Board PINE H64 cannot boot from image file compiled in our armbian system

[王芬]

problem description as follow:

our compile env:

root@ubuntu69:/tycom/armbian# uname -a
Linux ubuntu69 4.15.0-36-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 24 16:19:09 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@ubuntu69:/tycom/armbian# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"
 

Board：PINE H64

Compile Env：from https://github.com/armbian

 

In our compile environment，generate the image file：Armbian_5.67_Pineh64_Debian_stretch_dev_4.19.2.img，we burn it into SD by Etcher，the booting is hang，no error message:

Starting kernel ...

[    1.188734] sunxi-mmc 4022000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 2048 KB
[    1.194122] sunxi-mmc 4020000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 16384 KB, uses new timings mode
[    1.261947] random: fast init done
[    1.313257] mmc1: new high speed MMC card at address 0001
[    1.319604] mmcblk1: mmc1:0001 8GME4R 7.28 GiB 
[    1.324848] mmcblk1boot0: mmc1:0001 8GME4R partition 1 4.00 MiB
[    1.331482] mmcblk1boot1: mmc1:0001 8GME4R partition 2 4.00 MiB
[    1.338769]  mmcblk1: p1
[    1.774235] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable
[    1.785748] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 1388
[    1.792102] mmcblk0: mmc0:1388 USD00 14.7 GiB 
[    1.797771]  mmcblk0: p1
[    4.502167] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[    4.526161] usb 3-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[    4.647329] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2c7c, idProduct=0125, bcdDevice= 3.18
[    4.655531] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[    4.662681] usb 1-1: Product: Android

[    4.666360] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Android
[    4.692293] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2c7c, idProduct=0125, bcdDevice= 3.18
[    4.700487] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[    4.707633] usb 3-1: Product: Android
[    4.711312] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Android

 

But we download the image file (Armbian_5.59.180824_Pineh64_Debian_stretch_dev_4.18.0-rc7.img) from armbian officail website, and then burn it into SD card，all going well，any advise ? pls help to check, thanks a lot.

 

 

[Igor]

4 hours ago, 王芬 said:

the booting is hang

Which is normal for development builds. 

 

4 hours ago, 王芬 said:

any advise

You have chosen unstable development builds. Digging in on your own or perhaps investing your resources into development? Build system is just a tool which helps to put things together.

[王芬]

How to get the stable version development builds ?  like this:

#git clone https://github.com/armbian/build.git -b sunxi-4.18   (sunxi-4.18 is stable builds ?)

[Igor]

1 hour ago, 王芬 said:

How to get the stable version development builds?

Stable builds for H6 does not exist. More like investing let's say 1000, 5000 or more hours into the development?

[王芬]

thanks for your reply.

I find the kernel version is always upgraded to the latest version automatically when compile，may i disable this option ? because i just want to use kernel 4.18, no 4.19.

 

[Igor]

9 hours ago, 王芬 said:

thanks for your reply.

I find the kernel version is always upgraded to the latest version automatically when compile，may i disable this option ? because i just want to use kernel 4.18, no 4.19.

 

Kernel 4.18.y is already EOL. It will never be stable and it will never have stable support for H6 since H6 is still under development and without additional patches (which are due for v4.20/4.21) almost nothing works regardless of the kernel version. H6 support inside the Linux kernel (regardless of its versions) is estimated 4-6 months away. It can be done/happen faster, but we don't have resources to speed up nor is this of any priority. I already try very hard to bring H6 support in our next LTS kernel, which will be 4.19.y ... but I found out I also need to sleep, eat and run my life. Similar is with others who are working on this. Fiddling with versions will not help you in any way. 

[Tido]

additonally to Igor's comment...

 

11 hours ago, 王芬 said:

i just want to use kernel 4.18, no 4.19

you can see here is a lot red and just very little WIP (orange) - below you also find some text about H6 https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matrix