jiapei100 Posted February 3, 2018 Posted February 3, 2018 Hi, From the supported boards list armbian/config/boards$ ls orangepi* orangepi2.conf orangepi.eos orangepimini.eos orangepipc2.conf orangepipcplus.conf orangepiplus.conf orangepi-r1.conf orangepizero.conf orangepizeroplus2-h5.conf orangepi2g-iot.csc orangepilite.conf orangepione.conf orangepipc.conf orangepiplus2e.conf orangepiprime.conf orangepiwin.conf orangepizeroplus2-h3.conf orangepizeroplus.conf we can see that Orange Pi Plus 2e and Orange Pi Plus are supported, however Orange Pi Plus 2 is NOT. These 3 boards are of trivial differences. I wonder if I can use the configuration of Orange Pi Plus 2e for my Orange Pi Plus 2 for now? Cheers Pei
evilalex2 Posted February 4, 2018 Posted February 4, 2018 14 hours ago, jiapei100 said: Hi, From the supported boards list armbian/config/boards$ ls orangepi* orangepi2.conf orangepi.eos orangepimini.eos orangepipc2.conf orangepipcplus.conf orangepiplus.conf orangepi-r1.conf orangepizero.conf orangepizeroplus2-h5.conf orangepi2g-iot.csc orangepilite.conf orangepione.conf orangepipc.conf orangepiplus2e.conf orangepiprime.conf orangepiwin.conf orangepizeroplus2-h3.conf orangepizeroplus.conf we can see that Orange Pi Plus 2e and Orange Pi Plus are supported, however Orange Pi Plus 2 is NOT. These 3 boards are of trivial differences. I wonder if I can use the configuration of Orange Pi Plus 2e for my Orange Pi Plus 2 for now? Cheers Pei Hi, You can use the OPi + image on the +2, thats what i do. The only divrence between them are the ram and emmc size, 1GB/8GB vs 2GB/16GB. After booting armbian wil display it has 2GB ram. 1
jiapei100 Posted February 4, 2018 Author Posted February 4, 2018 Failed to build orangepipluse2 ... What I've done so far: Under folder armbian, find anything related to u-boot, replace version from v2017.11 to v2018.01 . Then, $ cd armbian/config/boards $ cp orangepiplus2e.conf orangepiplus2.conf $ sudo vim orangepiplus2.conf Quote BOARD_NAME="Orange Pi+ 2" BOOTCONFIG="orangepi_plus2_defconfig" And then, $ cd armbian/cache/sources/u-boot/v2018.01/configs $ cp orangepi_plus2e_defconfig orangepi_plus2_defconfig $ sudo vim orangepi_plus2_defconfig Quote CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE="sun8i-h3-orangepi-plus2" Meanwhile, make sure dts modified accordingly. $ cd armbian/cache/sources/u-boot/v2018.01/arch/arm/dts $ sudo cp sun8i-h3-orangepi-plus2e.dtb sun8i-h3-orangepi-plus2.dtb $ sudo cp sun8i-h3-orangepi-plus2e.dts sun8i-h3-orangepi-plus2.dts Finally, I run: $ ./compile.sh BOARD="orangepiplus2" BRANCH="next" KERNEL_ONLY="yes" KERNEL_CONFIGURE="no" I got the following ERROR messages: AR drivers/usb/built-in.o AR drivers/media/built-in.o scripts/Makefile.build:579: recipe for target 'drivers/net/wireless' failed make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wireless] Error 2 scripts/Makefile.build:579: recipe for target 'drivers/net' failed make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2 Makefile:1028: recipe for target 'drivers' failed make: *** [drivers] Error 2 [ error ] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ compilation.sh:341 ] [ error ] Kernel was not built [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Process terminated And the last several lines in output.log are: Quote Displaying message: * [\e[32ml\e[0m][\e[32mc\e[0m] sunxi64-pine64-plus-ethernet-fix.patch info Displaying message: Compressing sources for the linux-source package Displaying message: Compiling next kernel 4.14.17 info Displaying message: Compiler version arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc 7.2.1 info Displaying message: Using kernel config file lib/config/kernel/linux-sunxi-next.config info Displaying message: ERROR in function compile_kernel compilation.sh:341 err Displaying message: Kernel was not built @host err Displaying message: Process terminated info It looks like it fails to build rtl8814a WIFI Module? Any further suggestions? Cheers Pei
chwe Posted February 4, 2018 Posted February 4, 2018 Firstly, I'm not that experienced in Armbians buildscript, but some hints: in 'config-default.conf' did you activate CREATE_PATCHES="yes"? So that your changes are saved in a patch at the end? From my experience with the buildscript a board bring up for a H3 isn't that hard (especially cause OPis are mostly similar to each other), you need to adjust in uboot: ../arch/arm/dts/Makefile (add .dtb), add the (boardspecific) dts in the same folder, and in ../configs the defconfig (for armbians boardfile: BOOTCONFIG="orangepi_plus2_defconfig"), but you also need a dts file for the kernel, not only u-boot It might help to study recent patches about H3 board bring up to see what was changed in which files for a board bring up... This one might help: https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/89ea5f0ca0062d185b4d1fde9b9e2cbb4b96fee6#diff-cab794eb45546ba1b58d2948585a2cb2 See all three files which were edited.. Hope this helps you a little bit.
Igor Posted February 4, 2018 Posted February 4, 2018 1 hour ago, jiapei100 said: It looks like it fails to build rtl8814a WIFI Module? Not necessarily. Did you check if there is an error before that? 1 hour ago, jiapei100 said: Any further suggestions? Build script end-user support exists if you don't touch the build script - except in user configurable areas. I don't know whether we have a problem or you made one.
zador.blood.stained Posted February 4, 2018 Posted February 4, 2018 4 minutes ago, Igor said: Did you check if there is an error before that? This is caused by 4.14.17 kernel update - at least the xradio compilation is broken. 1
Igor Posted February 4, 2018 Posted February 4, 2018 Well, then setting $KERNELBRANCH="tag:v4.14.16" in userspace/lib.config might temporally solve this issue?
zador.blood.stained Posted February 4, 2018 Posted February 4, 2018 4 minutes ago, Igor said: Well, then setting $KERNELBRANCH="tag:v4.14.16" in userspace/lib.config might temporally solve this issue? Renaming/disabling the xradio patch file is a better option IMO. 1
jiapei100 Posted February 4, 2018 Author Posted February 4, 2018 2 minutes ago, zador.blood.stained said: Renaming/disabling the xradio patch file is a better option IMO. It works, successfully built. armbian/output/debs$ ls -ls total 360440 4 drwxrwsr-x 2 root sudo 4096 Jan 31 21:06 extra 172 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 174060 Feb 4 04:35 linux-dtb-next-sunxi_5.40_armhf.deb 10496 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10747824 Feb 4 04:35 linux-headers-next-sunxi_5.40_armhf.deb 19136 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19592692 Feb 4 04:36 linux-image-next-sunxi_5.40_armhf.deb 330272 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 338192890 Feb 4 04:37 linux-source-next-sunxi_5.40_all.deb 172 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 174322 Feb 4 04:29 linux-u-boot-next-nanopineo_5.40_armhf.deb 188 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189188 Feb 4 02:20 linux-u-boot-next-orangepiplus2_5.40_armhf.deb Two additional naive questions: Last time when I tried to install the NanoPiNEO, I just installed Ubuntu server - mainline kernel, which is downloaded from https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-neo/, and then, install the built five .deb files to add/replace the NEW kernel, which are of Armbian version 5.38 . As you can see, now, I successfully built linux-u-boot-next-orangepiplus2_5.40_armhf.deb, how come linux-u-boot-next-nanopineo_5.40_armhf.deb is also built at the same time ? And, what's more, is there a way to install u-boot, kernel directly, with the console-only system, without the GUI system (Ubuntu server - mainline kernel seems to come with the GUI ?) Thank you very much. Best Regards Pei
jiapei100 Posted February 6, 2018 Author Posted February 6, 2018 Sorry. The answers are https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Options/ . Thank you
richard1937 Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 https://www.cnx-software.com/2015/09/01/getting-started-with-orange-pi-pc-pi-2-and-pi-plus-development-boards/ Old but none the very helpful and well done review. My experience - but with the OrangePi 2 Plus was quite different. Basically, after carefully, with Voltage and Current measurements as well as "scoping" the power bus. this past week. As backgrd. I have 3 Pi3, and two Asus Tinkerboards Asus Tinkerboard is somewhat better then the Pi3's My quest: Running Octoprint and Camera (watching remotely my 3D printer - CR 10) and Cad software etc. I find: for the OrangePi plus 2 Not the 2E. 1. Zeroshell on the emmc works really great. 2. AS provided with 2.0A power supply - very flakey when loaded with the Desktop distro both from the OrangePi site and other locations 3. Changed to 3A, 5.2 volts as measured, supply - somewhat better ( average current - low activity about .7Amps 700Ma. so should be great ) 4. Changed to Lab Bench supply (capable of 5 Volts 20 Amps- Still flakey with lot surfing activity - with graphics, forget YouTube! 5. Place 2200 mfd Capacitor to help with short peaj currents on boards- on pins 4&6. Again, significantly less crashes. 6. My felling is that the on board traces/track are also too narrow for the peak currents that occur when both graphics and computational activity occur. 7. Wifi works but is extremely slow, Ethernet work fine. Note: Wifi with the Pi3s and TinkerPl are fine also. (I have FIOS and bench is less then 10 feet from the Router - One of my Pi3 is about 50 feet away and it works fine!) I am surprised to find this as the board has been out a while now. Maybe I got an older version??? The 2e was flaky also but I didn't get into this analysis until I send the 2E back and got the Plus 2 version. A second area problem: The market for these in the US and Uk is quite a significant part! The boot S/W on the EMMC is in Chinese! While I did find someones post on a screen by screen, how to change default language, what a pain in the A$$. So I changed to ZeroShell - excellent! Any and All advice helpful - but I have used at least a half dozen different SD's, Done all levels of reformatting etc. Did burns with Etcher and with WinDisk etc. - NO issues with these SD's with the Pi3s and TihnkerPis. - I have been and Engr by trade in Data Communication maintained document handling script etc on a Centos system at the ITU in Geneva - using Putty from various location etc. - I am Not and Expert but a step above NOOBs etc. So lay your thought on me, I welcome all input! Richard
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