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The topic of Stretch came up in the Odroid C2 Mainline testing thread, and turns out we don't have a thread about making Stretch available. I've done some testing with several boards using the Upgrading Debian Jessie to Stretch thread and had great success. But, I wanted to start a discussion about what is needed to get official Stretch support in place. I have several projects where I need to use Stretch instead of Jessie, so I'm exited to help try and contribute where I can. I also wanted to discuss the idea of possibly making two stretch images: one using systemd and one using openrc (which is supported in Stretch). 99% of the work is identical, the only ma…

Hello! I have orange pi zero. I want to install a "clean" operating system - Debian. How can I build a kernel with the necessary drivers, modules and install. Does anyone have any experience installing? The image downloaded from the website debian.org I apologize in advance for bad English.

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, 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

Yes, this is another rookie question: if I only modify the dts file of the kernel or a certain part of the driver code, I run ./compile.sh, need to wait a long time for the compilation process of uboot and various libraries. How can I only compile the kernel part? I see there is a compile option: KERNEL_ONLY, is this possible? How do I need to update the kenel part after compiling?

I would like to build a hard realtime Linux kernel for Orange Pi SoC. Using Xenomai technologies (Installing Xenomai 3.x , Xenomai Documentation). This would be a great extension of the SoC application area. I did this for the x86 architecture. And I've already assembled the core using your Arabian technology. But building the realtime Xenomai kernel requires pre-patching from a third-party project Adeos (Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems). Patch files for different architectures can be found here: Index of /downloads/ipipe/v4.x Is it possible to build a realtime kernel using Arabian? P.S. I apologize for my poor …

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

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

Hi, I'am Patrick from France, it is my first post on the forum. I am porting the Zortrax m200 plus 3D printer to Armbian and my last important step would be to have the LCD screen working. I cross compiled my module but I have this message when installing it: # insmod panel-himax-hx8394.ko [ 1760.189919] BPF: [120533] Invalid name_offset:2238391 [ 1760.195183] failed to validate module [panel_himax_hx8394] BTF: -22 insmod: ERROR: could not insert module panel-himax-hx8394.ko: Invalid parameters Then I added the module source code to the sources, but calling ./compile.sh seems to update the repo and revert my changes such as I do not see my m…

Hello All, Does someone knows a possible reason why AXP 209 on some boards are failing? That will result to an error message "Failed to set core voltage! Can't set CPU frequency". After that we cannot probe the i2c bus address of the AXP209 anymore. Hope someone can share some insights. U-Boot SPL 2015.10-rc5-gc387326-dirty (May 19 2016 - 19:02:38) DRAM: 1024 MiB Failed to set core voltage! Can't set CPU frequency Card did not respond to voltage select! …

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

Hi all, I'd like to compile latest kernel 4.11-rc7, so i added KERNELTAG="v4.11-rc7" to ./compile.sh and created file /userpatches/lib.config and added KERNELBRANCH="4.11" to it i also added to /lib/configuration.sh according to documentation ARMBIAN_MAINLINE_KERNEL_VERSION='4.11' # lock in a particular kernel version but i get this error : [ o.k. ] Using user configuration override [ userpatches/lib.config ] [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ o.k. ] Downloading sources [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ u-boot v2017.03 ] [ .... ] Up to date [ error ] ERROR in function fetch_from_repo [ general.sh:184 ] [ error ] Error in configuration [ o.k. ] Pr…

My objective is to boot Armbian on my NanoPi Neo2 from a network server. I've got Armbian running on the NanoPi Neo2 and u-boot recognizes the ethernet interface. Also, I have a DHCP server and TFTP server running. If I press space during start-up, I get in the U-boot environment. When I give the dhcp command in the U-boot environment, the NanoPi Neo2 get's an IP address and loads /boot/boot.scr from the network. So, the pre-requisites seem to work fine. But then.... I just can't figure out how to start Armbian (preferrably in read only mode) from the network. Maybe someone can tell me what needs to be done. I've got the following qu…

i.e. git clone -b main --depth 1 https://github.com/armbian/build.git cd build # I want to find out what kernel my board is building befor here. ./compile.sh kernel BOARD=orangepi5b BRANCH=vendor EXPERT=yes PREFER_DOCKER=yes KERNEL_GIT=shallow I need to do this so I can apply patches based on the selected kernel verison (e.g. 5.10, 6.1, 6.12) as they are all different patches due to Makefile changes. I don't see a clean way to do this with the builder unless I build the kernel first, search the kernel sources and then determine the kernel that way.

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

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

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

I'm building an Ubuntu image and after it compiles the ARM objects it tries to download files from ports.ubuntu.com. For a reason I'm still trying to figure out, it's trying to get files from 127.0.0.1 (which is weird) but that's fixable. What I'd like to do is resume a build that had failed without recompiling all the ARM objects again. I'm using compile.sh. Thanks! Kriston

Hello! I make an image for my device on the base Orange PI PC. As you know there is a built-in bad hardware RTC. There is no battery for clock. I make an image with the built-in off the RTC. It works fine! I want to connect RTC DS3231 or DS1307 i2c bus. How can I apply them in the kernel at boot time? How to tell the kernel that his master clock are i2s bus? How to remove fake-hwclock step build of the image? Sorry for bad english. I have tried

So, I am working on a Clearfog Pro here, having compiled a 4.14.17 kernel and built a Debian Buster image on the m2 ssd via debootstrap. The board boots, and all the network ports behave as expected, but for the SFP cage. After spending some time digging through menuconfig, and not finding the appropriate option, I hunted a little, and found that sfp.c, sfp-bus.c, and phylink.c are all in the kernel code, but no manner of configuration can access them. I have dug up a couple of patchsets which seem necessary, but the dts patches (2nd link, january 2nd-7th, 2017 patches, near the bottom of the page) at least seem not to be merged into the mainline tree. I have not exam…

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

This task was generated from http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1325-claim-a-task-set-due-date-and-start-doing-it/ Corresponding GitHub Issue 389 The initiative highlighted the need for a consistent way to track active tasks. This task provides a process to satisfy that requirement Tentative procedure demonstrated here https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib.docs/blob/master/docs/%5BProcess%5D-Armbian-Task-Tracking.md

I am trying to install perf on armbian. It happens that perf is dependent on the kernel release (see /usr/bin/perf, a shell script). I use kernel 4.10.0-sun8i, but the linux-tools installed are apparently for kernel 3.16: # uname -r 4.10.0-sun8i # apt-get install linux-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libdw1 libperl5.20 libpython2.7 linux-tools-3.16 Suggested packages: linux-doc-3.16 The following NEW packages will be installed: libdw1 libperl5.20 libpython2.7 linux-tools linux-tools-3.16 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and …

Hello, when I try apt update, I got this message: W: Failed to fetch http://apt.armbian.com/dists/jessie/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) My /etc/apt/sources.list.d: deb http://apt.armbian.com jessie main jessie-utils jessie-desktop Is any error on my side or how to correct this please? Thanx

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

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, 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

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)

I want to have a "dual boot" system with Openelec for video and Armbian for the rest :-) The boot files are named different except 'boot.scr'. So the idea is to rename it, so the right one is used and then do a reboot. Not the PC dual boot with a menu, but good enough for me :-D So I copied the files from the /boot folder to an existing FAT partition and copied the rest to a newly created ext4 partition (mmcblk0p3). I modified 'boot.scr' to this: gpio set PL10 gpio set PG11 setenv machid 1029 setenv bootm_boot_mode nonsec if fatload mmc 0 0x00000000 /boot/.verbose then setenv verbosity 7 else setenv verbosity 1 fi setenv bootargs "console=tty1 r…

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!

This task is complete, but creating topic for consistency. wha - USA - 50unattended-upgrades, issue #337 - June https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/issues/337 Needs a solved tag or other for this thanks @wha

You have a build framework that works pretty good, is it out of the question to have an extremely simple configuration framework? Maybe framework is more advanced than needed, probably just a script? It it doesn’t need to be part of the normal build process but could just simply inject a configuration profile into a completed rootfs, image or actual sd card Just the basics: Single network manager profile hostname default user and pass serial console config log2ram status remote login status (ssh, xrdp) I don’t mind writing a simple v0.1 to get started

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…

Kriston - USA - documentation rework - July, August Task from http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1325-claim-a-task-set-due-date-and-start-doing-it/page-4#entry11910 Github issue @Kriston please assign yourself github issue, and provide an update here if possible. I apologize in advance as I'm shuffling docs around to satisfy the Doc software task

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…

I have an orange pi lite and I'm building my (dev 4.10) image using the Armbian tools. So far I figured out how to enable the DT overlays located in /boot/dtb/overlays by editing the armbianEnv.txt file and adding overlays=sun8i-h3-uart1 sun8i-h3-uart2 sun8i-h3-uart3 sun8i-h3-i2c0 sun8i-h3-spi0-spidev This now enables the various uart, i2c and spi ports I wish to use and that works. I'm trying to now set up a ADS7846 Touch controller using DTB I have copied the file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raspberrypi/linux/rpi-4.4.y/arch/arm/boot/dts/overlays/ads7846-overlay.dts and run dtc -I dts -O dtb ads7846-overlay.dts -o /boot/dtb/overlays/ads7846-ove…

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.

Hello, for quite some time I have noticed that it seems impossible to build just the kernel, an image is built every time. I am using the following command: ./compile.sh BOARD=odroidxu4 BRANCH=current RELEASE=bullseye BUILD_MINIMAL=yes BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_ONLY="kernel" KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no USE_CCACHE=no KEEP_KERNEL_CONFIG=no DEB_COMPRESS=xz Additionally, output/debs seems not to be cleaned, despite documentation indicating this should happen with default CLEAN_LEVEL. Am I doing something wrong? Or does documentation need updating? Thanks!

Hi, Anyone here ever tried to build a mainline uboot for sunxi-3.4 kernel. As mentioned here v2015.10 support NAND spl. https://linux-sunxi.org/Mainline_U-Boot#v2015.10 I'm in the first part of doing it, but unfortunately I'm always stuck with this error. OBJCOPY examples/standalone/hello_world.srec OBJCOPY examples/standalone/hello_world.bin LDS u-boot.lds LD u-boot DTC arch/arm/dts/sun7i-a20-ainol-aw1.dtb In file included from arch/arm/dts/sun7i-a20-ainol-aw1.dts:10:0: arch/arm/dts/sun7i-a20.dtsi:47:54: fatal error: dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/arm-gic.h: No such file or directory #include <dt-bindings/interrupt-control…

How do i compile MT7601 Wifi Dongle Driver on armbian for orangepi one. I have an loboris image for Orangepi PC which has driver for MT7601. How i import driver from loboris kernel to armbian sd card. Please Help

madilabs - Martinique - Packaging for desktop video acceleration - June @madilabs Please provide status for your task here. Also please assign the github issue to yourself if possible

Has anyone been able to get kernel 4.???? to work on an orange Pi Pc?

Ever since I read through THIS POST a while back, I started digging through the cpufrequtils init script, and was a more or less disappointed with what I found. It's largely a product of the CPUs that were available around that time (eg - Pentium 3). Namely that all cores in the system are the same, and there's should be only one master policy that controls everything. Of course ARM big.LITTLE totally breaks these assumptions, and leaves the script with no viable way to specify different schedulers or frequency ranges for each CPU cluster. It still runs, but not really correctly. For example, you can't set the RK3399 little cores above 1.4 GHz, but that's basi…

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

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

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

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

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_…

xcasex - Sweden - desktop packaging - July, August Task from thread http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/user/1411-xcasex/ @xcasex please provide status here, and assign GitHub issue to yourself if possible

I am trying to work out how to add a 2560x1400 mode to the ViewSonic 32" 2560x1440 (16:9) display configuration that is not listed on the display settings configuration and should be there. Any tips on updating the configuration file, locally and then as a patch to Armbian please ?