write the rootfs, but I am not able to see uboot and MLO. In past i've used proto-Board like BeagleBone. So the question is, how the script works? is there any way to compile MLO?

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

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

Hi 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.

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

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

Valve published native ARM64 Steam in roughly April 2026. The Steam Frame launched September 14th. I built a client that installs the Steam Frame ARM64 Steam client on my RK3588 board. It launches Big Picture mode and firstboot makes you get past the VR Joystick screen. You can run it as desktop mode thereafter. The CLIENT and GAME run natively, naturally on ARM*. No box64 etc workarounds. Why not try to share if I can? *panvk and vulkan are required. This Contains: Vulkan feature layer for Direct3D translation layer Remote Play decode settings for GPU with no Vulkan Video, Privat…

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

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

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

On my Debian13 VM that I use to build images for my boards, I have started to notice new errors that I have not seen before after this part of the logs... [🐳|🌱] After updating and cleaning image apt list cache [ 30 files ] [🐳|🌱] Image installed package hash [ ✅ base-files = 1-trixie-1armbian1-Bb095-U13.8--deb13u4-R55fa ] [🐳|🌱] Image installed package hash [ ✅ linux-image-current-rockchip64 = 6.18.26-S1fe0-Dedd0-P1f35-Cc077-H8200-HK01ba-Vc222-Bed86-R448a ] [🐳|🌱] Image installed package hash [ ✅ armbian-firmware = 1-SAa38b-B96c8-R448a ] [🐳|🌱] Image installed package hash [ ✅ armbian-bsp-cli-rockpro64-current = 1-PC1e15-V9ab0-H3400-Bd2e9-Rf36a ] [🐳|🌱] Image install…

I found this project very interesting and I would like to try Armbian for this new board Turris MOX. I've got your build environment working and tested my own build for a couple of supported boards. It was successful. I would like to ask you if you could help me in preparing the .config file for this board. Board Specification: https://mox.turris.cz/en/specification/ Documentation: https://doc.turris.cz/doc/en/howto/mox/mox-a-cpu Indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turris-mox-modular-open-source-router

I received at least one PM so far that I did not know the answer to. So, rather than all of us spend a lot of effort duplicating info, I thought maybe good idea to compile these in one place. Especially as we have an influx of new Board Maintainers at the moment. I also encourage people to stop by IRC and say hello. I shall also endeavor to copy the most useful bits from IRC into this thread as they come up. Maybe later can be distilled even further into some docs page or ...? Anyway... So, first up: Q: How /what checks/tests to run? A: OK, I guess I thought armbian/autotests was more about that (long in deve…

i worked on the BPI M1 Board (the first one) for quite a while now improving or more or less rewriting the A20 CSI camera driver. there are no more artifact-ghost-frames any more. The framerate goes from 5fps(full) to 120fps(crobbed small) i also modified the camera-device driver for the ov5640. disadvantage: existing camera device drivers would not be compatible any more. maybe someone wants to give it a try and check it out. it can be found here: https://github.com/xenpac/OV5640-Sunxi-A20

Finally Canonical launches an official Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Beta for Raspberry Pi 3 boards http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04/beta/ Maybe is interesting to check the repos.

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 am new to armbian, would like to ask about its development. Is this distribution quality controlled (by someone in charge), or fully community-organized "as is" ?

How can I disable the first run scripts that force you create a new user on a fresh install? And how do I get it to accept simple passwords?

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

How to I generate `.img` files? When I run `.compile` I end up with `.deb` files. I've been looking through the scripts but there are so many of them and I want to get to how to do this without having to use commands like: find . -name '*.sh' -print0 | xargs -0 grep compile_uboot | less for a long time. Thank you

Hi all, I'm doing experiments with WiFi monitor mode on AP6212(bcm43430)-based boards with nexmon (driver/fw patching framework for wifi monitor mode). I tried it on OPi Zero Plus 2 (Kernel 4.14) and it works pretty much "out of the box", but sometime crashes. I'm still investigating about it, since the same fw+driver work flawlessy on RPi Is there anyone else who played around with it?

Earlier today I pushed a fairy large patchset containing various functional improvements of many boards. If you have Allwinner board and some spare time: 1. Build DEV image/kernel with https://github.com/armbian/build (you need to add EXPERT="yes" to the config to unlock) 2. Install DEV kernel from beta repository Optional Defreeze kernel updates Switch to nightly kernel (armbian-config -> system -> Nightly) Reboot Switch to other kernel (armbian-config -> system -> Other -> DEV) When board came up, do some exploration. Most important information is to find out if there is a regression toward ker…

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

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 …

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

Hi guys, do you have idea why boot stopped? Check log below please. It was build about 25minutes ago but about 1 week younger build was working. U-Boot SPL 2017.03-armbian (Apr 03 2017 - 19:48:42) DRAM: 256 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2017.03-armbian (Apr 03 2017 - 19:48:42 +0100) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Zero DRAM: 256 MiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment Setting up a 720x576i composite-pal console (overscan 32x20) Error: no valid bmp image at 66000000 In: serial Out: vga Err: vga Net: phy interface0 eth…

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…

IMO this needs to be discussed separately, not in this (Banana Pi M2 Ultra) thread.

This is second afternoon I spend trying configure wifi on headless orange pi because we started using nmtui-connect (editing /etc/network/interfaces was much more easier especially when I need make universal image for about 15 same boards). It found wifi but when I try enter password it instead shows message "Could not activate connection: No plugin │ │ │ │ supported adding this connection" I can select which wifi I want but It everytime ends with same message. I tried it on image Armbian_5.25_Orangepizero_Debian_jessie_default_3.4.113.img I made no changes on this image except changing root password. User creation I canceled.

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

Build on new kernel (5.1), Ubuntu 18.04. No cpufreq information (0 MHz in htop etc.) also means there's no working frequency scaling. Which for Allwinner H2+ (Banana Pi M2 Zero) means quick hard-hang due to overheating whenever I compile anything non trivial, unless I point a USB Fan on the CPU (which already got a heatsink). Is there any chance of getting cpufreq and dvfs to work?

recent days I find Chromebook may be better Arm devices with laptop form factor. compare with Pinebook pro, Chromebooks are cheaper, and mass product, and better tested. why no much people discuss how to install 3rd OS to its internal emmc, or reflash its uboot? I have searched on ArchArm forum, only 1 topic. but there actually a way to reflash uboot, and mainline uboot already has support for arm based chromebooks. It should be easy, but why no discussion?

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

# Noble GNOME images ship PulseAudio and PipeWire both enabled — audio deadlocks silently **Board:** Radxa ROCK 5B+ (`rock-5b-plus`, rockchip-rk3588) **Image:** Armbian 26.2.1 stable, Ubuntu 24.04 Noble, **GNOME desktop** (prebuilt release image, not built locally — so there are no build logs) **Now running:** Armbian 26.8.3, kernel 7.1.8-edge-rockchip64 > All outputs below were captured **before** I fixed this machine. It now runs PipeWire only, so it no longer reproduces — a fresh Noble GNOME image should. The attached `armbianmonitor -u` log is a kernel/hardware inventory and does not collect userspace service state, so it won't show the c…

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

Starting to get into the armbian image a whole lot more as I prefer the lightweight nature of it over ubuntu mate on the ODroid C2. One issue I ran into today is the armbian kernel isn't built from the current hardkernel C2 kernel image: https://github.com/hardkernel/linux/tree/odroidc2-3.14.y I'm trying to get the 3.5" LCD Shield running on there, naturally it works fine on ubuntu mate C2 image but the kernel used for the armbian build is a different fork. The specific fbtft customised version for the C2 sits under the kernel here: https://github.com/hardkernel/linux/blob/odroidc2-3.14.y/drivers/video/fbtft/flexfb.c I'm happy to rebuild the kernel fro…

Hi. I recently installed an Armbian 25.8.1 noble to an ODROID XU4 with CLOUDSHELL2. All is wonderful, except one thing. I can't make the small TFT work. I enabled the cs2 option in boot.ini, but did not solve the issue. Then it turned out the module loader in modproebe.d lokks as follows: options fbtft_device name=hktft9340 busnum=1 rotate=270 speed=35000000 force32b=1 bgr=1 but actually there is no such module (only hktft32 or hktft35, or ili9340 - none of these worked): /lib/modules/6.6.113-current-odroidxu4/kernel/drivers/staging/fbtft# ls -1 fb_agm1264k-fl.ko fb_bd663474.ko fb_hktft32.ko fb_hktft35.ko fb_hx8340bn.ko …

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

Hi all, I built an image for my new Odroid M2 16 GB board using the parameters in my config-odroid.conf ``` BOARD=odroidm2 RELEASE=trixie BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no ``` And issued compile.sh odroid It built and booted first time I configured it using armbian-install to boot from the emmc and use the 1tb Samsung nvme as the system disk Rebooted after removing the sdcard Everything seemed to work until I tried to flash an image to the sdcard with dd The flash immediately stalled and killed my Putty session Some of the errors from dmesg ``` mmc1: Card stuck being busy! …

Apologies this seems to have posted twice could admin please delete one of them Hi all, I built an image for my new Odroid M2 16 GB board using the parameters in my config-odroid.conf BOARD=odroidm2 RELEASE=trixie BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no Issued compile.sh odroid It built and booted first time I configured it using armbian-install to boot from the emmc and use a 1tb Samsung nvme as the system disk Rebooted after removing the sdcard Everything seemed to work until I tried to flash another image to the sdcard with dd The flash immediately stalled and killed my windows Putty session …

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

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

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

Hi @balbes150 thank you for a lot of great work on Khadas VIM. could you make it offically support by Armbian?

I am trying to build an older image (i.e. not latest / next). I select wheezy and default (3.4 - 3.14 kernel). I did not modify compile.sh in any way. When building, I seem to constantly run into these errors: /root/armbian3/lib/boards.sh: line 217: cd: /root/armbian3/output/cache/sdcard/usr/src/linux-headers-: No such file or directory [ o.k. ] Compile kernel headers scripts /bin/bash: line 0: cd: /usr/src/linux-headers-: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `headers_install'. Stop. make: *** No rule to make target `scripts'. Stop. dpkg-deb: error: failed to read archive `/root/armbian3/output/debs/linux-headers-banana_4.4_armhf.deb': N…

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

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

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

Hi! I have a problem with my Orange Pi Lite 2 I tried to connect my device to my home WiFi. But the device does not see the wifi, at a distance of 10 centimeters. I try to launch commands: nmtui-connect *name to my WIFI* nmtui-connect for show all WiFi Network. But in neither case does the device manage to identify the network. I tried using: vim /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf I tried to edit the file and to insert the data of my network but nothing. Can anyone give me a hand to solve this problem? Thanks everyone in advance!

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…

How can I drive adafruit 3.5 inch touch screen on orange pi PC I have tried various methods on the web and still not to work

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.

Hello. I try to use waveshare 5inch touchscreen. But, while u-boot, it works. And after starting kernel, there is no output. My image is Armbian_5.90_Orangepipcplus_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113_desktop.img (ubuntu 16.04) Thank you for any help. This is video:

Good morning, I hope you all are fine. I am working on orange pi pc plus with mainline kernel 4.4, I tried to use the on board button but it didn't work in spite of its existence in the device tree (after dumping the already running dtb) and I found that: pinctrl@01f02c00 { compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-h3-r-pinctrl"; reg = <0x1f02c00 0x400>; interrupts = <0x0 0x2d 0x4>; clocks = <0x2d 0x3 0x1c 0x1d>; clock-names = "apb", "hosc", "losc"; gpio-controller; #gpio-cells = <…