Ubuntu 20 or 22 for M2-Ultra/Berry?

Banana Pi SBCs design BPI-M2 Ultra / BPI-M2 Berry(A40i)
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Any plans to move to a supported version of Ubuntu? 16.04 is end of life, 18 is about to drop off…

Thanks

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Old 3.10 allwinner kernel is not workable for higer rootfs

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But surely V40 is supported at something higher than 3.1? I see R40 is supported at kernel 5.6

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armbian kenele image :

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uYlhPWXr8bplHcBujMUKqkTaR1xCm_Fw

and we will update ubuntu soon

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Much appreciated! :slight_smile:

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Hi sinovoip,

It’s been a while now since the last message. Any status updates on the support of a more modern Ubuntu LTS version for the Banana-Pi M2 Berry?

Best, Blake

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Check for Armbian. https://github.com/armbian/build

You can build whatever you want.

./compile.sh EXPERT=yes

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Thank you igorpec. The Armbian project looks fantastic. I’ll try it out.

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Hi @igorpec, unfortunately, the “stable” armbian 5.x kernel gives a kernel panic when shutting down the BPi M2 Berry in the i2c module. Is this a known problem? Also I noticed that the green disk LED is not working in both Armbian 5.x and 6.x kernels.

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If you are using a microSD card, you should be able to assign disk activity to the green LED using the command (as root):

# echo mmc0 > /sys/class/leds/bananapi\:green\:user/trigger

If you’re using the eMMC, then the command would be:

# echo mmc2 > /sys/class/leds/bananapi\:green\:user/trigger

If you want to use if for the SATA disk, I think the command would be similar, but replace mmc0 with disk-activity. (But I don’t have a SATA disk connected to confirm this point.)

If you want to make the change permanent, then you can patch the device tree using the bindings you’ll find here:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-gpio.txt

I don’t know if there is something equivalent that can be done to make it flash on BOTH the microsd and the emmc.