armbian-build, custom dts and kernel driver patch, needs fixing: can't find file to patch.

[Murat Demirtas]

Hello, I'm trying to make a change for kernel panel driver for custom mipi dsi panel and orangepi-4-lts dts file. I could successfully flashed my armbian and bringed on our orangepi-4-lts board. I have configured to. debian minimal server rootfs and current linux kernel git tree in menuconfig with that command.

 

sudo apt-get -y install git
git clone --depth=1 --branch=v24.11 https://github.com/armbian/build
cd build/
./compile.sh 
./compile.sh KERNEL_GIT=shallow

 

After bring up, i tried to change existing linux kernel driver to our customized one using userpatches and that worked well. But i forgot the change dts file of orangepi4-lts and i have changed necessary lines in the existing orangepi-4-lts.dts file and linux kernel driver and used same command with kernel patch, but no luck, i got errors.

 

Command for kernel patching,

 

./compile.sh kernel-patch BOARD=orangepi-4-lts BRANCH=current

 

After changed, the patch file generated successfully. I moved it to userpatches kernel directory with that command

 

sudo mv /home/oem/Desktop/build/output/patch/kernel-rockchip64-current.patch userpatches/kernel/archive/rockchip64-6.6/kernel-rockchip64-current.patch

 

Command for building only kernel,

./compile.sh kernel BOARD=orangepi4-lts BRANCH=current

 

the command works well if i patch only panel-newvision-nv3051d.c in /Desktop/build/cache/sources/linux-kernel-worktree/6.6__rockchip64__arm64/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-newvision-nv3051d.c. If the patch file include changes both panel-newvision-nv3051d.c and rk3399-orangepi-4-lts.dts files then armbian build shows me error message.

 

[🔨]   Patch ->kernel-rockchip64-current(:1) (+97/-2)[2M] {rk3399-orangepi-4-lts.dts, panel-newvision-nv3051d.c}<- needs fixing: can't find file to patch.
[🔨]   Problem with ->kernel-rockchip64-current(:1) (+97/-2)[2M] {rk3399-orangepi-4-lts.dts, panel-newvision-nv3051d.c}<-: Failed to apply patch /home/oem/Desktop/build/userpatches/kernel/archive/rockchip64-6.6/kernel-rockchip64-current.patch

 

those two file is exists in the directory and i will share full log as attachment in here(tried to upload log via armbian-build but it doesnt work). I tried everything and couldnt found a root issue. My host environment is fresh installed ubuntu 22-04 jammy on amd64.

 

Thank you for your help and suggestions.

 

kernel-rockchip64-current.patch build.log

Edited February 14 by Murat Demirtas
syntax fix.

[Werner]

I noticed it is applied somewhere between the existing patches. Have you tried to rename it to something like zzzz_yourpatchfile.patch so, since they are ordered alphabetically, it is applied at the very end, just like your chances have been made with all the previous patches already applied.

[Murat Demirtas]

Hello @Werner, you are right, i changed name of the patch file to zzz-kernel-patch-nv3051f1-lcd-panel.patch and its worked. thank you very much.

Edited February 14 by Murat Demirtas

[Murat Demirtas]

Thank you again, the lcd panel works.. Have a good days!!!..

 

armbian v25.02 rolling for Orange Pi 4 LTS running Armbian Linux 6.12.13-current-rockchip64

 

Linux orangepi4-lts 6.6.62-current-rockchip64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 11 11:37:33 +03 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux