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Thanks, I ran from sdcard and these options work on Dolamee D5: overlays=cpu-hs emmc emmc-ddr-ph45 led-conf-default

hi @chris178! 1 - factory 8gb, not modded, lpddr4 2 - boot log: ▒...... [151]HELLO! BOOT0 is starting! [154]BOOT0 commit : {9f6fab4f-dirty} [168]dram_para_total:0xf [171]vaild para:6 select dram para10 [175][mmc]: mmc driver ver 2024-03-20 10:36 [184][mmc]: Wrong media type 0x0 [188][mmc]: ***Try SD card 0*** [197][mmc]: HSSDR52/SDR25 4 bit [200][mmc]: 50000000 Hz [202][mmc]: 59638 MB [205][mmc]: ***SD/MMC 0 init OK!!!*** [210]DRAM BOOT DRIVE INFO: V0.601 [215]DRAM_VCC set to 1100 mv [217]DRAM CLK =1800 MHZ [220]DRAM Type =8 (8:LPDDR4,9:LPDDR5) [320]Training result is = 7 [323]DRAM Pstate 1 training, frequency is 1200 Mhz [433]Training result is = 7 [436]DRAM Pstate 2 training, frequency is 800 Mhz [642]Training result is = 7 [645]DRAM Pstate 3 training, frequency is 400 Mhz [3829]Training result is = 7 [3832]DRAM Pstate 0 training, frequency is 1800 Mhz [3840]Actual DRAM SIZE =8192 M [3843]DRAM SIZE =8192 MBytes, para1 = 311a, para2 = 20001001, dram_tpr13 = 6067 [3858]DRAM simple test OK. [3864]error:bad magic. [3928]error: dtb not found for scp [3931]mmc not para [3933]Jump to ATF: monitor_base = 0x48000000, uboot_base = 0x4a000000, optee_base = 0x0 NOTICE: BL31: OP-TEE 32bit detected NOTICE: BL31: U-BOOT 32bit detected NOTICE: BL31: v2.5(debug):5fc237a6a NOTICE: BL31: Built : 09:05:28, Feb 26 2025 NOTICE: BL31: No DTB found. ERROR: Error initializing runtime service opteed_fast U-Boot 2018.07-12-boot-aw2501-gb2d229198b2-dirty (Jan 06 2026 - 03:45:33 +0000) Allwinner Technology [03.985]CPU: Allwinner Family [03.988]Model: Radxa Cubie A7A I2C: ready [04.052]DRAM: 8 GiB [04.061]Relocation Offset is: 75d89000 [04.114]secure enable bit: 0 [04.117]PMU: AXP8191 [04.119]PMU: AXP8191 VER_A FDT ERROR:fdt_get_regulator_name:get property handle twi-supply error:FDT_ERR_INTERNAL [04.131]bmu_axp515_probe pmic_bus_read fail [04.135][AXP8191] onoff status: 0x50 = 0x1, 0x51 = 0x0 [04.140][AXP8191] charge status: 0x4 = 0x0 [04.144]CPU=1014 MHz,PLL6=1200 Mhz,AHB=200 Mhz, APB1=24Mhz MBus=600Mhz [04.150]gic: sec monitor mode SPI ALL: ready [04.194]flash init start [04.196]workmode = 0,storage type = 1 [04.200][mmc]: mmc driver ver uboot2018:2024-10-18 9:01:00 -- uboot2018:2025-03-28 10:03:00 [04.208][mmc]: get sdc_type fail and use default host:tm1. [04.216][mmc]: can't find node "mmc0",will add new node [04.221][mmc]: fdt err returned <no error> [04.224][mmc]: Using default timing para [04.228][mmc]: SUNXI SDMMC Controller Version:0x50530 [04.246][mmc]: card_caps:0x3000000a [04.249][mmc]: host_caps:0x3000003f [04.252]sunxi flash init ok get value error [04.262]Loading Environment from SUNXI_FLASH... OK No ethernet found. [04.299]NOT support bridge yet [04.302]Warn: no find panel or bridge [04.403]drm hdmi get mode: 1920x1080@60Hz hdmi0@5520000: use force output detailed mode clock 139190 kHz, flags[5] H: 1920 2008 2052 2080 V: 1080 1082 1087 1115 bus_format: 0 clk_set_rate: <NULL> has NULL parent [04.505]suxni tcon hdmi set rate: 139190000Hz and get diff: -139190000Hz [04.577]the secure storage item0 copy0 magic is bad [04.589]the secure storage item0 copy1 magic is bad [04.593]usb burn from boot delay time 0 [04.599]usb prepare ok [04.902]overtime [04.906]do_burn_from_boot usb : no usb exist skip update boot_param cann't get the boot_base from the env [04.917]update part info [04.922]battery temp is -1 [04.926]update bootcmd [04.934](not enough data: expected >= 8 cells, got 4 cells) Link up timeout Speed change timeout PCIe speed of Gen1 Override default fdtfile to allwinner/sun60i-a733-cubie-a7z.dtb [07.376]libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC [07.382]libfdt fdt_path_offset() returned FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC [07.388][mmc]: get sunxi-mmc0 string failed [07.392]The storage not support sample function [07.398]## error: update_fdt_dram_para_from_bootpara : FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND ret 0 [07.408]chip id : 0x00005100 0x00004900 0x00004810 0x00001d62 [07.414]mac addr => 08:51:49:58:7f:71 [07.417]chip id : 0x00005100 0x00004900 0x00004810 0x00001d62 [07.423]mac addr => 08:51:49:58:7f:70 [07.427]/chosen/rng-seed node not exit [07.430]no battery, disabled battery functons [07.434]Could not find nodeoffset for bat_supply [07.439]update dts curr_device:0 Device: SUNXI SD/MMC Manufacturer ID: ff OEM: 0 Name: SDU1 Bus Speed: 50000000 Mode : SD High Speed (50MHz) Rd Block Len: 512 SD version 3.0 High Capacity: Yes Capacity: 58.2 GiB Bus Width: 4-bit Erase Group Size: 512 Bytes [ufs]info:Driver version 0.0.24 2024.12.30 16:00 [ufs]info:Cal words 0x60:val 0xb0880000, 0x64:val 0x4f21a959 [ufs]err:uic c 16,uic a 0,1,0 [ufs]err:e 80000010,0,0,0,0 [ufs]err:int s 0,400 [ufs]err:Device not present [ufs]err:wait device link startup failed [ufs]info:peer link startup timeout [ufs]info:Cal words 0x60:val 0xb0880000, 0x64:val 0x4f21a959 [ufs]err:uic c 16,uic a 0,1,0 [ufs]err:e 80000010,0,0,0,0 [ufs]err:int s 0,400 [ufs]err:Device not present [ufs]err:wait device link startup failed [ufs]info:peer link startup timeout [ufs]info:Cal words 0x60:val 0xb0880000, 0x64:val 0x4f21a959 [ufs]err:uic c 16,uic a 0,1,0 [ufs]err:e 80000010,0,0,0,0 [ufs]err:int s 0,400 [ufs]err:Device not present [ufs]err:wait device link startup failed [ufs]info:peer link startup timeout [ufs]info:Cal words 0x60:val 0xb0880000, 0x64:val 0x4f21a959 [ufs]err:uic c 16,uic a 0,1,0 [ufs]err:e 80000010,0,0,0,0 [ufs]err:int s 0,400 [ufs]err:Device not present [ufs]err:wait device link startup failed [ufs]info:peer link startup timeout [ufs]err:link startup failed -6 [ufs]err:ufshcd_probe() failed -6 fail to init ufs sunxi_flash - sunxi_flash sub-system Usage: sunxi_flash sunxi_flash init storage_type sunxi_flash read mem_addr part_name [size] sunxi_flash read_mtd mem_addr part_name [size] sunxi_flash write <mem_addr> <part_name> [size] sunxi_flash write <mem_addr> <part_name> [offset] [size] sunxi_flash write_mtd <mem_addr> <part_name> sunxi_flash boot0 force_dram_update_size <new_val> sunxi_flash boot0 force_dram_update_flag <new_val> Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 starting USB... USB0: start sunxi USB-DRD... config usb clk ok sunxi USB-DRD init ok... USB EHCI 1.00 scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found USB1: start sunxi USB1-Host... config usb clk ok sunxi USB1-Host init ok... USB EHCI 1.00 scanning bus 1 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found Device 0: device type unknown ... is now current device ** Bad device usb 0 ** ** Bad device usb 0 ** mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:2... Scanning mmc 0:3... Found /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf 1307 bytes read in 19 ms (66.4 KiB/s) U-Boot menu 1: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 5.15.147-14-a733 2: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 5.15.147-14-a733 (rescue target) Enter choice: 1: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 5.15.147-14-a733 Retrieving file: /boot/initrd.img-5.15.147-14-a733 31153067 bytes read in 1310 ms (22.7 MiB/s) Retrieving file: /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.147-14-a733 19030528 bytes read in 808 ms (22.5 MiB/s) append: root=UUID=6f750720-329a-45f0-a4b5-abc5797b040a console=ttyAS0,115200n8 rootwait clk_ignore_unused mac_addr=08:51:49:58:7f:71 mac1_addr=08:51:49:58:7f:70 quiet splash loglevel=4 rw earlycon consoleblank=0 console=tty1 coherent_pool=2M irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi=0 cgroup_enable=cpuset cgroup_memory=1 cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1 kasan=off Retrieving file: /usr/lib/linux-image-5.15.147-14-a733/allwinner/sun60i-a733-cubie-a7z.dtb 193692 bytes read in 145 ms (1.3 MiB/s) [16.025]libfdt fdt_path_offset() returned FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC [16.034]The storage not support sample function ret 0 [16.136]mac addr => 08:51:49:58:7f:71 [16.140]mac addr => 08:51:49:58:7f:70 [16.145]no battery, disabled battery functons [16.152]update dts stop sunxi USB-DRD ok... stop sunxi USB1-Host ok... Loading Ramdisk to 4824a000, end 49fffbab ... OK ERROR: reserving fdt memory region failed (addr=48000000 size=1000000) [16.232]Starting kernel ... [16.235]total: 16235 ms [16.237][mmc]: MMC Device 2 not found [16.240][mmc]: mmc 2 not find, so not exit NOTICE: [SCP] :wait arisc ready.... NOTICE: [SCP] :arisc version: [d463b9da43dc50320f21ba51c6c51afe2db20d83] NOTICE: [SCP] :arisc startup ready NOTICE: [SCP] :arisc startup notify message feedback NOTICE: [SCP] :sunxi-arisc driver is starting NOTICE: BL3-1: Next image address = 0x40200000 NOTICE: BL3-1: Next image spsr = 0x3c5 nothing happen after that my workaround ( with claude help ) edit extlinux.conf and add mem=4G append root=UUID=0e1a597a-1884-4b41-a07c-733efecf176c console=ttyAS0,115200n8 earlyprintk=sunxi-uart,0x2500000 rootwait mem=4G clk_ignore_unused any higher value dosent work.

Hi Igor, Thank you for your reply. I build an Image for Mekotronics R58V2, but I leaned today we dont have the R58S2 (yet) our current device is the R58s, with a build provided by Mekotronics and the HW decoding works with QT-Multimedia as playback back-end, This is this build: v26.02 rolling for Mekotronics R58S running Armbian Linux 6.1.84-vendor-rk35xx. This device is not yet supported, at least I could not find it here. I will discuss with Mekotronics to get also at least Standard support from Armbian in future. I do have also Mekototronics R58X and R58HD devices we want to use also in ffuture the have better support level here as well. I could not find any Forums related to Mekotronics devices and seams can not open one or add threads to the Rockchip rk35xx section, there loads of OragePi stuff but I could not see that officially you support any of them, anyway I gave up with them cause they are ...lets say below expectations ;-). Please give me a hint. As Iam new here please excuse if you get sometimes strange question, but Iam working with arm boards already for a while. Using CLI is not an option, we actually install LX-Qt together with the application. Thanks for helping!

Booting from mtd/nvme should just work. Most common problems: - dirty mtd/emmc. vendor/unmatching boot loader can cause issues. - mixup between m.2 sata and actual nvme. Correct overlay/dt must be used - wrong rootfs uuid in armbianEnv.txt after running armbian-install (after done, do not reboot but mount freshly written nvme to a random folder and check if the uuid is correct)

A friendlier, faster, snap-free desktop install in armbian-configIf you've installed a desktop environment with armbian-config over the last few months, you may have noticed things feel different: there's a tier you can pick, the browser actually works on every arch, uninstall doesn't take half your system with it, and there's no snap pop-up surprising you on Ubuntu builds. That's not by accident — the desktop submodule has been quietly rebuilt from the ground up. Here's what landed, why we did it, and what it means for you. Pick the desktop you want — at install, and afterThree tiers, instead of one all-or-nothing install: minimal — DE + display manager + a terminal. About 500 MB. Perfect for headless boards with an occasional HDMI session, or anyone who'd rather curate apps themselves.mid — adds a WWW browser, file manager, image viewer, media player, calculator, archive tool, torrent client, and the SD-card flasher. About 1 GB. The "everyday desktop" sweet spot.full — adds LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape, Audacity, Thunderbird, and VS Code. About 2.5 GB. Workstation-shaped.And — because changing your mind is allowed — you can move between tiers any time without a reinstall. armbian-config --api module_desktops upgrade de=xfce tier=full computes the delta and only adds what's missing. The reverse path, downgrade, only removes packages from the original install manifest, never anything you added on your own. Snap-free Chromium, Firefox, and ThunderbirdOn Ubuntu, the apt names chromium, firefox, and thunderbird are snap-transitional packages — installing them silently pulls in snapd, runs the apps in a snap sandbox, and gives you a slow start, broken hardware acceleration, and a confusing menu of "two Chromiums" if you ever want the real thing. Armbian images don't ship snapd, so we now route those names to real, native .debs hosted on apt.armbian.com. The desktop install path writes an apt pin priority file at /etc/apt/preferences.d/armbian-desktops that forces our packages to win over the snap-shims — even on systems where the snap version is technically newer. The result: apt install chromium gives you a real, native Chromium. No snapd. No surprise pop-ups. On amd64 systems, the browser slot maps to Google Chrome (also from apt.armbian.com); on RISC-V Ubuntu builds you get real Firefox. Debian releases keep using upstream chromium / firefox-esr — those have always been real .debs and need no help. One desktop, every supported distro and archEach DE — XFCE, GNOME, KDE Plasma, KDE Neon, MATE, Cinnamon, i3-wm, xmonad, Enlightenment, Budgie, Deepin — is now a single declarative YAML file in the configng repo. The engine works out which packages exist on which release on which arch, substitutes per-platform replacements where needed, and silently drops broken ones. Same XFCE definition runs on Debian bookworm/trixie/forky and Ubuntu noble/resolute across arm64 / amd64 / armhf / riscv64. Adding a new desktop environment is a YAML edit and a smoke test — no per-distro shell scripts, no codepaths to chase. Clean uninstall, every timeEvery desktop install records a manifest of exactly which packages it added — under /etc/armbian/desktop/<de>.packages. Removal undoes only those. Packages that were already on your system before you installed the desktop stay put. No more "I uninstalled XFCE and lost half my system." The little stuff that's easy to missAuto-login that doesn't trash your config. Enable / disable autologin for gdm3, sddm, or lightdm via in-place sed edits — your WaylandEnable=false and other tweaks survive.Container-aware. Same code path works inside Docker without trying to start a display manager. CI builds and scripted installs work without special-casing.U2F security keys. Plug in your Yubikey and WebAuthn just works — the udev rules ship via libfido2-1 on resolute, libu2f-udev on older releases.Printer panel works. GNOME Settings → Printers no longer says "some settings cannot be unlocked" — cups-pk-helper ships with every desktop install now.VS Code from us, not Microsoft's repo. Installing code no longer prompts you to add Microsoft's apt source — we host the real package, the prompt is suppressed, the pin keeps Microsoft from sneaking in over the top.A weekly self-audit catches driftA scheduled Claude AI supported GitHub Actions workflow scans the YAML matrix against armbian/build's supported releases and the live Debian/Ubuntu archives — flags releases not yet covered, flags packages that no longer exist upstream — then opens a PR with proposed YAML fixes. Dead packages and missing releases stop accumulating silently. Try itOn any modern Armbian install: sudo armbian-config # or scripted: sudo armbian-config --api module_desktops install de=xfce tier=full sudo armbian-config --api module_desktops upgrade de=xfce tier=full sudo armbian-config --api module_desktops downgrade de=xfce tier=mid sudo armbian-config --api module_desktops remove de=xfce Supported desktops today: XFCE, GNOME, KDE Plasma, KDE Neon (Ubuntu noble only), MATE, Cinnamon, i3-wm and xmonad, Enlightenment, Budgie and Deepin experimental. Supported targets: Debian bookworm / trixie / forky and Ubuntu noble / resolute on every Armbian arch. View the full article

A friendlier, faster, snap-free desktop install in armbian-configIf you've installed a desktop environment with armbian-config over the last few months, you may have noticed things feel different: there's a tier you can pick, the browser actually works on every arch, uninstall doesn't take half your system with it, and there's no snap pop-up surprising you on Ubuntu builds. That's not by accident — the desktop submodule has been quietly rebuilt from the ground up. Here's what landed, why we did it, and what it means for you. Pick the desktop you want — at install, and afterThree tiers, instead of one all-or-nothing install: minimal — DE + display manager + a terminal. About 500 MB. Perfect for headless boards with an occasional HDMI session, or anyone who'd rather curate apps themselves.mid — adds a WWW browser, file manager, image viewer, media player, calculator, archive tool, torrent client, and the SD-card flasher. About 1 GB. The "everyday desktop" sweet spot.full — adds LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape, Audacity, Thunderbird, and VS Code. About 2.5 GB. Workstation-shaped.And — because changing your mind is allowed — you can move between tiers any time without a reinstall. armbian-config --api module_desktops upgrade de=xfce tier=full computes the delta and only adds what's missing. The reverse path, downgrade, only removes packages from the original install manifest, never anything you added on your own. Snap-free Chromium, Firefox, and ThunderbirdOn Ubuntu, the apt names chromium, firefox, and thunderbird are snap-transitional packages — installing them silently pulls in snapd, runs the apps in a snap sandbox, and gives you a slow start, broken hardware acceleration, and a confusing menu of "two Chromiums" if you ever want the real thing. Armbian images don't ship snapd, so we now route those names to real, native .debs hosted on apt.armbian.com. The desktop install path writes an apt pin priority file at /etc/apt/preferences.d/armbian-desktops that forces our packages to win over the snap-shims — even on systems where the snap version is technically newer. The result: apt install chromium gives you a real, native Chromium. No snapd. No surprise pop-ups. On amd64 systems, the browser slot maps to Google Chrome (also from apt.armbian.com); on RISC-V Ubuntu builds you get real Firefox. Debian releases keep using upstream chromium / firefox-esr — those have always been real .debs and need no help. One desktop, every supported distro and archEach DE — XFCE, GNOME, KDE Plasma, KDE Neon, MATE, Cinnamon, i3-wm, xmonad, Enlightenment, Budgie, Deepin — is now a single declarative YAML file in the configng repo. The engine works out which packages exist on which release on which arch, substitutes per-platform replacements where needed, and silently drops broken ones. Same XFCE definition runs on Debian bookworm/trixie/forky and Ubuntu noble/resolute across arm64 / amd64 / armhf / riscv64. Adding a new desktop environment is a YAML edit and a smoke test — no per-distro shell scripts, no codepaths to chase. Clean uninstall, every timeEvery desktop install records a manifest of exactly which packages it added — under /etc/armbian/desktop/<de>.packages. Removal undoes only those. Packages that were already on your system before you installed the desktop stay put. No more "I uninstalled XFCE and lost half my system." The little stuff that's easy to missAuto-login that doesn't trash your config. Enable / disable autologin for gdm3, sddm, or lightdm via in-place sed edits — your WaylandEnable=false and other tweaks survive.Container-aware. Same code path works inside Docker without trying to start a display manager. CI builds and scripted installs work without special-casing.U2F security keys. Plug in your Yubikey and WebAuthn just works — the udev rules ship via libfido2-1 on resolute, libu2f-udev on older releases.Printer panel works. GNOME Settings → Printers no longer says "some settings cannot be unlocked" — cups-pk-helper ships with every desktop install now.VS Code from us, not Microsoft's repo. Installing code no longer prompts you to add Microsoft's apt source — we host the real package, the prompt is suppressed, the pin keeps Microsoft from sneaking in over the top.A weekly self-audit catches driftA scheduled Claude AI supported GitHub Actions workflow scans the YAML matrix against armbian/build's supported releases and the live Debian/Ubuntu archives — flags releases not yet covered, flags packages that no longer exist upstream — then opens a PR with proposed YAML fixes. Dead packages and missing releases stop accumulating silently. Try itOn any modern Armbian install: sudo armbian-config # or scripted: sudo armbian-config --api module_desktops install de=xfce tier=full sudo armbian-config --api module_desktops upgrade de=xfce tier=full sudo armbian-config --api module_desktops downgrade de=xfce tier=mid sudo armbian-config --api module_desktops remove de=xfce Supported desktops today: XFCE, GNOME, KDE Plasma, KDE Neon (Ubuntu noble only), MATE, Cinnamon, i3-wm and xmonad, Enlightenment, Budgie and Deepin experimental. Supported targets: Debian bookworm / trixie / forky and Ubuntu noble / resolute on every Armbian arch. View the full article

Waiting for the delivery of the USB-to-TTL converter. My old USB-serial adapter didn' t work.

Can you post logs of both working and not working boards? If they are exactly the same software, it sounds like a hardware issue. If the HardKernel images works as expected, perhaps you've updated all 3, but not rebooted the working one yet?

I got into similar situation and Loader mode is not working now. How did you manage to restore the box? Have you found the correct pins to short? Thank you a lot in advance :)

@ioncube Were you able to use VPU with Jellyfin?

If anybody needs a simple way to check text on the web or extract text from online PDFs on low‑spec SBCs, here is surf.py. It’s a tiny Python‑based terminal browser designed for boards like Orange Pi Zero, so you’re not completely blind internet‑wise even without a full browser. Starts with: ./surf.py domain.com Dependencies outside standard library: requests, PyPDF2. surf.py

Hello, you can only boot from sdcard with that device if you follow the rockchip boot sequence, ie: you have to pack u-boot and trust.img using loaderimage tool from rockchip rkbin repository. That tools decorates the uboot/trust.img binaries with some signature and checksum, then you have to put on specific positions on your sdcard and the miniloader, residing in the emmc, will boot from sdcard once it validates correctly the binaries you supplied. You may take a look to my multitool github project for some reference. I have you same box and it boots on mine. Unfortunately on this particular box, the manufacturer disabled the sdcard boot at SoC/hardware level: this means that the trick to erase the internal flash to boot from sdcard, which worked fine for older SoCs, does not always work with rk3528-based (and probably other rk35xx) boards

oDroid M2 is now in Standard suuport ! Thanks to the Armbian Team 👍

moved

moved to tvboxes

i am working on same box you can contact me for its fix

I had similar experience, can't remember exact numbers and versions etc as I already considered it not going to work, so did not take notes. Was on NanoPi-R6C, so same RK3588S at least. I think I already had put 'serial' as console in the EDK2 setup (is in eMMC for NanoPi-R6C), but not the older display option (GOP or so, forgot it). For my trial it was just the kernel, so instead of the a latest edge-rockchip64 that works all fine with EDK2 v1.1 in my setup, it was the generic UEFI-ARM64 kernel. You use a full image, so I think something is missing or not implemented yet. Also, my main assumption was (and is), is that only serial console is working for a CLI image. I have always a serial console cable available/prepared, although you need an extra other computer, but your OPi5 should simply run, just display is not initialized. You can look in dmesg, there might be a lot of HDMI debug/info, might also be the kernel and your HDMI monitor experience miscommunication, timing issue. I rebooted again with 7.0-rc3 rockchip64 and that worked again. Now I did some apt pinning so I can install/use Debian sid kernel (6.19.11 at the moment). That works the same as the armbian build 7.0-rc3 rockchip64. Also Opensuse Tumbleweed with its default 6.19 kernel works fine.

Since we do not add any Intel drivers this regression may come from upstream. You could test nightly build which have kernel 7.0. Also total random guess: Perhaps more recent kernels expect more recent firmware blobs, perhaps the ones on the board are outdated (or are expected to be on a different place)? No clue though through which package those are shipped though. Seems like the files have been touched last around 7 month ago: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/linux-firmware.git/tree/intel/iwlwifi

Perhaps related https://github.com/armbian/firmware/commit/36ec4377c197af9ced4a02aaa660ade54c83f93d

moved to tvboxes

This week, Collabora is at the YouTube Device Partner Summit in Tokyo showcasing our ongoing work with YouTube, notably on their TV app and the RDK platform, which has resulted in the RDK's integration as a core platform for Cobalt development. View the full article

@tim zeng sure, but that's not - directly - related, since the Orange PI5 and the Orange Pi3 are different SOCs/SBCs. The only common trait is the poor SW support offered by the vendor.

Support for rotation is better in modern 6.18.y Linux. Fastest is to download image and try https://www.armbian.com/boards/roc-rk3399-pc But VPU acceleration in rotated screen might be a problem ... and you will need to generate Gnome desktop image to facilitate Wayland or no fun.

This week saw significant development activity across the Armbian ecosystem, with numerous enhancements to desktop environment support, including the addition of KDE Neon, KDE Plasma, MATE, and i3-wm, as well as improved branding and menu documentation. The desktop module was refactored for greater modularity and YAML-driven configuration, alongside fixes for theming and package removal tracking. Hardware support expanded with new device trees for NanoPC-T6 LTS Plus and Gateway DK, plus initial support for Arduino UNO Q (Qualcomm QRB2210) and additional USB Ethernet drivers. The build system received updates for kernel versions and distribution releases, notably bumping Ubuntu from plucky/noble to resolute. Automation and audit scripts were improved for reliability and scope, and documentation was updated to reflect the new tier model and branding. Overall, these changes strengthen Armbian's usability, hardware compatibility, and developer tooling. ChangesAdd board_introduced field to reusable boards and JSON output. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#272Add desktop descriptions and disable host check. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#802Add Desktops menu header documentation. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#803Add Gateway DK board image and Mono vendor logo. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#273Add i3-wm desktop support with branding. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#811Add INTRODUCED property to all board configs. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9634Add KDE Neon desktop support (Ubuntu only). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#814Add KDE Plasma desktop support. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#812Add MATE desktop support with branding and menu. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#810add more special extensions. by @efectn in armbian/actions#16Add python3-yaml to package dependencies. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#816Add support for Arduino UNO Q (Qualcomm QRB2210). by @SuperKali in armbian/build#9623arduino-uno-q: fix CI build by fetching qcombin at image creation time. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#9642arduino-uno-q: install USB gadget scripts unconditionally in BSP. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#9649arm64: dts: rockchip: add NanoPC-T6 LTS Plus device tree. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/linux-rockchip#462audit: allow Claude to write edits + stash execution log. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#836audit: fix git-dir error and path references for claude-code-action. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#832audit: fix git-dir, output ref, and bump max-turns to 30. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#833audit: scope bot PR to YAML changes only. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#835audit: skip status:unsupported DEs + relocate audit scripts. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#826audit: switch to claude-code-action with OAuth token. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#831audit_apply: handle calls larger than the per-minute budget. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#828audit_apply: throttle + retry around the per-minute rate limit. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#827bianbu: bump noble snapshot from v2.2 to v2.3. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#839Bump rockchip armhf edge kernel to 7.0.0. by @paolosabatino in armbian/build#9635config/distributions: plucky -> eos, resolute -> supported. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9657desktops: disable cinnamon on armhf. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#823desktops: enable armhf for XFCE, MATE, i3-wm, Xmonad, Enlightenment, Cinnamon. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#820desktops: enable riscv64 for XFCE, MATE, i3-wm, Xmonad, Enlightenment, Cinnamon. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#822desktops: optional APT pin preferences in repo block. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#838desktops: ship YAML/parser/branding assets in the .deb. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#817desktops: tier system, install/remove correctness, and a pile of small fixes. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#824docs: rewrite Desktops-header.md for the tier model. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#825extensions: skip git fetches during config-dump-json. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9648feat: add device tree editor module. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#797feat: add QDL flash support for Qualcomm EDL devices. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#127feat: track desktop packages for clean removal. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#799Fix desktop module variable scoping and cleanup. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#796gateway-dk-ask: build kernel modules in-tree for CI compatibility. by @tomazzaman in armbian/build#9650Increase timeout for unit tests from 15 to 30 minutes. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#800initialize: add script-wide debug_log and --debug flag. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#818json-generation: fix some app edge cases. by @efectn in armbian/armbian.github.io#276mainline: bump to 7.0-rc7. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9637Mono gateway dk. by @tomazzaman in armbian/build#9640nightly: bump Ubuntu release from plucky/noble to resolute. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#278Optimize Cinnamon desktop and fix theming. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#805Refactor desktop module: YAML-driven, modular architecture. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#815rockchip: add rtl8152 and dm9601 usb ethernet. by @netrunnereve in armbian/build#9638rockchip: RK3506: Increase DMA coherent pool. by @vidplace7 in armbian/build#9636SLO: fixing few sentences in Slo language that sounds weird. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/website#1u-boot: v2026.04 (final) fixes and bumps for some boards. by @rpardini in armbian/build#9654Update Desktops header: add Imager URL and auto-login note. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#804Update theme colors and fonts to match armbian.com. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#902View the full article

This week saw significant development activity across the Armbian ecosystem, with numerous enhancements to desktop environment support, including the addition of KDE Neon, KDE Plasma, MATE, and i3-wm, as well as improved branding and menu documentation. The desktop module was refactored for greater modularity and YAML-driven configuration, alongside fixes for theming and package removal tracking. Hardware support expanded with new device trees for NanoPC-T6 LTS Plus and Gateway DK, plus initial support for Arduino UNO Q (Qualcomm QRB2210) and additional USB Ethernet drivers. The build system received updates for kernel versions and distribution releases, notably bumping Ubuntu from plucky/noble to resolute. Automation and audit scripts were improved for reliability and scope, and documentation was updated to reflect the new tier model and branding. Overall, these changes strengthen Armbian's usability, hardware compatibility, and developer tooling. ChangesAdd board_introduced field to reusable boards and JSON output. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#272Add desktop descriptions and disable host check. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#802Add Desktops menu header documentation. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#803Add Gateway DK board image and Mono vendor logo. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#273Add i3-wm desktop support with branding. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#811Add INTRODUCED property to all board configs. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9634Add KDE Neon desktop support (Ubuntu only). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#814Add KDE Plasma desktop support. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#812Add MATE desktop support with branding and menu. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#810add more special extensions. by @efectn in armbian/actions#16Add python3-yaml to package dependencies. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#816Add support for Arduino UNO Q (Qualcomm QRB2210). by @SuperKali in armbian/build#9623arduino-uno-q: fix CI build by fetching qcombin at image creation time. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#9642arduino-uno-q: install USB gadget scripts unconditionally in BSP. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#9649arm64: dts: rockchip: add NanoPC-T6 LTS Plus device tree. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/linux-rockchip#462audit: allow Claude to write edits + stash execution log. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#836audit: fix git-dir error and path references for claude-code-action. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#832audit: fix git-dir, output ref, and bump max-turns to 30. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#833audit: scope bot PR to YAML changes only. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#835audit: skip status:unsupported DEs + relocate audit scripts. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#826audit: switch to claude-code-action with OAuth token. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#831audit_apply: handle calls larger than the per-minute budget. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#828audit_apply: throttle + retry around the per-minute rate limit. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#827bianbu: bump noble snapshot from v2.2 to v2.3. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#839Bump rockchip armhf edge kernel to 7.0.0. by @paolosabatino in armbian/build#9635config/distributions: plucky -> eos, resolute -> supported. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9657desktops: disable cinnamon on armhf. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#823desktops: enable armhf for XFCE, MATE, i3-wm, Xmonad, Enlightenment, Cinnamon. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#820desktops: enable riscv64 for XFCE, MATE, i3-wm, Xmonad, Enlightenment, Cinnamon. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#822desktops: optional APT pin preferences in repo block. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#838desktops: ship YAML/parser/branding assets in the .deb. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#817desktops: tier system, install/remove correctness, and a pile of small fixes. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#824docs: rewrite Desktops-header.md for the tier model. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#825extensions: skip git fetches during config-dump-json. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9648feat: add device tree editor module. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#797feat: add QDL flash support for Qualcomm EDL devices. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#127feat: track desktop packages for clean removal. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#799Fix desktop module variable scoping and cleanup. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#796gateway-dk-ask: build kernel modules in-tree for CI compatibility. by @tomazzaman in armbian/build#9650Increase timeout for unit tests from 15 to 30 minutes. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#800initialize: add script-wide debug_log and --debug flag. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#818json-generation: fix some app edge cases. by @efectn in armbian/armbian.github.io#276mainline: bump to 7.0-rc7. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9637Mono gateway dk. by @tomazzaman in armbian/build#9640nightly: bump Ubuntu release from plucky/noble to resolute. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#278Optimize Cinnamon desktop and fix theming. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#805Refactor desktop module: YAML-driven, modular architecture. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#815rockchip: add rtl8152 and dm9601 usb ethernet. by @netrunnereve in armbian/build#9638rockchip: RK3506: Increase DMA coherent pool. by @vidplace7 in armbian/build#9636SLO: fixing few sentences in Slo language that sounds weird. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/website#1u-boot: v2026.04 (final) fixes and bumps for some boards. by @rpardini in armbian/build#9654Update Desktops header: add Imager URL and auto-login note. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#804Update theme colors and fonts to match armbian.com. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#902View the full article