Manjaro-ARM

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.

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.

Supported Devices

Hardkernel

	Hardkernel
Model	Odroid-C2	Odroid-C4	Odroid-N2	Odroid-N2+
Release Year	2016	2020	2019	2020
SoC Manufacturer	Amlogic	Amlogic	Amlogic	Amlogic
Lithography	28nm	12nm	12nm	12nm
CPU	S905	S905X3	S922X	S922X
CPU Topology	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
CPU Frequency	4 x 1.5GHz	4 x 2.0GHz	4 x 2.0GHz 2 x 1.8GHz	4 x 2.4GHz 2 x 1.9GHz
GPU	Mali-450 MP3	Mali-G31 MP2	Mali-G52 MP4	Mali-G52 MP4
Memory	2GB DDR3	4GB DDR4	2–4GB DDR4	2–4GB DDR4

Khadas

	Khadas
Model	Edge-V	Vim 1	Vim 2	Vim 3
Release Year	2018	2016	2017	2019
SoC Manufacturer	Rockchip	Amlogic	Amlogic	Amlogic
Lithography	28nm	28nm	28nm	12nm
CPU	RK3399	S905X	S912	A311D
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
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
GPU	Mali-T860 MP4	Mali-450 MP3	Mali-T820 MP3	Mali-G52 MP4
Memory	2–4GB LPDDR4	2GB DDR3	2–3GB LPDDR4	2–4GB LPDDR4

Pine64

	Pine64
Model	Rock64	RockPro64	Pinebook	Pinebook Pro	PinePhone
Release Year	2017	2017	2017	2019	2019
SoC Manufacturer	Rockchip	Rockchip	Allwinner	Rockchip	Allwinner
Lithography	28nm	28nm	40nm	28nm	40nm
CPU	RK3328	RK3399	A64	RK3399	A64
CPU Topology	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
CPU Frequency	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
GPU	Mali-450 MP2	Mali-T860 MP4	Mali-400 MP2	Mali-T860 MP4	Mali-400 MP2
Memory	1–4GB LPDDR3	2–4GB LPDDR4	2GB LPDDR3	4GB LPDDR4	2–3GB LPDDR3

Radxa

	Radxa
Model	Rock Pi 4
Release Year	2019
SoC Manufacturer	Rockchip
Lithography	28nm
CPU	RK3399
CPU Topology	Hexa-core: 2 x Cortex-A72 4 x Cortex-A53
CPU Frequency	2 x 2.0GHz 4 x 1.5GHz
GPU	Mali-T860 MP4
Memory	1–4GB LPDDR4

Raspberry

	Raspberry
Model	Pi 3B	Pi 3B+	Pi 4B	Pi 400
Release Year	2016	2018	2019	2020
SoC Manufacturer	Broadcom	Broadcom	Broadcom	Broadcom
Lithography	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm
CPU	BCM2837	BCM2837B0	BCM2711	BCM2711
CPU Topology	Quad-core: 4 x Cortex-A53	Quad-core: 4 x Cortex-A53	Quad-core: 4 x Cortex-A72	Quad-core: 4 x Cortex-A72
CPU Frequency	4 x 1.2GHz	4 x 1.4GHz	4 x 1.5GHz	4 x 1.5GHz
GPU	VideoCore IV	VideoCore IV	VideoCore VI	VideoCore VI
Memory	1GB LPDDR2	1GB LPDDR2	1–8GB LPDDR4	4GB LPDDR4

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

Pi 400 Power Button

If you have trouble using the power button on your Pi 400 with the XFCE desktop (or xfce4-power-manager) then make sure logind is handling button events:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -p /xfce4-power-manager/logind-handle-power-key -n -t bool -s true

Blocked Update

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

Missing Bluetooth after raspberrypi-bootloader/-x update 20210208-1

First, check whether the bootloader has been updated:

pacman -Ss raspberrypi-bootloader

Possible results:

core/raspberrypi-bootloader 20210208-1 [installed]
   Bootloader files for Raspberry Pi
core/raspberrypi-bootloader-x 20210208-1 [installed]
   Bootloader with extra codecs for Raspberry Pi

If it is the case, changing the occurrences of ttyAMA0 in /boot/cmdline.txt to serial0 may fix missing Bluetooth (Source).

Android TV boxes

With a couple of small tweaks it is possible to boot and install the vim3 builds of Manjaro on some Amlogic TV boxes. Running Manjaro on TV boxes is not recommended for less experienced users of Linux nor serious production use.

See also

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Category:ARM_architecture
https://archlinuxarm.org/wiki
https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro-arm/