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Based on post "http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/120-f2fs-for-rootfs/" Can be added an optional choice to build image with F2FS root? Ext4 filesystem is crap for microSD/SD card and should not be used with expected large writes for example when you are running a mysql database. or tkaiser could you please post your modified compile.sh script for this purpose?

Hi all, I'm trying to get Debian on an A20 TV box. Now I've successfully got debian up and running, but only one of the two usb ports is working. There is +5V power on the non-working USB port, but plugged in device cannot be seen in lsusb, and nothing is logged in dmesg. My current script.fex: http://paste.ubuntu.com/13887802/ [usbc0] usb_used = 1 usb_port_type = 2 usb_detect_type = 1 usb_id_gpio = port:PH04<0><1><default><default> usb_det_vbus_gpio = "axp_ctrl" usb_drv_vbus_gpio = port:PB09<1><default><default><0> usb_restrict_gpio = port:PH00<1><0><default><0> usb_host_init_state …

Hi! I'm testing the image for cubieboard (A10 SOC) onto my MK 802 II and the legacy kernel is working fine (USB, OGT, WIFI, HDMI...) I just have changed the script.bin I'm reading some documentation about the device trees and I don't understand how you compile the vanilla kernel. Sorry if is a stupid questions but my board has his own .dts (sun4i-a10-mk802ii.dts), how you get a common vanilla kernel valid for all the configurations without using one specific .dts for each board? Probably I'm missing something very basic for ARM kernels, but this is my 1º aproach.

Hello, When patching or generally compiling, "dialog" is not my friend for reading & testing I would propose adding a wrapper in common.sh (as in branch "second") dialog_wrapper () { ARGS=$(getopt -o b:p: -l "backtitle:,progressbox:" -n "$0" -- "$@"); if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit 1; fi eval set -- "$ARGS"; unset cmdl while true; do case "$1" in -b|--backtitle) shift; if [ -n "$1" ]; then cmdl="$cmdl --backtitle '$1'"; shift; fi ;; -p|--progressbox) shift; if [ -n "$1" ]…

Hi, I'm porting trusty on imx53 ConnectCore board and I wonder what I should change in order to use lib with this card. I have an ubuntu that works. note : kernel is too old : 2.6.35 but i have source code. edit : I dropped!

Hi guys, I am trying to get latest kernel on my cubietruck because from some reason I still have kernel + headers version 3.4.109 even I did "apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y" or tried "apt-get dist-upgrade" My setup is boot on nand and root on /dev/sda1 on debian Jessie. Root system is about week old. When I run "aptitude reinstall ~ncubietruck" I will get this: START linux-u-boot-cubietruck-next is not currently installed, so it will not be reinstalled. linux-jessie-root-next-cubietruck is not currently installed, so it will not be reinstalled. linux-u-boot-cubietruck-next is not currently installed, so it will not be reinstalled. linux-j…

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

Hi, I tried update/repair kernel on cubietruck today. I have /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw... and /dev/nand1 on /mnt type vfat (rw) and I am running Ubuntu on this board. I entered command below as root: wget -q -O - http://upgrade.armbian.com | bash Last messages on screen: NAND install Converting and copying kernel. mkimage: Can't open /boot/zImage: No such file or directory Visit: forum.armbian.com in case of troubles or just for fun

Hello Igor(?), Armbian Buddies, I have ended being not able to compile a kernel module (and it breaks dkms btw) because files in linux-headers are ELF x86-64 (not ELF ARM) but it is quick & dirty FIXED :-) (Maybe I have messed Armbian tool playing with v4.3 kernel ???) root@bpi:~/kern4.3_4# dpkg -i linux-headers-next-sunxi_4.6_armhf.deb Unpacking linux-headers-next-sunxi (4.6) over (4.6) ... Setting up linux-headers-next-sunxi (4.6) ... root@bpi:~/kern4.3_4# cd /usr/src/linux-headers-4.3.0-sunxi/scripts/basic/ root@bpi:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.3.0-sunxi/scripts/basic# file fixdep fixdep: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically lin…

Hello Igor, I am starting exploring your nice "lib" tools for mainline/lamobo/trusty and end with this error message. the host is trusty / amd64 / quad cores / 8 GB RAM unsure if /bin/mktemp refers to loopback device or host /tmp lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk x Installing Armbian on the top of Ubuntu trusty base system ... x x x x build-essential x …

Hi Igor, Hi Buddies, with the new changes of *.sh files because of "2>&1" you cannot figure out the compilation errors -- or if any staling questions like patching file tools/include/tools/be_byteshift.h patching file tools/include/tools/le_byteshift.h dpkg-deb: building package `linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi' in `../linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi_4.6_armhf.deb'. gzip: ./debian/dtbtmp/usr/share/doc/linux-dtb-next-sunxi/changelog.Debian.gz already exists; do you wish to overwrite (y or n)? so I have tried and would suggest the following changes in common.sh (or anything better for bash conditional piping) #make $CTHREADS ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE="$CCACHE a…

Igor, to add some applications ( for example, https://github.com/Freescale/gstreamer-imx), it would be nice to have the possibility, to enter at some point into the chroot, and compiling software, and installing it. Or, add a "just mount exisiting image" function to your scripts. For example, base image is finished, and then I can use a function, that unpack, mount, the existing image, and allow "the costumer" to enter into chroot. What do you think? Peter

Hi, I try to compil module from http://github.com/matzrh/sunxi-lirc. I updated my cubietruck to trusty with 3.4.109 kernel but y not find kernel header. Where is? Thanks!

FYI I've found a problem with the nand-sata-install script after building a 4.6 version for my pcduino, nand-part does not exist in /usr/sbin. Did a full, default compile. Seems the command its in the PATH but if i try to run nand-part i get "/usr/sbin/nand-part now found" lf I go manually in there and do a "ls " its there, but even if im in the folder and do ./nand-part same error appears. The error that I'm getting from nand-sata-install is not enough space on nand2, because nand-part is not able to run and aprtition the disk its trying to copy all root to 16MB(old partitioning from stock linksprite image). To make it work for myself i manually compiled nand…

FYI - seeing the following error on completion of a build... I suspect it's transient since it just seems to be verifying the image... "Re-reading the partition table failed.: Invalid argument​" Image build seems to otherwise complete successfully. Haven't tested the image yet. This was building a BPi image for Jessie using the "next" (latest) kernel.

Hi all, Another newbie question. I want to clone my ubuntu image from NAND (cb A20) to be able to flash to my other boards. Is it possible? What will be the process? Thanks.

Dear All I Need to implement : http://www.bananapi.com/index.php/forum/interfacing/1575-socketcan-dirver-for-a10-a20 Based on http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/379-learning-device-tree/ I have to do patch to arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20.dtsi (to add can port) and arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-cubieboard2.dts (to move led pins to another PE04/PE05) I take copies of dts and dtsi files from my previous build (so it's touched by igor's script), and make some modification and create a patch 1. cb2can-dtsi.patch : patch to activate can0 at PH20 and PH21 --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20.dtsi 2015-11-02 13:10:58.000000000 +0700 +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20.d…

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

Hello Igor, greatings everyone, I have realized the "build" link is missing to the /usr/src/linux-headers-x.x.x-sunxi Ubuntu Trusty (x86/amd64 kernel) provides such a link I was building a small kernel module from source (frandom-dkms) on my labomo-r1 gr@bpi:/lib/modules/4.2.3-sunxi$ ll total 1260 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 13 18:34 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 13 15:20 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Oct 13 14:23 build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.3-sunxi/ drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Oct 13 15:20 kernel/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 360156 Oct 13 18:34 modules.alias -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 367304 Oct 13 18:34 modules.alias.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 r…

I am working with a Hummingboard that has the 3.14.14-cubox-I kernel on it (was given to me with that version on it). I need to add a module (specifically g_hid.ko HID Gadget Module) which was not initially activated in the kernel build. I’ve tried making the module from the git repository (https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib) and succeeded in building it, but it does not work on my hummingboard as a the module has vermagic of 3.14.14+ while my hummingboard has 3.14.14-cubox-i. I know I could just flash this new kernel onto my device, but I have some customization in place all ready so I would like to avoid that. So I am looking for help as to how I can get source c…

Hi, I am having some trouble to compile the kernel after I have made some minor changes to one of the source files. to minimize recompilation of unchanged code files I chose the following settings in compile.sh: KERNEL_ONLY="yes" SOURCE_COMPILE="yes" KERNEL_CONFIGURE="no" KERNEL_CLEAN="no" to avoid having my changes overwitten by the original files I set FORCE_CHECKOUT="no" # igre manual changes to source I am afraid I have not managed to recompile the kernel using these settings. What happens instead is: (1) the script still tries to sync with the source but produces some error messages: error: Your local ch…

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 …

What do we have? Serial connection: Hardware schematics: orangepi-plus-h3-v1_1.pdf Wireless: Realtek RTL 8189 ETV Allwinner introduced new way of storing board definitions (also on A23 and A80) so it's a bit different than on A20 boards. H3_Manual_build_howto Kernel building with Allwinner SDK is terrible and was not able to build it. I must admit I haven't invest much time and energy yet.

I created a Wheezy and Jessie image. Whenever I try extracting the Jessie image, I get a CRC error. I am using 7zip. I tried extracting the zip also using Windows Explorer (Win10) and it also runs into an error. It seems like there might be an issue with the Jessie images being created. I cleaned my output folder and created a new clean image and still run into the same problem. This is using the latest libs and creating a 4.2.3 image (the default settings in the lib config). FYI, the Wheezy image extracts without any problems. Any ideas why the Jessie image is corrupt? Thanks.

Hello Igor, I have noticed for a couple of kernel updates, a very minor issue : the previous initrd.img-x.x.x-sunxi is not removed I have tested both dpkg -i *.deb or apt upgrade, same issue so I guess a debian pkg script update is needed. gr@bpi:~$ ls -l /boot total 13864 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 13 15:37 bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6944 Aug 31 17:48 boot.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1749 Aug 31 17:49 boot.cmd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1821 Aug 31 17:49 boot.scr -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115484 Oct 11 14:12 config-4.2.3-sunxi drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Oct 13 15:37 dtb drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 13 14:23 dtb.old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 329…

Hello I have a problem to generate my kernel 3.x and jessie for may board A10 lime. I followed the procedure well but unfortunately I always get this error message after u-objcopy boot.nin: ./scripts/dtc-versions.sh: ligne17: dtc: command not found ./scripts/dtc-versions.sh: ligne18: dtc: command not found *** Your DTC is too old, please upgrade to 1.4 or newer dtc make: *** [checkdtc] error 1 I use a VM vmware ubuntu 14.04 x86 server as recommended in the documention. (I have even try Debian Jessie and Trusty, the problem is the same) Can you help me ? Sorry for the google translation. Grégory

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

Aside from the DNS resolution issue I am having (different thread), I am often getting stuck on the following: Unpacking locales (from .../locales_2.13-38+deb7u8_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up locales (2.13-38+deb7u8) ... Generating locales (this might take a while)... Generation complete. Generating locales (this might take a while)... en_US.UTF-8... done Generation complete.​ It just sits there and nothing further happens. I have left it for 30 minutes or more, and still nothing. I usually end up killing it... rebooting and then restarting. When it does get past this, I typically end up with the debian sources DNS resolution is…

hi, starting yesterday the menuconfig (for kernel configuration) seems broken: instead of the menu in the grey box it shows the following inside the gray box. the console settings are UTF8. [(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[(B^[[0m^[[30m^ x x ^[[3G^[(0^[[0m^[[30m^[[47m^[(0^[[0;1m^[[37m^[[47mx^[…

Dear Igor, I'am trying to make an image with 3.19 kernel now for a while, but I couldn't make it work. It won't boot. A few weeks ago there was some problems with the patchings, so I tried to do it manually. But it lead me to the same result. Now I deleted everything, related to the image building, and started everything over again. I noticed that your building script has been updated. Now the patching errors disappeared, but I still get the same result, a non booting image. The error says, that "File not found /boot/.next" then "File not found /boot/zImage", "Unrecognized filesystem type", "Bad Linux ARM zImage magic!", ..... Picture from it here. I tried whe…

Greetings, everyone I decided to try armbian for my recently acquired cubox-i4pro. Unfortunately it was missing some kernel modules that I require. No problem, it is easy enough to change the kernel configuration and recompile! Debian Jessie (main system) is even listed as a working development environment, so I thought I would test the included compile script using the instructions from the github. I had recently completed some cross-compilation (for armel, not armhf), so I manually updated the dependencies and read through instructions and looked through the script before getting started. First I compiled the kernel only with the following settings: KERNEL…

Hello, I have a problem building the image behind a proxy (company proxy). Is there any way to get my proxy configuration into the chroot - environment?

Hi, the first repositories for the upcomimg cubietruck+ system are online at github: https://github.com/cubieboard Best regards, ireng

I was trying to build an image for my Banan Pi. While I running script there was an connection error occured on downloading components. now I can't remove the directory. When I try to remove I'm getting this error: rm: cannot remove ‘sources/linux-sunxi/drivers/video/fbtft’: Device or resource busy How can I remove this directory? "lsof" is telling the directory might be deleted lsof +D sources/ lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext4 file system sources/linux-sunxi/drivers/video/fbtft (deleted) Output information may be incomplete.

I am trying to build an older image (i.e. not latest / next). I select wheezy and default (3.4 - 3.14 kernel). I did not modify compile.sh in any way. When building, I seem to constantly run into these errors: /root/armbian3/lib/boards.sh: line 217: cd: /root/armbian3/output/cache/sdcard/usr/src/linux-headers-: No such file or directory [ o.k. ] Compile kernel headers scripts /bin/bash: line 0: cd: /usr/src/linux-headers-: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `headers_install'. Stop. make: *** No rule to make target `scripts'. Stop. dpkg-deb: error: failed to read archive `/root/armbian3/output/debs/linux-headers-banana_4.4_armhf.deb': N…

Hi igor Can you build and add libcsptr to your repo? ( https://github.com/Snaipe/libcsptr ) it is required by libvdpau. i tried to build it via the build environment but it doesn't work ;-) :-( vdr_sunxi-vdpau (){ git clone https://github.com/Snaipe/libcsptr.git $DEST/cache/sdcard/usr/local/src/libcsptr chroot $DEST/cache/sdcard /bin/bash -c "cd /usr/local/src/libcsptr && mkdir build && cd build && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local .. && make && make install" chroot $DEST/cache/sdcard /bin/bash -c "cd /usr/local/src/libcsptr && make" chroot $DEST/cache/sdcard /bin/bash -c "cd /usr/local/src/libcsptr &am…

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

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

Hi all, I have a bananapi and I have installed the debian Wheezy image with kernel 3.19.0. Now, I’d like to upgrade to kernel 4.0.4 to see wether the ananlog audio output is supported; so I downloaded all the deb packages from the website and installed them, but after reboot the system is still using kernel 3.19.0. How can I switch it to use kernel 4.0.4? I guess I should edit something in boot.cmd and convert it to boot.scr, but what should I change exactly? Thanks in advance for your help!

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

Hi Igor, I encountered an issue on Bananapi with kernel 4.2 using your latest SDK: A reboot or powercycle will fail with getting eth0 up and running (no IP address). I tried these both combinations: u-boot: 2015.04 + kernel: 4.2 u-boot: 2015.07 + kernel: 4.2 dmesg delivers: [ 13.387092] sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet: no reset control found [ 13.394879] Ring mode enabled [ 13.402647] No HW DMA feature register supported [ 13.402814] Normal descriptors [ 13.418061] TX Checksum insertion supported [ 13.498887] libphy: PHY stmmac-0:ffffffff not found [ 13.507177] eth0: Could not attach to PHY [ 13.515283] stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PH…

Hi! I am new to armbian, would like to ask about its development. Is this distribution quality controlled (by someone in charge), or fully community-organized "as is" ?

As a note I once created a new Branch to create an image with VDR (http://www.tvdr.de). (my first target is to get a full working build for my Cubieboard2 then i try modularize for the other boards) (It need's kernel 3.4.x for vdpau !!!) It's not finished yet because I still have to see whether the FFMpeg version of Debian also works. and some other things greetings Daniel

Hi Igor, I'm trying to build and update the kernel for the Lime2 board using the script you provided on github. I'm using linux sunxi 3.4.103. The only changes i've made in the kernel are in the sunxi-codec.c file, where i'm changing the values to some variables which should impact the latency on voip softphones. Here are the changes that i'm doing in "static struct snd_pcm_hardware sunxi_pcm_playback_hardware" and "static struct snd_pcm_hardware sunxi_pcm_capture_hardware" { - .period_bytes_min = 1024*4 + .period_bytes_min = 16*2 - .periods_min = 4 + .periods_min = 2 } The problem is that after running the script i get the tar file with 5…

Building some more custom banana Pi images with the Igor repo. Tried to install plex and it seems to succeed but when finalizing the image these errors occur 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded.Need to get 109 MB of archives.After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.Get:1 http://dev2day.de/pms/wheezy/main plexmediaserver armhf 0.9.12.3.1173-937aac3-1~wheezy [109 MB]Fetched 109 MB in 1min 9s (1,567 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package plexmediaserver.(Reading database ... 39625 files and directories currently installed.)Unpacking plexmediaserver (from .../plexmediaserver…

Hi, I'm in need of help with the I2S "drivers" for Arch Linux ARM and the A20 processor. I need to create a 4-wire I2S output. 1. BCLK 2. LRCLK 3. DATA 4. MCLK = 256xfs I can't seem to work out how to make #4, a Master Clock fixed at 256 * Fs. I've been using this code as a starting point: https://github.com/dan-and/linux-sunxi/tree/dan-3.4.current/sound/soc/sunxi/i2s and I am not a Kernel developer. At all. Thanks.

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…

I tried to rebuild the Banana Pi image with kernel 3.19.7 adding the configuration from here to the next config before rebuilding. I get a lot of prompts and I said m for modular or Y for yes to each of them. The tuner still isn't showing up in Tvheadend. I can donate some BTC so you have a test unit to help get this working.

Was wondering if there are any kernel update scripts i can use to update from http://mirror.igorpecovnik.com/kernel/ http://mirror.igorpecovnik.com/u-boot/ would be nice im open to colab on a script if there isn't any

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