BPI-M2 Ultra/BPI-M2 Berry new image : Armbian Bionic and Stretch

Banana Pi SBCs design BPI-M2 Ultra / BPI-M2 Berry(A40i)
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Probably ports are not enabled. That’s all. Since we didn’t develop overlay support for Allwinner R40, this is not plain simple. You can’t use armbian-config -> hardware configuration menu driven utility but you need to edit boards hardware description file (DTB) … which you need to invest some time to understand.

Editing DTB again (probably works also from userspace - use search for details and try):

user-led {
			label = "bananapi:green:user";
			gpios = <&pio 7 21 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
+                      default-state = "heartbeat";
		};

Those ideas are theoretical. I don’t know if they work since this board has no support. We just provide image as is. You are on your own to find out how to do this and that. It is similar as on other Allwinner boards. Make use of huge knowledge base: https://www.armbian.com/search

apt.uk.armbian.com is a mirror of apt.armbian.com … since there are no stable builds for this board, this is pointless.

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I have the same issue with i2c. i2c configuration in dtb/dts is “okay”:

            i2c@1c2b000 {
                    compatible = "allwinner,sun6i-a31-i2c";
                    reg = <0x1c2b000 0x400>;
                    interrupts = <0x0 0x8 0x4>;
                    clocks = <0x4 0x58>;
                    resets = <0x4 0x41>;
                    status = "okay";
                    #address-cells = <0x1>;
                    #size-cells = <0x0>;
                    phandle = <0x59>;
            };

            i2c@1c2b400 {
                    compatible = "allwinner,sun6i-a31-i2c";
                    reg = <0x1c2b400 0x400>;
                    interrupts = <0x0 0x9 0x4>;
                    clocks = <0x4 0x59>;
                    resets = <0x4 0x42>;
                    status = "okay";
                    #address-cells = <0x1>;
                    #size-cells = <0x0>;
                    phandle = <0x5a>;
            };

            i2c@1c2b800 {
                    compatible = "allwinner,sun6i-a31-i2c";
                    reg = <0x1c2b800 0x400>;
                    interrupts = <0x0 0x58 0x4>;
                    clocks = <0x4 0x5a>;
                    resets = <0x4 0x43>;
                    status = "okay";
                    #address-cells = <0x1>;
                    #size-cells = <0x0>;
                    phandle = <0x5b>;
            };

            i2c@1c2c000 {
                    compatible = "allwinner,sun6i-a31-i2c";
                    reg = <0x1c2c000 0x400>;
                    interrupts = <0x0 0x59 0x4>;
                    clocks = <0x4 0x5f>;
                    resets = <0x4 0x48>;
                    status = "okay";
                    #address-cells = <0x1>;
                    #size-cells = <0x0>;
                    phandle = <0x5c>;
            };

After reboot there are 6 i2c devices:

root@bananapim2ultra:/dev# ls /dev | grep i2c
i2c-0
i2c-1
i2c-2
i2c-3
i2c-4
i2c-5

i2cdetect -y 0 works too slow… And finally there are no avaliable i2c devices. I use DS3231 clock, it works correctly with [orange pi pc + / Armbian].

Any idea?.. Thanks in advance.

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My LED solution is:

nano /etc/tmpfiles.d/leds.conf

w /sys/devices/platform/leds/leds/bananapi:red:user/trigger - - - - default-on w /sys/devices/platform/leds/leds/bananapi:green:user/trigger - - - - heartbeat w /sys/devices/platform/leds/leds/bananapi:blue:user/trigger - - - - mmc0

I use BPI-M2U and Armbian Stretch.

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@ayarovy,

My BPI is powered by “ARMBIAN 5.59.180823 testing Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.18.13-sunxi” I had the following line in /etc/rc.local file for blinking the green led on board :

echo heartbeat > /sys/class/leds/bananapi:green:user/trigger

But I wish to display IP-address and free disk-space on an OLed 0.96". My BPI is headless and acts as a NAS.

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I’m trying Armbian_5.59.180823_Bananapim2ultra_Debian_stretch_dev_4.18.4.7z or Armbian_5.59.180823_Bananapim2ultra_Debian_stretch_dev_4.18.4.7z on Banana Pi M2 Berry and fail miserably. What I did:

  • download the 7z files, unpacked (Win10)
  • verified the checksum of the unpacked .img files
  • wrote the image file to a single-partition 16GB SD-card using Win32 Disk Imager and Etcher => in contrast to other tried distributions the SD-card remains single-partitioned (the other Linux distributions created 2 partitions, one DOS partition and another one unreadable on Windows)
  • stick the SD-card into the BPiM2Berry => the red LED is on, but that’s it - no green LED, no HDMI output, no network access
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I tried again (with dis-/reconnecting the monitor) and eventually noticed that it reacted to the Banana Pi’s power button. The screen did not turn into standby mode and by luck I’ve noticed a flashing _ at the left top corner. After waiting a while it showed the usual login.

So for all users who try:

  • there really is just one partition on the SD card
  • the green LED does not indicates any operation
  • there is no boot message output on the HDMI
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Updated images and enabling verbose booting on HDMI screen.

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Hi Igor,

I am using Armbian Bionic and everything looks good. Thank you.

Do you have any idea how to use the on board microphone?

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hello Igor. I have Banana PI M2U and Im using Armbian Bionic (desktop mainline kernel 4.19.y). My sound doesn’t work and I can’t configure it. Do you have any leads for me please ?

Thank you

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hi i build an img from the trunk but i cant enable spidev i use the armbian-config to get access but under /dev/ didnt appear spidev0.0 after reboot. what can i do?

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This feature is not developed and board is not supported. Everything that exists comes as is.

Perhaps cover some costs or https://www.armbian.com/get-involved ?

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hello @igorpec along with say hello, know if you can add the following patches to m2ultra:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/patch/?id=e5c6e693be831c1bba9b4f8f1da597fb5514deca

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/patch/?id=a5a4bc14914faf219336d71c71595975b8112ff7

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/patch/?id=26e9ffeb2c04f0f577d0179e7eca8e1d54f9e050

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/patch/?id=5f9e882825467105acafd208520b69bf95adb963

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/patch/?id=ca117b6528b9da81d83ac6ec51d7d456894690dc

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The same reply as in previous post.

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Should be on it’s way. https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/c430a2ac3d316a4270493fdbb1afd63aaffddded

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Hallo, a new user here. Apparently the image Armbian_5.69_Bananapim2ultra_Debian_stretch_next_4.19.13.img does not boot (unlike Armbian_5.66_Bananapim2ultra_Debian_stretch_dev_4.18.18.img).

Jan

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It boots except that the HDMI video driver not working. So no HDMI output. I just downloaded it for my bpi m2u and burned to a micro sd card. It worked, but hdmi not working. I am using serial port and seeing the serial console. But, like others, my wireless still not working both wi-fi and bluetooth. Help!

Tim

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Those wifi patches are on dev branch. Try building it using Armbian build system. I have built an image with debian stretch headless, you can try that. I haven’t tested it because I’m not at home.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AhlEm2jrNGFU-y7uZDIpUacAHgyvTgjG/view?usp=sharing

sha256 9ed836cb839606ab5bfc7c61e2a9148c10a82d2e418e333d998632ed8267cd5b Armbian_5.71_Bananapim2ultra_Debian_stretch_dev_4.20.2.img

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Thank you so much, jero. Now it worked both HDMI and wifi. But the bluetooth still not working. Any chance to know what should I do to enable it?

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Don’t know, but BT+wifi are in the same module, so it should work. Check your BT configuration and if it doesn’t help, try asking on armbian P2P forum.

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I am new to “Bananas” but certainly not new to linux. I have to get my on TTL/USB cable to be able to see what’s going on…