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Hello, I'm tempted to load the Siano Mobile Silicon driver (TV adapter) into the Orange Pi PC more I'm not getting. I have performed the following procedures already: I put it in the / lib / firmware folder: isdbt_rio.inp I configured the smsmdtv.conf file (options smsmdtv default_mode = 4) in the /etc/modprobe.d/ folder I installed firmware-siano-rio_1.0_all.deb (sudo dpkg -i firmware-siano-rio_1.0_all.deb) Has anyone already set up the siano drive on linux? Thank you very much

I decided to start my Armbian contribution with something simple as a first step where I will learn how to update the documentation. So far I've cloned and built the docs successfully. But after I built them, I noticed that the new docs I built do not match the documentation on the website (docs.armbian.com). Which files are considered to be correct / what's next (fix the ones in git or the ones on the site?). Thanks!

Currently I am busy getting the new version of Kerberosio video surveillance software (website) to work on Armbian (Debian Jessie). The current version is already working (refer also to this post), and I have also compiled successfully the most recent development version which includes video recording which is not included in the current release. There will be a special Armbian page (I am currently writing it) on the Kerberos.io site in the near future. I am working towards a general Armbian recipe. Because the software originally focuses on the Raspberry Pi Platform, there are some slight differences (library dependencies because of the Raspberry Pi camera which is s…

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…

ROCK64 is a RK3328 Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 board with up to 4 GB of RAM. Unfortunately it has a non-functional RTC (/dev/rtc0), which is not battery backed. If your board is not connected to internet 7/24, you can not use the NTP or systemd-timesyncd. Therefore you need to connect a battery-backed external RTC module to the ROCK64 header, and get the time via the i2c protocol. The good news is, the GPIO headers on ROCK64 is compatible with Raspberry Pi headers. Therefore almost any Raspberry Pi RTC module will work on ROCK64. But you need to do some tweaking to communicate with the RTC module. I will explain the required steps which worked for me. 1. Buy an e…

Hi folks, I've done a Armbian build for my OrangePi-Plus2e this morning, and discovered that U-Boot "fdtfile" is now set to sun8i-h3-orangepi-plus2e.dtb instead of sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dtb as previously. Unfortunately, the sun8i-h3-orangepi-plus2e.dtb doesn't exist, I had to copy the sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dtb under the sun8i-h3-orangepi-plus2e.dtb name to make it boot. Where in the build process we manage to set "fdtfile" during u-boot build ? Is that done using mix of manipulations of configs found in config/boards/orangepiplus2e.conf (Zador recently changed it) Also, on separate issue, I've discovered that /usr/lib/linux-u-boot-dev-orangepiplus2e_5.20_armhf…

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 all, there is an issue with SPI on a Banana Pro (A20). I am on mainline kernel 4.5.5 now, but the problem already occurred on 3.4.109. SPI transfers are way to slow for my application, independently from the SPI clock. Investigating the SPI signals it turned out that there is an enormous delay between CS going active (low) and the transmission starting. The delay is in the magnitude of 10...20 usec which is a large multiple of the pure transmission time, so increasing the SPI clock does not solve the problem. The connected device is an SPI TFT display, so I have to send a large number of SPI words of 2 bytes each, where CS must toggle after each word (required by th…

Hi, every one! have any of you guys tried to perform SPI loopback tests on any of existing boards ? I mean this driver code http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.13.14/source/drivers/spi/spi-loopback-test.c. I tried to find any information on how to run tests but I completely failed to make it. It would be nice if someone shares a step-by-step instruction. Thanks a lot.

I am having the exact same hw configuration as described here. I am using latest (stable) mainline kernel 4.0.5, SPI is enabled in DTB like this: spi0: spi@01c05000 { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&spi0_pins_a>; status = "okay"; spi0_0 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; compatible = "spidev"; reg = <0>; spi-max-frequency = <50000000>; }; }; I am loading the driver like this and the displays back light goes on - so far is o.k. modprobe fbtft_device name=adafruit22a rotate=90 speed=4800000 fps=30 gpios=reset:272,led:226,dc:245 busnum=32766 This way, with different GPIO…

I'm currently working on the meson64 family (C2, K2, Le Potato) as a family, and am trying to more or less make their GPIO behaviors similar and matching (as best I can) to the RPi they are form factor clones of. An issue I'm having right now has to do with the spidev driver, these boards don't have hardware spi where the Pi/Tinker does does, so I'm defining spi-gpio devices in the device tree. That part is fine. Where it gets interesting is setting up a spidev node under it. - Calling out a compatible = "spidev" works, enumerates, etc, but throws the typical ugly error during boot that it is wrong to do it that way. - Adding a compatible string to the…

Igor, I noticed that your build script automatically parses a URL to determine what the current stable release is for "Next". Since 4.3 is now officially released and has a number of features worth checking out, it would be nice if the build script offered an option to pick from stable vs. mainline. For now I am just manually setting the KernelTag to "4.3", but it would be nice not to have to modify any of the scripts manually and have this be an option you can pick from. Just a suggestion... Thanks.

Hi, I'm running the next branch on a NanoPi NEO. Having built my own xenial image from current sources, I notice that an apt-get upgrade brings old kernel and dtb packages (4.14.18). It looks like these old packages are coming from http://apt.armbian.com/pool/main/l/linux-4.14.18-sunxi/ (these are dated 10th Feb). Would it be possible to remove these packages from this location, please? Thanks, Edwin.

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…

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

Hi, I have a Cubieboard A80 unused right now, is it possible to build Armbian for this device? It does not seem to be officially supported. Thank you, Terence Haddock

To help diagnose the issues I'm facing with AP6212 with other boards, I've decide to build an image for the newly received NanoPiM1Plus. It produced the following image : Armbian_5.27_Nanopim1plus_Debian_jessie_dev_4.10.11.img I've plugged an USB-TTL on the board, it booted until the login prompt. Trying the usual root/1234 failed, looking at FriendlyArm site, although I'm not using their image, but an Armbian freshly built, I've try their passwd : root/fa It logged ... looking for AP6212 traces, I've seen some "bcmsdh_sdmmc_probe" ... Doohh ? I did "uname -a" : again, Doohh ? : Linux FriendlyARM 3.10.65 #4 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 24 11:…

It would be nice for the armbian downloads to have GPG signed SHA256SUMS like Ubuntu. Would it be hard to implement? Because currently the images are distributed in 7z files with a checksum file, nothing currently prevents both from being changed. My bad, I found the guide: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/

I am trying to create my own USB gadget based on sunxi_usb_udc and GadgetFS with Orange Pi PC. I can't find any details about sunxi_usb_udc and after successful startup and detection, I am unable to get data sent by host side. How can I proceed?

I've migrated the patches from sunxi-next into sunxi-dev ! https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/20240e9669055030076e69452cf6a1ccb368cc2e Unfortunately, during my migration of my 3x Olimex-A20-Micro boards, I've faced strange hangs during Armbian Filesystem Resize service. One of the boards, I wait 5 mins, but service was still hanging/looping. I've have then press reset button, reboot, automatic fsck, then resize Ok ! So, can other A20-Micro owner can confirm ? ...

Hi, thanks for the efforts making armbian very well and very stable for all the distributions, I'm running with a Cubieboard 1 and other arm devices.. I don't want to disturb, but I'll be a headache to support or add in repository this old A10 device Mele A1000/A2000? I know that is old chip, but I'm feel nostalgia, because was one of firsts devices supported in linux-sunxi, and Tom Cubie worked at mele, and sell this litlle joys overseas in 2012, and there are a lot of people now that have this devices too. a lot now sure in the dust and is in mainline kernel also. Tom left Mele, and maked Cubieboard 1, this Mele A1000 I think that have the same configurat…

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

Hi 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.

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

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

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…

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

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

I've started looking at switching Rockchip64-DEV to 5.0.y ... I've now my RockPro64 under 5.0.y ... It look much more easier task than the previous one with Sunxi-DEV ! @Igor , I've pushed a "rockchip64-4.20" tag that will allow to bring 4.20.y into NEXT if we wish ... Also, is there any reason why RockPro64 still using U-Boot SPL 2017.09-armbian (from Ayufan's branch) instead of Mainline U-Boot such v2019.01 ? If No, I will switch that too ...

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

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 ...

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

I've start looking about the Switching DEV to 5.0.y ... I've done a preliminary trial for OrangePiPCPlus after disabling few patches, etc ... Installed with success ... Although it produce at lot of patch rejects, I think we should pursue the move to 5.0.y, even if it looks more painful than the switch from 4.19.y to 4.20.y done few weeks ago ... I'm also calling for help on this move, as I've seen lot of patch rejects in Lima patches : @JMCC are you the expert here ? For all Devs wishing to keep backup images of 4.20.y, build your images ASAP before the switch occurs ! Any concerns ? EDIT: Oh ! I alm…

With just a few local test hacks, I was able to bring up kernel 5.10-rc1 on sunxi this morning (based on the new megous branch): root@air's password: _ _ ____ _ _ _ | \ | | _ \(_) / \ (_)_ __ | \| | |_) | | / _ \ | | '__| | |\ | __/| | / ___ \| | | |_| \_|_| |_| /_/ \_\_|_| Welcome to Armbian 20.08.14 Buster with Linux 5.10.0-rc1-sunxi System load: 2% Up time: 11 min Memory usage: 14% of 491M IP: 172.24.18.151 CPU temp: 34°C Usage of /: 24% of 7.2G Last login: Tue Oct 27 07:20:02 2020 from 172.24.18.20 root@air:~# cat /proc/version Linux version 5.10.0-rc1-sunxi (root@35504…

Since the two last days, I'm working on switching SUNXI-DEV to 5.2.y ... I'm almost done, tested few of my boards, I will do more boards and probably commit my work tomorrow !

I've done private builds using Megous's 5.4.0 branch for almost all my SUNXI boards, so, I'm pretty confident that we can switch to it soon ...

While 5.4.y is not in ( sunxi64_common.inc ) current yet, at this time of writing I like to explore " KERNELBRANCH="branch:orange-pi-5.5" ". Except for just updating to this branch, I noticed it is just too early as megous github branch is not prepared yet for 5.5-RC1. I am curious to see if any of these have been applied already and what new fun stuff needs to be considered in the kernel .config

I've started the work of switching SUNXI-DEV to 5.6.y, as usual, few DT duplicates and fixes ... But I've faced also a big change related to 'file_operations' been changed to 'proc_ops' in all places over the kernel, which cause that all our EXTRAWIFI needs to be fixed. I hope to get it done by the end of this evening ...

Hi - Would it be possible to switch dev builds to 5.8 rc kernels? It looks like megous is already prepared for it ( atm rc1 ). Certainly I do realise the massive work filtering DT duplicates and applying fixes, etc ( the usual ) does come in here ... But rgd H6 this 5.8 kernel should hold important additions rgd: CPUFreq (DVFS), IOMMU, and MsgBox ( as well H3,H5 ) Therefore kindly requesting to skip 5.7 in dev and go straight for 5.8 which allows +/- two months of testing wich should be perfect for upcoming "Caple"-release in August.

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

What is the reason for removing Synaptic from the GUI images ? This is an important element for the work of users.

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

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

after quite a few frustrating attempts to setup a built environment, fixing some issues, jumping over some hoops for the build, I managed to get to the 'starting point' of a build ./compile.sh [🌱] uuidgen not found [ uuidgen not installed yet ] [🌱] Using prebuilt Armbian image as base for 'ubuntu-jammy' [ DOCKER_ARMBIAN_BASE_IMAGE: ghcr.io/armbian/docker-armbian-build:armbian-ubuntu-jammy-latest ] [🌿] Docker info [ Docker 19.03.11 Kernel:4.12.14-lp151.28.91-default RAM:31.28GiB CPUs:8 OS:'openSUSE Leap 15.1' hostname 'snoopy1.internal' under 'Linux' - buildx:yes - loop-hacks:yes static-loops:no ] [🌱] Creating [ .dockerignore ] [🌱] Docker launcher [ enabling all …

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

I'm writing from a limited perspective, so constructive criticism appreciated. In this thread, I'm recording some thoughts about how the OS gets from files into the memory of various boards, and what might make this more unified and easier and/or more flexible. Current U-boot My knowledge comes from the mvebu64 and rockchip64 families. At this time, the board boot process starts from code in the processor that attempts to find u-boot, and u-boot runs a script from its environment that searches for a UEFI application or a boot.scr file. They call this "Distro-boot" Armbian uses the boot.scr to load an uncompressed kernel image and a compressed initramdisk, alo…

Hi everyone, Here an idea: It may be useful to know which board and wich compilation environment has already been tested with armbian-next, i.e.: Board User space Kernel Interface Environment Compilation Boot Hardware peripherals Hardware features Apps uefi-x86 Bullseye Current Desktop XFCE ✅ ✅ uefi-x86 Bullseye Edge…

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

I'm on the most recent Armbian 25.2.3 Noble version. When I try the command $ yes | sudo apt dist-upgrade I get the following error: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done Get more security updates through Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled: ... Learn more about Ubuntu Pro at https://ubuntu.com/pro The following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing: gnome-shell gnome-shell-common ubuntu-drivers-common The following packages will be upgraded: thunderbird 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 68.6 MB of archives. After…

@Igor Probably one of the experts to ask I noticed there has been many changes and documentations not up to date Noticed deprecated options when running the ./compile.sh with options So far so good. I noticed though below behavior and wanted to check if normal or how can I enable the interactive process (asking to proceed if low disk space ) I have created a new vm with latest recommended base os (no desktop) After few tests when space runs low, the interactive options ctrl+c or enter show only if i run the ./compile.sh if i run ./compile.sh uboot-patch (or any option even expert) it kills the compile without asking Any…

I'm trying to get a clock signal of 32768 from the GPIO1 D4 pin of the rk3328 CPU, but I haven't been able to. I've tried everything, from `overlay dts` to `armbian-add-overlay`, but I can't get any output. I can set the value to 1 or 0 using the `echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio60/value` command, but the system doesn't give a clock output. Please help. Thank you in advance.

hi, i'm pretty new to armbian, i'd like to setup a arm-gcc cross compilation toolchain in my current (old) suse-linux distribution i've read this thread which suggest to use the Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 x64 image in a virtual machine i've also read some other sites on the gcc / g++ tool chain http://linux-sunxi.org/Toolchain https://www.linaro.org/latest/downloads/ https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/latest-7/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ for the linaro toolchains, there are many releases the latest being 7.3.1. as of this post my qu…

Hi all, first post here. I have an orange pi zero and I want to develop some C++ apps on it. My app is going to be a bit big, and at the moment compiling it on the ZERO takes FOREVER (I guess its just the RAM, not CPU)! Compiling it on my intel i9 PC is just a matter of seconds. So I managed to find gcc-linaro-10.2.1-2021.04-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf and I can cross compile and then remotely debug it on the ZERO....life is much better now all of the sudden. But I have some concerns, would be nice if you walk me though: 1) I am running Armbian 20.04 on the ZERO which I believe is compiled with GCC 9.3.0. I could not find a Linaro pack…

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

I've struggled the whole day on that task using v2019.01 ... It is even worst than my struggling back in early December, even using Method #2 give me headache with Pinctrl not initialize and boot device been garbage : channel 0 training pass! channel 1 training pass! change freq to 800MHz 1,0 ch 0 ddrconfig = 0x101, ddrsize = 0x20 ch 1 ddrconfig = 0x101, ddrsize = 0x20 pmugrf_os_reg[2] = 0x3281F281, stride = 0x9 OUT U-Boot SPL board init Pinctrl init failed: -19 Trying to boot from m�iYk~Ⱥ�C��+J)H�^J!������wZ��q�+����q����!

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.

I was adding a driver to mvebu64-default and when this patch is removed, compilations breaks this way: Spoiler drivers/net/wireless/rtl8814au/core/rtw_mp.c: In function ‘rtfloor’: drivers/net/wireless/rtl8814au/core/rtw_mp.c:36:12: error: ‘-mgeneral-regs-only’ is incompatible with floating-point argument static int rtfloor(float x) { ^~~~~~~ scripts/Makefile.build:269: recipe for target 'drivers/net/wireless/rtl8814au/core/rtw_mp.o' failed make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/rtl8814au/core/rtw_mp.o] Error 1 scripts/Makefile.build:476: recipe for target 'drivers/net/wireless/rtl8814au' failed make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/rtl8814au] Er…

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

Maybe my grep-fu is not powerful or following endless includes, but I ended up changing build/cache/sources/linux-mainline/orange-pi-5.9/arch/arm/boot/dts/sunxi-h3-h5.dtsi which seems like it would change other boards. Is there a surefire way to make the changes in the proper place for the Duo? I tested the image I built and indeed this changes the dtb correctly, but will it effect orange pi, etc boards too (h3-h5 boards)? @Igor I have the changes ready to commit, but I didn't want to do something that effects multiple boards.

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

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

Starting kernel ... [ 11.131621] Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_set_idle set ... [ 11.132177] CPU: 1 PID: 47 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx #1 [ 11.132851] Hardware name: PinusCore RK3562 (DT) [ 11.133272] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn [ 11.133760] Call trace: [ 11.133986] dump_backtrace+0xe8/0x124 [ 11.134332] show_stack+0x20/0x30 [ 11.134641] dump_stack_lvl+0x6c/0x88 [ 11.134975] dump_stack+0x18/0x34 [ 11.135283] panic+0x138/0x310 [ 11.135573] rockchip_pmu_set_idle_request+0x114/0x1d8 [ 11.136043] rockchip_pd_power+0x424/0x480 [ 11.136419] rockchip_pd_power_on+0x24/0x38 [ 11.136798] _genpd_…

https://github.com/jernejsk/OpenELEC-OPi2/blob/openelec-7.0/projects/H3/patches/linux/linux-88-enable-tv.patch so this is an openelec patch is there anyone to be kind enough to apply this to armbian?

Two Questions: How do I force Armbian/build to rebuild the kernel ? - Is there a `./compiler.sh` flag ? And where does the kernel get cached ? - Is it cached online ? - is it cached on kernel, kernel version, and kernel config hash ? I am trying to get a proper handle on Armbian/build. BTW: There really needs to be a `kernel` tag on Armbian Forum's - `Create New Topic`.

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

It seems the Linux kernel 5.8+ on aarch64 is incompatible with the U-Boot from 2017, at least on the RK3328 boards. This apparently affects the Rock64 as well as my own Renegade. Essentially U-Boot gets stuck on "Starting kernel..." In this post https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=14657&start=10 they fix it by recompiling u-boot, newer version from upstream In addition to the existing rock64 defconfig, it seems that the defconfig for the Renegade was finally upstreamed on May! https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/bab972948e152e468fa5ab34764769fc4cddcaab No more 2017 U-Boot from rockchip for me, perharps... I modified http…

Hi, I try send parameters to Kernel via U-boot, but that is not worked. From U-boot command line: setenv bootargs 'isolcpus=0' saveenv boot After Linux boot I don't see system changes, for test cat /proc/cmdline How to send bootargs 'isolcpus=0' to Kernel? My system image Armbian_5.12_Lime2_Debian_jessie_4.5.5

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

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

I've decided to give a try for a Mainline PineA64 Armbian Full Image build. Unfortenately, it seems that U-Boot is not in good shape, it stall right at the beginning without even trying to load kernel : HELLO! BOOT0 is starting! boot0 commit : 045061a8bb2580cb3fa02e301f52a015040c158f boot0 version : 4.0.0 set pll start set pll end rtc[0] value = 0x00000000 rtc[1] value = 0x00000000 rtc[2] value = 0x00000000 rtc[3] value = 0x00000000 rtc[4] value = 0x00000000 rtc[5] value = 0x00000000 DRAM driver version: V1.1 rsb_send_initseq: rsb clk 400Khz -> 3Mhz PMU: AXP81X ddr voltage = 1500 mv DRAM Type = 3 (2:DDR2,3:DDR3,6:LPDDR2,7:LPDDR3) DRAM clk = 672 MHz DRAM zq valu…

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

Hi, while i was trying to work with the NTC C.H.I.P. i've started to take in consideration the ubifs instead of mounting all the system partition as read only. Someone have experience with ubifs? do it is supported by armbian? Someone can help me with some guide?

I was doing some testing and it looks latest u-boot is broken for Allwinner H3 (no boot), A20 (Banana no network), I assume A10 too. There was some RFC upstream, but I did not go further into details ... Shall we rather rollback to 2017.03?

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…

Stumbled across this while working on something else not ARM related, but it's pretty cool - since Armbian is looking at devices that have eMMC, this might be useful https://github.com/pepe2k/u-boot_mod Short story - it's a uBoot with a micro web server that supports flashing images, including uBoot itself - basically it turns things into a bit of a fail-safe as long as uBoot can execute... (those playing with the fire that is uBoot, keep your UART connections handy) Do I have some security concerns - absolutely yes... but no different than the UEFI that is on many x86 boards these days.

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

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.

Hi there, I've tried to migrate from my old 16.04 ubuntu build machine to 18.04 regarding the documentation there is no need for extra packages. To get compile.sh running I've added build-essentials, ccache, make & libpython. Now there is a problem with openssl/bio.h. Is there a complete list of packages needed? I've set up my VM using the ubuntu-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso image. Is it solely failing by not using the mini.iso? Regards, Sebastian

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

Hi, first of all thank you for the great work. Let me tell you my story. I bought a Pinebook laptop some months ago and in my spare time I was playing with numerous OS-es. Installing and testing one by one. In total I've tested every single OS and so far Armbian is the winner. Why? Well because it is super fast, very stable, lightweight and with very simple xfce desktop look and feel. Now, like everything in life, there are some bad sides of Armbian. I am not sure if I will say something false or strange but I don't consider my self expert for hardware nor Linux world. So far I have also Raspberry Pi with Raspbian installed and don't see any bad si…

Where are config files in source kernel with function to enable next uart port in udoo?

Dear Igor, Thank you very mutch for tis great job! I did some tests based on your image with udoo-quad, works perfect! But I do have some trouble on udoo-dual, kernel stops without any console output (just loading kernel...) so I decided to compile my own, but I get [ o.k. ] Compiling uboot [ o.k. ] Compiler version [ arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc 5.4.0 ] make: *** Keine Regel, um „udoo_qdl_config“ zu erstellen. Schluss. What do I have to change? Best regards Marcus

Need uinput module to use with tslib but "nanopineo 4.11.0-sun8i" doesn't seem to have it, neither static linked to the kernel or as a dynamic module. What am I missing? Thank you

Ubuntu x64, Bananapi jesie with -next kernel. First try yesterday: everything default, changed only BUILD_DESKTOP to yes image was built with 4.1-rc8 kernel / version of image was 3.1 few errors at the end (perl did not like some locales that were not set and probably some error with resizefs, partial log attached) Image was not bootable, banana did not show anything, behavior was the same as banana without inserted card Second try today: deleted /output/output/* deleted compile.sh and created new one with latest content image was built with 3.19.7 kernel (why that downgrade?), version of image was 3.2 banana boots but cannot remount filesystems. That leads to reb…

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…

When building fresh jessie images the last days I always got somewhere in between: W: Failed to fetch http://apt.armbian.com/dists/jessie/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'jessie-utils/binary-armhf/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) Such an image then also reports this as a problem when doing an 'apt update': ... W: Failed to fetch http://apt.armbian.com/dists/jessie/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'jessie-utils/binary-armhf/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. root@odroidxu4:~# …

We had a custom script that would perform kernel updates. As part of the update, we would look for this package and would make sure it was install. We are erroring out as this package is no longer installed. I am currently using 5.10.34-sunxi and was trying to update to 5.10.60-sunxi. The error is : E: Can't find a source to download version '21.02.3' of 'linux-buster-root-current-orangepizero:armhf' This was working as of a couple of months ago. (Looking at the armbian-config scripts, we are essentially following the same logic. We imagine this script would have the same issues. We tried running armbian-config, but did not have the switch op…

Hi, I have attempted to boot with edge and current branches with no success. I am now trying vendor since its what its running. My process is: ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepi5pro BRANCH=current kernel-config I enable tunneling GRE and some broadcom wifi drivers. ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepi5pro BRANCH=current kernel sudo dpkg -i output/debs/linux-image-*.deb sudo dpkg -i output/debs/linux-headers-*.deb sudo dpkg -i output/debs/linux-dtb-*.deb sudo reboot and after this the system does not boot or post through HDMI. I have to go back and erase /boot and restore a bac…

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, On the main site: https://www.armbian.com/ it says only 60 days to go for the next release :-) Well, to have a good user experience and squash bugs I think we should do a feature-freeze from about day 50 onwards - what is your take on that ? To do so, I was thinking about how you could handle this period on Github. Will “pull request’s” after feature-freeze be tagged for later integration? Everybody is welcome in squashing bugs (only the ones in code) eg. updating or adding configuration file for armbianmonitor ? eg. updating or adding information to the documentation ? Last but not least, if you can help with s…

Let's sum up major concerns/problems and unify/create a plan of actions. We already decided to wait with mainline H3-H5-A64 ... which means old stable/legacy kernels/a10-20-xu4 (what else?) mainline should be rebuilt and what remains goes under nightly? Images can be made one board at the time, they can be made in exactly 4 days or not. Perhaps I should emphasize "approximately" more? Or remove this date since it only creates an extra pressure? Or is it ok? This should be fun. For me, most of the time is even sometimes days are wasted and frustration or stress builds up to insane levels. We know which kernels are not done and there is nothing we…

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

When using apt > 1.2.6 SHA1 support is dropped and files are ignored. See: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Apt/Sha1Removal With apt 1.2.10 (armhf) this Warning is generated: W: http://apt.armbian.com/dists/jessie/InRelease:Signature by key DF00FAF1C577104B50BF1D0093D6889F9F0E78D5 uses weak digest algorithm (SHA1) /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list is: deb http://apt.armbian.comjessie main

Just a minor problem: uptime from procps-nf 3.3.15 (Armbian buster) - as used in 30-armbian-sysinfo to get uptime/logged-in users/load - generates different outputs if the uptime is either less or more than 1 day or less than 1 hour ("hh:mm" or "d days, hh:mm" or "nn min") - this gets the 30-armbian-sysinfo confused on gathering the logged-in user count resp. load. I suggest the below fix: ... # get uptime, logged in users and load # fix for uptime from procps-ng 3.3.15: reports uptime less then a day as "hh:mm," # but uptime larger than a day as "nn days, hh:mm," or "nn days, mm min", and less than 1 hour as "mm min," # which mixes up the assig…

Hi All, Can someone tell me how to update the script.bin in sd card and nand. I am using a custom board, which has different usb pin config. So Im trying enable it in script.bin. This is what I done so far. For SD card 1. I delete /boot/script.bin 2. Write new config in /boot/script.bin 3. Reboot Then the usb is still not detected, it seems that I did something wrong. For nand: 1. I boot via sd card 2. mount /dev/nanda /mnt/nanda 3. rm /mnt/nanda/script.bin 4. cp new_script.bin /mnt/nanda/script.bin 5. umount /mnt/nanda 6. reboot Again, nothing happens. The usb is still not detected Thanks in advance.

Hello, I'm trying to upgrade Armbian on my little OrangePi Lite, and it's been 3 days at it already. It is stuck at "Compiling headers", and it is not hung, I can use it. It does happen from time to time to all my SoCs, sometimes I prefer to re-dd and reconfigure. So I was thinking, if compilation cannot be avoided, can it be done on another computer? Cross-compile?

Greetings, I haven't built a new image for awhile. But, I wanted to refresh the process. In the meanwhile, the only change I've made is upgrading my host. My build platform is a VM. I have no idea if that matters, but it was a change. I now have some weird errors/warning and I want to troubleshoot them. How can I enter into the environment to run just the customize script and commands? I'd like to dig into them, but not sure how. Thanks!

Now that Debian stable has moved from Jessie to Stretch, what would it take to move the Debian branch of Armbian to Stretch? Would it break anything if I just s/jessie/stretch/g in /etc/apt/sources.list and do sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade?

Hi. I need help from someone with RK3568 SBC. My Rock 3A packed up few weeks ago and I'm unable to test v3 of the driver on that SOC. It will require to build new kernel with updated patch. Link to v2 patch: https://patchew.org/linux/20260708175837.1718437-1-dawidro@gmail.com/ Cheers Dawid

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