alchemist

Hi,
 
I am trying to update the patch for kernels 6.10 and 6.11 (same code).
My first try was not successful (compile error), I will try again, I think I've understood what the patch will do, but there are a lot off differences between kernel versions 6.6 and 6.10, maybe some new lines need to be patched too.

Once it compiles and runs fine on my helios 4, I will provide the patch 😉
 
Kind regards,
Xavier.

the fix is also present in 6.5.8 🙂
DWC3 USB ports are back !

Finally OK with vanilla 5.16 kernel.
 
I have to edit the UDEV rule in order to alias fan1 and fan2 to fan-p6 and fan-p7, see the lines "fan1" and "fan2":
 
# Helios64 persistent hwmon ACTION=="remove", GOTO="helios64_hwmon_end" # KERNELS=="p6-fan", SUBSYSTEMS=="platform", ENV{_HELIOS64_FAN_}="p6", ENV{_IS_HELIOS64_FAN_}="1", ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}="1" KERNELS=="p7-fan", SUBSYSTEMS=="platform", ENV{_HELIOS64_FAN_}="p7", ENV{_IS_HELIOS64_FAN_}="1", ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}="1" KERNELS=="2-004c", SUBSYSTEMS=="i2c", DRIVERS=="lm75", ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}="1" KERNELS=="thermal_zone0", SUBSYSTEMS=="thermal", ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}="1" KERNELS=="fan1", SUBSYSTEMS=="platform", ENV{_HELIOS64_FAN_}="p6", ENV{_IS_HELIOS64_FAN_}="1", ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}="1" KERNELS=="fan2", SUBSYSTEMS=="platform", ENV{_HELIOS64_FAN_}="p7", ENV{_IS_HELIOS64_FAN_}="1", ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}="1" SUBSYSTEM!="hwmon|thermal", GOTO="helios64_hwmon_end" ENV{HWMON_PATH}="/sys%p" # ATTR{type}=="soc-thermal", ENV{HWMON_PATH}="/sys%p/temp", ENV{HELIOS64_SYMLINK}="/dev/thermal-cpu/temp1_input", RUN+="/usr/bin/mkdir /dev/thermal-cpu/" ATTR{name}=="cpu|cpu_thermal", ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}="1", ENV{HELIOS64_SYMLINK}="/dev/thermal-cpu" # ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}=="1", ATTR{name}=="lm75", ENV{HELIOS64_SYMLINK}="/dev/thermal-board" ENV{_IS_HELIOS64_FAN_}=="1", ENV{HELIOS64_SYMLINK}="/dev/fan-$env{_HELIOS64_FAN_}" # ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}=="1", RUN+="/bin/ln -sf $env{HWMON_PATH} $env{HELIOS64_SYMLINK}" LABEL="helios64_hwmon_end"  

Hi,
 
I thought this forum did support on the Helios{4,64} regardless of the OS since Kobol is now closed.
More, the issues I encounter testing the Armbian patches can be helpful for the future Armbian releases (I had the eMMC issues long time before many Armbian users were impacted with the Buster update).
I did tried to apply the Armbian patches for kernel 5.15, but they fail because Helios4 and 64 are now mainlined.
 
But not problem, I will try to fix it by myself, and report back the solution here. I have the skills to do it.
BTW I have the same issue with vanilla kernel 5.15 and Helios4. I will test it first on the helios4 because it's not used anymore.
 
Kind regards,
Xavier Miller

Hi,
 
I thought this forum did support on the Helios{4,64} regardless of the OS since Kobol is now closed.
More, the issues I encounter testing the Armbian patches can be helpful for the future Armbian releases (I had the eMMC issues long time before many Armbian users were impacted with the Buster update).
I did tried to apply the Armbian patches for kernel 5.15, but they fail because Helios4 and 64 are now mainlined.
 
But not problem, I will try to fix it by myself, and report back the solution here. I have the skills to do it.
BTW I have the same issue with vanilla kernel 5.15 and Helios4. I will test it first on the helios4 because it's not used anymore.
 
Kind regards,
Xavier Miller

Hi!
 
I am trying the vanilla 5.15 kernel which has support for helios64.
The system is booting, disks, MMC and network are working.
 
But fancontrol fails.
It seems the /sys entries have changed and the udev rules are not working.
 
I've tried to understand the wiki page in order to adapt the udev rules and fancontrol config file but I am a little bit lost.
Is there updated versions of those config files?
 
Kind regards,
Xavier Miller.
 

YEAH !
I can compile and boot linux-5.10.63, I only had to disable the rk3328 patches because some patches were rejected.
 
I booted from sdcard, updated the /boot folder, then rebooted from eMMC and I can again run and write on the eMMC :-)
 
 
EDIT: and upgraded to 5.10.64 this weekend without any issue
 

Hi!
 
If I remove the patches that don't compile and adapt the other ones, the resulting kernel is having issues with eMMC or unbootable kernel (u-boot does bootloops).
 
I even tried some older versions that did work (i.e. recompile one of my ancient kernels with vanilla sources + gentoo patches +  armbian patches) and it fails. But I didn't do it with method, I wanted to have a stable kernel to have back my "production" home server.
 
The kernel I run is now " 5.10.34-gentoo #1 SMP Mon May 3 10:47:06 CEST 2021 aarch64 GNU/Linux", the version I had in one backup. After May 3 2021 I had issues with u-boot (kernel did not boot) or not compiling patches.
 
I can help you (armbian poeple) to point the problems. In fact, I would like to rebuild all the provides binaries (u-boot, kernel) myself in order to understand how they are working and configured.
 
 

I am talking about patches provided by armbian. They still continue to support our Helios64 :-)

yeah, but the feeling is less than 2 seconds. Can it because the flashing starts after the message (no lit, then lit)?
 
Meanwhile, I have my custom kernel and OS (Gentoo Linux), they run fine :-)

Hi!
 
This patch works fine with linux 5.2.9 :-)
 

Hi Thanks!
I will take a try for this patch and tell you if it works for me.
 
Really nice board, it's responsive and well documented

Hi!
 
I will then boot from SPI NOR flash. The boot order is OK, I can then boot a "system rescue" from USB, or run armbian on sd as fall-back.
 
I can run Gentoo with one binary linked on the wiki page you pointed out, empty environment, and a minimal boot.scr on SATA