Hello

 

I received my first OrangePi today, a Zero, and I'm a bit lost.  

 

Installed armbian xenial, upgraded to beta/dev and installed dev kernel as documented.  (working!)

 

But after this upgrade only one CPU core is in use. I've searched, and think my problem may be uboot, can anyone point me in the right direction?  (is there a working 4.x kernel with quadcore support?)

 

Thanks!

 

Info:

olekvi@orangepizero:~$ uname -a
Linux orangepizero 4.9.0-sun8i #16 SMP Fri Jan 6 05:03:52 CET 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux


olekvi@orangepizero:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 48.00
[..]


olekvi@orangepizero:~$ dpkg -l linux-u-boot-orangepizero-dev
[..]
ii  linux-u-boot-orangepizero-dev                    5.24.170107 

Try this auto build: https://img.armbian.com/orangepizero/Ubuntu_xenial_next_nightly.7z

Success!  

 

Thank you.

A short follow up; I've updated to the latest daily kernel every day after success, and everything I've tried are working as expected.  Great job guys!

Hello!

 

I have exactly the same issue on a different setup:

Orange PI+ 2e on Armbian Debian Jessie.

 

I need to switch to a more recent kernel because of docker.

May there be a solution as well for Jessie?

 

Thanks in advance!

6 hours ago, Neophyte said:

 

I need to switch to a more recent kernel because of docker.

May there be a solution as well for Jessie?

 

Follow this page: http://www.armbian.com/kernel/

AFAIK these packages should be enough:

linux-image-dev-sun8i
linux-firmware-image-dev-sun8i
linux-dtb-dev-sun8i

 

That leads to the issue, that only 1 CPU is online:

root@host:/sys/devices/system/cpu# cat online
0

root@host:/sys/devices/system/cpu# cat offline
1-3

root@host:~# uname -r
4.10.3-sun8i

root@host:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 22.85
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm 
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xc07
CPU revision    : 5

Hardware        : Allwinner sun8i Family
Revision        : 0000
Serial          : 02c00081090904b5

root@host:~# dmesg | fgrep CPU
[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc075] revision 5 (ARMv7), cr=50c5387d
[    0.000000] CPU: div instructions available: patching division code
[    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
[    0.002023] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[    0.002366] CPU0: update cpu_capacity 1024
[    0.002389] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
[    0.003476] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
[    0.004621] smp: Brought up 1 node, 1 CPU
[    0.004667] CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
[    5.105898] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs

root@host:~# lscpu
Architecture:          armv7l
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                4
On-line CPU(s) list:   0
Off-line CPU(s) list:  1-3
Thread(s) per core:    1
Core(s) per socket:    1
Socket(s):             1
Model name:            ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)
CPU max MHz:           1368.0000
CPU min MHz:           120.0000

 

2 minutes ago, Neophyte said:

That leads to the issue, that only 1 CPU is online

That's why this upgrade scenario is not recommended. If you are using the beta repository you can remove bootm_boot_mode line from /boot/armbianEnv.txt to fix this.

You made my day ... that worked - Thanks!

 

Which image should I have installed instead, as there are no nightly builds for my system: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-plus-2e/#nightly

1 minute ago, Neophyte said:

Which image should I have installed instead, as there are no nightly builds for my system: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-plus-2e/#nightly

There are no premade mainline nightlies for Plus 2e (yet), but I think that we don't need legacy desktop nightlies so I'll add a Xenial mainline to the config.

Is that possible for Jessie, too?

2 minutes ago, Neophyte said:

Is that possible for Jessie, too?

Xenial package base is newer than Jessie one, so it's preferred for the tests, and we usually don't add more image targets than needed for testing to conserve resources.

You can always build your own image if you need: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib

Ok, I understand.

Thank you for the support!