Armbian for Odroid C4/HC4 - Jammy & Bullseye 5.19.y / 6.1.y

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Using his .config didn't help, so it's seems like I should try either vendor uboot (because this is what tobetter use in his image, where pinky grey workaround works) or chewitt amlogic-2021.01 branch.

[igorpec]

Added support for ZFS 2.x
https://twitter.com/armbian/status/1350883539584217093

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apt update
apt upgrade

What that brings (besides its needed for upcoming K5.10.y upgrade)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12 ... -features/

[gom]

Linux odroidhc4 5.9.14-meson64 #20.11.3 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 11 21:02:17 CET 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux

how is the fan controlled

[igorpec]

Linux odroidhc4 5.9.14-meson64 #20.11.3 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 11 21:02:17 CET 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux

how is the fan controlled

This question was already asked. So you didn't read this topic at all?

We don't know yet, but we are working on it: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/2552

[igorpec]

Major upgrade to 21.02.y
https://docs.armbian.com/Release_Change ... 2021-02-03

Many new clean desktop daily builds for testing:
https://www.armbian.com/odroid-c4/

Focal budgie desktop
Focal cinnamon desktop
Focal gnome desktop
Focal mate desktop
Focal xfce desktop
Hirsute CLI (upcoming Ubuntu 21.04)

All are coming with mainline u-boot and latest 5.10.y kernel.

[legogris]

Has anyone attempted to to encrypted root filesystem (cryptroot) for armbian on the HC4?

I'm able to do build image with cryptroot for C4, and without cryptroot for HC4.

Trying to do cryptroot on HC4, the boot process hangs at "Starting kernel..."

GH issue with details: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/2649

[igorpec]

v21.02.3 (2021-03-09)

- All kernels received upstream updates
- All images has been rebuilt
- Fixed reboot troubles on meson64 family (Odroid N2, C2, H4, HC4)
- ZSH upgrade fixed

https://www.armbian.com/download/?tx_maker=hardkernel

[Seb_Lz]

Is it mandatory to have an eMMC module if we want armbian system on an external usb ssd ? I've just tried the latest image on SD card but system won't boot after running nand-sata-install.
The steps I've done:
-Start system from sd card flashed with balenaEtcher
-run apt update & apt upgrade
-start nand-sata-install and update uboot then choose ext4 partition on my ssd to move system data to
-reboot (as prompted) after transfer completed successfully

[igorpec]

Is it mandatory to have an eMMC module if we want armbian system on an external usb ssd ? I've just tried the latest image on SD card but system won't boot after running nand-sata-install.
The steps I've done:
-Start system from sd card flashed with balenaEtcher
-run apt update & apt upgrade
-start nand-sata-install and update uboot then choose ext4 partition on my ssd to move system data to
-reboot (as prompted) after transfer completed successfully

Can you try to power cycle? dl;dr; There used to be a bug that caused board to hang at boot loader. It was fixed, but now fix that was sent upstream broke this again ...

[Seb_Lz]

Do you mean pull power cable off, then plug it in ? If so, I've done it and unfortunately the result is the same. The odroid starts, the red led is on and the blue one blinks. The led of SSD case remains solid blue.
Not sure if this info is of any value, but this combination (sd card boot + system on on ssd) worked with HassOS & stock image on same hardware.

[Seb_Lz]

I've just made another attempt with n-1 version (Armbian_21.02.1_Odroidc4_focal_current_5.10.12.img), same procedure but without apt upgrade, and got the same result.

[Mull]

Apologies, not Focal but Buster 5.10.y question....

I feel like I am going around in circles, how would I get HDMI-CEC working? It is my last thing I need to enable and my little C4 is golden.

[igorpec]

Apologies, not Focal but Buster 5.10.y question....

I feel like I am going around in circles, how would I get HDMI-CEC working? It is my last thing I need to enable and my little C4 is golden.

No idea if that hw feature was ever ported to modern kernels. For Armbian HDMI-CEC feature is exotics - check Libreelec for best multimedia support ...

In general, if feature is not developed on / ported to modern Linux, but you like to have it, answer is identical as this one:
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/15654-u ... nanopc-t4/

[Mull]

Thank you Igor, you have answered my question perfectly - I was not blindly missing something, it just isn't there.

All the best.

[chewitt]

It's something I never test, but CEC should work in modern kernels.

[Sebas_Ledesma]

Hi:

I'm evaluating ARMBian as alternative for Hardkernel UBUNTU.
I've downloaded the minimal distro and flashed an eMMC memory.

uname -a returns:
Linux odroidc4 5.14.11-meson64 #trunk.29 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 9 18:51:11 UTC 2021 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Just a question:
- How to install odroid-wiringpi package?
I've tried adding hardkernel repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hardkernel/ppa
but the package it's not listed for download.

Thanks in advance,
Sebas

[igorpec]

Hi:

I'm evaluating ARMBian as alternative for Hardkernel UBUNTU.
I've downloaded the minimal distro and flashed an eMMC memory.

uname -a returns:
Linux odroidc4 5.14.11-meson64 #trunk.29 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 9 18:51:11 UTC 2021 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Just a question:
- How to install odroid-wiringpi package?
I've tried adding hardkernel repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hardkernel/ppa
but the package it's not listed for download.

Thanks in advance,
Sebas

Armbian comes with a stock (4.9.y) or mainline kernel (CURRENT LTS and daily EDGE which you choose and which is not recommended to use, since its fragile and support very expensive and we have no interest or budget to cover). If you want to use modern kernel, deprecated (support also abandoned by its original authors many years ago) Hardkernel proprietary IO libraries will almost certainly not work. You need to look for universal ones:

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/6523-us ... nterfaces/
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/5655-ar ... i-proposal
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.19/d ... index.html

[igorpec]

Release documentation

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[Danielsan]

Hi guys,

I've just installed Armbian CLI 22.04 on HC4, which at least works, but I found a couple of issues:

• Does not recognize /dev/mt* therefore you must start Petiteboot and delete the SPI Flash memory manually.
• Does not reboot but it shutdowns instead, which is not nice.

The first point is easy to solve, the second it is not, and I do not have clue. The only hint I have is that I installed the code to make the lcd working, and since it downloaded a lot of stuff, might that compromised anything?

I think I am going to reflash 22.04 check if everything works before to install anything, and for the the mini lcd I am going to use this other program which is a static go binary with not dependencies:

https://github.com/ChandlerSwift/odroidhc4-display

Thanks,
D.

[Danielsan]

I reinstalled it again but I confirm that the OS does not reboot...

Armbian 22.05.1 Bullseye with Linux 5.10.110-meson64

[TheLillo]

We have developed a script to create an SD image for Odroid HC4. With this method you can use Armbian without erase Petitboot partition.

https://github.com/TheLillo/generate-image-hc4-armbian

Hope will be usefull for someone

[rooted]

We have developed a script to create an SD image for Odroid HC4. With this method you can use Armbian without erase Petitboot partition.

https://github.com/TheLillo/generate-image-hc4-armbian

Hope will be usefull for someone

Which bootloader are you injecting? Hardkernels I'm assuming?

[TheLillo]

We have developed a script to create an SD image for Odroid HC4. With this method you can use Armbian without erase Petitboot partition.

https://github.com/TheLillo/generate-image-hc4-armbian

Hope will be usefull for someone

Which bootloader are you injecting? Hardkernels I'm assuming?

Actually we get from hardkernel official image the config.ini. We configure Petitboot with boot.ini to load Armbian kernel and dtb, obviously SATA controller works

[rooted]

We have developed a script to create an SD image for Odroid HC4. With this method you can use Armbian without erase Petitboot partition.

https://github.com/TheLillo/generate-image-hc4-armbian

Hope will be usefull for someone

Which bootloader are you injecting? Hardkernels I'm assuming?

Actually we get from hardkernel official image the spiboot.img and config.ini. We configure Petitboot with boot.ini to load Armbian kernel and dtb, obviously SATA controller works

Awesome, this should be helpful to plenty running Armbian and want Petitboot functionality.

[TheLillo]

We have developed a script to create an SD image for Odroid HC4. With this method you can use Armbian without erase Petitboot partition.

https://github.com/TheLillo/generate-image-hc4-armbian

Hope will be usefull for someone

Which bootloader are you injecting? Hardkernels I'm assuming?

Actually we get from hardkernel official image the config.ini. We configure Petitboot with boot.ini to load Armbian kernel and dtb, obviously SATA controller works

Awesome, this should be helpful to plenty running Armbian and want Petitboot functionality.

We make some experiment and now we know that the spiboot.img was useless. So we take only config.ini from the official hardkernel image.

[Sakura]

does armbian support WoL and hardware video decoding?

[igorpec]

- stable images were update to kernel 5.19.y
- headers are pre-installed on CLI and (XFCE, Gnome, Cinnamon) desktop images
- added stripped down minimal CLI images
- kernel upgrade is frozen by default to maximise stability (upgrade via armbian-config)
- ZFS compilation works on Debian and Ubuntu
- wireless drivers that can work with Linux, works here
- Added rolling Debian Sid and Ubuntu Kinetic with kernel 6.0.y
...

[anatife]

2022-11-28 _ My Odroid C4 was delivered last week. ^_^ Writing this to say hello from Armbian Bullseye with Xorg, XDM, and Openbox.

Thanks for your hard work!

[igorpec]

Updated to 22.11
https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-22-11/

[igorpec]

Nightly and weekly community builds were bumped to 6.1.y
https://github.com/armbian/community

[Mercury]

A bit of a noob question but If I want to access another OS via petitboot, can I?...

1. Remove the current armbian SD card and restore petitboot spi
2. Test a new OS on a new SD card
3. Once finished, remove that card and erase petitboot
4. Reinsert the original armbian SD card and boot as before (including OMV)

I'm thinking yes as I assume that armbain does use the spi for anything?

[rooted]

Yes

[igorpec]

In order to provide best possible support status, please help us with testings Armbian 23.02 (Quoll)
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/26661-a ... -testings/

[buggy]

Hi guys, I had issues with audio - only dummy interface shown - after the system update of ~year old armbian. Did not find a solution, so I decided to go for latest build - so I flashed latest image Armbian 23.02 Jammy XFCE to the emmc drive of my odroid C4. System started ok, but unfortunately no HDMI audio device shown. Have no idea what to do, my dmesq is full of these lines:

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[   13.936415]  fe.dai-link-0: ASoC: no backend DAIs enabled for fe.dai-link-0
[   13.937748]  fe.dai-link-0: ASoC: error at dpcm_fe_dai_prepare on fe.dai-link-0: -22
...
[  935.795034]  fe.dai-link-0: ASoC: no backend DAIs enabled for fe.dai-link-0
[  935.801472]  fe.dai-link-0: ASoC: error at dpcm_fe_dai_prepare on fe.dai-link-0: -22

I somehow feel it is connected - there are some similar issues reported on various distros.
Only solution, which seems to me would work, was reinstall odroid-base and odroid-alsa packages, however these are not in the armbian repositories.
Would you please help?

[yikestone]

Hi,

I am running "Armbian 23.02.2 Bullseye with Linux 6.1.11-meson64" on an HC4. I am using this for NAS and 98% of the time it is in idle condition.

I want to minimize power consumption and CPU temp, currently running at 52°C with ambient temp 25°C.

The minimum default cpu frequency is 1GHz. And I am not able to change it to anything lower than that. I have tried setting it by cpufrequtils and manually by setting it in "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_min_freq" file.

Is the minimum cpu freq hard coded in kernel code?
Can it be set using some commandline args passed to kernel when booting?
Is there any other way to set it apart from compiling kernel?

Thanks and Regards.