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

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

Hello, We've enabled pps-gpio in armbianEnv and will hopefully soon have our GPS/PPS source sync'ing the Neo2. We are also trying to have the Neo2 as a PPS generator when there is no local GPS/PPS connected and it's sync'd on the LAN from another Neo2 that has the GPS/PPS. To make all this work we'd like to be able to activate a PPS generator (output), along the lines of: https://github.com/jsln/pps-gen-gpio Think we understand the device-tree process well enough, but how (and where) would we put the driver code and have it compiled in and usable? Is this something that can be done on top of the nightly build we're using, or would we have to do this in t…

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.

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…

How can I drive adafruit 3.5 inch touch screen on orange pi PC I have tried various methods on the web and still not to work

How to I generate `.img` files? When I run `.compile` I end up with `.deb` files. I've been looking through the scripts but there are so many of them and I want to get to how to do this without having to use commands like: find . -name '*.sh' -print0 | xargs -0 grep compile_uboot | less for a long time. Thank you

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

Hi, How could I add application to armdebian source, that is change which apps will be default on OS when it is builded? Thanks

Hello, I know that when a new LTS kernel gets released, that has very considerable impact and importance here at Armbian. Are you stoked about the upcoming 4.19 release? I know I am. No doubt many forum members have their favorite "pet" boards, and will be eager to see some currently-"experimental" features become "stable". Which of these features matter the most to you? Can you give examples of which use cases you'll be most eager to get a 4.19 kernel into? Myself, I'll be excited to see which already-Supported boards get a new Armbian Stretch or Bionic released with 4.19. This will help me get a sense which boards (and SBC makers) have the …

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

The problem: I want to run my Banana Pi M2 Zero from a battery / powerbank setup. It works like a charm from a beefy powerbank capable of consistent 2A output [1], even with added 5" LCD screen to power at the same time and wireless keyboard transmitter. BUT it does hang up hard, I guess due to undervoltage, when powered from a smaller, weaker powerbank with a single 18650 cell and max output of about 500mA (theoretically 1A but let's underestimate, I'll try to measure it with an oscilloscope). Armbian with 4.19 kernel and Ubuntu 18.04 (but booting in text mode, without any GUI). The hangup occurs during services startup, usually around networ…

Hello. Can someone explain which dtb/dts I should use for R1? With sun7i-a20-lamobo-r1.dtb kernels 4.4.1/4.4.4 disable SATA power when boot and sata subsystem fills log with errors: -- snip -- [ 24.054170] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) [ 24.059664] ata1: EH complete [ 24.337429] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen [ 24.344944] ata1: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed [ 24.350962] ata1: SError: { DevExch } [ 24.354701] ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 24.359859] ata1: hard resetting link [ 25.544101] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) [ 25.549573] ata1: EH complete [ …

As ubuntu 22.04 has realy up to date compiler. Is it possible to force armbian to use local copiler? linaro gcc compiler is 8.x but gcc in ubuntu 22.04 is 11.x. Is it possible to force armbian to use local compilers? Or can armbian update gcc to 11. x ??

I am trying to build an image for both the Orange Pi PC and One I am on a slow cellular network and pay by the gigabyte for access. Is there a way to cache the packages for: Installing base system [ Stage 1/2 ] , and all the rest? Each time I try a compile.sh it take hours to re-download the whole set of packages, because the there is almost always at least a few packages that could not be fetched due to network errors, then they are unpacked and a corrupt tar image is saved and the packages are removed. If I save the create_rootfs_cache file with the missing packages, it does not try to reload them, it just errors out cause they are missing. I am building i…

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

Hi all, Does anyone ever tried to use an EMMC to an A20 boards? Can you share your setup, uboot configs, emmc brand, etc. to make it work? Thanks in advance.

Hi, Is it possible to delay loading USB drivers ? I don't want it to be loaded at the boot but after a few seconds after it for some reasons. uname -a returns

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

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

Hi All, this is my 1st post here. If I'm mistaken where or what placing here, please pardon me and direct me to the right place. Please illuminate my ignorance, concerning the subject. I think it is implementation dependent, how usleep(3) is treated, when found in an interrupt service call back routine. Is it just ignored?, or are ISRs executed as threads and usleep(3) works?? Moreover, the ISR is called from a Real_Timer int (sigalrm). Thank's and best regards hk

I came across Icenowy's patchset for current stable Linux version (currently 4.13) here. Since it contains almost every out of tree functionality for 32 bit Allwinner SoCs, should we just use it here? But beware, at least HDMI functionality there lags a bit - Armbian uses newer patches with audio enabled...

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

Task originated from http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1325-claim-a-task-set-due-date-and-start-doing-it/ naibmra - Bulgaria - kernel testing, try hooking to kernelci.org, docs - mid July GitHub Issue @naibmra Please provide status here and assign GitHub issue to yourself (if possible)

It's been decades since I did application development but I want to get started again. I see that Ubuntu IDE SDK is included in the 'software boutique' but when I install it there are numerous errors when trying to configure. Do you guys have a preferred IDE for application dev on Armbian and do you have any tutorial how to build it? The Ubuntu IDE SDK looks good but so do several other IDEs that include GUI designers such as QDevelop. Before I go down a long path I'd rather try what you kids are already successfully using. I know, most guys use Vi(m) and command line, but I want to give the IDE style of development a go. This is a ver…

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

Hi, I wanted to know if there was an easy way to customize an existing released image or rebuild a released image. I know you can use the customize image option when building, but I would like to not build the latest nightly, but instead just build whatever was released. The customization I am looking to do is installing additional packages, downloading some personal python code, setting timezone and other similar settings. I searched the forums, but didn't see anything helpful, any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

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…

I received at least one PM so far that I did not know the answer to. So, rather than all of us spend a lot of effort duplicating info, I thought maybe good idea to compile these in one place. Especially as we have an influx of new Board Maintainers at the moment. I also encourage people to stop by IRC and say hello. I shall also endeavor to copy the most useful bits from IRC into this thread as they come up. Maybe later can be distilled even further into some docs page or ...? Anyway... So, first up: Q: How /what checks/tests to run? A: OK, I guess I thought armbian/autotests was more about that (long in deve…

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 …

How does compile.sh display the nice little icons like 🔨 when building an image

I've been trying to build a nanopiduo2 firmware for the last couple of days, and I keep getting an error on the 048-humanity-icon-theme_0.6.15_all.deb. It says corrupted filesystem tarball. I don't know where to report this. Is this a packaging error in Armbian or Ubuntu? I'm trying to build the bionic firmware. Any suggestions on getting around this error would be much appreciated.

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

I have to use beta.armbian.com site with my Orange Pi zero and today when I have run apt update I have see following errors: Błąd http://beta.armbian.com jessie/main armhf Packages 404 Not Found Błąd http://beta.armbian.com jessie/utils armhf Packages 404 Not Found Błąd http://beta.armbian.com jessie/jessie-desktop armhf Packages 404 Not Found Pobrano 128 kB w 20s (6179 B/s) …

Hi, Igor. I am trying to compile armbian kernel for N6 Max rk3399 box, based on Armbian/Build: https://github.com/armbian/build I met the following issues: 1. The "Current" branch does not boot up the system; 2. The "Legacy" version of rk3399 for overclock patch https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/master/patch/kernel/rk3399-legacy/overclock-rk3399-to-1.5-2.0.patch cannot be integrated in the debs, and the cpu speed is always A53@1.4GHz/A72@1.8GHz; 3. The "Legacy" verion of rockchip64 are A53@1.5GHz/A72@2.2GHz, but wifi does not work; 4. The released debs on apt/armbian,com behave same; 5. Tried to play with the config files but …

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

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

I created a pull pull request to add gpu support for radxa rock3a. Since this the first time I do this I need a maintainer to approve running workflows. Does anybody have the permission to do this so that we can make this support merged?

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

Hi, I'm trying to compile the Odroid-XU4 kernel using a make -C KERNEL_SOURCES O=SOMEWHERE_ELSE/mybuild. This command will failed when it reaches these drivers in drivers/net/wireless: rtl8188eu, rtl8189es, rtl8189fs, rtl8192eu, rtl8723ds, rtl8723du, rtl8811cu, rtl8812au, rtl8822bs, rtl88x2bu, rtl88x2cs. To be able to compile the Kernel outside of the source tree I had to modify this list of files below. This is an output of my scipt wich is searching an replacing and replacing "-I$(src)" with "-I$(souce)/$(src)" Fixing compilation for driver rtl8188eu .. Makefile phydm.mk sd4_phydm_2_kernel.mk ap_makefile.mk Fixing compilation for …

In kernel 6.1.24 default configuration for orangepione and orangepiplus2e is not checked module wireguard, which was previously checked. Is it paraticular reason for this or it's jus mistake. Please can devs make it checked in furure, this saves time when building. Thanks in advance.

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

Hello, I am trying to create custom USB gadget using GadgetFS on OrangePi PC. I found some example of USB user-mode driver based on GadgetFS and was able to adapt it for sunxi H3 platform. If I only change the VID and PID in this example, the device is still detected correctly in Windows (my part gets initial requests), but no data buffer is received after the detection. I see the data is sent from my PC module (using WireShark). I think the data is either locked or handled in unexpected way by sunxi_usb_udc module. How can I get detailed debug messages (using dmesg) of the sunxi module? I hope this will let me re-design my solution.

Hello, FYI: some minor cosmetic issues. - The GbE tag on the download page doesn't list the Banana Pi M2. - The documentation describes 5 interfaces.* files. The directory contains a 6th one: interface.r1router https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/b3489368eededc025d343fd220b022ca08f52338/documentation/user-faq.md#L294 - While building "jessie next" for Lamobo R1, Banana Pi M2 the following warning is displayed: dpkg-genchanges: warning: package linux-libc-dev-next-sunxi in control file but not in files list [[0;32m o.k. [0m] Compiling next kernel [[0;33m @host [0m] HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/bin2c HOSTCC scripts/kcon…

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 ask this question purely out of curiosity - why is the userpatches folder not in the build folder when it is first cloned

According to the documentation: If a previous (complete) build has successful, is it possible to start subsequent builds at the 'customize-image.sh' stage? I'd like to fine tune my post-install process, but it takes awhile to get there due to package assembly, etc. Thank you

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…

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

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…

clone the latest armbian/build repo, run ./compile.sh but fail. I try native or docker build, all fail.

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

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

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_…

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.

Hello, is there a parameter one can pass to ./compile.sh in order to limit which toolchains are being downloaded? I just checked and cache/toolchains is taking up 14 GB on my VM and given that I only ever build odroidxu4 kernels this is quite an overkill. I could of course delete the cache manually but this would mean that the toolchains need to be re-downloaded for the next rebuild. Thanks!

Hello, guys, I am building mainline "next" for BananaPi M2 with my custom Waveshare 35a dt overlay (source attached) created from the one for RaspberryPi3. The display shows a broken picture. DMESG periodically shows SPI transfer error -110. Any ideas what is going on there ? I am using a similar DTS on OrangePi PC and it works perfectly. Thanks in advance for any help or idea. DMESG output ---------------------------------------------- [ 8.027465] fbtft: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. [ 8.030428] fb_ili9486: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unk…

Hello. I'm just wondering if anyone here has successfully built the latest Linux Kernel 5.2 rc for any of the RK3288 based sbc's. I'm using the Tinkerboard S specifically and have read about several improvements that have been included in this kernel and including panfrost support which seems rather exciting.

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

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 …

Hi Is there a way to set url for kernel sources for build process of armbian? I want to try this kernel: https://github.com/openedev/linux which has - potentially - fix for my problem described here: and here: https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/lcd-module-dsi-rgb-with-touch-and-s070swv20hg-dc16-lcd-panel-mainline-kernel/11172 But i have no idea how to change default url for kernel sources. Ps. I'm using docker to build and have question: where armbian stores its kernel sources(locally) and how to obtain its urls?

Currently on the latest version of armbian I am experiencing high background internet data usage. I am limited to a 50MB plan which works fine with other devices, but seems to not be enough for more than 10 days on this distro. I have tried disabling all periodic checks for updates, but I am still seeing high data usage. Any ideas on where these might be coming from? I can provide a wireshark PCAP if needed.

Hi everyone, I have problems with compilation patched kernel 3.4.113 My patches uses header file customize.h, I copy this file into build directory - cache/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/include/linux/ I get an error during the build process fatal error: linux/customize.h: No such file or directory What location should I use for my header file?

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

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

Hi, I have downloaded `Armbian_20.05.2_Pine64so_buster_current_5.4.43.img` I have a script that mount the iso, chroot into it and run a big script to generate a flavoured version of armbian. First thing the script do is `apt update && apt upgrade` And I recently started to have the following error: Preparing to unpack .../06-linux-dtb-current-sunxi64_20.08_arm64.deb ... Error while loading /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: Exec format error dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-xF9W1s/06-linux-dtb-current-sunxi64_20.08_arm64.deb (--unpack): new linux-dtb-current-sunxi64 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit …

Hi, on a lime2 the firstrun script hangs as it doesn't seem to have a red or blue LED. So I'd like to propose the following change which shouldn't break anything but add the green one. Unless some vendor adds even more colors. Not sure if the trailing "|| true" is the best solution to make sure the script will never fail? diff --git a/scripts/firstrun b/scripts/firstrun index 760cf0d..2f2b222 100644 --- a/scripts/firstrun +++ b/scripts/firstrun @@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ adjust_sunxi_settings() { sed -i "s/^MAC_ADDR=.*/MAC_ADDR=${MACADDR}/" /etc/default/brcm40183 \ echo -e "\n### [firstrun] Use MAC address ${MACADDR} for Bluetooth from now" >>${Log})…

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

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 ? ...

Good morning, I hope you all are fine. I am working on orange pi pc plus with mainline kernel 4.4, I tried to use the on board button but it didn't work in spite of its existence in the device tree (after dumping the already running dtb) and I found that: pinctrl@01f02c00 { compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-h3-r-pinctrl"; reg = <0x1f02c00 0x400>; interrupts = <0x0 0x2d 0x4>; clocks = <0x2d 0x3 0x1c 0x1d>; clock-names = "apb", "hosc", "losc"; gpio-controller; #gpio-cells = <…

I have been running a "stock" DEV kernel (5.0.y) on my PineA64+ while trying to wait for the previously noted (by others) date-setting issue to occur. "stock" being a 'compile.sh' using 'BRANCH="dev" using the PineA64 defconfig (BOARD="pine64" with no config changes) A date/time setting problem just happened a little while ago and as I was about to start to try to figure out where the kernel went wrong when I got a process crash with an apparent CPU stalled error: [154619.384626] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU [154619.390319] rcu: 2-...0: (1 GPs behind) idle=78a/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=1062220/1062259 fqs=1174 [154619.399880] rcu: …

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

I was using usb otg(microusb) as host mode in kernel 3.x. I was using this port to connect banana pi to touch&PWR in LCD. With kernel 3.x, there was no problem, but in the kernel 4.x the touch did not work. I was searching about the structure of usb port, and found out that to use micro usb as a host mode, the forth pin(sense) and the fifth pin(GND) should be connected. I checked this had been causing a touch problem by trying soldering the forth and the fifth pin of the usb otg port in banana pi, and the touch worked. Isn't there any way I can handle this situation in software-wise, not by soldering? I had also considered buying a microusb wire which has …

Hi there, I realized that in the documentation for Marvell Mainline SFP is listed as unsupported. ( https://docs.armbian.com/Hardware_Marvell/#mainline ) So I tested that with some SFP Module I had laying around (SFP -> 1Gbit/s TP, no fiber though), and everything seems to be working fine. I will attach armbianmonitor -u and some proof. Maybe you can then put SFP as supported for mainline armada. Armbianmonitor -u: http://ix.io/1APB Used module: https://www.ebay.de/itm/142747822671 (maybe this can also be added as tested to the download page) ethtool output with attached sfp module (and cable): root@…

The versioning within Armbian seems to be inconsistent. On a up to date RPi4 The login message states that it is running Armbian 23.11.1: Welcome to Armbian 23.11.1 Jammy with Linux 6.6.18-current-bcm2711 /etc/os-release is listing both 22.04 and 24.2.1: PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 24.2.1 jammy" VERSION_ID="22.04" VERSION="22.04.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)" ARMBIAN_PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 24.2.1 jammy" /etc/armbian-release says it is 23.11.1: VERSION=23.11.1 REVISION=23.11.1 So these are three different versions, making it confusing. Any idea what is going on here?

Hello, I don't want the linux version often change on different Armbian compiling, for example, use linux 5.15.34 every time. Can I ?

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…

Just thought you developers might enjoy this... It uses a CRAZY cheap module, becomes a serial to wifi bridge, outputs on the module can then be connected to a standard serial tx/rx, 5v/gnd, and not only does it have a webgui, but also a web console https://github.com/jeelabs/esp-link The esp-link firmware connects a micro-controller to the internet using an ESP8266 Wifi module. It implements a number of features: transparent bridge between Wifi and serial, useful for debugging or inputting into a uC flash-programming attached Arduino/AVR microcontrollers and LPC800-series and other ARM microcontrollers via Wifi built-in stk500v1 p…

http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-gets-blasted-by-blueborne-too/ Not sure if we'd seen this/had exposure.

I am referring to s905(x) series SOCs. Is it possible to create a cryptpasswd at encrypted OTP and use it to unlock root file system on boot ? If not , is it possible to use a security chipset such as ATSHA204 / DX81C04 / ZW30I8 / SMEC98SP to feed s905(x) the key ? Regards ! GuoFu Han

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

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

Regardless of whether I use the main or v25.08 branch, set REGIONAL_IMAGE to china or not, or switch between noble and trixie base images, I consistently encounter a 403 Forbidden error right after the customization step. I've tried various configurations, but the issue persists. Any help?🤔

I'm using this community maintained Bookworm image published for OrangePi Zero . I cannot unload this minimal kernel module for some reason. Some information that could be useful: `uname -a` output: Linux orangepizero 6.12.23-current-sunxi #2 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:39:41 UTC 2025 armv7l GNU/Linux `zcat /proc/config.gz | grep UNLOAD` output CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y # CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD_TAINT_TRACKING is not set Some information to replicate the issue: install required packages: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade # reboot sudo apt install build-essential linux-headers-current-sunxi -y Source code…

Hi, I'm working with an armbian installed on a Banana Pi M2S and I'm having problems using GPIOX_12, GPIOX_13 and GPIOX_4, because the Wifi/Bluetooth drivers are introducing garbage data by default into them and making it difficult to use them for communication in my project. I need to know how to disable these drivers from the kernel so that they don't interfere with the UART communication that I'm creating on those pins, since they are enabled by default and take control of the port automatically (even without having any module connected). Question: Is there any way to disable them in the kernel during the image building process? Fo…

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

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 am working on H3 based Nano Pi Neo board. my task is to enable audio and kernel version is 4.4. I tested Armbian image, Audio is working fine(good) and capture working too. Enabled sun4i-codec.c (which has h3 support). I struck with major problem. I am unable to write AC registors(physical address: 1c22c00) but i can read them using readl. writel is not showing any effect on register. I enabled audio_pll, codec clock, bus codec gate registers and reset deasserted. I have cross-checked H3 datasheet for clock tree. Everything looks fine. why writel is not working?? any suggestion.?? help me. …

Hi!I already compile new kernelArmbian_5.27_Orangepipc_Debian_jessie_dev_4.11.3.imgUSB and networks work fine, but button power off dont wokrItry toacpi_listenBut no change (acpid version (1:2.0.23-2)Thank you! Please help!

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

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?

Hi. According to this patch Orange pi 5 Pro DTS (which BTW i use for my successful Orange Pi 5 Pro edge build) there will be a split of DTSI files. Most of the code in rk3588s-orangepi-5.dtsi will be transferred to new rk3588s-orangepi-5-5b.dtsi. In my current build for Orange Pi 5 and 5 Pro I have: rk3588s-orangepi-5-5b.dtsi rk3588s-orangepi-5b.dts rk3588s-orangepi-5.dts rk3588s-orangepi-5.dtsi rk3588s-orangepi-5-pro.dts. Please note I have Orange Pi 5 Pro with SPI chip soldered on so for Orange Pi 5 Pro build with EMMC (99.99% of cases) in rk3588s-orangepi-5-pro.dts set: /* SFC */ &sfc { status = "disabled"; }; and &sdhci { …

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

Does anyone know if it's possible to use the docker-shell to patch linux and compile, but NOT make the .img file? Maybe something like ./compile.sh unpack-linux ./compile.sh apply-patches ALL=THE_SETTINGS ./compile.sh build-kernel but not make .img I'm trying to change some network driver settings and want to just copy the new kernel module to my target board instead of flashing the entire SD card.

I've installed a pristine copy of Armbian_5.38_Nanopiair_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.15 onto an SD card, booted up my NanoPi Neo Air successfully. I even managed to get wifi to work, etc. When trying to enable the SPI interface (ls -la /dev/ | grep -i spi returns no devices) I ran sudo armbian-config which suddenly started to flash my eMMC. The strange thing is that my keyboard seems to be just fine, no other application on my machine is "typing automatically". The screen during the flash is also seemingly broken. Did anyone experience the same? Thanks. (Is there another way to enable SPI without the armbian-config utility if i…

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…

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

I was doing some testing today on aml-s9xx-box builds and noticed that with meson64-current (6.0.13) kernels the boot logo is showing, but with meson64-edge (6.1.0) kernels it does not. I know there was a recent commit that probably is causing this, something about removing the old way of handling boot logos. So my question is, what needs to change to convert to the new way? I suspect it has something to do with the append line that the build process is inserting into the extlinux.conf file: append root=UUID=0ffde9aa-5a6a-4d6f-bbef-0d8daf439537 rw no_console_suspend c onsoleblank=0 fsck.fix=yes fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0 bo…

http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Merged_into_5.0 At the moment, the kernel version is 4.19.16, this version does not support the camera, but 2 new versions have already been released. Help compile, or explain what to do if I want to use the gc2035 CSI camera.