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Hi! I have an old Allwinner A10 based tablet that runs on Android. I want to install some other OS on it. I tried the instructions on linux-sunxi.org and created a page for the tablet: https://linux-sunxi.org/Softwinners_crane I extracted the FEX file from an image I got from the manufacturers a long time ago: http://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-boards/pull/72/files The linux-sunxi mailing list pointed out that my tablet is similar to Topwise A721, so I used that dts file to compile u-boot and the kernel, and tried to boot it through an SD card. Trying to boot that, u-boot starts, and then gets stuck at "Starting kernel..." Then I found this: After following this and building armbian, I realised that there is no script.bin to replace anymore (I'm guessing because now we use device trees?), so unable to boot this as well. What should I do to make this work with armbian? My guess is that I need to create a new dts or correct the Topwise A721 dts (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm/boot/dts/allwinner/sun4i-a10-topwise-a721.dts) and then try again. The only problem is that I have no experience with device trees. Would really appreciate help on getting this to work, thanks! :)

Hi Yordan, Are you sure you have correctly enabled the i2c overlay on your board? what is the output of cat /boot/armbianEnv.txt? If something is showing up even with nothing apparently connected they your are likely targeting a different bus. It is possible what you are seeing is the address of the internal pmic although this normal shows up as UU. Best of luck Ryzer

All things being equal....... steve@fedora43:~$ uname -a Linux fedora43 6.16.0-0.rc0.250528gfeacb1774bd5.5.fc43.aarch64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed May 28 19:45:02 UTC 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux kernel-6.16.0-0.rc0.250529g90b83efa6701.6.fc43. created by jforbes 6 hours ago for Fedora 43 .

Hello. I wonder if this issue is connected to my issue - to show something on i2c, while there is nothing, and not be able to communicate on it ?

@Nick Aseems like that still didn't work. is there anything you do for your builds that is not on the github page? I'll look into it some more tomorrow.

Hello. I'm trying to communicate with i2c ( i've connected ADS1115 on it if this maters ), but even without anything connected on it - it shows 0x30 on it, and I am not sure how to make it works. Please help ! 😐

Beta repository. - should be on servers where we push on directly and this error can't occur (unless something broke down) - is the same quality as other Linux distributions (there is no other distro that would maintain those custom devices) - currently assembly is broken as some patches are failing and thus (beta) repo is not getting any updates until its fixed https://github.com/armbian/os/actions/runs/15337468717/job/43160986093

But still possible You can also switch manually to a fixed mirror from the list here: https://docs.armbian.com/Mirrors/

Since you are on current you cannot expect a major bump until the next LTS kernel is released. current will receive security fixes only. If you want something more recent you need to switch to edge kernels which follow non-LTS mainline kernel releases.

Hi Providing logs with PASTE_SERVER_HOST=paste.armbian.de armbianmonitor -u helps with troubleshooting and significantly raises chances that issue gets addressed.

I've got a ROCK 5B+ with two NVMe drives installed, and for reasons I've not been able to track down, I'm noticing that the `-edge` releases (Kernel 6.14.6) are not able to display more than one of the NVMe drives at once. I've checked various physical configurations (i.e., slot one, slot two, both slots), and only one slot is presented (i.e., output from `lspci` or `lsblk`) – but it doesn't seem to matter whether its slot one or two. If I use a `-vendor` images (6.1.115), I see both devices and can use them without problems. I'd love to be able to provide more information or help debug, but I'm not quite sure where to start here! Cheers Andrew

I noticed the clock speeds not dropping below 1000Mhz also when using the current kernel 6.12 Hopefully 6.14 will address these and let the cores clock down further when it's released to OPi5+ through an apt update.

You seem to take offense at anything that is not rah rah armbian. I can assure you that no offense was intended. Btw, I'm well aware of autonation but the guy that does most of their mainline compiling is a guy named J Forbes and I believe there is another guy who's name I can't remember off the top of my head. The main reason for my previous post was to find out if anyone has analog sound on the opi5+ when running mainline/uefi but apparently that slip right by you. Perhaps you should read my post again!

Greetings to all; For a few hours now, as of today 2025-05-29 1418 North America/Pacific, I have been unable to update apt, receiving the following two error messages: E: Failed to fetch http://beta.armbian.com/dists/bookworm/Contents-armhf File has unexpected size (2085376 != 51213). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 23.186.113.5 80] E: Failed to fetch http://beta.armbian.com/dists/bookworm/Contents-all File has unexpected size (44878 != 8029). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 23.186.113.5 80] I suppose it is possible that the "mirror sync" mentioned is taking a very long time, but this seems unlikely to me. Does anyone have any ideas?

@jwillb00 I have a newer build with kernel 6.14. https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/tree/v20250407 Also, if you choose to change the kernel configuration using the build system it will screw up the kernel configuration file. I think it leaves out the configs from the patches. For example ac200 phy needed for Ethernet. https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/blob/v20250306/patch/kernel/archive/warpme-6.12/0505-net-phy-Add-support-for-AC200-EPHY.patch I edit the configuration file using a text editor and add the modules manually.

@Nick A unfortunately, that didn't seem to work. The ethernet interface does not appear when I run ip a when using an image built like this.

/_\ _ _ _ __ | |__(_)__ _ _ _ / _ \| '_| ' \| '_ \ / _` | ' \ /_/ \_\_| |_|_|_|_.__/_\__,_|_||_| v25.5.1 for Orange Pi Zero2W running Armbian Linux 6.12.23-current-sunxi64 Packages: Ubuntu stable (noble) Updates: Kernel upgrade enabled and 17 packages available for upgrade Support: DIY (community maintained) IPv4: (LAN) 192.168.***.***, 192.168.***.*** (WAN) ***.***.***.*** IPv6: *** Performance: Load: 11% Up time: 4 min Local users: 3 Memory usage: 24% of 1.93G CPU temp: 45°C Usage of /: 10% of 58G Commands: Configuration : armbian-config Upgrade : armbian-upgrade Monitoring : htop orangepi@orangepizero2w:~$ It boots into xfce wifi works, eth works and hdmi work. 2gb board with keyboard plugged into expansion board.

@remolaan I think this is the most current info that may help you:

I own a CM3588 NAS board from FriendlyElec. The eMMC drive was factory-installed with the FriendlyElec version of OpenMediaVault, and any other FriendlyElec or Armbian image could be booted from an SD card. After installing the current version of Armbian OpenMediaVault (Debian 12 Bookworm - Armbian Linux v6.1 Build Date: Mar 6, 2025) on eMMC and updating bootloader via armbian-config (option Boot from eMMC + system on eMMC), nothing else can be booted from the SD card except Armbian images. Please, is there a simple way to fix bootloader back to original option of booting FriendlyElec images from SD card without having to erase entire eMMC drive? Boot from SD card does not work even for FriendlyElec automatic eflasher (SD to eMMC) images. I have Windows 11 and RKDevTool 3.30 is quite confusing and too complex software for me. PS. Does the CM3588 NAS board have SPI NOR flash? And how can I upload UEFI 1.1 boot (https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588) to eMMC or to SPI NOR?

Automation, not guys And they it can't be quicker then others elsewhere. Armbian adds a value on top of this. We have our EDGE kernels attached to latest mainline with additional stuff from Collabora and additional stuff from our own work. They are released daily in beta channels, which here doesn't have any fancy name (rawhide). https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/sources/families/include/rockchip64_common.inc#L36 https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/sources/mainline-kernel.conf.sh#L7-L14

I moved them to production already as I got another report they are working - so they are the same, but also community build images are mixed with those links ... this needs to be fixed eventually. Thank you for comprehensive testings. Here is image for 2w if anyone have it laying around: https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/incoming/igorpecovnik/orangepizero2w/archive/

Hello again, I am struggling to install armbian on my H96Max (blue PCB RK3318_V1.4, 4G/64G). The Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_Rk3318-box_bullseye_edge_5.19.15_minimal.img image works OK (at least for the display). All the new images fail to initialise the display (a 4K HDMI monitor), either using *_minimal.img or *_gnome_desktop.img I managed to install the latest (Armbian_community_25.8.0-trunk.8_Rk3318-box_noble_current_6.12.28_gnome_desktop.img) image using the serial console. Kernel is 6.12.28 I can now connect using ssh on ethernet (the WIFI does not work yet...) I get in syslog and dmesg a LOT of the following errors: [ 2683.281403] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 2683.281441] [CRTC:38:crtc-0] vblank wait timed out [ 2683.281570] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 50 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:1682 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x238/0x25c [ 2683.281629] Modules linked in: cfg80211 rfcomm algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg bnep sunrpc snd_soc_hdmi_codec hci_uart btqca hantro_vpu btrtl btintel crct10dif_ce rockchip_vdec(C) v4l2_jpeg v4l2_vp9 btbcm rockchip_rga v4l2_h264 bluetooth videobuf2_dma_contig snd_soc_spdif_tx gpio_ir_recv videobuf2_dma_sg rc_core v4l2_mem2mem rfkill videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 dw_hdmi_i2s_audio videodev dw_hdmi_cec lima snd_soc_simple_card videobuf2_common snd_soc_rockchip_spdif snd_soc_rockchip_i2s snd_soc_rk3328 snd_soc_simple_card_utils gpu_sched drm_shmem_helper mc snd_soc_core rk_crypto snd_compress rng_core snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore cpufreq_dt joydev zram zsmalloc binfmt_misc sch_fq_codel dm_mod autofs4 dwmac_rk stmmac_platform stmmac pcs_xpcs nvmem_rockchip_efuse rockchipdrm dw_hdmi_qp gpio_syscon dw_hdmi cec dw_mipi_dsi analogix_dp drm_display_helper adc_keys [ 2683.282340] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 50 Comm: kworker/u16:2 Tainted: G B WC 6.12.28-current-rockchip64 #1 [ 2683.282375] Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE, [W]=WARN, [C]=CRAP [ 2683.282389] Hardware name: Rockchip RK3318 BOX (DT) [ 2683.282409] Workqueue: events_unbound commit_work [ 2683.282446] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 2683.282471] pc : drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x238/0x25c [ 2683.282499] lr : drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x238/0x25c [ 2683.282531] sp : ffff8000809dbcb0 [ 2683.282542] x29: ffff8000809dbce0 x28: 00000000000007d5 x27: 0000000000000000 [ 2683.282580] x26: 0000000000000001 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff6d33cdf68000 [ 2683.282616] x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff6d33cc6f6280 [ 2683.282654] x20: ffff6d33cdf70080 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: ffffffffffffffff [ 2683.282691] x17: 000000040044ffff x16: 00500072b5503510 x15: ffff8000809db860 [ 2683.282727] x14: 00000000ffffffea x13: ffff8000809db9f8 x12: ffffd4f64aa4ac10 [ 2683.282768] x11: 0000000000032030 x10: 0000000000031fe0 x9 : 0000000000024330 [ 2683.282805] x8 : c0000000fffff822 x7 : ffffd4f64a99aa18 x6 : 0000000000084bb0 [ 2683.282842] x5 : ffff6d34be7424c8 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000027 [ 2683.282878] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff6d33c4c4c600 [ 2683.282918] Call trace: [ 2683.282932] drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x238/0x25c [ 2683.282962] drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail_rpm+0x84/0xa0 [ 2683.282992] commit_tail+0xa4/0x18c [ 2683.283019] commit_work+0x14/0x20 [ 2683.283043] process_one_work+0x16c/0x3e4 [ 2683.283073] worker_thread+0x2d0/0x3d8 [ 2683.283097] kthread+0x10c/0x110 [ 2683.283123] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 [ 2683.283151] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- This seems to come from the accelerated graphic driver. The corresponding function can be seen there: drm_atomic_helper.c This function waits for receiving a vertical blanking pulse that never comes, so the warning at line 1679 is triggered. I don't intend to do hard-core graphics so I don't care about graphic performance. In fact this lovely box will be used for hosting a headless server. Is there a way to use a legacy or un-accelerated graphic driver? If not, how could I remove entirely the graphic subsystem and use only character mode? Thanks! Michel EDIT: In fact the first warning occurs when switching to the colour frame buffer device: ... rk_gmac-dwmac ff550000.ethernet: Enable RX Mitigation via HW Watchdog Timer May 29 19:00:08 h96max kernel: rk_gmac-dwmac ff550000.ethernet: device MAC address de:10:75:60:c0:cb May 29 19:00:08 h96max kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x45 May 29 19:00:08 h96max kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ May 29 19:00:08 h96max kernel: [CRTC:38:crtc-0] vblank wait timed out May 29 19:00:08 h96max kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 74 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:1682 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x238/0x25c May 29 19:00:08 h96max kernel: Modules linked in: dwmac_rk stmmac_platform stmmac pcs_xpcs nvmem_rockchip_efuse gpio_syscon rockchipdrm dw_hdmi_qp dw_hdmi cec dw_mipi_dsi analogix_dp drm_display_helper adc_keys May 29 19:00:08 h96max kernel: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 74 Comm: kworker/u16:5 Tainted: G B 6.12.28-current-rockchip64 #1 May 29 19:00:08 h96max kernel: Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE ... So I suspect that not switching to a FB could solve my problem