Odroid XU4 and DKMS builds

Jim Salter · July 1, 2018

Hi - is it possible to install linux-headers from repositories on the XU4, so that DKMS builds of wifi adapters will work properly? I'd like to have DKMS handle rebuilding the driver for my RTL-8812au based wNICs on the XU4, as it does on my x86-64 devices.

Thank you!

Igor · July 1, 2018

Support is not on the x86 level yet in areas such as DKMS. It works on some kernels, but mostly it's broken. You still can compile drivers, since headers are available by default, but auto updating will not work. Each family has it own kernel, maintaining is scattered around, mainlining is still months to years behind, some kernels are critically old.

8812AU (also 8811AU and 8814AU) NIC is supported by Armbian out of the box, drivers are built into the kernel (except those critically old ones) and we update them, so you don't need to compile anything. With best possible driver.

Jim Salter · July 1, 2018

Thank you for the quick response! On the one hand, sucks no DKMS... on the other hand, the RTL8812au and RTL8814au were the exact two drivers I was concerned about, so if you're supporting them directly that solves my issue.

Jim Salter · July 1, 2018

How about ZFS? Is that available in the Ubuntu Armbian build?

I don't actually need it for this particular project; it just occurs to me to wonder since that's the one other thing I frequently do work with that requires DKMS.

Igor · July 1, 2018

12 minutes ago, Jim Salter said:

On the one hand, sucks no DKMS

Imagine how this sucked before we start this project. No, we don't deal with ZFS but it's again something that can be added if someone put some time into this. We have plenty of other fundamental problems and features as such rarely come high on priority list.