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just wanted to check if there is plan to have an image for the Rock 3B model? update: just tested the latest image for Rock 3A, and it is working ok. version: Armbian 25.2.1 Bookworm Minimal/IOT Kernel: 6.12.13, Size: 266.4 MB, Release date: Feb 13, 2025 I will run a few docker containers to see if there are any issues.

Once done, you should be able to login and run the following to see the Mali g610 recognized as a Vulkan device... vulkaninfo --summary

Hey everyone, for the past couple of days I've been looking into the Mesa-VPU script made by AmazingFate that's used to patch Mesa/VPU onto a custom build of Armbian. https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/extensions/mesa-vpu.sh I already have an install of Armbian (Debian XFCE 6.12.28-current-rockchip64 ) on my Rock5b and was looking into applying as much as I can without re-building an image or starting from scratch. From my understanding, You'd need the vendor rk3588 kernel if you want the best possible compatibility with things like the VPU for multimedia acceleration (Someone please correct me if this is not the case lol) What follows is what I was able to piece together after troubleshooting, reading the Mesa changelog & trying to apply as many packages as I can from AmazingFate's kernel extension script. I've also included some tweaks for XFCE to hopefully provide a smooth graphical experience. Although my Rock5b is used as a headless server and doesnt have anything plugged into the HDMI port, I can say that the following changes have made a huge difference in graphical performance of VNC. Please keep in mind that i'm not a developer for Armbian. I just wanted to share this as a guide i've put together to hopefully help someone else who's tried the same (Please let me know your thoughts or if there was anything i've missed. Like I said, this is what has worked for me) (Obviously the correct fix is to rebuild Armbian with Mesa-VPU. What follows was done as an experiment) #################### GUIDE BELOW. THIS IS NOT A SHELL SCRIPT! PLEASE READ AND DO NOT COPY/PASTE ENTIRETY INTO TERMINAL!############################# #### -- 01 Setup AmazingFate Panfork-Mesa repo for mali-g610-firmware 01 -- #### ## 1A: import gpg key and use it to sign repo ## wget -qO - https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/amazingfate:/panfork-mesa/Debian_12/Release.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/panfork-mesa.gpg ## 1B: Add Repo to apt sources & update ## echo "deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/amazingfate:/panfork-mesa/Debian_12/ /" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/panfork-mesa.list sudo apt update ## 1C: Install firmware ## sudo apt install mali-g610-firmware libmali-g610-x11 ## 1D: **RECOMMENDED** : Remove panfork-mesa repo ## sudo rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/panfork-mesa.list sudo rm -rf /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/panfork-mesa.gpg #### -- 02 Enable Debian Experimental Repo for recent Mesa Packages 02 -- #### sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list ## 2A: Add the following to the bottom of the document... ## deb http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian experimental main ## 2B: Update and install Mesa Packages ## sudo apt update sudo apt install -t experimental mesa-vulkan-drivers mesa-utils libgl1-mesa-dri libglx-mesa0 mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-va-drivers mesa-opencl-icd mesa-libgallium ## 2C: **RECOMMENDED** : Re-open apt sources and remove Experimental/Unstable repos... ## sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list #Remove the following and update apt...# deb http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian experimental main sudo apt update #### -- 03 Add rockchip-multimedia Ubuntu Repo to Apt 03 -- #### echo "deb [arch=arm64] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/liujianfeng1994/rockchip-multimedia/ubuntu jammy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rockchip-multimedia.list ## 3A: Download Key and add convert to gpg ## curl -o rockchip-multimedia.asc "https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8065BE1FC67AABDE" gpg --dearmor rockchip-multimedia.asc sudo mv rockchip-multimedia.asc.gpg /etc/apt/keyrings/rockchip-multimedia.gpg ## 3B: Add PPA Repo and update ## echo "deb [arch=arm64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/rockchip-multimedia.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/liujianfeng1994/rockchip-multimedia/ubuntu jammy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rockchip-multimedia.list sudo apt update ## 3C: Install packages ## sudo apt install libv4l-rkmpp chromium gstreamer1.0-rockchip1 rockchip-multimedia-config ## 3D: **OPTIONAL** : Disable rockchip-multimedia PPA repo ## sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rockchip-multimedia.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rockchip-multimedia.list.disabled sudo apt update #### -- 04 Optimize XFCE/Xorg and Reboot 04 -- #### ## 4A: Open default xorg config ## sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/01-armbian-defaults.conf #Add the following... # Section "Device" Identifier "Mali-G610" Driver "modesetting" Option "DRI" "3" # Required for Mali GPUs Option "GALLIUM_DRIVER" "panfrost" Option "PageFlip" "on" # Reduces tearing Option "TearFree" "true" # Xfce-specific anti-tearing EndSection ## 4B: Add XFCE Specific tweaks ## sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-xfce-tweaks.conf #Add the following... # Section "Extensions" Option "COMPOSITE" "Enable" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddGPU" "off" # Prevents duplicate GPU detection EndSection ## 4C: Reboot ## sudo reboot now

HDMI audio has been merged into 6.15. Board may need additional device tree nodes to make it work. Analog audio should work already as well bug may also need additional nodes. Collabora sent for Rock5B and 5B+ only upstream. https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md

That doesn't work then. The point is to get audio working. We still have a bit of a wait until a proper 6.15 kernel is there.

This should produce an image. That's not needed since it is default anyway.

if NAMESERVER is not set it falls back to default 1.1.1.1 A while ago I made a hack to enforce using whatever hosts nameserver is:https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/e03b1b543cda430fbffcb62c979aecabee42b044/config/templates/config-example.conf.template#L25

hello. Armbian 25.08 for Rockpi 4a executed dtc -O dtb -o rockchip-pwm-gpio.dtbo -b 0 -@ rockchip-pwm-gpio.dts. copied dtbo to /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlays. There is none in /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip1 . /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip0 is available. I can't create the pwmchip1 pwmchip2 folder. Operation not permitted

After the last update/upgrade USB BUS 7 has completely disappeared! So no life at all on the USB-C port. The following packages were upgraded : linux-dtb-edge-rockchip64, armbian-bsp-cli-odroidm2-edge, linux-image-edge-rockchip64, linux-u-boot-odroidm2-edge, armbian-firmware I suspect linux-dtb-edge-rockchip64 is not the M2 specific package and it has over written the dtb. Also I can't seem to install the kernel headers from armbian-config. It appears to go through the motions but nothing is installed. Also where can I find a documentation on what each device overlay (in armbian-config) is for?

Hi, I've just ordered a Rock 3A and would install Debian 12 (Bookworm) with Home Assistant Application from your site as soon as the board arrives. My question: I also want to use evcc (another home automation appliance). It is available as an HA add-on but it is also mentioned in the docs as its own Armbian package. What is the right way to go? Install it as an add-on on Home Assistant or install it as an Armbian package?

I see. This package is done bad in first place. No wonder they decide to simply drop everything ... Most of people anyway use embedded HAOS. Then we should not adding updated packages to the repository anymore.

FYI: The following refers to a supervised installation done with armbian-config (starting from "community_25.5.0-trunk.370"). Not sure if the ready homeassistant Armbian images behave differently. Before apt-upgrading the system running homeassistant (supervised), I recommend a) doing a full image backup and b) locking homeassistant-supervised ("apt mark hold homeassistant-supervised"): Updating homeassistant-supervised with apt-upgrade first showed a selection box of the used hardware (none of them matched my rockchip64/rock 4c+ AFAIK - in despair I chose qemu-aarch64), afterwards homeassistant went into first initialization setup (the "wait ~20 minutes to set up" message). Not sure, if it would have somehow fixed itself - I reverted to the (full-image) backup once I saw that message. Having locked the supervised package beforehand, "apt upgrade" was able to update the system without breaking homeassistant (at least it looks like that so far).

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/armbian/build.git cd build ./compile.sh build BOARD=rk3328-heltec BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no EXPERT=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes KERNEL_GIT=shallow RELEASE=bookworm Can you help me take a look, right? Clone the library in this way, and then compile it

@rickg i send you a private message

Apparently the compile script or one of its libraries uses a fixed DNS server instead of the DHCP provided one. After disabling some pfSense rules I was able to successfully boot. However, it seems like still 2GB RAM is incorrectly shown: _ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ /_\ _ _ _ __ | |__(_)__ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ ___ / _|/ _(_)__(_)__ _| | / _ \| '_| ' \| '_ \ / _` | ' \___| || | ' \/ _ \ _| _| / _| / _` | | /_/ \_\_| |_|_|_|_.__/_\__,_|_||_| \_,_|_||_\___/_| |_| |_\__|_\__,_|_| v25.08 rolling for Orange Pi Zero3 running Armbian Linux 6.12.30-current-sunxi64 Packages: Debian stable (bookworm) Support: DIY (custom image) IPv4: --- Performance: Load: 20% Up time: 1 min Memory usage: 7% of 1.93G CPU temp: 45°C Usage of /: 9% of 15G Also, /dev/ttyS1 is not working, I used overlays=uart5 which enabled /dev/ttyS1 correctly using Armbian Debian Minimal image from the Download section. dmesg does not output anything related to ttyS1.

This reminds me of old issue on rpi forum, back to Debian10 times more or less when RPL did not support initramfs and I have been using Btrfs for RPis since Buster (or for sure Bullseye) timeframe. I loop mounted Armbian rolling rpi4 trixie image and ran it via systemd-nspawn -b -D <mountpoint> Then it turns out what I thought: the installed firmware package includes the script same as on Raspberry Pi OS from RPL themselves to copy/rename standard Debian kernel+modules install patch to the FAT boot partition. root@localhost:~# apt list | grep raspi raspi-config/trixie,trixie,now 20221214-0ubuntu1 all [installed] raspi-firmware/trixie,trixie,now 1:1.20250430-1 all [installed] raspi-gpio/trixie 0.20231127 arm64 raspi-utils/trixie,trixie 20250314-1 all root@localhost:~# dpkg -L raspi-firmware | grep z50 /etc/initramfs/post-update.d/z50-raspi-firmware /etc/kernel/postinst.d/z50-raspi-firmware /etc/kernel/postrm.d/z50-raspi-firmware And it is this part of z50-raspi-firmware flavour="$(echo "$initrd_version" | rev | cut -f1 -d- | rev)" case $flavour in v6|v7|v7l|v8|2712) ;; *) echo "ERROR: Unsupported initramfs version ($initrd_version)" exit 0 ;; esac On 1 of my RPi4 I had also the standard Debian kernel 'linux-image-arm64' besides the RPi kernel 'linux-image-rpi-v8' and grub-efi. So when the bootFAT parttition is tagged 0xEF00 (ESP) I could run the image/SD-card unmodified in virt-manager selecting the vanilla Debian kernel in GRUB. I have thought a lot about what to do with those hook scripts in /etc/initramfs, also created various own ones, for Raspberry Pi OS and Raspbian and Armbian. The latter as it is U-Boot (on Rockchip/Allwinner) but just recently I put EDK2-UEFI v1.1 in SPI-flash and that makes all the efforts void as I now use default grub to load Armbian (and Opensuse) on RK3588. For RPi (3, 4, 5) this won't work unless some intermediate efi binary loader is used like is done in Opensuse, for Fedora maybe as well, I don't know. Still this won't work for RPi5 (yet) as its RP1 chip is a bottleneck for upstream support (complex PCI-E DeviceTree handling, see patches efforts done by Suse people AFAIR). With introduction of Bookworm, the RPi firmware can load standard names for initramfs for all RPi HW variants back till 2012. But still no way to select a specific kernel adhoc at boot time via serial console for example (like extlinux.conf for U-Boot). The U-Boot v.s. RPI-firmwarebootloader feels a bit like UNIX pathnames v.s. MS-DOS pathnames, e.g. "/tmp" v.s. "C:\TEMP" or "Image" v.s. "kernel8.img" or "uInitrd" v.s. "initramfs8". Maybe the option is to patch z50-raspi-firmware, maybe remove it from the .deb package. But also it is just a warning, so who cares one could think. Other option is to use the vanilla Debian variant of raspi-firmware root@localhost:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt list -a raspi-firmware raspi-firmware/trixie,trixie,now 1:1.20250430-1 all [installed] raspi-firmware/testing 1.20240424+ds-6 all That older version has other script implementation (very different), also uses upstream_kernel=1 in config.txt, which selects other firmware DTB names for Pi3. Now writing this, I think 'vendor' could be downstream RPL based, so new firmware package and 'current' and 'edge' could be upstream mainline. But that also would mean almost no RPi5 functionality as long as that RP1 I/O chip functionality is not upstreamed. I don't know what status is, latest I know is that the wired ethernet still does not work, workaround is to use a RJ45 USB2 dongle on the USB-C connector.

I don't know if this method works for rknpu enable @Hqnicolas https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/e03b1b543cda430fbffcb62c979aecabee42b044/patch/u-boot/v2024.10/board_orangepi3b/0001-rockchip-rk3566-orangepi-3b-enable-npu-regulator.patch#L4

Source code(tar.gz)Download this source code? Then run your command to build an img flash?./compile.sh build BOARD=rk3328-heltec BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no EXPERT=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes KERNEL_GIT=shallow RELEASE=bookworm

Interesting, didnt realize that.

Thank you for reporting. If current images have troubles, you can try to use previous ones. There is a link on the download pages or you can find them this way. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/52406-helios-64-fails-to-boot-since-upgrading-to-bookworm/#comment-219614 Which works best for your case, you will need to find on your own. We don't store this information / forum search might help. Similar goes with 3rd party images - most are Armbian based and none is in perfect state, things break apart all the time. By providing logs (if possible) someone might give you hints to workaround the problem, without hardly. As I understand from your report - image boots, but USB port doesn't work to enter password? And also network is down, so you can't login remote. I haven't tested HC4 on last builds, but C4 works just fine. In any case, fixing the problem can take some time - Hardkernel never supported our work, so we don't have active maintainer at stand by. It depends on volunteers that read this forum. When they notice and found time to look into this.

Hi @Werner, Not to pick nits, but 7 is the highest level (lowest priority) you can give a printk() statement. To make them appear however, the loglevel of the printk() needs to be smaller than the loglevel of the console, meaning the [console] loglevel needs to be 7+1: loglevel= [KNL,EARLY] All Kernel Messages with a loglevel **smaller** than the console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can also be changed with klogd or other programs. The loglevels are defined as follows: Also, the following text also steers into the direction of using 8 instead of 7 to show all printk() messages: To change the current console_loglevel simply write the desired level to ``/proc/sys/kernel/printk``. For example, to print all messages to the console:: # echo 8 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk (Taken from https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/core-api/printk-basics.rst.) Grt,

As the Armbian project transitions from spring into summer, the final week of May 2025 brought a dense flurry of development activity, delivering improvements across kernel support, bootloader updates, system performance, and user experience enhancements. With over 35 pull requests merged, this week showcased the Armbian community’s continued dedication to modernizing and stabilizing its build framework and board support packages. Performance & Build System Optimizations A notable performance enhancement arrived via #8248, where build engineer @rpardini delivered a major speed-up in Docker extension handling, cutting processing time by over 50%. Complementing this, PR #8249 addressed inefficiencies in rootfs-to-image by avoiding --sparse, significantly improving I/O speeds on various filesystems. Kernel version parsing and custom kernel description functionality also landed with #8152, thanks to @Grippy98, enabling displaying kernel versioning within build branches. Board Support Enhancements & Bootloader Upgrades A slew of boards received attention this week. The NanoPC-T6 series saw a key modernization in #8219 and #8239, switching to mainline Arm Trusted Firmware and bumping U-Boot to v2025.04 final. The Quartz64A board followed suit in #8250, while the Odroid HC4, Khadas VIM3, and Mixtile Blade3 all received U-Boot updates or reverts to improve stability. Legacy and edge kernel support was also improved. Notably, Rockchip64 edge kernel configuration gained CONFIG_NETKIT=y (#8237), and fixes for display mode handling on RK3588 boards were added (#8253). Meanwhile, the Orangepi 5 Ultra switched to a mainline kernel source (#8252), reinforcing Armbian’s ongoing effort to shed legacy components and embrace upstream compatibility. Infrastructure & Usability Improvements Behind the scenes, @igorpecovnik contributed multiple usability tweaks, including a fix for HiDPI detection (#8236) and @rpardini added improved serial console fallback behavior in GRUB (#8247). The GPG key placement was standardized across distros (#8128), simplifying build reproducibility. Device Tree and Service Fixes The smart am40 received a long-needed RTC node and U-Boot bump (#8214), while the Helios4‘s wake-on-LAN service was fixed (#8235), reinforcing Armbian’s commitment to community-requested board maintenance. Wrapping Up This week’s burst of activity highlights the Armbian community’s tireless commitment to refinement and modernization. Whether through performance enhancements, kernel bumps, or quality-of-life fixes, the project continues to evolve rapidly. Users can expect a more responsive, stable, and future-proof experience across a growing roster of supported hardware. Stay tuned for further updates as June unfolds. The post Armbian Development Highlights: End of May 2025 first appeared on Armbian. View the full article

What do you mean by that? Images that are currently available are still from 25.2 ... new will be created soon. But you can anyway update them standard way: apt update + apt upgrade.

I've seen this error before. I think that's some incompatibility from rpi own packages that have some regex checking if its their own kernel or not. Did not get any further though.

code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } armbian-install should be able to do that. Though since there is no option to select WHICH version, if there are multiple installed, to write, I suggest to first check with code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } dpkg -l which uboot package/s is/are installed and make sure there is only the one that you want to write.