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U-boot is always a great source of amusement, did anyone try that combination? Just yesterday got v2018.05 in, and it just does not work. I don't get any serial from u-boot SPL, do I don't know what is happening. I compiled it with #define DEBUG, and still no serial output at all. At last I downloaded latest mainline u-boot (v2018.07-rc2) from github, applied manually the patches, complied and it worked. It seems something very specific for v2018.05 and rockchip/rk3288

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…

I'm attempt to do two simple switches via GPIO on OrangePi R1 LTS Plus using RK3328 using .Net Core and here my code snippet. GpioController ioc = new GpioController(PinNumberingScheme.Logical, new RockchipDriver(gpioRegisterAddresses: new uint[] { 0xFF21_0000, 0xFF22_0000, 0xFF23_0000, 0xFF24_0000 })); int iPin=RockchipDriver.MapPinNumber(???) // where do I find the information to do logical pin number mapping? ioc.OpenPin(iPin); ioc.SetPinMode(iPin, PinMode.InputPullUp); PinValue v=ioc.Read(iPin); Thanks for reading and any suggestion is appreciated.

I'm just starting out with Armbian development, and the most recent "stable" version (5.20, v2016.09) doesn't compile. Is this supposed to work? olaf@tackd:~$ mkdir routertest olaf@tackd:~$ cd routertest/ olaf@tackd:~/routertest$ olaf@tackd:~/routertest$ git clone -b v2016.09 https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib Cloning into 'lib'... remote: Counting objects: 19756, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (155/155), done. remote: Total 19756 (delta 75), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 19601 Receiving objects: 100% (19756/19756), 173.96 MiB | 1003.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (12762/12762), done. Checking connectivity... done. Note: checking out '4c5…

I've started the job of switching both rockchip64-dev and rk3399-dev to 5.2.y ...

Hello everyone, I wanted to propose that the q8 tablets be included in the compilation script, I have several q8 tablets, at the beginning I used my own rootfs, but armbian is fantastic !! counting the modifications I make to the armbian rootfs I think it would be easy, in the firmware repository you already have the majority of hardware such as 8723 and other Wi-Fi chips, with respect to the uboot the templates that already incorporate the main repository work almost perfectly, no I know, could I help, I have the components, the dtb and the compiled uboot, how do you see it? Greetings

Hi everyone, I have a problem with my Cubietruck that I was able to partly debug now, but I really like to have input from those who know more about this setup. On my Cubietruck (trusty, kernel 4.6.5-sunxi), I have a 120GB SSD (no-name brand) and added an ext4 partition and corresponding fstab line to mount it. Booting and mounting this partition works well when I cold start my system, and had powered it off before for a while. But when I do a warm start (sudo reboot), the system hangs on boot, quite reliably (it seems to occasionally work, though). I changed my kernel command line and added 'init=/bin/sh', started a 2nd bash terminal before replacing …

Hello, I want to ask, which Bluetooth driver is used in mainline kernel for AP6210. I know for WiFi is used brcmfmac. Thank you.

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

Hello, im trying to map the i2c-2 to some GPIO ports and have to rewrite the device-tree on armbian 22.04. I'm failing miserably and have no idea how-to do it. I managed to compile the i2c-gpio.ko kernel module as it is not part of the armbian 5.15.89-sunxi kernel. However, here i'm stuck and cant manage to make it happen. On RPi it was simple adding an overlay to config.txt: dtoverlay=i2c-gpio,bus=2,i2c_gpio_sda=27,i2c_gpio_scl=17 /boot/overlays/i2c-gpio.dtbo I'm trying to replicate that for Armbian, here is my dts file: // Overlay for i2c_gpio bitbanging host bus. /dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { compatibl…

Running latest Ubuntu 18.04 for NanoPi Duo with updates as of last night and CPU governor stays at ondemand even though I set it to conservative in /etc/default/cpufrequtils and reboot. CPU frequency settings do take effect, just not the governor.

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 tried poking around /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device*. The old way was /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp, but now cat sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp returns Invalid argument.

Now that 5.9 will be released ( LTS early October / end September?) , DVFS is also present for H5 boards as well @megi provides his 5.9 branch so let's move on to this topic testing / patching/ building.

Just started with creating custom images for an Orange Pi R1+ LTS board. In my build I'd like to compile some custom C++ applications using CMake, then install them onto the root file system to run on the board. Couldn't find much on this on the docs, though maybe I haven't looked hard enough! A couple of questions: I noticed the customize-image.sh script in the build repository - would amending this script be the intended method for this kind of functionality or is there another, better way? How would I provide CMake the relevant info to compile correctly for the board. Thanks in advance.

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 …

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…

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

Hello! Im new in this community, I would like to know if there is a language like the C of Arduino's or any other to use in Raspberry Pi. I would appreciate your help. Greetings!

Hello all, I have something that you might find useful. I created an image for the Ubuntu 16.04 core for the firefly roc-rk3328-cc board. I followed the firefly docs to compile the firefly 4.4.114 kernel and build out the u-boot image. I followed this guide http://docs.khadas.com/social/BuildUbuntuRootfsViaUbuntuBase/ to get the ubuntu rootfs. I then created a disk image with the u-boot kernel, ubunutu rootfs, and the SoC. It actually worked. This is a very minimal install to the point where I have to modify the rootfs guide above to include the eth0 interface and probably install the network-manager. …

Wifi does not work with dev branch (4.17) on H2+/H3 systems: [ 10.807592] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database [ 10.857239] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7' [ 10.916465] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2 [ 10.916479] platform regulatory.0: Falling back to user helper [ 11.432051] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db any hints?

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

Hi 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: …

'Upstream' the idea to ship OS images with Firefox/Iceweasel has been dropped in the meantime due to horribly low performance in favour of chromium-browser. As far as I understood that's partially related to firefox acting single threaded (while Chromium uses all CPU cores). Here's longsleep's latest config and the mostly accepted 'fix' for Chromium complaining about running insecure due to missing sandboxing is disabling exactly this. (that's Hardkernel's method to 'fix' Chromium on ODROID-C2). Users will be happy with a fast(er) browser not throwing annoying error messages at them they click away without reading them anyway and surfing the web on Pinebook wi…

Hey , I need to get the official source code for the last stable version of armbian for orangepi (mainly the kernel): https://www.armbian.com/orangepi/ meaning version 4.19.y by the given link, but as I look at the source code in github, all I can find are tags and commits for 4.14 and 4.20. Is there a way to find the commit with the source code for the official release in the given link?

Could someone point me to a guide / how to / existing build script to create a bootloader image for the Radxa Rock-3a? Context... I'm trying to get a Radxa Rock3c to boot with a modern (6x) Linux kernel. This has the Rockchip rx3566 unlike the Radxa Rock3a which has the rx3568 (supported by Armbian). This is my first time working with u-boot, so I'm trying to follow Rockchip's own guide (here). Sadly that guide seems to be a rather cryptic, poorly translated, and file names don't appear to mach anything I can find. Radxa's own binaries (here) don't seem to know about the rk3566 or rk3568: I get errors when I use mkimage. But other distributio…

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! …

Hi. I ned to revert uboot back to 2015.07 for some tests. The point is this: Changed u-boot version in configuration.sh and image built without problems. When i boot it doesn't recognise the kernel image. which parameters should i change?

Hi, just build an image with 4.9.0 for my orange pi lite. I tried to incorporate the https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/1b4c92e53ac2c6ff2a78ae44898e32e2f5b62902/patch/kernel/sun8i-default/linux-200-wifi-mac-fix.patchpatch for persistant mac address for wifi, but didn't work. Is there some other patch that I'm missing, since the mac is persistant in 3.4.113?

Are the rtl8814au drivers updated? I did a custom build and the custom drivers seem to get 25% more throughput. I did a make from this guide Edimax guide: How to install EW-7833UAC in Linux running kernel higher than v4.4 The driver has updates for: {USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDER_ID_REALTEK, 0x8813),.driver_info = RTL8814A}, {USB_DEVICE(0x2001, 0x331a), .driver_info = RTL8814A}, /* D-Link - D-Link */ {USB_DEVICE(0x0b05, 0x1817), .driver_info = RTL8814A}, /* ASUS - ASUSTeK */ {USB_DEVICE(0x0b05, 0x1852), .driver_info = RTL8814A}, /* ASUS - ASUSTeK */ {USB_DEVICE(0x0b05, 0x1853), .driver_info = RTL8814A}, /* ASUS - ASUSTeK */ {USB_DEVICE(0x056E, 0…

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 …

Hello, FYI for prospective on Odroid XU4, testing images for XU4 (I also have a Cloushell (mini NAS including LCD display)) desktop image link folder Ubuntu 14.04.1 : ok, upgrade to 14.04.3 ok, upgrade to kernel 3.10.92 ok, upgrade to odroid final kernel 4.2.0 DEAD Ubuntu 15.04 : DEAD after reboot (kernel 4.2.0) It seems the image with kernel 4.2.0 just removed "journal" feature of ext4 on startup, so at next reboot, the ext4 fs is dead. trying to fix the SD card on a amd86 Ubuntu gives error like "/usr/sbin" dead, filesystem is garbage server image link ubuntu server image is not usable, dead after first reboot (kernel 4.2 ?) archlinux image…

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

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

Hi guys, New over here. I have been building custom images without issues for some time for Nano Pi M4. From last week it seems it is not longer building them. In case my build env was corrupted, image build process was tested on a clean VM build env with Ubuntu 18.04, without any customization, following instructions in https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/). I am just trying to buildi kernel image at the moment. In any case, I am seeing some of the rockchip kernel patches are not being applied for some reason, and a compiler error is produced when building the kernel (specifically: looback block dev module). Anybody else is …

I added a missing memory region from /dev/gpiomem and tested it. gpiomem { compatible = "samsung,exynos-gpiomem"; status = "okay"; reg = <0x13400000 0x1000 0x14010000 0x1000 0x03860000 0x1000>; }; I didn't see where to make PR on github.

Hello, Interested in replacing virtualbox as a VM host, "docker" tool seems to be able to run on Debian/Ubuntu/other linux distro/MacOS/Windows (as they claim) My test: 1/ Installing docker on my amd64 4-cores Ubuntu 14.04 (too much tweaking to run "armbian" properly) see doc here also I have been using "Create a Docker group" and don't forget to run "Hello World" test 2/ To create a new container with Ubuntu 14.04 (if you have added docker group to your non-privileged user, if not use "sudo") $ docker run --privileged -i -t ubuntu:14.04 /bin/bash "privileged" is needed for /dev/loop operations, if not the container cannot see the loop d…

I already saw similar posts on this here, here and here. It looks like the combination of Kernel and Kernel-Header 5.89.190617 again is not complete to build own modules. Based on the configure script: Then I tried to check the headers: Since it was already a few times on the forum and sometime there was a new build created and it was fixed again, I would like to know if I just came over the same error again or if I did something wrong. cheers, Daniel

The network connection is confirmed to be normal. I can successfully download the kernel source using git clone, with a download speed of around 3–5 MB/s. However, during the Armbian build process, the kernel source fetching stage always fails. I have tried both full git mode and shallow clone mode, but neither can complete successfully. Is there any recommended solution for this issue? Is it possible to configure Armbian to reuse an existing local kernel source tree or adjust the kernel git download process? Thanks.

Hi, can you add CONFIG_USBIP_CORE=m CONFIG_USBIP_VHCI_HCD=m CONFIG_USBIP_HOST=m CONFIG_USBIP_DEBUG=n to kernel config? 3.4.112-sun8i These modules are needed for usbip. Thanks

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

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

Lets say I wish to creat three kernels with different timer settings like 100Hz/250Hz/1000Hz. The name of the generated SDcatd image is always the same which is not helpful. When I want to use them later as well for a multiboot scenario, so swtchable kernels, I need as well different names, so it is not only to rename the image files. USing Menuconfig, I could normally put a localization extension to it...when I do this, the image creation process fails as the system looking into wrong folder names. So, is there an alrernative path ? Or is this a bug ?

Hi Pulled latest git repo and build mainline image (Ubuntu/Debian both) 4.9.2-sun8i kernel. Eth0 now stuck at 100mb/s and half duplex. I have tried using ethertool to make it full duplex. Not working. The previous image which I used and suggested was Armbian_5.24.170109_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_xenial_4.9.0 This image works with full duplex. Is this a bug or there is more configs needed when I building my own images? From ethtool output, looks like problem with auto negotiation. pi@orangepizero:~$ sudo ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Ha…

Hello, I'm new to Armbian which i just installed on a Rock64 board (Armbian_5.65_Rock64_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.4.162.7z). I have to say that my first impressions are that Armbian is a nice Os and that this is the one that causes me the less troubles on the Rock64 to install and to start. My goal is the write/port an application in C++ preferably by using Qt. Here, it is the problem. I tried to install it using command: sudo apt-get install qtcreator sudo apt-get install qt4-designer "Qt 4 Designer" seems installed correctly and seems working properly. Qt Creator was not installed completely, the IDE is installed but there i…

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

Hello, I am looking the way how to create a new board after cloned https://github.com/armbian/build in my local. I am woking on a A20 (allwinner) project. The Idea is copy the current configuration of eg. cubieboard2 and modify it in order to fit my requirements. I already read the Armbian documentation and I spent 1 day searching in the forum for that receipt. Customize things are pretty easy but no info about how to create a new board. Basically I looking for: 1) How and where to clone an existing A20 board configuration locally (in my PC). 2) How to enable locally (in my PC) that new board in the Armbian develop…

Good day Please, tell me, how I can add RTS pin (flow control) to Uart in Orange Pi One ? It need me for control Uart-RS485 converter

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

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

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

Kernel 5.3.y has just been labelled as EOL which was anyway expected to happen soon and most of our "current" kernels are already at 5.4.y ... Is sunxi/sunx64 ready for this upgrade? Don't care about 5.5.y at this moment which means DEV branch can remain as is or if someone out of the regulars take it further.

How to build the armbian img for Mediatek Dimensity device, provided that I have a Dimensity 1000 Android 12 phone?

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!

Current situation with WIP/EOS boards: ➜ armbian % find lib/config/boards -name '*.wip' -o -name '*.eos' | xargs grep BETA_TARGET | grep -v '\"\"' lib/config/boards/orangepiprime.wip:CLI_BETA_TARGET="xenial:dev" lib/config/boards/orangepiprime.wip:DESKTOP_BETA_TARGET="xenial:dev" lib/config/boards/orangepipc2.wip:CLI_BETA_TARGET="xenial:dev" lib/config/boards/orangepipc2.wip:DESKTOP_BETA_TARGET="xenial:dev" lib/config/boards/lamobo-r1.eos:CLI_BETA_TARGET="xenial:next" lib/config/boards/nanopineo2.wip:CLI_BETA_TARGET="xenial:dev" lib/config/boards/orangepizeroplus2-h5.wip:CLI_BETA_TARGET="xenial:dev" lib/config/boards/orangepiwin.wip:CLI_BETA_TARGET="xenial:dev" lib/…

I use the officiel git build tool ... Easy options or upgrade possible to build with the kernel mainline 4.9 and not 4.17 for the orange pi zero ! txh you !

Sorry for this novice question, I am sure I am missing this in the documentation somewhere... When creating Armbian images using the included build system, I notice that the kernel is downloaded each time I run a build. This of course takes a decent amount of time to pull via git. Is there a way to simply point the build system to a local cached folder that already contains kernel sources already downloaded? That would speed up my iterations significantly. Thanks!

Hi, can you add CONFIG_USBIP_CORE=m CONFIG_USBIP_VHCI_HCD=m CONFIG_USBIP_HOST=m CONFIG_USBIP_DEBUG=n to kernel config? These modules are needed for usbip. Thanks

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…

Hello, Im trying to compile armbian without internet connection in local. For first time, I connected to internet and compiled a minimal image for Orange pi 5 plus successfully. cache folder is 14 GB now. When I cut off internet connection and start ./compile.sh, compile process stucks. See log below. [🌱] artifact [ firmware :: firmware() ] [🌱] Using cached [ GIT_INFO_ARMBIAN_FIRMWARE ] [🌱] Reversioning package [ re-version 'armbian-firmware(deb)::1-SAfc30-B6c7f-R448a' to '25.5.1' ] [🌱] artifact [ armbian-base-files :: armbian-base-files() ] curl: (7) Couldn't connect to server [🚸] Could not find package filename for 'base-files' in distro repo [ loo…

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…

Does anyone knows if there will be Armbian support for the NTC C.H.I.P. I would really love to run Armbina om my NTC C.H.I.P. aka "The World's First Nine Dollar Computer" No SD card on this one but you have to flash it. See: http://getchip.com/pages/chip

I tried the latest image for my Orange Pi one, but that one doesn't boot. So I tried to build an image with the compile script, but that crashes with the following message: ^ │ LD drivers/gpio/built-in.o │ │ LD drivers/sound/built-in.o │ │ LD drivers/spmi/built-in.o │ │ LD drivers/thermal/built-in.o │ │ LD …

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…

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

From Armbian documentation (https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Allwinner_overlays/) Most in-circuit and GPIO based interfaces (SPI, I2C, I2S, …) don’t have a mechanism for detecting and identifying devices connected to the bus, so Linux kernel has to be told explicitly about the device and its configuration details. While Device Tree is a way of describing hardware configuration to the kernel, Device Tree overlays are a way for modifying the DT in order to provide the kernel and kernel drivers with details about external devices or to activate interfaces disabled by default. What do we want? We want to add Device Tree overl…

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

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

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

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 downloaded image for Orange Pi PC plus - Jessie desktop today and run upgrade ... It is not critical error but I report it. Setting up dmsetup (2:1.02.90-2.2+deb8u1) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.120+deb8u1) ... /boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun8i does not exist. Cannot update. .. .. Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.120+deb8u2) ... /boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun8i does not exist. Cannot update.

Hi I had 2days of effort on make my lcd working here: https://github.com/notro/fbtft/issues/428, but no results till now! I like to know if I change my OS and download and install armbian, will my problem solved easily or it doesn't make any sense and I should keep trying on my Debian OS? Very thank you in advanced!

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 …

Shall we go back with sunxi and cubox NEXT to 4.9.x and push update out since: https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/4254-cryptdisks-fail-with-new-kernel-41012/#comment-31614 https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/4498-no-network-after-upgrade-to-530/&page=4#comment-33710 Any other critical thing?

I've been upgrading to the latest nightly mainline kernel every couple of weeks or so and had a problem today whilst updating linux-xenial-root-next-cubox-i dpkg output throws an error : root@JPCuboxi4:/boot# apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: linux-xenial-root-next-cubox-i 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/332 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 177…

Hi All, I am not new to kernel building. I have been building kernels since the early days of Gentoo. Kernels on boards however, is something a bit different. I have an roc-rk3328-cc but this would be applicable to a variety of boards. Right now Firefly has their 4.* kernel at 4.4.114. I guess at some point that was what they went with. The current kernel is at about 4.15.14. I couldn't figure out how to patch from 4.4.114 to 4.15.14 (if you could provide help with that, please do so) so I downloaded the tarball and extracted it into the firefly's git directory. What should have happened was any kernel related file got u…

I wish you all good health. Using the "Armbian" build system, I noticed two bad points: 1 - incomplete cleaning of the source code before starting a new compilation, seen when patches add new files to the tree. 2 - Debian kernel source package includes the git directory. 1) All I do I'm fixing the version kernel (KERNELBRANCH="tag:v4.14.40") and collect several variants for one Board, changing the patchset for each version, adding or removing some. Before each new compilation I'm doing a test of the purity of the source. clean_repo() { display_alert "clean_repo $PWD" #git status -s git reset --hard HEAD # First, return the modified f…

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

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

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

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

Dear Armbian ARM64 6.6.x kernel people: Orange Pi 5 delivers incorrect larger SCTP chunks to SCTP. from lower IP stack in kernel. This can be seen from the computed CRC-32 checksum below. The packet length is right. This CRC-32 checksum process works correctly on OpenSuSE x86_64 Tumbleweed with kernel 6.5.4-1. It also works correctly on Armbian ARM64 5.10.110. Hence we believe the IP code is faulty in the 6.6.x kernel "stable rolling release" from Armbian. This SCTP driver is used in Telecom by companies like Nokia and Ericsson instead of Linux kernel SCTP and we would like to get it working on the OrangePi 5. Shorter packets like the SCT…

Was in dire need of Armbian on my new toy, the HBP with a iMX8Q CPU ;-) The board features dual WWAN (PCIe + M.2) sockets for highspeed 3G/4G/5G modems with a SIM socket. The Debian build from SolidRun did not have any modem drivers enabled in the kernel so there was headache. Wipped up this WIP configuration and it builds and runs with: ``` $ ./compile.sh BOARD=hummingboardpulse-imx8q BRANCH=legacy RELEASE=buster BUILD_MINIMAL=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no ``` NOTE: It uses the HDMI and LPDDR4 binary blobs from NXP. You will get a prompt during build to accept the license. The board is default configured to boot from SD using …

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, 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, I am working on a board that is essentially the AW-A20-SOM with some peripherals on a backplane in which the AW-A20-SOM plugs into. I built armbian from source in the recommended VM configuration using the existing aw-som-a20.csc config. It boots and runs a special build that is installed in eMMC but I want to create an armbian build for it. First I want to boot it from SD card so I had just to change the following Spoiler diff --git a/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/add-awsom-defconfig.patch b/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/add-awsom-defconfig.patch index ee708eb..98bb457 100644 --- a/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/add-awsom-defconfig.patch +++ …

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…

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

# 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…

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

From linux kernel 4.x, using patch to upgrade without reboot. This is source: https://github.com/dynup/kpatch Who had use it in arm, or have a tutorial?

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!

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

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

When I used the Debian image, it looks like the wireless-regdb's were not in the correct location. Using this guide I was able to get CRDA to work. wireless-regdb: Missing support for kernel direct loading Did I miss something in the initial setup?

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…

We are starting a HW design for a board that will probably be using RK3328. We want this board to be running Armbian. We need to select BT and Wifi chips. Would like to use chips that are already supported by Armbian. Is there a list of Bluetooth and Wifi chips that Armbian supports? Any recommendations?

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

I've made my first build for OPiPC+ with 5.3.0-rc3 ... Things are not looking very good : Wifi 8189fs is crashing, but eth0 is working. I will investigate more ...

HI! Im using lamobo r1. How to build custom rootfs in armbian? Or If the related documents, plz leave a link.