alarm on Pine H64B

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alarm on Pine H64B

Postby as365n4 » Sun Jul 19, 2020 5:22 pm

Hi, I know that the Pine H64B is not listed in supported boards. But is it possible to create an image for this board and what is the best way in doing so?

Thanks to a user on the pine64 forum one can build an image with the manjaro-arm-tools https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/ ... -arm-tools and a dtb file with working HDMI-Video, Ethernet, WiFi and USB3 is available as well https://sourceforge.net/projects/manjaro-arm-pineh64/ for this board.

I used this as starting point and created an "frankenstein" alarm installation for my boards by building a minimal image with the manjaro-arm-tools, replaced the dtb in the image with that from sourceforge and after first boot pointed the pacman config to the alarm repos and re-initialized the keys and went from there, but it still uses the kernel of manjaro.
How can I replace the kernel with a "pure" arch built kernel?
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Re: alarm on Pine H64B

Postby as365n4 » Sun Aug 09, 2020 12:44 pm

To answer my own question a simple pacman -Syuu updated the Manjaro Kernel to the 5.8 Kernel from the Arch repo.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'System: Host: Pine64-H64B Kernel: 5.8.0-1-ARCH aarch64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Console: tty 0
dm: N/A Distro: Arch Linux ARM
Machine: Type: ARM Device System: Pine H64 model B details: N/A serial: <filter>
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: N/A variant: cortex-a53 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: ARMv8
rev: 4
features: Use -f option to see features bogomips: 0
Speed: N/A min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): No speed data found for 4 cores.
Graphics: Device-1: sun50i-h6-mali driver: panfrost v: kernel bus ID: N/A
chip ID: allwinner:1800000
Device-2: sun50i-h6-dw-hdmi driver: sun8i_dw_hdmi v: N/A bus ID: N/A
chip ID: allwinner:6000000
Device-3: sun50i-h6-display-engine driver: sun4i_drm v: kernel bus ID: N/A
chip ID: allwinner:display-engine
Display: server: No display server data found. Headless machine? tty: 100x30
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio: Device-1: sun50i-h6-dw-hdmi driver: sun8i_dw_hdmi bus ID: N/A
chip ID: allwinner:6000000
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-1-ARCH
Network: Device-1: sun50i-h6-emac driver: dwmac_sun8i v: kernel port: N/A bus ID: N/A
chip ID: allwinner:5020000
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 14.45 GiB used: 2.64 GiB (18.3%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk1 model: M8B16G size: 14.45 GiB serial: <filter> rev: 0x7
scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / size: 13.97 GiB used: 2.56 GiB (18.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk1p2
ID-2: /boot size: 213.4 MiB used: 85.7 MiB (40.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/mmcblk1p1
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 68.7 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 149 Uptime: 1m Memory: 1.87 GiB used: 203.1 MiB (10.6%) Init: systemd
v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: tty 0 (SSH)
inxi: 3.0.37
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Missing bit is only a entry in the alarm Wiki on how setup a Pine64 H64B without having to use Manjaro to jump start the installation.
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