Manjaro-ARM

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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

Preparing the SPI (optional)

Some boards have an SPI storage chip. This is a small storage device, usually 4-16 MB in size, that the board checks for firmware before proceeding to other devices. So we can utilize this chip, by preparing the board specific firmware on it, making it able to boot our generic image.
We have currently tested Tow-Boot, so that's what this guide will use.

  1. Go to the latest release section of Tow-Boot and download the file that matches your board. This is important.
  2. Unpack it and flash the `spi.imager.img` file to a spare SD card. If the archive does not contain any spi.imager.img file for your board, you should use one of our pre-built OS images instead, which has the Shared Storage version of U-boot installed.
  3. Insert the SD card into your device and boot from it. You will be presented with a short menu. One entry is "Flash Tow-Boot to SPI", second entry is "Erase SPI Flash" and the last option is "Reboot".
  4. Select the "Flash Tow-Boot to SPI" option and wait until it finishes successfully. It can take a couple of minutes as SPI storage is rather slow.
  5. When it's done, power off the device and take out the SD card. Now your device has the Tow-Boot board firmware in place and should now be capable of booting any generic aarch64 image that supports your board.

Our Generic Aarch64 image supports the Extlinux booting scheme so far.

Downloading

You can find installation images in the downloads section of the Manjaro Website.
Find the image that matches your target device and desired edition.
Or if you have Board Firmware on your SPI, you can try our new Generic Aarch64 images.

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 PinePhone Pro
Release Year 2017 2017 2017 2019 2019 2022
SoC Manufacturer Rockchip Rockchip Allwinner Rockchip Allwinner Rockchip
Lithography 28nm 28nm 40nm 28nm 40nm 28nm
CPU RK3328 RK3399 A64 RK3399 A64 RK3399S
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
Hexa-core:
2 x Cortex-A72
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 2 x 1.5GHz
4 x 1.5GHz
GPU Mali-450 MP2 Mali-T860 MP4 Mali-400 MP2 Mali-T860 MP4 Mali-400 MP2 Mali-T860 MP4
Memory 1–4GB
LPDDR3
2–4GB
LPDDR4
2GB
LPDDR3
4GB
LPDDR4
2–3GB
LPDDR3
4GB
LPDDR4 @800 MHz


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.

Unsupported Devices

In general, any device that does not have a device specific image or works with the Generic image, is considered unsupported. We may drop support for a device when the manufacturer no longer sells the device. The device is then considered EOL (End-Of-Life). Such a device might still work by updating and old image or running the Generic image, but we no longer work to keep it working.

See also

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