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I'm looking for Orange Pi RV2 RISC-V support. This board is gaining popularity due to the Orange Pi manufacturer's good reputation with Arm. I have successfully built both Orange Pi and Raspberry Pi aarch64 builds on Debian from source so I'd like to know how to build Armbian for Orange Pi RV2 riscv64. What would I need to modify in the build process? Thanks!!

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

When trying to build my own image for Orange PI Win using Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 x64 on VirtualBox i am getting a bunch of messages like below CC spl/drivers/block/blk_legacy.o In file previous definition from include/configs/sunxi-common.h:22,UNXI_TVE0_BASE 0x01c0a000 from include/configs/sun50i.h:28, from include/config.h:5, from include/common.h:21, from drivers/block/blk_legacy.c:8: …

A great 9.30 min review here, pointing out the issues: Cooling, GPIO expansion, no MIPI, lack of SPI support in Armbian? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MzxLYGWQddA Apparently the much discussed Armbian cooling/Vreg techniques were not known to the author. Other stuff is interesting, with comparison to RPi.

Mainline dev image as here: https://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/3574-orangepi-2-wifi-driver-issue-in-mainline-dev-410/ When I try to run armbianmonitor: rufik@opi2:~$ sudo armbianmonitor -m Stop monitoring using [ctrl]-[c] Time CPU load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq CPU/usr/bin/armbianmonitor: line 271: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq: No such file or directory 12:57:09: MHz 0.02 1% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 38.5°C^C So it looks like cpufreq not working. Dmesg says: rufik@opi2:~$ dmesg -T | grep -i cpu [Wed Feb 15 21:40:37 2017] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc075] revision 5 (ARMv7), cr=50c5387d [Wed Feb 15 21:40:37 2017]…

I've build an dev image for my OrangePi 2 (kernel 4.10) to try mainline kernel and got into troubles with onboard wifi. It works fine in legacy with 8189es module, but there is no 8189es module in mainline image. So I tried 8189fs but it's not working. After doing some search I've managed to build 8189es module myself using https://github.com/jwrdegoede/rtl8189ES_linux.gitrepository. Quick manual: git clone https://github.com/jwrdegoede/rtl8189ES_linux.git cd rtl8189ES_linux/ make ARCH=arm KSRC=/usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r) CROSS_COMPILE= sudo mkdir /lib/modules/4.10.0-sun8i/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8189es/ sudo cp 8189es.ko /lib/modules/4.10.0-s…

Hi there, Recently I flashed the latest armbian on a sd card and booted OrangePi 4. Everything works smoothly except for the audio. I just see HDMI {recording,playing} devices. But OrangePi 4 has an audio jack onboard and a built-in microphone. Here are more details: root@orangepi4:~# arecord -l **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: hdmisound [hdmi-sound], device 0: ff8a0000.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0 [ff8a0000.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 root@orangepi4:~# aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: hdmisound [hdmi-sound], device 0: ff8a0000.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0 [ff8a0000…

Hi, I attempted to build armbian for orange pi 5 with these steps (I'm on macos): multipass delete armbian-build multipass purge multipass launch -n armbian-build --disk 50G --mem 8G --cpus 4 multipass shell armbian-build sudo apt install curl build-essential bc bison flex libssl-dev chrpath cmake cpio wget xz-utils curl -LO https://github.com/armbian/build/archive/refs/tags/v25.5.0-trunk.67.tar.gz curl -LO https://github.com/armbian/build/archive/refs/tags/v25.5.0-trunk.32.tar.gz tar -xzvf v25.5.0-trunk.67.tar.gz cd build-25.5.0-trunk.67 ./compile.sh (select edge version for orange pi 5 in the cli) CTRL+D multipass transfer armbian-build:/home/ubuntu/build…

I have build armbians img for orangepi pc2 and prime. No 5.41 debian stretch both + XFCE4. I compressed it to tar.gz. Linux -*.deb and armbian-*.deb. How can I upload it to your server?

What's the FDT_NO_SPACE error? U-Boot SPL 2017.05-armbian (May 19 2017 - 04:11:50) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2017.05-armbian (May 19 2017 - 04:11:50 +0200) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Zero DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface0 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 38518 bytes read in 162 ms (231.4 KiB/s) Unknown command 'bmp' - try 'help' switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 3559 bytes re…

Some of you probably saw that I added recently the OrangePi-Prime to the build process. Unfortunately, I'm still struggling to get the WiFi. It is even worst than the WiFi issue still present on OrangePiWin. For the OrangePi-Prime, even the DT doesn't process the WiFi entries, and the mmc1 is still "disabled" in /proc/device-tree at boot time. The strange thing is that if I load a small overlay to change the mmc1 status to "okay", the kernel start processing it. But, unfortunately, I'm seeing "sunxi-mmc 1c10000.mmc: no support for card's volts" error, although I didn't found obvious errors in vqmmc-supply setting of mmc1. I will have to dig f…

I've added new patches for OrangePi-ZeroPlus and commited them. Like for OPiPrime done yesterday, the OrangePi-ZeroPlus WiFi still not working. I don't know why yet, although is more encouraging than OPiPrime, since at least the driver comes up in "lsmod" in the OrangePi-ZeroPlus, while for the Prime it didn't. Also another issue : OrangePi-ZeroPlus has an eMMC, I was able to do "nand-install-sata", but I'm unable to boot from it, although the MMC2 DT is part of U-Boot, for some reasons, it doesn't scan it.

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…

Hi Guys, I have recently been contracted to a new project where I have moved out of my comfort zone (embedded 8-bit/32-bit uC) and have started my work on a H3 based device (currently NanoPi Neo) with Armbian. Over the course of my work I have managed to get up to speed with the basics; configuration, scripting, hardware and interfaces and device trees to a point where I can now work on the device as a proof of concept. The work that has been contributed so-far to the armbian project is impressive as is the active and knowledgeable forum - to which I hope I can contribute. One element which I cannot find an easy solution to is one of remo…

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

Hi, I am using mainline 4.10.0-sun8i and to enable I2C I added: overlays=sun8i-h3-i2c0 to armbianEnv.txt and rebooted, then I checked: cat /proc/device-tree/soc/i2c\@01c2b400/status and still found that it was disabled, I feel that I may be missing a step, like having to compile armbianEnv.txt into the config script, is that so? Just to make sure it wasn't working, i changes the pins to I2C using: sunxi-pio -m PA11'<2>' sunxi-pio -m PA12'<2>' BTW. sunxi-pio has very few code comments, did not specify the field order and finding which bits to flip in the H3 data sheet was annoying, did you want me to fix and submit a pull …

Hello, the new kernel versioning scheme consists of the latest git tag and several hashes: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/lib/functions/artifacts/artifact-kernel.sh With boards like odroid-xu4 for which the upstream git is only updated occasionally, this leads to two problems: 1. the generated version is lower than what is currenty getting shipped: `5.4.228-S3043-De511-P0a53-C0750H6842-Bb436` vs `23.02.2` 2. it cannot be guaranteed that the versions go up reliably: 5.4.232 is `5.4.228-S3043-De511-Pc02c-C0750H6842-Bec1c` and 5.4.233 is `5.4.228-S3043-De511-P0a53-C0750H6842-Bb436` While I can understand using the kernel versi…

I found what a likely duplicate out-of-tree driver after investigating a warning from the kernel build: CC [M] drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple-dsi.o drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple-dsi.c: In function 'panel_simple_get_modes': drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple-dsi.c:310:73: warning: passing argument 3 of 'of_get_drm_display_mode' makes pointer from integer without a cast …

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

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

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…

But.... this is a great topic where we need to start working on a process / protocol for patches like this

Hi all, I am just wondering if there are patched kernel images for the Dirty COW exploit?

Hi every devs ! (some of you know that I was on other duties those past months, mainly constructing my new house and moving in it, but I'm now back to Armbian builds those recent days after more then 6 busy months) I've noticed yesterday that USB1-DRVVBUS/PD7 was not activated any more in my recent build, although the fix-many-orangepiwin-dts.patch should take care of that and this one is successfully applied. After digging the issue, I've found out that the sunxi64-hdmi-thermal-dma-pmw-enable.patch is reverting many of those, probably unintentionally, and since this patch is applied after the first one, things are revert silently. …

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

Hi all! When i comand pause to player (mplayer2, mpv, does not matters) it cause kernel panic if output device is spdif. It tested on kernel of 3.4 line. Old log here: Message from syslogd@Cubian at Oct 25 23:11:50 ... kernel:[ 476.282804] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM Message from syslogd@Cubian at Oct 25 23:11:50 ... kernel:[ 477.674151] Process mplayer (pid: 3651, stack limit = 0xedc522f0) Message from syslogd@Cubian at Oct 25 23:11:50 ... kernel:[ 477.689540] Stack: (0xedc53e18 to 0xedc54000) Message from syslogd@Cubian at Oct 25 23:11:50 ... kernel:[ 477.706949] 3e00: 00000000 c0b4747c Message from syslogd@Cubian at Oct 25 23:11:50 ... kern…

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

Hi !!!!!!! Anybody try the SPI protocol (python or c)? Thx all for your future anwser

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

As armbian incorporates some performance tweaks also with regards to IRQ balancing on Allwinner devices, I just wanted to note, that the irqbalance daemon now finally works on armhf in Debian Stretch. I had tried irqbalanced on arm several times over the last two years, and neither the versions shipped in Wheezy or Jessie actually worked (i.e. balanced IRQs over multiple cores). I also tried to compile a more recent version last year but couldn't get it to work. So, now after upgrading one of my BananaPis to Debian Stretch, I gave irqbalanced another shot and am happy to see that interrupts are now nicely balanced, including e.g. ethernet and USB interrupts.

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?

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

I was hoping that while moving to ASUS Tinker Board from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ I would still be able to use my Google Voice Kit AIY (v1), but it looks like Armbian right now supports v2 only? I tried installing everything needed, but all I got were loads of error/not found messages. May I hope to be able to use the kit by some workarounds or do I have to stick with the Raspberry in the meantime? I am not really willing to spend extra money for some USB solution and I would like to fix it so that I can learn something new.

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, Please have a look at the list of supported devices by a patching framework https://github.com/seemoo-lab/nexmon Mostly bcm43430a1 devices, I believe patch should also be suitable for AP6212 WiFi chip, as it's patches only or mostly mac driver ? (Not an expert here). Patches apply smoothly on RPi3. Would be really nice to have this functional on Friendly ARM NanoPi Neo Air.

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

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." …

Hi all, First place, sorry if it´s a very basic question, I was searching info and reading topics, but I did not found a solution for my problem. I`m working with Linux version 5.4.29-sunxi I´m trying to compile my own char device driver. I noticed that I forgot adding kernel-headers in my build, so I tried to add them via apt install linux-headers-next-sunxi After that, I can see a new directory /usr/src/linux-headers-4.19.62-sunxi but if I´m not wrong, modules compiled with this headers won´t work in my kernel, cause headers version does not match with my kernel version. So, could please …

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…

Hello everyone. From some time ago I´m working in an application that comunicates with some external devices, using GPIOs. With this aim, I´ve programmed my own driver with its methods, whose are automatic loaded at startup. My hardware is a BananaPi m2u, and kernel version is 5.4.35-sunxi. Now, I´ve to read an external HW that has 2 data lines, whose idle state is "high" and once per minute sends a packet of 26 bits of data. One of these lines is a Data0 signal, and the other is Data1 signal. Every pulse is around 100us, and there is an idle interval of about 2ms between one bit and the next. There is no way for data line 0 and data …

Hello, fresh installed Armbian desktop OS detects attached HDMI display as full HD with correct resolution 1920x1080. But after some restarts it loads in u-boot with correct resolution and then, on kernel startup switches to 1024x768 and also desktop opens with this resolution without an option to increase it. The armbianEnv.txt file in /boot folder contains string disp_mode=1920x1080p60 and was not changed. Please advise.

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

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…

Dear Armbian community, I'm trying to make a minimal size Armbian image ( Ubuntu 16.04 with default kernel). Build system works great, but when I'm building the system without GUI (Image wit console interface "server") a bluetooth system doesn't work. I tried to build same system with same configs, but set "Image with desktop environment". In this case bluetooth system works great. I tried to solve this problem by myself, but..... It seems like I can not fix it. So, why I'm thinking that bluetooth system doesn't work. When I'm using bluetoothctl list it is void output. hciconfig -a void output I tried to start systemctl st…

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

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?

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

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

Hi all, I´m trying to install pyCurl with command as root pip install pycurl after 10 seconds, console show me this error: (venv)root@cubox-i:~/pyCA# pip install pycurl Collecting pycurl Using cached pycurl-7.19.5.1.tar.gz Installing collected packages: pycurl Running setup.py install for pycurl Complete output from command /root/pyCA/venv/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-yYNrnD/pycurl/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-3uzAV0-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /…

Hi, I'm trying to compile an Armbian image for OdroidC2 with btrfs rootfs, I created an Ubuntu Xenial container with systemd-nspawn as building environment. The building process reports these errors: ERROR in function prepare_partitions debootstrap-ng.sh:374 err Unable to find free loop device err Process terminated info ERROR in function unmount_on_exit debootstrap-ng.sh:525 err debootstrap-ng was interrupted err Process terminated info I've done a little search and found that there are no loop device in a default container and that's impossible to create a new one with: mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0 The answer is: mknod: /dev/loop0: Operation not permitted So I …

Hi all, I'am looking at creating a single unified H3 DietPi image (currently using ARMbian build tools), rather than one for each board. Would allow us to support all H3 devices, reduce work load and simplify DietPi source code. Basically I need to know if its possible, and which unique files/configurations would need changing to achieve it. The end goal: The user would download the H3 image, modify it for their board (eg: copy and paste job on /boot), prior to powering on. Some questions: Is script.bin the only unique configuration across all H3 boards? Aside from any additional linux stuff, like hardware items (eg: + onboard BT/WiFi) Does /usr/lib/linux-u…

Hi there, let's assume I have two custom extra packages which have a dependency in extras-buildpkgs. 10-package1.conf 20-package2.conf 20-package2 has a package_builddeps to 10-package1. It is marked in the .conf file as in package2/debian/control@Build-Depends. Package 10-package1 is build properly and stored under output/deps/extra/jammy_utils. While building package 20-package2 it does install resolve 10-package1 before and in the logs I see the `Bad package name` (general.sh:1290) message. Also the adjustment of package20's rules to use apt-get during build prep does not find the package. Is there anything I h…

I’m currently using the Armbian build system to generate images for the Orange Pi 5 Plus. To use the PREEMPT_RT kernel, I set the BRANCH to current, and with the PREEMPT_RT configuration on the 6.12 kernel I was able to successfully build the image and boot it. However, in this kernel version there are no dtbo files for peripherals like can0, i2c, etc., so I’m unable to use those interfaces. If I set the BRANCH to vendor, I can use the 6.1 kernel, but in order to use a PREEMPT_RT kernel I need to apply the RT patch. The RT patch currently provided is not compatible with the current BRANCH, so kernel build and image creation fail. My question is: wh…

Hi guys I'm working to port the bpi-m2m to armbian. Right now i'm having a strange behaviour. I'm new to armbian development. I only use it for a npi-neo back in time. Anyway, my problem is quite simple. I have a working uboot and a working kernel (I think). the decive tree is in mainline. Looking the schematic, the DTS looks it is ok. I crated the armbian configuration, buit an image and it started "working" (you will se why is inside teh quote mark later) . Somehow i got a shell via UART. I configured the wireless AP and I got a working image. (Only BT was not working, no idea why). Due to the BT problem I decided to reboot the SBC and the problem I got b…

The rockchip64 kernels are missing wireless drivers for ralink chips.

Linux 6.12 mainlined PREEMPT_RT, real-time preemption. As far as I understand, one no longer needs to muck about with patches, the kernel can simply be compiled for real-time use with normal compiler flags on any common architecture. This makes Linux suitable for tasks with precise latency requirements, of which there is a lot of in the embedded space. Has anyone tried this on Armbian 25.2 now that it uses the 6.12 kernel? Does it work? How would one compile Armbian with it?

Did a clean build (deleted all cache & sources), for OPi+2E, Ubuntu development, with desktop. (up to commit 633824d) Build ok and copied on SD, yet after boot no HDMI screen came out boot [ OK ] Started Create list of required sta...ce nodes for the current kernel. [ OK ] Started Set console keymap. [FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules. See 'systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service' for details. [ OK ] Started Remount Root and Kernel File Systems. [ OK ] Started Nameserver information manager. root@orangepiplus2e:~# systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service Warning: systemd-modules-load.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl da…

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

Hello, I have a Radxa Rock 4se with an RK3399 Rockchip on board. On my host system I run virtualbox with Ubuntu 22.04. I have build succesfully an armbian configuration for the Rock 4se with an edge kernel(6.6.xx) and it runs perfectly on my board, which also has an Raspbbery Pi camera v2 with the IMX219 which also runs okay. However know I would like to make some adjustments to the imx219.c driver, I know that in the cache directory the linux kernel is available. Can I adjust the imx219.c driver in the cache/sources/linux-kernel-worktree/6.6__rockchip64__arm64 and recompile only the kernel, without that the kernel completly is…

I am not sure if it is a configuration error on my side or intended behaviour, but I am getting apticron emails about armbian-config almost daily due to releases being made by CI/CD. Is there a "release" branch I could switch to to make it stop? Or do I need to blacklist armbian-config from apticron reports? Thanks!

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

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?

Hi, I have been recently working on a couple of extensions: lvm and cloud-init I forked off "v23.11.2" tag when creating my branches, since they are extensions, and wont alter the framework much. Today I noticed that OdroidUX4 is not building, but it was building last week. A patch seems to be failing. I guess it is a kernel/driver patch. Then my question is: is it possible that, on the same tag (v23.11.2), builds break? I am starting to think that the tag is only for the build process/patch set, but excludes, for example a reference to kernel code. I suppose then the situation is that a kernel update…

In my opinion ntp should be replaced by chrony. Benefits of Chrony include: 1. Faster synchronization requiring only minutes instead of hours to minimize the time and frequency error, which is useful on desktops or systems not running 24 hours a day. 2. Better response to rapid changes in the clock frequency, which is useful for virtual machines that have unstable clocks or for power-saving technologies that don’t keep the clock frequency constant. 3. After the initial synchronization, it never steps the clock so as not to affect applications needing system time to be monotonic. 4. Better stability when dealing with temporary asymmetric delays, …

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 Igor, hello buddies, [ o.k. ] Create and sign [ Armbian_4.5_Lamobo-r1_Debian_wheezy_4.2.3.zip ] [ o.k. ] Runtime [ 43 min ] -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 306M oct. 19 01:16 Armbian_4.5_Lamobo-r1_Debian_wheezy_4.2.3.zip (VM host : amd64 Ubuntu 15.10 8 GB 4 cores)it looks I made it, well, not me, the 'Armbian team' scripts The base of the Armbian "toolchain" is a very serious work/process. 1/ I guess 8 GB of RAM is a minimum for the VM. All my other tries (4GB) ended with a failure when applying "Armbian" on top of the "distro". note : other failure reported "upstart" as a problem (or a memory issue as the VM was beginning to fill the swap), otherwise the terminal …

I am going to use your Banana Pi image for my media server image release. I would like to know how to re-enable the regenerate ssh keys and resize the SD card on first boot (I want the password to stay the same).

Was trying to follow the https://www.armbian.com/participate/ page instructions to get access to Jira, but the link just takes me to Jira and tells me that I don't have access. No option to request access on that page, just "[username] doesn't have access to Jira on armbian.atlassian.net." Does the participate page need updates? Or should I just try to work off of github issues only? Feel free to direct me to the right place if it matters, I would potentially be helping with some nanopi devices, have several r2s and r2s plus - the r2s plus needs some work i think.

Hi, Could you please add the usbtv driver ? i have an Easycap with UTV007 chip the driver are not present in kernel 3.4.110-sun8i, and are available from 3.13-rc5 I have try to compile using the standart way, and using dkms with no success. I have also try to install the backported version wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v3.18.1/backports-3.18.1-1.tar.xz tar xvfJ backports-3.18.1-1.tar.xz cd backports-3.18.1-1 make menuconfig make ARCH=arm -j4 make install rmmod videobuf2-core rmmod videobuf2-vmalloc rmmod videobuf2_memops modprobe videobuf2_memops modprobe videobuf2-core modprobe videobuf2-vmalloc modprobe usbtv r…

Hey, I compiled and installed the latest kernel (4.7.3 and uboot 2016-09) but something went wrong. The dtb file was missing. while a manually correct the missing dtb from another run a flashed uboot in the wrong way. Instead of using the drive /dev/sdc I used the partition /dev/sdc1. I read this: https://linux-sunxi.org/Bootable_SD_card#SD_Card_Layoutand with these two commands I should have erased the first 1Mb dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1k count=1023 seek=1 dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1024 seek=8 (Luckily there is no backup at all ) gpart gives me this: gpart -vg /mnt/veracrypt1/Armbian_5.14_Cubietruck_Debian_jessie_4.6.2.raw de…

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 …

I made a similar board with reference to Renegade, but modified some peripherals (remove the gmac chip, remove the infrared sensor, etc.), directly use the image of Renegade, and the debug log will show as follows: U-Boot 2021.07-armbian (Mar 04 2022 - 10:47:46 +0800) Model: Firefly roc-rk3328-cc DRAM: 1022 MiB PMIC: RK8050 (on=0x10, off=0x00) MMC: mmc@ff500000: 1, mmc@ff520000: 0 Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial@ff130000 Out: serial@ff130000 Err: serial@ff130000 Model: Firefly roc-rk3328-cc Net: eth0: ethernet@ff540000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1 is curre…

Is it possible to make an image for RK3368?Only rk3399 and rk3288 are supported officially.What can I do for that.

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.

Hello. For the past month, I have been working on fixing, updating, and rewriting the hardware crypto patch for RK3588. I've done so much work on it that I'm considering submitting it for review to be added to mainline kernel. I needed hardware cryptographic acceleration for a small project running on my Kubernetes ARM cluster. I noticed that Armbian is still using rk35xx-montjoie-crypto-v2-rk35xx.patch, so I decided to give it a try, but unfortunately the results were quite buggy. I took a closer look at rk35xx-montjoie-crypto-v2-rk35xx.patch and discovered a fairly large number of bugs and potential improvements. I then spent the past month rewriting and updating th…

nightly install from https://dl.armbian.com/rockpi-4b/nightly/Armbian_5.96.190907_Rockpi-4b_Debian_buster_dev_5.3.0-rc4_minimal.7z Boot up error Failed to start Advanced IEEE 802.11 AP and IEEE802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticator Reinstalling the package hostapd resolves this issue. sorry if this is not the correct place to post this error.

Hi, I have got Rock-3C board recently. It is not Rockpi4 C. Main difference compared to Rock-3A is missing pci-e connector form back of the board, soldered wifi module and only 5V input power. There is no system available for this board. Any ideas how to get this board working?

Hi all. I have a Rock64 board with 1GB RAM. I downloaded this image https://dl.armbian.com/rock64/Ubuntu_xenial_default_nightly.7z and I wrote it on the SD card (Samsung EVO 16GB) using both Etcher and dd command. But when I power the board, all 3 leds light up and remains on, nothing else happens. I have the same behaviour with the 0.6.0 stretch-minimal image downloaded here https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/releases The only images that works are the 0.5.10 downloaded here https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/releases/tag/0.5.10 What's wrong? I can exclude problems with power supply (I bought the one they sugges…

Since kernel 4.18, on my rk3288 tv-box USB devices have always had problems when plugged in after the box boot (ie: USB device not working at all) I found that the problem is described and solved by this patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10535905/ Applying it to latest 4.18.4 kernel the functionality is restored, and I can't see similar patches in rockchip-dev. I think it should be applied to all rockchip SoCs at least until it gets merged into mainline

Hi There. I'm working on connecting the screen to Roseapple Pi. I got patches for kernel and u-boot, added it to userpatches, but it didn't work. After I touched dts up with these patches, but unfortunately it didn't work. I use these patches. Kernel diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/actduino_bubble_gum.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/actduino_bubble_gum.dts index 65551f3..80142ad 100755 --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/actduino_bubble_gum.dts +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/actduino_bubble_gum.dts @@ -1084,15 +1084,59 @@ status = "disabled"; }; - dsi: dsi@b0220000 { - status = "disabled"; + dsi: dsi@b0220000 {…

Hi there, I have now finally managed to apply the RT Kernel patch on the Bananapi. (Original Patch here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/3.4/patch-3.4.108-rt136.patch.gz) The patch did not work out of the box and I had a bit of hassle to fix all of the rejected bits. To me the Banana Pi is best suited for audio production since it is very affoedable and it already comes with a usable audio out. To get the full benefit of the RT kernel patch it was necessary to thrn also reduce the buffer size of the inbuilt sunxi -codec audio driver. I can now play a synth using a buffer size of 512 samples glitch free. Here are some numbers: ansum@ba…

Does anyone here have any experience with getting the RT patch to run on Linux? Tried to get it to compile last week for a Micro A20 but while it did compile with some manual patching, it did not run.

@Igor, I started a new topic because is more clear. I compiled with the last files in your github and remove the ".disabled" of the file 30-real-time143-full-plus-rt-fixes.patch . I choose the option 5 (full real time) but crashes. I attach the screen of the error. I compiled two times. One in lubuntu 16 and other in Ubuntu 16. The error is the same. Very Thanks!!!

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

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

I was able to get RTL8188FTV $2.00 US USB wifi https://www.ebay.com/itm/123713550193 working with a script I made from a forked project. The power saver has already been disabled in the Makefile. Check out https://github.com/sgjava/rtl8188fu/tree/arm. I've tested this on ARM 32 and ARM 64, but not x86 or x86_64. This is currently a dkms module that requires beta repos to get matching kernel headers.

If someone is interested I found the way to have BT working on orange pi Prime. Unfortunately default kernel config is missing the following options and need to be manually recompiled: CONFIG_SERIAL_DEV_BUS=m CONFIG_BT_HCIUART_SERDEV=y CONFIG_BT_HCIUART_3WIRE=y With these changes and adding "uart1" to the overlays in armbianEnv.txt it's possible to use the driver in: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723bs_bt.git and start manually with: ./rtk_hciattach -n -s 115200 /dev/ttyS1 rtk_h5 to have bluetooth working. Alternatively it's possible to use a modified driver and some sta…

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…

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

Hello! I have a board based on dual core SoC A20, I can run processes on separate cores? I want run Armbian on the one core and my module on other core. Thanks!

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

Hi, U-boot reads my SD card with a speed of less then 1 MB/s. This is the log from extraPutty for my kernel image: [30:208][35:648] 5025176 bytes read in 5389 ms (910.2 KiB/s) I find similar results from other people. When I read the same file in a shell with dd I get a speed of 20 MB/s. Clear the cache: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches Read file from the /boot directory: dd if=zImage of=/dev/null 9814+1 records in 9814+1 records out 5025176 bytes (5.0 MB) copied, 0.246444 s, 20.4 MB/s This is the result I expect because the hardware is SD v2. (25 MB/s) Goal: Faster boot by increasing the SD card read speed of U-boot. Question: How to do this? Any re…

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

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

Hallo, the Armbian Debian jessie dhclient does not handle a served hostname reliable. Deleting /etc/hostname (or replacing it with an empty file) and setting the hostname option at the DHCP Server doesn't always work. In some cases the Armbian client still has its default name 'bananapim2'. http://blog.schlomo.schapiro.org/2013/11/setting-hostname-from-dhcp-in-debian.html describes the problem, a cause and a solution. I can confirm the problem with the leases file. Following step 2 works for me. It would be really fine if the unset_old_hostname file could be added to Armbian by default. Kind regards, Steve

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

Hello, I've finally gotten around to writing the GitHub Actions based Linux Kernel Shallow git trees exporter. It's very simple, a single shell script and GHA workflow. It prepares shallow bundle (and ready-to-go .tar too) everyday on a schedule and publishes to GitHub Releases. Please take a look https://github.com/rpardini/armbian-git-shallow - theres a README that shows how to use the bundles outside of Armbian. If this is a good idea, I'd move it to armbian/kernel-git-shallow in GitHub. And then I'd start using those in armbian-next first as a test ground. I mention I few people I know are interested in the subject @Igor and…

I have Armbian Jessie running on a Orange Pi Lite board and the login script is showing the local loopback ip (127.0.0.1). It appears to be doing this because /etc/update-motd.d/30-sysinfo calls ifconfig -a and pulls the first ip, which in this particular case, is the local loopback. For the orangepi-lite, i wrote the following command in customize_image.sh and it fixes the problem in this case. sudo sed -i "s/ifconfig -a/ifconfig wlan0/g" /etc/update-motd.d/30-sysinfo It basically changes the script to pull the ip address from wlan0 instead of whatever one it finds first This could also be called from the command line for the same effect instead of during compilation.…