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more testing...

 

 

version "next-sunxi" (uboot 15.10 kernel 4.3.2 + sunxi-ss hwrng patch + my .config file from 4.3.0)

 

installed the new next-sunxi *.deb on lamobo-r1

 

bad news: the /usr/local/bin/ tools are not here but no overwritten so "swconfig" is still present from previous install

 

EDIT:

 

unlike my previous test (uboot 16.01-rc2 kernel 4.4-rc4, kernel starting some stuff & barely working), uboot 15.10 stops at "starting kernel"

 

(the emergency procedure was quick this time, also avoided to use my emergency sdcard)

 

userpatchs directory is very useful

 

ok, I will leave Armbian lib test "master" branch for now :) need to go to work!

 

 

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one more detail @zador.blood.stained

 

you think like one of the "Armbian lib" tool writer/dev

 

I think like an end user wishing to patch  the kernel as quickly as possible, messing as little as possible with "lib" *.sh and folders, getting my kernel debian files to update my device.

 

So having as little as possible to understand the internal of the "Armbian lib"

 

I agree that this directory structure is not exactly user-friendly, but right now I'm thinking like this because kernel patches don't grow on trees, if user can make, change or find a patch that he wants to apply, you can expect him to know how to figure out this directory layout. Or at least to read and understand documentation about it.

 

Also, Armbian supports many different SBCs now and probably will support even more later, and since some boards have unique kernel or u-boot sources, some have 2 possible kernel versions, some have 1, in the end you can't make directory structure simple enough without introducing tons of workarounds and extra configuration bits in build scripts.

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@wildcat_paris,

Did you make and install board-specific package (linux-trusty-root-next-lamobo-r1_5.00_armhf.deb or something similar)?

I ran 

./compile.sh BRANCH=next BOARD='lamobo-r1' KERNEL_ONLY=yes PROGRESS_DISPLAY=plain RELEASE=trusty 
[ o.k. ] Building deb package. [ linux-trusty-root-next-lamobo-r1_5.00_armhf.deb ]
#dpkg-deb -c linux-trusty-root-next-lamobo-r1_5.00_armhf.deb | grep '/usr/local/bin'
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2015-12-14 16:06 ./usr/local/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/staff    15531 2014-06-03 13:17 ./usr/local/bin/temper
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     25528 2015-12-14 16:06 ./usr/local/bin/meminfo
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     27244 2015-12-14 16:06 ./usr/local/bin/nand-part
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     46614 2015-12-14 16:06 ./usr/local/bin/sunxi-fexc
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     34868 2015-04-02 19:37 ./usr/local/bin/swconfig
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     16943 2015-12-14 16:06 ./usr/local/bin/brcm_patchram_plus

Files are present in board support package, but as far as I see this package is not installed to image, maybe Igor didn't finish this part yet.

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@zador.blood.stained @Igor

 

ok my bad!!!!

 

 

in fact I used to build only the kernel, not the files related to the distro I mean "linux-trusty-root-next-lamobo-r1_5.00_armhf.deb"

 

so some parts are missing :rolleyes:

 

for a while it was not an issue but now it seems to become one... because of many many changes in the tool

 

 

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btw I would have suggested to add in lib/patching.sh in advanced_patch ()

mkdir -p "$SRC/userpatches/$dest/$family/$device"
mkdir -p "$SRC/userpatches/$dest/$family"

so next-time the user can fill the proper directory with the patches without having to add logs and read patching.sh B)

 

I added extra info message to patching function, this should help a bit

[ o.k. ] Started patching process for [ u-boot u-boot-next 2015.10 ]
[ o.k. ] Looking for user patches in [ userpatches/u-boot/u-boot-next ]
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Igor, can you please check building image on current master branch?

Do you have this message or not?

[ o.k. ] Shrink image last partition to [ minimum ]
Re-reading the partition table failed.: Invalid argument

After building image:

➜  ~  % losetup -l
NAME       SIZELIMIT OFFSET AUTOCLEAR RO BACK-FILE
/dev/loop0         0      0         1  0 /home/zador/armbian/output/cache/Armbian_5.00_Cubietruck_Debian_jessie_4.3.3.raw (deleted)

I want to know if this is host OS related (tested on Wily, will check on Trusty later after finding what's the right way to access loop devices from inside a container) or not.

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Yes, I just made few tests today by using one partition, two partition and two with offset. I don't have those problems within Trusty so It must be OS related.

 

The most probably cause is false / different parameter reading.

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Buddies,

 

I have made 2 tests:

1/ installing

 

 

gr@bpi:/armbian_kernel/test$ ll
total 38252
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Dec 17 17:55 ./
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root     4096 Dec 14 04:56 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 gr   gr      27188 Dec 17 12:33 linux-dtb-next-sunxi_5.00_armhf.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 gr   gr      52550 Dec 17 12:33 linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi_5.00_armhf.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 gr   gr    7801692 Dec 17 12:33 linux-headers-next-sunxi_5.00_armhf.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 gr   gr   29298064 Dec 17 12:33 linux-image-next-sunxi_5.00_armhf.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 gr   gr    1799264 Dec 17 12:34 linux-trusty-root-next-lamobo-r1_5.00_armhf.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 gr   gr     172982 Dec 17 12:33 linux-u-boot-next-lamobo-r1_5.00_armhf.deb

 

2/

burning to sdcard (master branch, next kernel line, uboot 15.10 + sunxi-ss hwrng patch)

 

Armbian_5.00_Lamobo-r1_Ubuntu_trusty_4.3.3.raw

 

Both ended with "starting kernel... " and stalling, see screenshot

 

 

http://tinyurl.com/zste9ap

 

note: I have a SSD attached, I hope uboot doesn't try to boot the SSD, let's see

 

note2: opened my box, removed SDD, then removed the USB hub with all devices.

 

nope, no better.

 

could you make me a lamobo-r1 next 4.3.3, so I burn it on sdcard for testing, please? In the mean-time my 4.3.0 patched kernel is ok :)

 

 

thanks!

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I made 2 sd cards, cubietruck, jessie, default and next kernels. Changed boot.scr to enable serial console. Branch experimental/fake-hwclock of my repo.

 

Mainline kernel: first boot OK, second boot OK, disk resizing OK.

Old kernel: first boot - u-boot error (I didn't reboot, u-boot message appeared after "Starting kernel" message, however it's possible it is some kind of filesystem error.


U-Boot SPL 2015.10-armbian (Dec 17 2015 - 16:27:42)
DRAM: 2048 MiB
CPU: 912000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2


U-Boot 2015.10-armbian (Dec 17 2015 - 16:27:42 +0300) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner A20 (SUN7I)
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  2 GiB
MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

Setting up a 1024x768 vga console (overscan 0x0)
In:    serial
Out:   vga
Err:   vga
SCSI:  SUNXI SCSI INIT
Target spinup took 0 ms.
AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
flags: ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part ccc apst
Net:   eth0: ethernet@01c50000
starting USB...
USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
USB1:   USB OHCI 1.0
USB2:   USB EHCI 1.00
USB3:   USB OHCI 1.0
scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus 2 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr
1831 bytes read in 253 ms (6.8 KiB/s)
## Executing script at 43100000
** File not found /boot/.next **
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
46360 bytes read in 566 ms (79.1 KiB/s)
5602600 bytes read in 618 ms (8.6 MiB/s)
Kernel image @ 0x48000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x557d28 ]

Starting kernel ...


U-Boot SPL 2015.10-armbian (Dec 17 2015 - 16:27:42)
DRAM: 0 MiB
CPU: 912000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2

U-Boot SPL 2015.10-armbian (Dec 17 2015 - 16:27:42)
DRAM: 2048 MiB
CPU: 912000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2

Power reset - second boot OK apart from

Linux cubietruck 3.4.110-sun7i #2 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 17 16:49:31 MSK 2015 armv7l
-bash: echo: write error: No space left on device
-bash: echo: write error: No space left on device
-bash: [: : integer expression expected
-bash: [: : integer expression expected
(standard_in) 1: syntax error
(standard_in) 1: syntax error
-bash: [: -le: unary operator expected

and usual unloading wi-fi module for 1.5 minutes

 

Third boot - Ok, but disk resizing failed, root password change prompt didn't appear, instead bash errors appeared again.

 

@wildcat_paris

can you attach to serial console and change your boot.cmd/boot.scr (console=ttyS0,115200) to see what's going on?

 

@Igor

No network or systemd issues, Jessie with systemd as init system, all network restarting workarounds removed.

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No network or systemd issues, Jessie with systemd as init system, all network restarting workarounds removed.

 

OK, lets put this in.

 

@wildcat_paris

My fresh compiled Trusty with 4.3.3 works normally on Cubietruck. I'll check R1 in the morning. 

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Buddies,

 

ok again my bad sorry. I have been using an old broken .config => the kernel was unable to boot

 

Also playing with KERNEL_KEEP_CONFIG="yes" made me wrong for a long time!

 

1/ tested an image... booting ok

 

2/ replaced the whole set of files

 

gr@bpi:~$ ll /armbian_kernel/kern_4.3.3_1/

-rw-r--r-- 1 gr   gr      49850 Dec 19 07:11 linux-dtb-next-sunxi_5.00_armhf.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 gr   gr      52530 Dec 19 07:11 linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi_5.00_armhf.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 gr   gr    6813108 Dec 19 07:11 linux-headers-next-sunxi_5.00_armhf.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 gr   gr   12552218 Dec 19 07:11 linux-image-next-sunxi_5.00_armhf.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 gr   gr    1798258 Dec 19 07:13 linux-trusty-root-next-lamobo-r1_5.00_armhf.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 gr   gr     172976 Dec 19 07:11 linux-u-boot-next-lamobo-r1_5.00_armhf.deb

 

it seems like it works like a new image at restart "Restart is required" (previously I wasn't applying "linux-trusty-root-next-lamobo-r1_5.00_armhf.deb for kernel upgrades)

 

Welcome to ARMBIAN (Ubuntu trusty 4.3.3-sunxi)

You have new mail.
Last login: Sat Dec 19 07:14:02 2015 from 192.168.1.2

Load: 2.48, 0.82, 0.29 - Board: 48.0°C - Memory: 907Mb

[ Restart is required ]

rm: remove write-protected regular empty file ‘/tmp/.reboot_required’? y
rm: cannot remove ‘/tmp/.reboot_required’: Operation not permitted

gr@bpi:~$ sudo rm /tmp/.reboot_required
[sudo] password for gr:

 

happy with "master" branch!! thanks

 

EDIT:

 

FYI

I have noticed this warning message

 

  CLEAN   scripts
dpkg-deb: building package `linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi' in `../linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi_5.00_armhf.deb'.
dpkg-deb: building package `linux-dtb-next-sunxi' in `../linux-dtb-next-sunxi_5.00_armhf.deb'.
dpkg-deb: building package `linux-headers-next-sunxi' in `../linux-headers-next-sunxi_5.00_armhf.deb'.
dpkg-deb: building package `linux-image-next-sunxi' in `../linux-image-next-sunxi_5.00_armhf.deb'.
dpkg-genchanges: warning: package linux-libc-dev-next-sunxi in control file but not in files list

 

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@Igor (?)

 

Sunday morning are hard, sleeping is better.

 

just a little fix, only functions can be local, not variable (at least with bash from trusty) I am testing "dev"/ branchless :)

 

[ o.k. ] Cleaning [ /home/gr/armtest/sources/u-boot/branchless ]
[ o.k. ] Cleaning [ /home/gr/armtest/sources/linux-vanilla/branchless ]
/home/gr/armtest/lib/main.sh: line 269: local: can only be used in a function
/home/gr/armtest/lib/main.sh: line 270: local: can only be used in a function


[ ! -f "$DEST/debs/$CHOOSEN_UBOOT" ] && local needs_uboot=yes
[ ! -f "$DEST/debs/$CHOOSEN_KERNEL" ] && local needs_kernel=yes

 

also thanks for the picture in the thread "lamobo-r1" and USB-uart but you have missed your little precious comment as the picture is from bananapi.com

what is the uart (uart0) or another one please?

 

:) thank you

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For what board and kernel? I'll test it now. I tested new debootstrap process for last 2 days with precompiled kernel and disabled headers recompilation in install_kernel function.

Also I made a patch that removes precompiled binaries from scripts folder for sun4i, sun7i and sunxi-next (official Debian and Ubuntu headers don't have precompiled scripts) and I saw some errors in recompilation function, so these patches might have broken things. You can "mask" them by creating empty files with same names in userpatches/kernel/... dirs for now.

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I try to build kernel for Udoo since they changed repository, than for Cubieboard 1 ...

scripts/basic/fixdep.c:106:23: fatal error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory

 

Does this patch help in a matter that we won't need to use workaround for headers compiling inside chroot?

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Does this patch help in a matter that we won't need to use workaround for headers compiling inside chroot?

Yes, exactly. For me scripts recompilation eats a lot of memory and CPU. Only downside is - module compilation for end users may require compilation of scripts by themselves or using module-assistant as in official Ubuntu/Debian instructions for compiling missing kernel modules, it should be tested, and if this works, similar patches should be made for other kernel sources.

 

Compilation of BOARD=cubieboard BRANCH=default failed, hm.

BOARD=cubieboard BRANCH=next - OK

[ o.k. ] File name [ linux-image-next-sunxi_5.00_armhf.deb ]
[ o.k. ] Runtime [ 4 min ]

Udoo uses its own kernel config and repo, I never tested it.

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BOARD=cubietruck BRANCH=default compiles OK

Either sun4i config is broken, ccache issue (it'll be faster for you to check with disabled ccache) tested, fails with disabled ccache, or make oldconfig/olddefconfig combined with sun4i config unlikely, compared default config with one after compilation attempt.

But I didn't get headers error, I got

arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby_power.o: In function `standby_power_init':
/home/zador/armbian/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby_power.c:62: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'
/home/zador/armbian/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby_power.c:62: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_guard'
arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby_power.o: In function `standby_power_exit':
/home/zador/armbian/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby_power.c:99: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'
/home/zador/armbian/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby_power.c:99: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_guard'
arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby_power.o: In function `standby_set_voltage':
/home/zador/armbian/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby_power.c:201: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'
/home/zador/armbian/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby_power.c:201: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_guard'
arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby_power.o: In function `standby_get_voltage':
/home/zador/armbian/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby_power.c:237: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'
/home/zador/armbian/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby_power.c:237: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_guard'
/home/zador/armbian/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/Makefile:22: recipe for target 'arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby.elf' failed
make[3]: *** [arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby.elf] Error 1
/home/zador/armbian/sources/linux-sunxi/sunxi-3.4/arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/Makefile:8: recipe for target 'arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby.bin' failed
make[2]: *** [arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm/standby/standby.bin] Error 2
scripts/Makefile.build:443: recipe for target 'arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm' failed
make[1]: *** [arch/arm/plat-sunxi/pm] Error 2
Makefile:947: recipe for target 'arch/arm/plat-sunxi' failed
make: *** [arch/arm/plat-sunxi] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
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Yes, it's compiler related, it compiles past this point in Trusty (great, another legacy compatibility problem, goodbye cross-gcc 4.9, welcome cross-gcc 4.8. Or I need to disable stack protector options somehow).

So what build options give errors for you? Udoo has non-default sources for both default and next kernels, which one to test?

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Yes, we need legacy kernel compilation .... I disable the header recompilation and it looks o.k. now. I made an image with 4.3.3 for Cubietruck and compiled some wifi module w/o problems. 

 

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Ah, there is a problem on target:

root@cubietruck:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.3.3-sunxi# make headers_check
  CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:106:23: fatal error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
 #include <sys/types.h>
                       ^
compilation terminated.
scripts/Makefile.host:91: recipe for target 'scripts/basic/fixdep' failed
make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1
Makefile:439: recipe for target 'scripts_basic' failed
make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2
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