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I am trying to install perf on armbian. It happens that perf is dependent on the kernel release (see /usr/bin/perf, a shell script). I use kernel 4.10.0-sun8i, but the linux-tools installed are apparently for kernel 3.16: # uname -r 4.10.0-sun8i # apt-get install linux-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libdw1 libperl5.20 libpython2.7 linux-tools-3.16 Suggested packages: linux-doc-3.16 The following NEW packages will be installed: libdw1 libperl5.20 libpython2.7 linux-tools linux-tools-3.16 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and …

Where I can read the changelog about the last armbian release 5.27? Github shows only 5.24 https://github.com/armbian/build/releases and on the docs 5.25 https://docs.armbian.com/Release_Changelog/

I've done a build Meson64-DEV with 5.2.y ... I will commit the switch as soon as runtime test succeded !

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^[…

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

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…

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. using Armbian 5.16 opipc+ I have used ''create launcher'' from the desktop to be able to connect to wpa2 wifi. I have rebooted around 6 times and is working each time. I have to launch two in series. first starts wpa_supplicant second starts dhclient success!. I tried adding them to the startup,(wishful thinking) so. each time i run them from the desktop, it launches terminal and asks for PW. because command has and requires sudo. does anybody know how i can get around this?, it would be amazing if i could have them auto run, next best would be without terminal asking for PW. no i don't know how to write scripts. I'm …

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.

Hi, I'am Patrick from France, it is my first post on the forum. I am porting the Zortrax m200 plus 3D printer to Armbian and my last important step would be to have the LCD screen working. I cross compiled my module but I have this message when installing it: # insmod panel-himax-hx8394.ko [ 1760.189919] BPF: [120533] Invalid name_offset:2238391 [ 1760.195183] failed to validate module [panel_himax_hx8394] BTF: -22 insmod: ERROR: could not insert module panel-himax-hx8394.ko: Invalid parameters Then I added the module source code to the sources, but calling ./compile.sh seems to update the repo and revert my changes such as I do not see my m…

Hello I use compile.sh and customize-image.sh to make my own custom image and every think is all right and work great. This is my command line to compile: sudo ./compile.sh KERNEL_CONFIGURE="no" KERNEL_ONLY="no" BOARD="orangepipc2" BRANCH="next" RELEASE="xenial" BUILD_DESKTOP="yes" After burned my image and lounch Armbian I have to do two steps: 1) go to armbian config and set taggle hardware config "i2c0" option to "true" (like on picture 1.png) 2) go to armbian config and set time zone = Europe/Moscow I tried to set KERNEL_CONFIGURE="yes" and try to find this options in configmenu = I did not find I tried to add option T…

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

tonight as I was about to head to bed, I noticed low buzz coming from my Tinker board as if my fan was running. Sure enough it was running, I checked top and a couple processes were trying to read from the cifs share and had the cores pinned using 100%... I did some testing, I could read files from the cifs share but whatever I used would hang at the end of the file, cat, cp, etc... I also tried almost everything, nothing fixed the issue until I rolled back my kernel from Dev (4.14.0-rc1) to Next (4.13.2) then all the problems were gone. I also noticed on the 4.14.0-rc1 kernel booting and shutdown times were much longer... at least double of whats normal, this was true w…

Hi guys, I am trying to get latest kernel on my cubietruck because from some reason I still have kernel + headers version 3.4.109 even I did "apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y" or tried "apt-get dist-upgrade" My setup is boot on nand and root on /dev/sda1 on debian Jessie. Root system is about week old. When I run "aptitude reinstall ~ncubietruck" I will get this: START linux-u-boot-cubietruck-next is not currently installed, so it will not be reinstalled. linux-jessie-root-next-cubietruck is not currently installed, so it will not be reinstalled. linux-u-boot-cubietruck-next is not currently installed, so it will not be reinstalled. linux-j…

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…

Hi, I try to compil module from http://github.com/matzrh/sunxi-lirc. I updated my cubietruck to trusty with 3.4.109 kernel but y not find kernel header. Where is? Thanks!

FYI - seeing the following error on completion of a build... I suspect it's transient since it just seems to be verifying the image... "Re-reading the partition table failed.: Invalid argument​" Image build seems to otherwise complete successfully. Haven't tested the image yet. This was building a BPi image for Jessie using the "next" (latest) kernel.

I'm using an opi PC with a sandisk ultra 32GB micro SD. I've noticed that if you do a large write to the SD card (i.e. via samba) then the system becomes sluggish. Writing to a USB stick does not have the same effect on system performance. I tried changing the scheduler to CFQ (from noop) and it helped a lot. Has there been any testing on which scheduler is best? I assume noop performance will vary dependant on the SD controller? raspbian uses deadline as the default - https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=64702 Some very good info here: https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Linux_I/O_Scheduler

Hi, I am new to armbian, and I was trying to compile the vanilla kernel for the Banana Pi M2. I get the following error: Compiling DTB ccache ... DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-inet-98v-rev2.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-olinuxino.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-olinuxino-micro.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-q8-tablet.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-utoo-p66.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-r8-chip.dtb …

I used the buster version and when I typed armbian-confg->system->hardware, there is nothing display except some square brackets. Anybody know why?

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

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…

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

Greetings, everyone I decided to try armbian for my recently acquired cubox-i4pro. Unfortunately it was missing some kernel modules that I require. No problem, it is easy enough to change the kernel configuration and recompile! Debian Jessie (main system) is even listed as a working development environment, so I thought I would test the included compile script using the instructions from the github. I had recently completed some cross-compilation (for armel, not armhf), so I manually updated the dependencies and read through instructions and looked through the script before getting started. First I compiled the kernel only with the following settings: KERNEL…

5.0x Lamobo R1 / Banana Pi M2 jessie next 4.4.3 As described in this thread http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/691-banana-pro-testers-wanted-sata-drive-not-working-on-some-boards/?p=5641 /etc/rc.local successfully controls the Banana Pi M2's red, green and blue LEDs and the Lamobo R1's green LED. But how to control the behavior of the Lamobo R1's red LED? At the moment, Armbian 5.0x, the red LED doesn't turn off after shutdown. An older image, I'm still using, I guess 4.8x or 4.9x, turns the red LED off after shutdown by default without any manual configuration. I'm using a green heartbeat as workaround to indicate the power status but I would appreciate to us…

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.

I've done an experimental build of 5.0.y for my NanoPiK2. It seems that most of the current rejected patches are simply not needed anymore. The only thing I'm not sure what to do is in patch 0038-media-meson-add-v4l2-m2m-video-decoder-driver.patch. I've comment out this line since it seems that v4l2 API has changed : // .vidioc_cropcap = vdec_cropcap, If some of you are more familiar, please, give some help here. Should I proceed to the commits ?

This patch modifies the sunxi-dev/bananapi-r1-switch-driver.patch to work with the changed phy/mdio interface in 4.5. It was also necessary to revert commit 88f8b1bb41c6208f81b6a480244533ded7b59493 "stmmac: Fix 'eth0: No PHY found' regression" because it breaks networking on all my sun7i-a20 boards (bananapi, cubietruck, and bananapi-r1) From ce978c1235f68cf7bfeb81693d047afcee6df038 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Werner Boellmann <WeeB@sample.net> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:22:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] bananapi-r1 switch driver: Modifications for Kernel v4.5 --- drivers/net/phy/b53/b53_mdio.c | 63 ++++++++++--------------------------- drivers/net/phy…

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?

My only reason for being here is to develop a Kubernetes platform that runs on Armbian, mesh networks, and particularly the type of devices Consumers will typically have... Is anyone else already doing this? And who else here is in the web dev space? or ops? Or has a website on something like Wordpress.com or Wix, and wants to self-host it? What is your favorite open source PaaS? also proprietary like Heroku? Any AWS or GCP or Azure user? Or a Data Scientist? just wanted to get a little survey, of if this has market demand.

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

Hello, 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 all, I have Orange pi pc H3 , and I want to display a boot logo at uboot startup. the official ubuntu 16.04 image from orangepi website works except that there's console on hdmi in addition to the logo , and I don't want the console just the boot logo. so I cloned the official u-boot git and checked out v2020.07 and applied this patch : https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/remove-boot-messages-from-hdmi.patch.disabled and compiled u-boot, there's no hdmi output in uboot stage. I used menuconfig to enable the hdmi driver CONFIG_VIDEO_HDMI , the problem is it depends on !MACH_SUN8I , which means it's not sup…

Please move this message to correct folder, if I used the wrong one. There is a grave bug in the ext4 FS, which was introduced in kernel around 6.1.55 and is fixed in kernel 6.1.66. The bug is causing data coruption and data loss, like new packages aren't installed properly. A fix was introduced today into kernel, in version 6.1.66 Armbian Bookworm 23.11.1 (Debian) comes with 6.1.63 and, according to my knowledge, is affected. When will new kernel packages from armbian be available? References: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843 https://fulda.social/@Ganneff/111551628003050712

As a note I once created a new Branch to create an image with VDR (http://www.tvdr.de). (my first target is to get a full working build for my Cubieboard2 then i try modularize for the other boards) (It need's kernel 3.4.x for vdpau !!!) It's not finished yet because I still have to see whether the FFMpeg version of Debian also works. and some other things greetings Daniel

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…

As far as I can tell, there is currently no hook to allow patching the out of tree wifi drivers, since they're merged into the kernel source after patching. I was able to add the ability to patch these drivers with just a one line change: Spoiler diff --git a/lib/compilation.sh b/lib/compilation.sh index 7bb90902..ddaf24a8 100644 --- a/lib/compilation.sh +++ b/lib/compilation.sh @@ -293,6 +293,8 @@ compile_kernel() # build 3rd party drivers compilation_prepare + advanced_patch "wifi" "$KERNELPATCHDIR" "$BOARD" "" "$BRANCH" "$LINUXFAMILY-$BRANCH" + # create linux-source package - with already patched source…

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

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 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…

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

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

Hello. When using version 2.4 armbian I changed the settings (work with a chip on AXP209 cubietruck) in /boot/script.bin File is now a reference to /boot/bin/cubietruck.bin file. How can I unpack the file to edit it and pack back?

Based on post "http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/120-f2fs-for-rootfs/" Can be added an optional choice to build image with F2FS root? Ext4 filesystem is crap for microSD/SD card and should not be used with expected large writes for example when you are running a mysql database. or tkaiser could you please post your modified compile.sh script for this purpose?

Hi, I bought the edimax EW-7822ULC usb wifi device (based on rtl8822). I was able to build the driver, install it, and test it (works!). Edimax provides the sources on their site. Is anyone working on incorporating this into Armbian? Steve

I am trying to convert my recent experience into something more generalized, in order to improve documentation. I already split off into a new page of docs Recovery, now I would like to add a new section to that page about manually replacing u-boot. In my case, sunxi was pretty easy, but trying to generalize this it gets more complex. I am not too familiar, so I researched for a while today and I think I have some idea, but before I start writing I want to make sure I am recommending the right approach. Basically I think I will recommend in 2 parts: 1. Explain how to extract u-boot from deb package after downloading from e.…

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

I know that the RaspberryPi cannot use netconsole due to the ethernet connector being driven over the USB bus, and thus not suporting polling (which is needed for netconsole). When i look at my LePotato kernel (4.14.57), I see: # CONFIG_NETCONSOLE is not set # CONFIG_NETPOLL is not set # CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER is not set So it is clear netconsole won't work as is. Before I go through the process of building the kernel to enable these, I thought I'd check if I am wasting my time. Is it expected that polling will work? I don't know anything about the 'dwmac_meson8b' driver and what its capabilities might be...

Hi! I try make a patch file, but after image building my patched code do not work. What I do wrong? SRC=$(pwd) # source file SOURCES=$SRC/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/sound/soc/sunxi/i2s/ # create user patch file diff -u $SOURCES/sunxi-i2s.c $SRC/mod/sunxi-i2s.c > $SRC/userpatches/kernel/sun7i-default/9999-i2s-mod.patch

Hi, I recently noticed that after updating to 24.02 the package "linux-libc-dev" did not receive a update. I have checked the current armbian archives and couldn't find anything for any arch. Just to be sure i've also built armbian 24.5 images for bananapi (noticed this on a bananapi board) and rpi4b (as a well supported board) and no linux-libc-dev[...].deb was built. It seems that with the buildsystem change the files packages/armbian/mkdebian and packages/armbian/builddeb were retired (commit e98c66b, v23.11.1) which previously handled building the kernel packages and included linux-libc-dev. Unfortunately linux-libc-dev is a dependency for libc6-dev a…

HI, Does anyone here encountered this error "libusb usb_bulk_send error -7" while reading in FEL mode? ./sunxi-fel read 0x42400000 0x82d0 boot1.header libusb usb_bulk_send error -7 Can you suggest how to fix this? Thanks in advance.

Hi all, special thanks to Igor for his work and all who are involved, thank you for reading this, THE MISSION:I am trying to install Armbian 5.25 Cubietruck Ubuntu xenial onto a cubietruck v1.0-0606. THE SITUATION:My computer I am creating the SD-Card from is: First I tried to copy Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.9.7_desktop.img then I copied root root 2946498560 Feb 5 12:04 Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.10.0_desktop.img root root 2942304256 Feb 5 02:43 Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.9.8_desktop.img sudo dd bs=1M if=Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.10.0_desktop.img of=/dev/sde sync My cardrea…

I runned once again in same isssue. After compiling last image for bananapro and copying these to the sd card, the sata device not appears anymore. I changed the bananapro with the bananapi dtb file, but this doesn't help. root@bananapipro:~# dpkg -l | grep next ii linux-dtb-next-sunxi 5.07 armhf Linux DTB, version 4.5.1-sunxi ii linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi 5.07 armhf Linux kernel firmware, version 4.5.1-sunxi ii linux-headers-next-sunxi 5.07 armhf Linux kernel headers for 4.5.1-sunxi on armhf ii linux-image-next-sunxi 5.07 …

First of all, happy 2017! May Armbian be the great OS it is, forever more. Now, I wanted to compile Armbian from scratch so I can see if I manage to hardcode some overscan into the tv module (it seems there's no way around it), but for some reason I can't seem to get the compilation going. I downloaded ubuntu, put it in a VM (so fresh, aside from VMWare guest tools) with 60GB storage, got it up to date, and tried to compile Armbian (since I don't know how to compile a single module). Steps taken: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install git git clone https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib --depth 1 cp lib/compile.sh . sudo ./compile.sh Then "Ke…

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/armbian/u-boot-sun50i Cloning into 'u-boot-sun50i'... remote: Counting objects: 104, done. remote: Total 104 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 104 Receiving objects: 100% (104/104), 15.69 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (60/60), done. Submodule 'arm-trusted-firmware' (https://github.com/apritzel/arm-trusted-firmware.git) registered for path 'arm-trusted-firmware' Submodule 'u-boot' (https://github.com/apritzel/u-boot.git) registered for path 'u-boot' Cloning into '/home/samuel/u-boot-sun50i/arm-trusted-firmware'... remote: Counting objects: 17522, done. remote: Total 17522 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pac…

Hi I have a nanopi-m1 board and connected a simple dc motor to GPIO15(pin10). I used this commands to run the mtor but nothing happend else making a folder named gpio15 in /sys/class/gpio path! echo 15 > /sys/class/gpio/export echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio15/direction echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio15/value Also I tried it with GPIO18 (pin12) and didn't work!

Anyone heard of this? I had not, until it was brought to my attention in a comment to the release announcement I sent to LWN. From https://validation.linaro.org/ : There is also https://www.lavasoftware.org/ : https://wiki-archive.linaro.org/LAVA : https://www.linaro.org/blog/lava-fundamentals/ https://github.com/Linaro/lava Anyway, plenty info in the Internet about it. I had a couple questions / thoughts: Any of you heard about / familiar with this? Is this suitable for our use-case?

I created a Wheezy and Jessie image. Whenever I try extracting the Jessie image, I get a CRC error. I am using 7zip. I tried extracting the zip also using Windows Explorer (Win10) and it also runs into an error. It seems like there might be an issue with the Jessie images being created. I cleaned my output folder and created a new clean image and still run into the same problem. This is using the latest libs and creating a 4.2.3 image (the default settings in the lib config). FYI, the Wheezy image extracts without any problems. Any ideas why the Jessie image is corrupt? Thanks.

I've decided to give a try by building new image with the refactoring of 4.8.x. So the image I've done is Armbian_5.21_Orangepipcplus_Debian_jessie_4.8.3.img I placed it on sdcard and look at the boot using serial debug. Unfortunately, the 4.8.3 Kernel is broken and get stuck the this last line ... U-Boot 2016.09-armbian (Oct 20 2016 - 12:18:44 -0400) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi PC I2C: ready DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0, SUNXI SD/MMC: 1 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface0 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 Hit any key to…

Hello, First please excuse me for being not learned enough to do it without asking stupid questions. Here is my goal: Build Armbian (debian jessie) image with some packages included into it, include some web content and scripts into image, run my own script at firstboot to configure apache/mysql etc. So everything to start working out of the box after first boot. I read a little and saw userpatches/customize-image.sh is responsible for custom configuration, but got no idea how to proceed further. For example if I want to install mariadb what should I do? apt-get install mariadb (it says this file was executed in chroot environment) …

Hi there, i want to stick to the 4.4 kernel an tried to compile kernel 4.4.9 via: apt-get -y install git git clone https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib--depth 1 cp lib/compile.sh . chmod +x compile.sh ./compile.sh after that, i built the following directory and file: mkdir userpatches vi userpatches/lib.config and added: KERNELBRANCH=â€v4.4.9†as described here: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1008-how-to-compile-latest-kernel-447/ Whenn running ./compile, i get the following messages: [ o.k. ] Using user configuration override [ userpatches/lib.config ] …

hello! I need to create my own initial ramdisk during the armbian build process by supplying a value to this kernel tag:- grep CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE /home/andrew/armbian/build/cache/sources/linux-kernel-worktree/6.18__sunxi__armhf/.config CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="usr/sideinitrd.cpio" my build runs under docker, and no matter where i place the CPIO file, i get this error: [🐳|🔨] make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'usr/sideinitrd.cpio', needed by 'usr/initramfs_inc_data'. Stop. [🐳|🔨] make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:556: usr] Error 2 [🐳|🔨] make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... just specula…

Hello All, I have a requirement that we need to enable the watchdog in uboot and kernel. For Kernel I was able to enable it using the config below and using a "watchdog" utility. CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y CONFIG_WATCHDOG_CORE=y # CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT is not set # # Watchdog Device Drivers # # CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_GPIO_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_XILINX_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_CADENCE_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_DW_WATCHDOG is not set CONFIG_SUNXI_WATCHDOG=y # CONFIG_MAX63XX_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_BCM7038_WDT is not set # CONFIG_MEN_A21_WDT is not set Now i'm stuck how to implement it in uboot. BTW, I'm using A20 board and a mainl…

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

Prior to entering an issue... One of the challenges of using an image based install is how to cover to machine unique items... Good example here is the systemd-machine-id... some systemd units can use machine-id in place of gethostid... https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-id.html It's supposed to be a unique qualifier for installation - but if this is written into the image, it's going to likely be the same for every image out there... Can always regen it on the shell - but this could also be in the first run script... $ cat /etc/machine-id \ && sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dbus/…

Hello, I would like to share my experience about development and debugging inside Armbian. On the beginning I tried to use Code::Blocks. But it crashed too many times, mostly during simple file editing. Then I found better IDE - CodeLite. When I wanted to debug a program, I found I have to install GDB. After installing and configuring it, the debugging looked to be possible, but every attempt finished with segmentation fault somewhere outside of my program, even before the first statement in main function was reached. After several attempts, I uninstalled and re-installed GDB and this time found recommended additional component - libc6-dbg. Installing this component fixed…

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?

A bit of software that might be interesting to those that wish to use the IO's of Pi type boards https://github.com/Nikolay-Kha/PyCNC Typically there is no way to control stepper motors from Linux runtime environment due to the lack of real time GPIO control. Even kernel based modules can not guarantee precise control of pulses for steppers. However, we can use a separate hardware module, DMA (Direct Memory Access) which provides high precision for GPIO outputs. This module can copy bytes which represent GPIO states from RAM buffer directly to GPIO with some clock based on main chip internal oscillator without using CPU's cores. Using such approach…

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

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

Hi I would like to add usbtv driver (STK1160) to the kernel, but I don't know how to use this information: https://www.olimex.com/wiki/STK1160-howto-linux-sunxi-3_4 Together with the Armbian repo https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib

During Assembly of images Armbian, faced with a situation where the build process creates a new\updated packages (kernel etc.). These packages are used to created images and it is desirable to update those who are already using older versions of the images. How to organize a network repository that would enable users to connect, get and install packages via regular means. For example using synaptic ? Maybe there are already rules for how it should be arranged for Armbian.

Hi guys I cloned the build earlier with a view to building an image for a rpi5b git clone --depth 1 --branch main https://github.com/armbian/build and build/config/boards/rpi5b.csc was present. I've just refreshed the clone and it's not there - has it been removed for some reason ? Edit It's not on github either - am I going mad ? 🙂

Hello, When patching or generally compiling, "dialog" is not my friend for reading & testing I would propose adding a wrapper in common.sh (as in branch "second") dialog_wrapper () { ARGS=$(getopt -o b:p: -l "backtitle:,progressbox:" -n "$0" -- "$@"); if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit 1; fi eval set -- "$ARGS"; unset cmdl while true; do case "$1" in -b|--backtitle) shift; if [ -n "$1" ]; then cmdl="$cmdl --backtitle '$1'"; shift; fi ;; -p|--progressbox) shift; if [ -n "$1" ]…

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

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

Hi! I am creating an Image that uses Cloud Init for customization. It involves creating an extra vfat partition for the CloudInit meta data. This is becoming an industry standard way to initialize virtual machines and now physical too. MAAS and Ubuntu on RPI also use it. What is the cleanest way to remove or disable equivalent scripts in Armbian ? In particular firstlogin and firstboot ?

➜ ~ sudo apt update [sudo] password for malex: Hit:1 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com groovy InRelease Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com groovy-security InRelease Hit:5 http://ports.ubuntu.com groovy-updates InRelease Get:2 https://armbian.tnahosting.net/apt groovy InRelease [18.3 kB] Hit:6 http://ports.ubuntu.com groovy-backports InRelease Hit:7 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports groovy InRel…

Some more info about the devfreq bug. I have tried many possible fixes unsuccessfully. But I have noticed that, no matter what changes I make in the kernel config with the Armbian build script, the file "/boot/config-4.4.119-rockchip" never changes. And, worst of all, it includes the following lines: # DEVFREQ Governors # CONFIG_DEVFREQ_GOV_SIMPLE_ONDEMAND is not set # CONFIG_DEVFREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set # CONFIG_DEVFREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE is not set CONFIG_DEVFREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y # DEVFREQ Drivers # CONFIG_ARM_ROCKCHIP_DMC_DEVFREQ is not set # CONFIG_PM_DEVFREQ_EVENT is not set I think those can be causing the problem. But, as I say, I can't seem to change that c…

So, I am working on a Clearfog Pro here, having compiled a 4.14.17 kernel and built a Debian Buster image on the m2 ssd via debootstrap. The board boots, and all the network ports behave as expected, but for the SFP cage. After spending some time digging through menuconfig, and not finding the appropriate option, I hunted a little, and found that sfp.c, sfp-bus.c, and phylink.c are all in the kernel code, but no manner of configuration can access them. I have dug up a couple of patchsets which seem necessary, but the dts patches (2nd link, january 2nd-7th, 2017 patches, near the bottom of the page) at least seem not to be merged into the mainline tree. I have not exam…

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

First at all, I'm running in an unsupported Android TV, Sunvell R69 with ARMBIAN 5.67 user-built and kernel 4.14.81. the question is, after running some exported X application launched from remote CLI, I find an entry for every launched app in the file system: ~ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on ... ... overlaid 1.2G 20K 1.2G 1% /run/user/1000/firefox-esr overlaid 1.2G 20K 1.2G 1% /run/user/1000/epyphani overlaid 1.2G 20K 1.2G 1% /run/user/1000/chromium overlaid 1.2G 20K 1.2G 1% /run/user/1000/vivaldi I can umount all, but all entries reappear after reboot the system without launching the apps.

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.

Hi, i'm trying to write a small routine to be executed by u-boot, but i need to enable debug messages output on serial console in entire u-boot. How to do that?

Hi everyone, I am just looking around for a low cost 64bit processor for a future design with raspbian/ubuntu OS server only. Some few alternatives I saw where..: Amlogic S905X3 Allwinner H6 Any other alternatives? regards,

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

Hello All, To all striking with sdcard issues , I have a good news today! NORMAL AND FIGHTING WAY Normally you put your sdcard on a adapter on a big computer you have flashed with a working and booting sbc to be able to flash the emmc and then you copy the .img.xz you have downloaded on it , put the card in the sbc and boot on it to have access to the dd command from there. Unfortunately the result will depend on your sdcard quality, I experienced many bad block so I get bored. Yesterday have a flash, LET'S TAKE THE BUNNY HIGHWAY! I found a way faster and safer to do it to circonvent the sdcard: tempfs! …

Hi, I updated my cubietruck jessie to 5.23. update successful but no boot on kernel . I boot on sd card and mount nand . no uImage but an zImage. I use mkimage in order to generate uImage and it work. kernel packaging must be corrected.

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

Hello, I'm using armbian debian Jessie server, kernel 4.6.3 for banana pi m1+. Before, I built device driver with kernel 3.x and was working well, but decided to higher the kernel version because of SPI. (cpu isolation for the thread with SPI communication did not work in kernel 3.x) In the kernel 4.6.3, cpu isolation was working perfectly. When I used bcm2835 library, SPI also worked. However, when I tried to use the same device driver code in the kernel 4.6.3, it just crashed and froze. I had to turn it off and on again to use the pi again. After debugging, I found out that the point of the crash was the method gpio_direction_output(pinNumber, fal…

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

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.

I try Armbian's OrangepiA64 Win Mainline Linux 4.19,But jack sound don't work always,I try many a time.Finally,I decide build image from mainline linux 5.0,Yes,Everything ok except usb,all usb port don't work. root@OrangepiWin:~# lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub root@OrangepiWin:~# dmesg |grep -i usb [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait rootfstype=ext4 console=ttyS0,115200 panic=10 consoleblank=0 loglevel=8 ubootpart=bc38bc54-01 ubootsource=mmc usb-storage.quirks=0x2537:0x1066…

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…

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

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

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 was trying to build an image for my Banan Pi. While I running script there was an connection error occured on downloading components. now I can't remove the directory. When I try to remove I'm getting this error: rm: cannot remove ‘sources/linux-sunxi/drivers/video/fbtft’: Device or resource busy How can I remove this directory? "lsof" is telling the directory might be deleted lsof +D sources/ lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext4 file system sources/linux-sunxi/drivers/video/fbtft (deleted) Output information may be incomplete.

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