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Hi there, I have this device left over from a previous project, and now I want to repurpose it for a forked version of PiKVM that is meant for alternate SBC such as the OrangePi. I spent the last 2 days adjusting various build settings and compiling. After installing, the kvmd service would complain about the UDC driver missing. Also executing ls /sys/class/udc/ would return nothing, seemingly indicating that OTG is not possible. Just last night I came across the file "sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dts" in which there is a comment containing the following: /* * This board doesn't have a controllable VBUS even though it * does hav…

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

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

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

Hi! In doc page": https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Process/#downloading-sources in "Directory structure" is listed folder "source". But when i cloning repo and build kernel there is no such directory "source". how to add this folder with kernel source ? Best Regards

Hi guys, I'm running out of ideas... Following situation, I use since years Armbian Bullseye on the HC2 with a 3,5" HDD, with OMV and Syncthing. Now I replaced the HDD with a SDD, copied and work without issues with the old HC2 board. I have as well a HC1 board here, so ideal solution is, change SD and SSD to the HC1 and my expectation is, should work. For sure the MAC would change, but seems the network connection isn't working at all. At least my expectation is, there should be a new address received via DHCP (setting is DHCP). Did I miss some important Armbian specific settings? Maybe there is something set in first run? Both board run seamless with a new f…

Hello, I wanted to know if there was a mean, a special technique to test the latest version of armbian on x86_64 architechture. I tried with qemu but I get error messages apparently due to the size of the sectors.

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

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…

The "Edit Device" wordpress template ("https://www.armbian.com/wp-admin/...") has some input fields that I would like to understand. I am trying to complete it for the MKS-Klipad50 (https://www.armbian.com/mks-klipad50). (It's a CSC board, not standard support - if that matters.) Following fields are unclear to me: "Compatible" What is the meaning and expected syntax? Is that something like devices using the same kernel, but different setup/devicetree files? "Expose kernels" / "How many kernels to expose?" Is this related to the "Kernels" table (see below), like how many rows to use? …

I know, I know.... I am trying to do the following: apt-get autoremove --purge network-manager rdnssd ifdown eth0 ifdown wlan0 remove all settings in /etc/network/interfaces, except for the lo interface. Configure systemd-networkd rm /etc/resolv.conf ln -s /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf vim /etc/systemd/network/wired.network [Match] Name=eth0 [Network] DHCP=both [DHCP] RouteMetric=10 vim /etc/systemd/network/wireless.network [Match] Name=wlan0 [Network] DHCP=both [DHCP] RouteMetric=20 Enable the services systemctl enable systemd-resolved.service systemctl enable s…

I'm trying to learn a little more about uboot and device tree, I already managed to create my own boot.scr, but I'm not having any success with device tree overlay, especially when typing the command. fdt apply ${load_addr} before I can type all these commands successfully setenv kernel "zImage" setenv ramdisk "uInitrd" setenv fdtfile "sun8i-h3-nanopi-neo-core.dtb" setenv load_addr "0x44000000" setenv rootdev "/dev/mmcblk0p1" setenv verbosity "1" setenv console "both" setenv disp_mem_reserves "off" setenv rootfstype "ext4" setenv consoleargs "console=ttyS0,115200" setenv uuid "UUID=7ac33e6e-fa92-4fd2-bb7c-bde01b119803" setenv rootfstype "ext4" part uuid…

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, I am testing vendor kernel + Ubuntu 24.04 on my board and found an issue with the Bluetooth desktop application. The Bluetooth adapter itself works normally. After enabling Bluetooth from the desktop UI, hciconfig -a shows the Bluetooth device correctly. However, when I click the Bluetooth device in the Blueman interface to open the device window, the Blueman window becomes stuck and stops responding. The strange thing is that if I restart Blueman manually using: killall blueman-manager export DISPLAY=:0 blueman-manager the Bluetooth manager window opens normally, and device scannin…

I have have armbian V25.2.3 installed on a radxa Zero 2w linux kernel 6.12.17-current-meson64. The radxa uses i2c to talk to a PCA9685 which in turn drives three servos in a robot. The issue is that the PCA9685 has two i2c busses, 0 and 1. But the radxa zero has only two i2c busses that can be enabled using armbian-config and they are i2c-3 and - ic2-5. It seems I need to install a new overlay to describe the i2c busses in the device tree. But how do I do that?

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 …

$ 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…

Hello, I see that on both buster and bullseye for orange pi pc2, the usbtmc module is not enabled. This is a heavily used module with embedded systems and can't see any reason for disabling it. thanks

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?

When I build for Olimex-A10 with the sunxi I2S drivers enabled, build fails. Without this driver, its building/ working fine without issues. I am compiling with 3.4.x and with Jessie. I tried compiling it even as a module but with same result. the lines just before the failure are pasted below: " In file included from drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c:5:0: x x drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c: In function âwriteimage.constprop.37â: …

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…

I've done an PinebookPro build with rockchip64-dev 5.8.y, it worked, I'm planning to do a rockchip64-dev garden tour, and if nothing special, commit those change for 5.8.y ...

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

I posted a git issue for the Banana Pi image that the mainline kernel wasn't working with OpenMediaVault (at the time I think it was 3.19.3 or .4). It is now working with mainline 3.19.7 so all is resolved. Will release an openmediavault image when I find the time

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.

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 tried to compile an armbian package for my Olimex A20 Micro board. (A20 Micro, legacy kernel 3.4.x, Debian Jessie) Because the use of Ubuntu is recommended for armbian development I installed Xubuntu 14.04 on a netbook. (Usually I use Debian for development). I prepared the toolchain and downloaded the armbian git repository. After start of compile.sh it lasts several hours (the netbook is *quiet* slow) and then the build was completed sucessfully. (I only saw an error message compiling the fbxxx display driver.) Next boot of the netbook the Xubuntu graphical login appears and after input of the credentials nothing happens. No desktop. Quiet stra…

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 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 know it is in development. and only for testing. I have build armbian 5.51 ubuntu 18.04, kernel 4.14 . I have question. max cpu H3 speed is set up on 1100 mhz. All orange pi boards with the same cpu have 1296 mhz. I set up cpu governor on performance all the time 1100mhz. I achieved temperatures on cpu between 53-62 celsius degrees. Could be the max cpu speed bring up to the 1296 MHZ? I have radiator 3.5 cm x 3.5 cm on board tritium H3. And it is not very hot. thanks for reply.

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…

Hello, I have had a look to the new Development Image (Armbian_5.76.190228_Tinkerboard_Debian_stretch_dev_5.0.0-rc8_desktop.7z) My SixFfab Hat which was working like a charm on 4.19-20 kernel. Any changes to add supoort for this Hardware again? Do you need any additional information? Many Thanks Roman

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^[…

Perhaps I badly searched, but except for the file makeboarddeb.sh not find the option how you can make changes to the initrd. Perhaps there is some primitive or correct functionality that may make changes in the collected initrd, which gets in the finished image. I need to add some utilities and modify init in the initrd. Возможно Ñ Ð¿Ð»Ð¾Ñ…Ð¾ иÑкал, но кроме файла makeboarddeb.sh не нахожу варианта, как можно внеÑти Ñвои Ð¸Ð·Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð² initrd. Возможно еÑÑ‚ÑŒ како-либо правильный функционал, который может вноÑить Ð¸Ð·Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð² Ñобира…

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?

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

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

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

➜ ~ 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…

I think I'm finally managing to understand this Armbian build system. It's an amazing piece of work! However, after the build, many source files end up owned by the root user. There's just a lot of activity going on "as root" that probably doesn't need to be run with that privilege. Disaster seems just one build script error away. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a simple way to avoid this (without resorting to virtualization of the build environment). Has this not bothered anyone else?

Hi all, I am new to kernel development, and I found an old ASUS tinkerboard. I want to give it a second life with some fun projects. The project I am building is another IP KVM, so I bought an HDMI to CSI module. After tinkering around for a while, I found I supplied the wrong clock for that module: [ 8.469299] tc358743 2-000f: unsupported refclk rate: 50000000 Hz [ 8.483069] kernel BUG at drivers/media/i2c/tc358743.c:593! I have no idea about the clock value to put in the dts file, so I just copied some values from the ASUS kernel source. From the driver code drivers/media/i2c/tc358743.c, it shows that there are only…

Hi, Igor, it is a wonderful thing you got going on here I would to add applications to the image by either installing them as anyone would (apt-get install ...) or by compiling source code for the desired applications. What would be the approach to do so? I tried reading the messages on the forum and the documentation but could not find a way to do so. Example: Mono (can either be added with apt-get or compiled. Cheers, Robson

I can compile the kernel 4.14 for H3 , modify the device tree and then put this to my bananapi M2 ultra with R40 Core and can enable the HDMI connector success. I get an image on the screen on my monitor. But now I can enable the LCD (RGB pinouts port H) to get image on my display 7" but I do not know how to do on the device tree file to enable a PANEL or something more . Someone have a device tree file that have enable the LCD (RGB ouput) to take an example to know how to do that because on the web almost all the people usually use the hdmi connector. Thanks at all ... PD: I get success on R40 to modify the SPI, smartcard, ethernet drivers a…

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

Hi, Yesterday, I reinstalled my NanopiM1 and I noticed the download link for H3 devices uses many different versions : orangepipcplus : 5.14 orangepiplus2e : 5.14 orangepilite : 5.13 nanopim1 : 5.10 bananapim2plus : 5.13 orangepi2h3 : 5.10 orangepioneh3 : 5.13 orangepipch3 : 5.14 orangepiplush3 : 5.14 tkaiser explained me why there were both 5.13 and 5.14 (see here) so no problem here. But the 5.10 are quite old and for the Nanopi M1, the dvfs_table included is buggy. I do remember reading of a difficulty to detect the difference between Orange Pi PC and NanoPi M1 but I don't know if that may be the reason. Anyway, I can also add an issue if Github should be p…

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

Hello, Although Armbian is not the only one, most of the orange PI PC linuxes are not include XFS support so I had to go through a time consuming process to recompile the kernel by a guide which only works on Ubuntu 14.x (doh!): http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/Building.html Here is the kernel I made for the OrangePI boards, for those who miss the same thing: http://www.filedropper.com/orangepihwpacktar

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

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

Hi! I made a custom kernel with Buildroot. This give me a file called sdcard.img and other files. I want only the kernel to replace the existent kernel of my armbian distribution on my orange pi zero. What files I need? How I copy and replace the existent kernel? Very Thanks!

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

My recent RK3588 kernel adventure: - dual-core H.265 (HEVC) encoding working live at full 4K@60 on armbian-build edge kernel (6.19-rc8) for Rock 5B[+] and Orange Pi 5 Ultra. - fix for setting HDMIRX EDID (this didn't work in mainline on any of my tested hardware) This is out-of-tree (practical focus over upstream goals), but it's stable and producing clean bitstreams. Repo: https://github.com/rcawston/rockchip-rk3588-mainline-patches Feedback welcome.

for compiling Next LTS 4.19.y images I did try to update my build-system, but I do get errors on 2 packages which I cant resolve Does anyone had this problem and could tell me how to solve this? Or would it be more easy to reinstall the build-system? The following packages will be upgraded: libc6-armhf-cross libc6-dev-armhf-cross 2 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade. Need to get 2,904 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 libc6-dev-armhf-cross all 2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1 [1,899 kB] Get:2 http://de…

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

Is it my fault or the thermal trip points and cooling steps disappeared in Linux 5.1 on (at least) RK3288 devices? The "C/St." field from armbianmonitor -m disappeared: root@xt:/home/paolo# uname -a Linux xt 5.1.7-rockchip #5.88 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 8 13:06:26 UTC 2019 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux root@xt:/home/paolo# armbianmonitor -m Stop monitoring using [ctrl]-[c] Time CPU load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq CPU 12:03:51: 1608MHz 0.58 7% 1% 5% 0% 0% 0% 58.6°C 12:03:56: 696MHz 0.54 4% 1% 3% 0% 0% 0% 58.6°C 12:04:01: 696MHz 0.49 4% 1% 3% 0% 0% 0% 56.8°C and if I launch a stress test the SoC happi…

I want to add a private package with C source code in custom image. Extensions maybe are one approach— are there any other more standard practices?

Hello Igor, Good day. I have two questions regarding cubietruck(A20) kernel 4.9.7 source. 1. Where can I get kernel source 4.9.7 you use ? 2. Where can I get cubietruck(A20) patches for this kernel source you use ? I need this sources to clear some moments in a way of 2nd CPU start. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Andrey

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

The Rock-s0 has the same rk3308b processor and the build uses a BL31binary, with u-boot. The SV06Ace has the same cpu and BL31/u-boot. I reviewed this thread and was trying to follow the example commit provided. It is a little difficult to work through a commit as not all of the paths to the files are present in my depth=1 git clone. Is it possible to download the commit for the Rock-s0 and use it to patch the build directory? If I could run the patch, then I would have some actual files to copy and edit. The maintainer of the Rock-s0, linked on the Armbian Info page for the s0 has not made any recent commits. The last Rock-s0 commit was where it was …

Building a dev-kernel currently seems to fail to produce something like "linux-dtb-dev-sunxi_5.41_armhf.deb" in /build/output/debs/ Any idea why?

Hi all. In response to aarch64 because the images have been distributed to the official NanoPC-T3 and NanoPC-M3 arm7l and Armbian you want to distribute. From the official not working so actively hard? http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPC-T3 https://github.com/friendlyarm/ Thanks.

It isn't documented anywhere, where to put the public key file for dropbear before compiling the image with the enabled cryptroot parameter. Does anybody know where the key should be placed and in which format?

I would like to use a CI service to build Armbian images, ideally BitBucket pipelines since that is where most of my projects are. Has anyone had any success doing something similar? I thought it would be easy since docker based builds are supported, but it seems the supported technique is to run a command on the host that starts a separate docker container. Most CI build now are already running in a container and while I think running docker inside docker is possible, I have not been able to get that to work well in the past.

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

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

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

Hello, I'm looking for armbian 23.8.1 repository on github for building my own image. On github site there is on only the latest and after the 23.08 is more recent one. So where can i download the branche 23.8.1 ?

I recently installed Armbian Jammy on my Hardkernel Odroid-HC1. By monitoring the storage usage through SNMP, I quickly realised that something was filling up the /var/log mountpoint at an alarming rate (40 % usage after three weeks). At a closer inspection, it turned out to be the sysstat logs. Even though sysstat was set (out of the box) to only keep 7 days of history, I could see files that were several weeks old. Having looked into the way that logs are synced to disc (or to the SD card rather), then rotated and synced back every night, it seems that the armbian-ramlog script is rather broken. It will move all of the sysstat logs, then expect the logrotati…

Hi, after update to stable v23.11 branch i cannot build anymore under WSL2 i get the following error when the process starts to create the image: "Error: Partition(s) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 on /dev/loop0 have been written, but we have been unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use. As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in use. You should reboot now before making further changes." …

root@nanopi-r4s:~# armbianmonitor -u System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x80 Please post the URL in the forum where you've been asked for. Well whatever: https://paste.debian.net/1181283/ I disabled all patches in misc that related to bootsplash because I didn't bother sorting out which patch especially was causing building to fail. code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } general-rkvdec_nv15.patch needed to be disabled in order to compile successful. Other patches that fail did not d…

Hello I'm trying to netboot a Rock 5C lite SBC via U-boot and a TFTP + NFS server. U-boot is working fine and is able to fetch the armbian.Image and fdt file (rk3588s-rock-5c.dtb) I provide through pxelinux.cfg/{device_mac_addr} file: LABEL Armbian MENU LABEL Armbian KERNEL /srv/tftp/armbian.Image FDT /srv/tftp/rk3588s-rock-5c.dtb APPEND root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.46:/srv/nfs/armbian,vers=3 rw ip=dhcp rootwait (To be complete I have U-boot installed on a SPI flash module configured to fetch the files with pxe commands: pxe get; pxe boot). To create the armbian.Image (kernel) I used the build repository and edited the kernel confi…

The latest build fails if this driver is selected to be build with the kernel. Realtek 8192E USB WiFi (RTL8192EU) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) y --> fails / m --> succeeds If 'm' or module is selected then the build succeeds. -R

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

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

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

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

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

I'm familiar with the armbian-config tool and while I think its cool, it may not be the best thing for the beginner. The hardest part of beginning anything is not knowing what you don't know. I've begun writing a simple tool using curses and python which hopefully disambiguates some of the features of each board. I'm currently focusing on H3 boards, since thats what I have and I'm most familiar with them. Currently I have the ascii art and setup for the Orangepi PC, One, Zero, and Nanopi Neo. The idea is to use the arrow keys to navigate, spacebar to select, 'b' for back, and (most importantly) 'h' for help. The help menu should have enough information to ge…

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

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

Hi, No matter I am using master or development branches, both were failed to build uboot/kernel by bl31 target. Spoiler $ ./compile.sh [ o.k. ] Using config file [ config-default.conf ] [ warn ] This script requires root privileges, trying to use sudo [ o.k. ] Using config file [ config-default.conf ] [ o.k. ] This script will try to update Already up-to-date. Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin. Switched to a new branch 'master' [ o.k. ] Command line: setting LIB_TAG to [ development ] [ o.k. ] Preparing [ host ] [ o.k. ] Build host OS release [ xenial ] [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] ... [ o.k. ] Downloading sources […

For anyone who wants a minimal "network-install" like image for orangepizero. Does this with the customize-image.sh and armbian build scripts. Could be cleaner but would be much easier to just hack the build scripts. I've tested with jessie and stretch, and with branches default, next, and dev. The image should boot up, get eth0 dhcp address, and have serial console on ttyS0. Script option to remove systemd and use sysvinit. Might be modded to work with other boards? Set the following options and use the customize-image.sh. If script breaks due to upstream changes, use last tested commit: git checkout -f a66121 # required options f…

HI @Igor: I need to download and compile this image (with the 4.11.7 kernel) https://dl.armbian.com/orangepizero/archive/Armbian_5.32_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.11.7.7z How I can get from github the source code of this version? Very thanks

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

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

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…

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

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 ?

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…

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/…

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…

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

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

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, 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…

# 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…

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