edolnx

Understood on the systemd vs openrc request. It makes sense, I just wanted to get some feedback on the idea. Could you describe more about what "Solve Problems with additional packages (EXTERNAL_NEW)" means? Are these packages added my Armbian or something else? I'm still trying to learn all the nomenclature and design decisions in the existing codebase...

The topic of Stretch came up in the Odroid C2 Mainline testing thread, and turns out we don't have a thread about making Stretch available. I've done some testing with several boards using the Upgrading Debian Jessie to Stretch thread and had great success. But, I wanted to start a discussion about what is needed to get official Stretch support in place. I have several projects where I need to use Stretch instead of Jessie, so I'm exited to help try and contribute where I can. I also wanted to discuss the idea of possibly making two stretch images: one using systemd and one using openrc (which is supported in Stretch). 99% of the work is identical, the only major changes are needing to patch /etc/inittab to enable a serial console for the openrc version and not installing systemd I have several Odroid C1+ and C2 boards I can test on, as well as some pcDuino 3 Nano boards. I also have some Rockchip based boards I'm hoping to contribute support for (RK3368 based Geekbox, and a RK3399 based Firefly) but I think I'll need Stretch for the Firefly board. So, is there a TODO list somewhere I have not found? If not, can we make one here or a tag for issues in GitHub so we can start tackling them?

Been doing some testing with the C2 vanilla test image and I'm very happy with it. Built a release with Jessie and containers and VMs also work great for me. USB has been working great on my build from a few weeks ago, I will try the newest to see if HDMI works and will report back in a couple days. I'm also hoping to help port to Stretch, so I'll go see if I can find a thread about that.

I did what you are suggesting this evening and it worked like a charm on an ODROID-C1. Going to try on an ODROID-C2 tomorrow.

Greetings - I'm trying to use the UART2 port (Connector J11 pins 1 and 2) and I'm not having much luck with Armbian 5.0 Vanilla. There are /dev/ttyS0-7 listed, but I get nothing from them (save ttyS0 which is the main console and in use by getty). I found several other articles in here talking about how to expose the GPIO pins, but I could not see how to set the "mode" of them. Any assistance would be appreciated!