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I am not sure what the actual issue is. When you build a bootable image for the Bananipi M2 zero does it boot as expected? This SBC is handled as a part of the sunxi family and you might notice that there are many more device tree blobs under /boot/dtb.

Not just because of that. Also ccache will make the next build much faster.

Um... you mean the built image is using the wrong DTS to boot?

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I could compile a kernel package for a randomly selected board and kernel so I assume everything works as expected now.

The minimal installation seems lacking gpg. apt-get install gpg This fixes it. About 2013: Some boards, especially older ones need older toolchain to compile older sources...sometimes stuff breaks in upstream ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Confirmed. Okay, seems like a general issue, not torrent related. USE_TORRENT=no leads into the same issue.

https://armbian.atlassian.net/projects/AR/issues/AR-314?filter=allissues

You mean this?

From a quick search through sources and commits I assume it is an upstream regression since on Armbian's side nothing has changed since 5.4.28.

The sources need some adjustments to compile with 5.7.x most likely. Just be patient and hope that the creator makes these changes since he knows his work the best.

Ah okey, offlinemode is not necessarily what you want. Aight to get this puzzle together. Each baord has a config file to determ the board family: https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/master/config/boards In your case sun8i. Then there is a source config to determ which sources to be used on a specific board family: https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/master/config/sources/families Still in your case sun8i. But you won't find any linked sources there. There is an include in the config that inludes sunxi (which is general term für the whole family, to say sun4i, sun8i, sun9i and so on). So check this include and there you will find the linked sources. At this very moment there are three branches filled with these kernel versions: - legacy: 4.19.x - current: 5.4.x - dev: 5.6.x If none of those matches the kernel you are looking for you have to search in the file history for changes. Some I can remember is that last year the support for old-legacy 3.10.x and 3.14.x has been dropped. And current (which name was "next" back then) was on 4.14.x

https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Options/ Maybe OFFLINE_WORK is what you are looking for

Maybe you mean offline mode?

We were already trying to sort out some pros and cons. You can get an overview here:https://armbian.atlassian.net/projects/AR/issues/AR-284?filter=allissues Also check the linked issues.

I think usually the script does a make oldconfig anyways to remove broken dependencies but that you can also do is to compare upstream kernel config for arm with the current one. Also maybe megi knows something about whats happening there.

Retry with newest version.

Those duplicates are probably a result of "false-positive" patches I'd say. So they could be applied even though they were not meant to be applied. This needs to be sorted out by hand. Try to compile the sources without any patches applied and see what happens. If it throws errors there might be an issue upstream.

If you could provide this as patches for Armbian to include into the building process it would be appreciated

This won't work. When you open it you see lots of HTML stuff that does not belong there. Download the file raw: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EvilOlaf/refactorpatches/master/refactor.py

Feel free to start working on and for example look for patches that are now duplicates since stuff got pushed to upstream. Maybe you can give my tool a try to make things a bit easier:

Awesome

You can use armbian-config to switch to the current kernel branch. For the rest a simple upgrade should do it.

The claim at least. They did not publish patches yet, just pre-made images.

We now do have a documentation about all the IRC related stuff and its features. Check it out: https://docs.armbian.com/Community_IRC/