Revision as of 01:46, 24 November 2020

Overview

The Manjaro distribution, but for ARM devices.

Based on Arch Linux ARM, combined with Manjaro tools, themes and infrastructure to make install images for your ARM device, like the Pinebook and Raspberry Pi.

Supported Devices

	Khadas				Odroid				Pine64					Raspberry				Radxa
Model	Edge-V	Vim 1	Vim 2	Vim 3	C2	C4	N2	N2+	Rock64	RockPro64	Pinebook	Pinebook Pro	PinePhone	Pi 3B	Pi 3B+	Pi 4B	Pi 400	Rock Pi 4
Release Year	2018	2016	2017	2019	2016	2020	2019	2020	2017	2017	2017	2019	2019	2016	2018	2019	2020	2019
SoC Manufacturer	Rockchip	Amlogic	Amlogic	Amlogic	Amlogic	Amlogic	Amlogic	Amlogic	Rockchip	Rockchip	Allwinner	Rockchip	Allwinner	Broadcom	Broadcom	Broadcom	Broadcom	Rockchip
Lithography	28nm	28nm	28nm	12nm	28nm	12nm	12nm	12nm	28nm	28nm	40nm	28nm	40nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm
CPU	RK3399	S905X	S912	A311D	S905	S905X3	S922X	S922X	RK3328	RK3399	A64	RK3399	A64	BCM2837	BCM2837B0	BCM2711	BCM2711	RK3399
CPU Topology	Hexa-core: 2 x Cortex-A72 4 x Cortex-A53	Quad-core: 4 x Cortex-A53	Octa-core: 8 x Cortex-A53	Hexa-core: 4 x Cortex-A73 2 x Cortex-A53	Quad-core: 4 x Cortex-A53	Quad-core: 4 x Cortex-A55	Hexa-core: 4 x Cortex-A73 2 x Cortex-A53	Hexa-core: 4 x Cortex-A73 2 x Cortex-A53	Quad-core: 4 x Cortex-A53	Hexa-core: 2 x Cortex-A72 4 x Cortex-A53	Quad-core: 4 x Cortex-A53	Hexa-core: 2 x Cortex-A72 4 x Cortex-A53	Quad-core: 4 x Cortex-A53	Quad-core: 4 x Cortex-A53	Quad-core: 4 x Cortex-A53	Quad-core: 4 x Cortex-A72	Quad-core: 4 x Cortex-A72	Hexa-core: 2 x Cortex-A72 4 x Cortex-A53
CPU Frequency	2 x 1.8GHz 4 x 1.5GHz	4 x 1.5GHz	8 x 1.5GHz	4 x 2.2GHz 2 x 1.8GHz	4 x 1.5GHz	4 x 2.0GHz	4 x 2.0GHz 2 x 1.8GHz	4 x 2.4GHz 2 x 1.9GHz	4 x 1.5GHz	2 x 2.0GHz 4 x 1.5GHz	4 x 1.152GHz	2 x 2.0GHz 4 x 1.5GHz	4 x 1.2GHz	4 x 1.2GHz	4 x 1.4GHz	4 x 1.5GHz	4 x 1.5GHz	2 x 2.0GHz 4 x 1.5GHz
GPU	Mali-T860 MP4	Mali-450 MP3	Mali-T820 MP3	Mali-G52 MP4	Mali-450 MP3	Mali-G31 MP2	Mali-G52 MP4	Mali-G52 MP4	Mali-450 MP2	Mali-T860 MP4	Mali-400 MP2	Mali-T860 MP4	Mali-400 MP2	VideoCore IV	VideoCore IV	VideoCore VI	VideoCore VI	Mali-T860 MP4
Memory	2–4GB LPDDR4	2GB DDR3	2–3GB LPDDR4	2–4GB LPDDR4	2GB DDR3	4GB DDR4	2–4GB DDR4	2–4GB DDR4	1–4GB LPDDR3	2–4GB LPDDR4	2GB LPDDR3	4GB LPDDR4	2–3GB LPDDR3	1GB LPDDR2	1GB LPDDR2	1–8GB LPDDR4	4GB LPDDR4	1–4GB LPDDR4

Installation

Downloading

You can find installation images in the downloads section of the Manjaro Website or at OSDN
Find the image that matches your target device and desired edition.

Writing the Installation Media

The images are in a .xz file. These files can be burned directly to an SD card with Etcher or with dd directly.
To manually install to your SD card with dd:

Extract the image.

unxz Manjaro-ARM-[Edition]-[Device]-[Version].xz

Get it on the SD card

sudo dd if=Manjaro-ARM-[Edition]-[Device]-[Version].img of=/dev/[device] bs=4M

Where [device] is your SD card's device, as seen by lsblk. Usually mmcblk0 or sdb.

Cleanup and First Boot

Once you have the image on the SDCard, you should be able to put the card into your device and plug it in. If everything worked correctly, it should boot to the OEM setup. Here you define your username, passwords locales etc. Once that is done, the script will clean up after itself, resize the partition and reboot the device. After that reboot, it should boot to the Operating System Depending on the edition you have installed, this could be a simple TTY login or a graphical desktop environment.

Resizing the partitions

Since 18.09 this is now done automatically. The device will boot to OEM setup, which will handle the resizing, and then reboot before the login screen would appear. When it's booted to the login screen, the filesystem has been resized to fill out the remaining space on the SD card.

Login

Login depends on what you set up during the OEM setup. There are 1 users by default on the image. root. And by default it has no password and autologin enabled. This gets changed when the OEM script is run, to disable the autologin and set the password defined during the setup.

Raspberry Pi

Sensors

For temperature and humidity sensor see this tutorial on the forums: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/howto-raspberry-pi-temperature-and-humidity-sensor-dht22-dht11-am2302/34685

Overclocking

You can manage voltage and frequency settings in your /boot/config.txt. The following are the most common values for the Raspberry Pi:

 over_voltage=6
 arm_freq=2100
 gpu_freq=650

Troubleshooting

Blocked update workaround

There are device-dependent workarounds if you experience an error similar to:

error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: brcm-patchram-plus and pi-bluetooth are in conflict

For the Pi 3B:

sudo systemctl disable brcm43438.service
sudo pacman -S -dd  brcm-patchram-plus-pi3b firmware-raspberrypi
sudo systemctl enable attach-bluetooth-pi3.service

For the Pi 3B+:

sudo systemctl disable brcm43438.service
sudo pacman -S -dd  brcm-patchram-plus firmware-raspberrypi
sudo systemctl enable attach-bluetooth.service

For the Pi 4B:

sudo systemctl disable brcm43438.service
sudo pacman -S -dd  brcm-patchram-plus firmware-raspberrypi
sudo systemctl enable attach-bluetooth.service

For the Pi 400:

sudo systemctl disable brcm43438.service
sudo pacman -S -dd  brcm-patchram-plus-pi400 firmware-raspberrypi
sudo systemctl enable attach-bluetooth-pi400.service

Difference between revisions of "Manjaro-ARM"