Since I was mostly busy with my job and other things over the last couple month I only just recently came back to my Pine64 projects. I then was looking at the currently available Linux support options and found that Armbian now has official support for the Pine64. I am currently running one of their Ubuntu images with BSP kernel and an experimental one with an updated mainline (sunxi) kernel.

You can find more information and images at their Download site: https://www.armbian.com/pine64/
Make sure to read all the hints and issues which nicely sums up most things you need to be aware of or configure to your needs: https://docs.armbian.com/board_details/pine64/

While the download section has ready built images, Armbian is by design a build system which creates Debian/Ubuntu based images for ARM systems and you can roll your own  with custom configuration as well:  https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide...eparation/

I would like to collect information and feedback from other Armbian users here.

I am following the instructions on the GitHub page to try and install Windows 10 IoT on my Pine, but they're really not making this easy. Besides some poorly worded and confusing instructions in steps 2 and 3, it says I am supposed to open the iothub_csharp_client.sln solution (/azure-iot-sdks/csharp) file. However, that file does not even exist in the repository.

Also, there are two different URLs to download the .ffu file specified between this forum and the GitHub page — http://files.pine64.org/os/win10-iot/Win...Pine64.ffu and http://files.pine64.org/os/win10-iot/Pin...eta0.1.ffu. This level of inconsistency is staggering.

Has anyone else run into these issues? If so, how were able to get around them? I don't know where to go from here.

Thanks.

I suspect the answer is yes, since some people use their PINE as a server.   But I have mine set up with android 6, and since the keyboard has to be plugged in after booting... is it okay to just never tune the PINE off?

I was attempting to rebuild the EFI to support win10 core.
I followed the instructions at:https://github.com/Leeway213/WinIoTBoot

I am running under Ubuntu 16 (64bit) as the Windows build is not supported yet.

After executing the ./build.sh script in the SunxiPlatformPkg directory and answering the target questions it failed because the "C" directory
in the base tools source folder is not present. I copied the "C" folder from the edk2 master repo and it rebuild tools now on launch of same script but now I get the
following error:
Build start time: 09:25:01, Jan.07 2017
WORKSPACE        = /home/david/edk2
ECP_SOURCE       = /home/david/edk2/EdkCompatibilityPkg
EDK_SOURCE       = /home/david/edk2/EdkCompatibilityPkg
EFI_SOURCE       = /home/david/edk2/EdkCompatibilityPkg
EDK_TOOLS_PATH   = /home/david/edk2/BaseTools

Architecture(s)  = ARM
Build target     = RELEASE
Toolchain        = ARMLINUXGCC
Active Platform          = /home/david/edk2/SunxiPlatformPkg/sun50iw1p1Pkg/sun50iw1p1Pkg.dsc
Flash Image Definition   = /home/david/edk2/SunxiPlatformPkg/sun50iw1p1Pkg/sun50iw1p1Pkg.fdf
Processing meta-data ............. done!
Building ... /home/david/edk2/MdePkg/Library/BasePcdLibNull/BasePcdLibNull.inf [ARM]
"/home/david/edk2/SunxiPlatformPkg/pctools/toolchain/gcc-linaro/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc" -march=armv7-a -mfpu=neon -I/home/david/edk2/SunxiPlatformPkg/sun50iw1p1Pkg/Include/Sun50iW1P1 -g -O2 -fshort-wchar -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Werror -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-array-bounds -c -include AutoGen.h -mword-relocations -mlittle-endian -mabi=aapcs -mapcs -fno-short-enums -save-temps -fsigned-char -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fomit-frame-pointer -Wno-address -mfloat-abi=soft -fno-stack-protector -mno-unaligned-access -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -DCONFIG_ARCH_SUN50IW1P1 -o /home/david/edk2/Build/SunxiPlatform/sun50iw1p1Pkg/RELEASE_ARMLINUXGCC/ARM/MdePkg/Library/BasePcdLibNull/BasePcdLibNull/OUTPUT/./PcdLib.obj -I/home/david/edk2/MdePkg/Library/BasePcdLibNull -I/home/david/edk2/Build/SunxiPlatform/sun50iw1p1Pkg/RELEASE_ARMLINUXGCC/ARM/MdePkg/Library/BasePcdLibNull/BasePcdLibNull/DEBUG -I/home/david/edk2/MdePkg -I/home/david/edk2/MdePkg/Include -I/home/david/edk2/MdePkg/Include/Arm /home/david/edk2/MdePkg/Library/BasePcdLibNull/PcdLib.c
/bin/sh: 1: /home/david/edk2/SunxiPlatformPkg/pctools/toolchain/gcc-linaro/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc: not found
GNUmakefile:316: recipe for target '/home/david/edk2/Build/SunxiPlatform/sun50iw1p1Pkg/RELEASE_ARMLINUXGCC/ARM/MdePkg/Library/BasePcdLibNull/BasePcdLibNull/OUTPUT/PcdLib.obj' failed
make: *** [/home/david/edk2/Build/SunxiPlatform/sun50iw1p1Pkg/RELEASE_ARMLINUXGCC/ARM/MdePkg/Library/BasePcdLibNull/BasePcdLibNull/OUTPUT/PcdLib.obj] Error 127

build.py...
 : error 7000: Failed to execute command
 make --no-print-directory tbuild [/home/david/edk2/Build/SunxiPlatform/sun50iw1p1Pkg/RELEASE_ARMLINUXGCC/ARM/MdePkg/Library/BasePcdLibNull/BasePcdLibNull]

build.py...
 : error 7000: Failed to execute command
 make --no-print-directory tbuild [/home/david/edk2/Build/SunxiPlatform/sun50iw1p1Pkg/RELEASE_ARMLINUXGCC/ARM/MdePkg/Library/BaseDebugLibNull/BaseDebugLibNull]

build.py...
 : error F002: Failed to build module
 /home/david/edk2/MdePkg/Library/BasePcdLibNull/BasePcdLibNull.inf [ARM, ARMLINUXGCC, RELEASE]
- Failed -
Build end time: 09:25:15, Jan.07 2017
Build total time: 00:00:14

I can not understand this error. the arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc is clearly in the pctools/toolchain directory and it has the executable attribute.

Any help?

Im trying to get Openhab2 to run on my Pine64 with my Aeon Zwave gen5 stick.
Lots of problems with the the device not found. If I use the openHAB Image 20160915 base on Ubuntu Linux Longsleep image everything works great.
The problem is I would like to use Debian Base (3.10.102 BSP 2).
I have seen that I must use 32bit java so it will work.
Looked everywhere for a 32 bit version for the pine64. There is so many different versions and so confusing.
Would anyone know the steps I need to do to get it working?

I seem to have forgotten which one it was that I bought. How can I find out which model I have, as well as the complete specs?

Hi,

I'm making some tests with external harddrive with LVM2 and I need pvmove... but it won't work without dm-mirror. I've checked and this kernel module isn't enabled. So I downloaded the kernel source from (https://github.com/longsleep/build-pine6...ter/kernel) and proceeded to check the dm-mirror module with the menuconfig. Once completed I then made a (make modules) and copied the module in /lib/module/... folder.

Now if I do depmod && modprobe dm-mirror it complains that the format is invalid. I neved had that knind of error... unless I was cross compiling wich i'm not since I built the module on the pine itself.

The exact error is :

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'dm_mirror': Exec format error

Any idea about how to fix the problem?

Hello,

How i can access SPI pin (pi2bus or euler) with python spidev?

i look in the raspberry, the SPI port must be enable before using through raspi-config. How about pine64?
Thank's

This small machine stayed up for more than 32 days. After 32 days it started acting, for instance:

cp ../lcc .

would get an error message from cp: No destination specified.

I decided to reboot (unplugged everything took power off...), so the longest time this machine has been running without reboot for me is around 32 days. 

What is the record time?

I used it heavily during those days, it was a very good development system, I used it through ssh from my macintosh. I setup a gui receiver in the mac, and the screen was quite OK. The small circuit sent all the screen to the mac without a hitch.

But for heavy development work you do not need GUIs... anyway.

All the network seemed to work without any problem. Linux works.

I attached a hard drive, but with usb 2.0 there wasn't any speed improvement. Even with an ssd drive it would be around the same. But it worked, and the drive was seen correctly by the system.

The system comes with git, and it worked without any problems with the git server I set up in the mac.

Thanks to the people that built this circuit, it is quite good.

jacob

hello and happy new years every one.

I have a 1to external USB hard drives  and ubuntu OS on SD card

I would like to know If I can plug it to the USB port with 2A power supply. it will be start well or not or I must to change power supply?

thank you.