BPI-M3 new image:ArchLinuxARM Lite for BPI-M3 (20151209)

Banana Pi SBCs design BPI-M3(A83T/R18)
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ArchLinuxARM Lite for BPI-M3 (20151209)

2015-12-09-ArchLinuxARM-lite-bpi-m3-sd-emmc.jpg650×510 127 KB

  1. BPI-M3 kernel 3.4
  2. username & password: root/bananapi
  3. support HDMI 1080P & 720P
  4. support eMMC
  5. support GMAC
  6. support WIFI
  7. support SATA
  8. support bpi-bootsel cmd to switch mode

MD5

: 9123352d4fdb871ce959709f4eb39bc6

Google Drive:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_YnvHgh2rwjTVRkT0hnaWVGZDQ/view?usp=sharing

Baidu Cloud:

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too bad that M3 will never be supported on linux properly because there’s no linux drivers for the gpu it use

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Not true, Actions Semi’s S500 also contains the PowerVR SGX544MP1 and there binary BLOBs are available to use the GPU with 2D/3D acceleration: http://wiki.linux-xapple.org/w/index.php/How_to_Install_GPU_binary_driver (you’ll never see that from SinoVoip).

But I would suspect you’re not talking about GPU but the video engine CedarX instead (HW accelerated video decoding)? Then also not true – see here for the H3 SoC for example: http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=redirect&goto=findpost&ptid=723&pid=7286

Unfortunately this is true but that depends more on SinoVoip being not interested in providing software/support for their hardware.

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we coworker with allwinner , we try on linux GPU driver and video decode . next week ,we will get result

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Hi, I have a problem running some programs under simple user. For exaple, programs like bsdtar getting killed at their start.

[normaluser@bananapi ~]$ bsdtar
Killed

However I can run them just fine under root. And there is nothing in dmesg about it. Why some programs are getting killed that way?

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Please do a

cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr

and report back.

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Ok, to shorten this crap:

This is the problem and this applies to EVERY OS image ‘Team BPi’ provides. It’s a well known problem, it’s easy to fix but you made the mistake to buy hardware from a vendor that doesn’t give a sh*t about software issues. They only want to sell hardware and they even don’t test the crappy OS images they release every few days. They simply don’t care.

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Changed CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR value to 4096 and recompiled BSP. The problem is gone now. Thank you tkaiser!

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Congrats. You and me are the only 2 M3 users in the world that do not suffer from this limitation any longer (there are 3 more necessary fixes for kernel sources/sys_config.fex – but I won’t share since this is 'Team BPi’s strategy: Let their customers do all the work).

So now let’s have a look how long it takes until ‘Team BPi’ fixes their beginner’s mistake (can be also done in a running installation without recompiling the kernel).

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I’ve got very weird behaviour. I don’t have WiFi device.

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether aa:6e:a1:b9:2a:3c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.8/16 brd 192.168.255.255 scope global eth0
    inet6 fe80::a86e:a1ff:feb9:2a3c/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: tunl0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN group default 
    link/ipip 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
4: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN group default 
    link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0

How can i enable it?

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2016-05-10-ArchLinuxARM-lite-bpi-m3.img.zip fix it :slight_smile:

It took half a year…