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i think there is not even useable nand support in the mainline allwinner kernel, so chances are close to zero to get this working currently

I understand, but would I be able to do it officially?

We don't support 3rd party forks

Good afternoon. I need a little help here. I managed to compile a working version for this board. However, it does not recognize the internal disk, which in this case is a nand. I used this repo: https://github.com/sicXnull/armbian-build.git Branch: X96Q-5.1-DDR3 Could someone help me?

Also Check your PSU if the problem is intermittent.

In one post here I saw a "please buy hardware we recommend" quote, and I appreciate that, but I wasn't able to find a recommended boards list - is there even one? Or should I just use the standard/platinum support filtering on the main page? Anyway, I could also use some help / recommendation for a general purpose SBC as I ... didn't by one for years. I'm looking for a more recent SBC to run a small, low power server (think pihole, homeassistant, zigbee, etc). I don't have specific requirements, but I'd like the board to have some kind of "long term support" and I'd also like to choose something that the armbian team would recommend, maybe from a manufacturer that supports armbian directly, or at least provides good documentation. Headless install, may use GPIO, at least 3 USB ports, built-in ethernet + wifi + BT (not sure if there's an SBC that would support zigbee natively?). And also, avoid using an SD card. Ability to use eMMC or SSD would be important. Where I'm coming from: I still run two first-gen Raspberry Pis as webcams + dataloggers (the 26 pin GPIO ones with 256 and 512 MB RAM respectively) and I used OrangePi One and Lite as two surprisingly stable servers for years (one a small postfix mailserver + datalogger, the other even running 4 docker containers). I like using low-level hardware to its limits🙂 I have recently upgraded to an already outdated OrangePi PC+ that I found in the drawer - at least it has 1 GB of RAM and I was starting running into limits with the 512 MB ones. So yeah - I don't need the top of the range SBC but something ... reasonably priced (think ~40 €) that will run well for years to come. I heard good stuff about the Radxa boards with Rockchip SoCs but I have no experience as I haven't bought new SBCs in ... years. Thanks in advance 🙂

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Hi, I got new H96 Max M9S and would like to ask some questions before flashing armbian on the device. 1. In this thread reset button is mentioned and I cannot find one on the case and neither on the board. Is there o photo of it or is it another name for maskrom switch? 2. I intend to flash from Linux, is the following method correct: - put device in maskrom mode - connect it to a computer by a USB A-A cable (to USB 2.0 port) - on a computer: rkdeveloptool ld (to list recognized devices) - on a computer: rkdeveloptool db RK3576_MiniLoaderAll.bin - on a computer: rkdeveloptool wl 0 h96_max_m9s_rk3576_20240930_1033.img - restart H96 Max M9S I also have a question regarding building Armbian image: which dtb file should I use to put in directory build/packages/blobs/h96-m9/ (is it H96-RK3576-BOX.dtb)? Best Regards and keep up the good work.

Having trouble with my klipper accelerometer every time the dtb is upgraded during a update/upgrade. I made this patch to fix the spi@5011000 { ...} section: 831c831 < status = "disabled"; --- > status = "okay"; 834a835,840 > spidev@0 { > compatible = "armbian,spi-dev"; > reg = <0x00>; > spi-max-frequency = <0xf4240>; > }; > And then dtc -I dtb -O dts -o sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dts /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dtb patch -b sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dtso opi3lts-dtb.patch dtc -I dts -O dtb -o /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dtb sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dts Not sure if this is a sane and safe way to do it, but it works for me at least. Hope it can find it's way in a sane form into a future release. Maybe it's better to do it in an overlay, rather than directly? opi3lts-dtb.patch

Hi, Not an expert here, but some educated guesses would be related to either timing, blocksizes towards the devices. Anything that might change or increase the amount of ATA commands towards the disks would be my bet to look at. You could experiment with enabling/disabling NCQ, reducing read-ahead, increasing chunksizes in case you use [software] RAID, increasing caching by tweaking vm options. Perhaps even the IO schedulers, there might have been some new IO schedulers introduced on the new kernel that show different behavior compared to the older kernel, etc. Groetjes,

Hi, If you want to know which kernel is used for your build, just run: ./compile.sh inventory-boards This will take some time. Open the resulting .csv file, which will contain all combinations possible. Groetjes,

I found an incredibly roundabout way of doing this. ./compile.sh \ kernel \ BOARD=$OPT_ARMBIAN_BOARD \ BRANCH=$OPT_ARMBIAN_KERNEL \ CLEAN_LEVEL=make,alldebs,images,cache \ EXPERT=yes \ PREFER_DOCKER=yes \ KERNEL_GIT=shallow KERNEL_CONFIG=$(find $KERNEL_DIR/cache/sources/linux-kernel-worktree -name .config) if [ ! -f $KERNEL_CONFIG ] then echo "Failed to find .config" exit 1 fi FULL_KERNEL_VERSION=$(cat $KERNEL_CONFIG | grep "Kernel Configuration" | grep -oE '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+') if [ "$FULL_KERNEL_VERSION" == "" ] then echo "Failed to get full kernel version." exit 1 fi

Thanks for the detailed description! Very useful post, especially for those who are just starting to tinker with Armbian on TV boxes. I had a similar situation with another S905X3 box - neither Wi-Fi nor Bluetooth worked, and there was trouble with HDMI audio. Special thanks for the advice on disabling unattended-upgrades and systemd-networkd-wait-online, I just encountered problems with long loading, now I understand where the legs are growing from. Regarding USB audio - an excellent solution, I didn't even know that it was so easy to bypass the lack of built-in sound. I will try with a similar adapter. If you have a chance, tell me later whether you managed to set up Wi-Fi via a USB adapter or in another way. And I wonder if you tried other window environments besides XFCE? LXQt, for example? In any case - a great guide, thanks for your work!

Description Currently, PocketBeagle 2 edge images cannot build (without patch 1) and fails to boot (without patch 3). The patch one just defines the missing variable for OPTEE. Patch 3 specifies root using path instead of UUID. For some reason, UUID does not work with PocketBeagle 2 U-boot. How Has This Been Tested? Tested on PocketBeagle 2 rev A0 Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Look at your board config file: config/boards/orangepi5b.csc In there you will find the board family, which in your case is: BOARDFAMILY="rockchip-rk3588" Then look at the corresponding board family config file: config/sources/families/rockchip-rk3588.conf There you will find a section for each branch (i.e vendor, current, edge) that will specify which kernel source is used: For BRANCH=vendor that would currently be: KERNELSOURCE='https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip.git' KERNELBRANCH='branch:rk-6.1-rkr5.1' KERNELPATCHDIR='rk35xx-vendor-6.1'

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.

Hi ... thanks for your hint. Actually I forced on the old system sata speed to 3.0 GB ... which I did not on the new installation. Setting also the link speed to 3.0 GB did however not solve the issue, I had to set it down to 1.5 GB. Now the issue seems to be gone. Performancewise it is not noticeable for harddisks, but for the SSD I have it is - need to look further into it. I'm just wondering what (still) the difference is. Forcing link speed down to 1.5 GB was not needed before ... I'm tending to exclude "hardware" as source of issues, as the hardware is in both cases identicial, no single cable touched. CU Alex

Description The idea is to introduce the possibility to cache downloads from GH runners to lower downstream bandwidth used and increase overall speed. Especially on machines with lots of runner this could save quite some bandwidth while sacrificing disk space. http caching has been tested and seem to work nicely. https caching is a lot more tricky and may be introduced later. This PR has two parts: set apt repository to http instead of https where possible. Packages are signed anyways. Pass various proxy environment variables to docker so it respects those. Doesn't make sense not to pass them since when using PREFER_DOCKER=no and any of these variables are set beforehand they just work. So this more or less just harmonizes overall behavior. There is still an issue on line 4838 caused by https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/c0da65087aad628ba0714f23d8d29800f152d97c/lib/functions/rootfs/apt-install.sh#L67 due to absence of apt proxy setting there. Not sure why this is not added here? How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] build random image: https://paste.armbian.de/xopitiguyo , look for 10.100.0.87 to see where it is used [x] built the same random image but having all proxy env variables unset beforehand: builds just fine as well: https://paste.armbian.de/ozidivugor Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Hi, without owning this board, chatgpt is pointing out to an initialisation issue of the bluetooth system caused by the GPIO pin not being correctly handled at boot. [ 6.024062] WCN: marlin chip en dummy pull up -- need manually set GPIO The correct solution would be to handle the init in the dtb file, but you can try the following systemd initialisation as a workaround to see if it works. Create (as root) the following service file /etc/systemd/system/bt-gpio.service with the contents: [Unit] Description=Enable GPIO for Bluetooth chip Before=bluetooth.service [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'echo 225 > /sys/class/gpio/export || true; echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio225/direction; echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio225/value' [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Then enable it (as root): systemctl daemon-reexec systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable bt-gpio.service Reboot and check if the bluetooth starts correctly. Post the boot log if it does not.

Description Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed. Please also include relevant motivation and context. List any dependencies that are required for this change. This PR adds the RT kernel config file for TI devices. If RT_KERNEL=yes is passed as an argument to ./compile.sh, a PREEMPT_RT image is built. How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. Tested this on SK-AM62B. Test 1: boot test: the board successfully booted Test 2: uname -a test: PREEMPT_RT string was present in the output, thus suggesting that its indeed an RT image Test 3: zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i RT: Further confirmed that the PREEMPT_RT config is enabled in the running image Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] My changes generate no new warnings cc: @glneo @Grippy98 @nmenon @sadik-smd View the full article

direct boot from nvme isn't possible. Boot loader (u-boot to say) must be present on SPI, eMMC or microSD.

try: sudo gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 93D6889F9F0E78D5 sudo gpg --export 93D6889F9F0E78D5 | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/armbian-configng.gpg > /dev/null

sudo armbian-config

Put a multi meter on the PSU you are using to power the pi a flakey PSU can cause strange intermittent issues same for router.

Related issue: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/8261 Currently resolved for the beta repository. Now it's possible to switch to beta, update base-files and switch back to `apt.armbian.com`. Fixing for stable marked as "todo".