missing armbianEnv.txt - unable to toggle hardware

[mikebargauan]

I am trying to port my app running on legacy OS to Mainline OS and found some problems: I was able to replicate problem with following actions:

 

1) git cloned fresh copy of source to new directory - OK

 

2) edited config-default.conf:

KERNEL_ONLY="no"           
KERNEL_CONFIGURE="no"         
CLEAN_LEVEL="make,debs,oldcache,images"  
DEST_LANG="en_US.UTF-8"         
BOARD="pine64so"
BRANCH="next"
RELEASE="xenial"
BUILD_DESKTOP="yes"

KERNEL_KEEP_CONFIG="no"            # do not overwrite kernel config before compilation
EXTERNAL="no"                # build and install extra applications and drivers
EXTERNAL_NEW="prebuilt"            # compile and install or install prebuilt additional packages
CREATE_PATCHES="no"            # wait that you make changes to uboot and kernel source and creates patches
BUILD_ALL="no"                # cycle through available boards and make images or kernel/u-boot packages.

 

3) run ./compile.sh - OK

 

4) burn image and boot - OK

 

5) Now I look for armbianEnv.txt - none in any directory - Error??.

 

6) start sudo armbian-config - OK

 

7) move to System/Hardware - empty list after several errors:

- cat: /boot/armbianEnv.txt:No such file or directory

 

Could be i missed some docs explaining this ?

Mike

[mikebargauan]

Workaround adopted:

1) create new armbianEnv.txt

2) added line "overlay-prefix=sun50i-a64 

 

Now it works - even if armbianEnv.txt should be created by system with many other lines ....

 

Any comment?

Mike 

[Igor]

On 25. 2. 2018 at 5:51 PM, mikebargauan said:

Could be i missed some docs explaining this ?

Yes, we don't support mainline kernel for A64 yet since it's still under development/fragile. We are fully loaded and moving things with the best speed possible. Without help, progress can't be faster. 

 

 

[mikebargauan]

Igor:

Ready to test anything related to pine64LTS aka sopine; it is the only HW I have available.

You can find my e-mail on Linkedin.

Mike

[mikebargauan]

SOLVED

with release .23, armbianEnv.txt is present !