Hello,

 

I have installed the minimal Trixie based image for Orange Pi5 (the image named Armbian_26.2.1_Orangepi5_trixie_current_6.18.8_minimal) and then attempted to build an out-of-tree kernel module. Having installed dkms and build-essentials, plus the kernel headers through armbian-config, I found the headers package hasn't been fully set-up, the build symlink in /lib/modules/<KVER> is missing and dkms complains that the kernel headers for the kernel are not installed.

 

 The kernel headers are installed though, but it looks like they're from a previous release (25.11.2 instead of 26.2.1).

 

# dpkg -l | grep rockchip
ii  linux-dtb-current-rockchip64      26.2.1                         arm64        Armbian Linux current DTBs in /boot/dtb-6.18.8-current-rockchip64
ii  linux-headers-current-rockchip64  25.11.2                        arm64        Armbian Linux current headers 6.12.58-current-rockchip64
ii  linux-image-current-rockchip64    26.2.1                         arm64        Armbian Linux current kernel image 6.18.8-current-rockchip64

 

 

 

 It the headers package still pending packaging ? Shouldn't armbian-config provide an error in this case and not install the old kernel headers ?

 

EDIT: armbianmonitor ouput - https://paste.armbian.com/oliyalebeq

Edited March 15Mar 15 by mitu

Yes, they seem to be missing in repo. 

As a quick fix I'd suggest to use the build framework to create yourself a set of deb files containing all necessary packages

./compile.sh BOARD=orangepi5 BRANCH=current kernel

copy the packages from output/debs to your board and use dpkg to install them.

If I'm building the .deb file manually, is there a way to build with kernel 6.19 for the OrangePi5 ? Can I use the edge branch (instead of current) for this ?

 

While I don't mind waiting for the package to build, if I can build the bsp/kernel/headers for 6.19 I can give it a try. 

EDITED for formatting.

Edited March 15Mar 15 by mitu

No. edge will give you 7.0-rc3 since it was bumped recently.

You can try to revert this commit to get 6.19. No guarantee it works, nor any support will be given.

https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/9445

Eh, I can try the 7.0 rc package and see how they behave, as long as it's 6.19 or later is fine. Thanks for the pointers.

OK, so that went reasonably fast and produced the 4 kernel debs. The linux-libc-dev-edge-rockchip64 didn't install due to conflict with the (current/stable) linux-libc-dev package - I think this is expected - but the rest of the kernel packages have been succesfully installed and the dkms error seems resolved.