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@Torte continued to help on his github site. The boot.img of the OEM firmware appears to set up a serial framebuffer screen and some shenanigans with the camera. I'm pausing the thread for now - need to figure out a path to reverse engineer the boot.img. Otherwise, alternative boards will need to be adapted.

Coming late to the party, but I have observed a similar thing with moderm kernels on PCduino 3 nano. To know what is happeneing, have you tried connecting to UART? That gives you more info about what is going on. Now I have trouble with the OTG port. I am unable to configure it for mass storage.

Test automation doesn't detect any issues https://github.com/armbian/configng/actions/runs/21465331853 and since I had freshly build Armbian Trixie on Nanopi R6S (same arch) I run install: Works like charm. Make sure to do apt update + apt upgrade before you start.

can someone please help thanks

Mine is M1, no plus, so no WiFi. I used the following 2 years ago when I got the SBC: https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/oldarchive/bananapi/archive/Armbian_23.11.1_Bananapi_bookworm_current_6.1.63.img.txt

@kvvvp I don't have any issues building from branch v20250306. Do you have docker installed?

OK so how can I help to fix this issue?

Userspace has nothing to do with hardware features. I don't know what is the case for A20, but for many others, OTG functionality is driven with overlays. If there are no overlays, you need to edit device tree and change its role. If that doesn't help, it is more complex problem. More complex, perhaps days / weeks to debug and fix. Most of (Armbian) kernel developers are long gone from this 10+ years old platform and users can't help. Also look into previous builds. Finding out when this broke is half of the solution https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/oldarchive/ or by finding a kernel that works https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Config/System/#alternative-kernels With any userspace (trixie/noble/jammy ...) Probably all A10 and A20 boards share this problem.

Some boxes with unmodified bls might accept reboot update on shell and boot via the sdcard that way, worked for me on both coreelec and now worked with armbian (I formatted via os and installed termux and typed su, then reboot update), way too useful for boxes with no buttons (yes, they exist)

@shexplorer Control +c should have worked after: U-Boot SPL board init U-Boot SPL 2017.09_armbian-2017.09-S93fe-Pe5fd-Hbdb5-Va5b2-Bbf55-R448a (Nov 06 2025 - 16:35:49) SPL Hotkey: ctrl+c Make sure that USB TX is well connected to RX and try to spam it. Or use another terminal emulator, like putty instead of screen on a bash terminal. Maybe control is being intercepted.

@Harleyyyu my 2 cents thought ..... We are talking about a 10 dollars soc . Is already a great milestone it is " just working" Anyway.. If you achieve any good result let's us know

Armbian 25.11.2 Noble XFCE (BSP Kernel: 6.1.115) + PanVk - mesa 26.0 (https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesaaco) + Box64 arm64 v0.4.1 3ec5de03c (https://ryanfortner.github.io/box64-debs/) + proton-10.0-3-amd64-wow64 (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Wine-Builds/releases/download/proton-10.0-3/wine-proton-10.0-3-amd64-wow64.tar.xz) + dgVoodoo2 (https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2/releases) + DXVK-stripped v1.7.1 50~60fps@720p (medium/high settings) box64 environment variables: F.E.A.R. Platinum Collection

I think it depends on what you want. If you want to have some fun, then building this one is interesting actually, and there is more extensibility, and since radxa zero GPIO pin is compatible with Raspberry pi's, you can also get a DAC Mini Hat raspberry pi module, so there is more you can play or customize. But, if you just want to solve the problem and don't want to have these hassle, buying an existing product is a better option, so you have the warranty, customer support, and everything should work out of the box. I don't have Fosi Audio DS1 or Fiio Ka13, so every information I get is from the google search and cannot guarantee the correctness. From what I saw, Fiio Ka13 seems to be unable to work with PS5, and Fosi Audio DS1 can. This project only handles digital audio data, so I do not need to pay attention to the audio electronic properties when outputting (because that's the job of that USB speaker), and I do not know the sound quality of Fosi Audio DS1. One last word, if your original plan is to use this converter to connect to Hiby R3II, then to your headphone, that should work, but that is kind of redundant; there is more latency introduced, and the robustness could be wore because you have a longer output chain (from the engineering perspective). It would be easier to just get a high quality UAC 1.0 Amp.

Tried this?

What exact image are you running? Or better yet providing full logs with armbianmonitor -u

@Andrés Pérez Domínguez x your board has the UART pins clearly marked on the board. https://linux-sunxi.org/UART Install this to get more u-boot/kernel debug information. I use a CP2102.

I installed Waydroid on an Amlogic Meson GXM (S912) TV box. The SOC has a Mali-T820 GPU, and the box has 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of eMMC. This was easy to do and Waydroid worked, but it was very slow, even before it heated the SOC to 80°C, which is probably its throttling limit. I removed Waydroid because it was too slow. I wasn't trying anything demanding. Even navigating Android Settings was ridiculously slow. This is a bit surprising because the hardware was designed for running Android. I was not running much else, just Wayfire and one or two Alacritty consoles. I don't think I was running out of memory. Is it possible to get decent Waydroid performance on other arm64 hardware?

Ubuntu Noble variant already supports ZFS on 6.18.y while Trixie was added today: https://github.com/armbian/os/pull/425 Testing: Once automation completes, it will be provided via normal apt update.

Hello. BTT says what BTT Pi and CB1 is same, but realy not. Dunno why i brought what board. But now I owner of this "piece of ****" So. New board, clean install v25.11.2 for BigTreeTech CB1 running Armbian Linux 6.12.58-current-sunxi64 Packages: Debian stable (trixie) armbianEnv: overlays=gpu tft35_spi extraargs=fbcon=rotate:2 fbcon=rotate:2 for screen rotation, because armbian not from btt and didn`t have feature like param_tft35_spi_rotate Next, help me to determine how to enable UARTs and I2C From BIGTREETECH_Pi_V1.2.1 Hardware Pdf UART0: CPUX-UTX CPUX-RX UART2 (May work as i2c0; uart2-pi-pins; i2c0-pins ) Pi5 Pi6 UART3 (May work as i2c2; uart3-pi-pins; i2c2-pi-pins ) Pi9 Pi10 I2C (i2c4-ph-pins; spi1-pins): PH6 PH7 (must work, i`ll think i2c4-ph overlay present) All pins present in sun50i-h616-bigtreetech-cb1-sd, but didnt have overlays for it... I wish to stay uart0 for u-boot console first uart setup for klipper connections to mcu. any help? If I understand right PH6 is 7*32+6=230 gpioinfo output line 230: unnamed input consumer=kernel line 231: unnamed input consumer=kernel cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio gpiochip0: GPIOs 0-287, parent: platform/300b000.pinctrl, 300b000.pinctrl: gpio-71 ( |spi0 CS1 ) out hi ACTIVE LOW gpio-74 ( |i2c-gpio ) out hi gpio-75 ( |spi0 CS0 ) out hi ACTIVE LOW gpio-76 ( |i2c-gpio ) out hi gpio-77 ( |spi0 CS2 ) out lo gpio-78 ( |dc ) out hi gpio-166 ( |:wifi_power ) out hi gpio-207 ( |:wifi_wake ) out hi gpio-210 ( |reset ) out hi ACTIVE LOW gpio-229 ( |led-0 ) out lo ACTIVE LOW

Does this mean you have a working DTS that fixes the issue with smc starting the the other 3 CPUs successfully?

hallo @WanJiXianSheng, responding to this image, for the SUB position where the SD card is installed, there are 3 cables, what is their function? Please share here the guide for flashing to Armbian thx..

Hello @Malay, et.al, after submitting my PullRQ to the Armbian repo, I think it's best to cope first with the annotations I received from that. It complains about missing board photos, and some LLM generated blurb partly valid suggestions, partly not. The current status of Armbian's Spacemit support does not make the RV2 board a good video player: GPU support is missing and I'm pretty unsure if it's possible to include the HW video encoding / decoding feature that is in the chip. Which is 4k@30 with diverse codecs according to the chip description PDF. I am glad, that X11 framebuffer video runs and I am unsure if I can proceed here b/c I am not a video / GPU / EGL / vulkan specialist. Anyhow, thank you for the pointer to the Spacemit FAQ I did not recognize until now. While the PowerVR page from mesa3d states: "no IMG BXE-2-32" (https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/powervr.html), the respective Gitee repo contains closed-source BSD licensed Risc64 compiled shard objects (*.so), probably similar to the Nvida binary user space closed drivers that does the GPU support for the big videos cards. This may be worth a look, but as I wrote above, prio task is to bring the support into the Armbian tree. Best // Sven-Ola

http://blog.armbian.com/content/images/2026/01/githubhighlights-2-2.webpThis week’s Armbian development saw a wide range of updates focused on automation, hardware support, and workflow improvements. Key highlights include the introduction of automatic YAML target generation, expanded support for Hetzner ARM64 runners, and enhancements to the redirector update workflow with cache mirror support. Several board-specific fixes and feature additions were made, including improved power cycle handling for meson-sm1 devices and new binary files for RK35 series components. The team also advanced kernel support, notably enabling RDNA2 GPU compatibility and initial kernel 6.18 support for Ayn odin2. Continuous integration and build reliability received attention through Docker-based unit tests and improved artifact management. Overall, these changes reflect ongoing efforts to streamline development processes and broaden hardware compatibility across the Armbian ecosystem. Add automatic target YAML generation from image-info.json. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#184Add board-level extension to mask Wayland desktop sessions. by @schwar3kat in armbian/build#9268Add cache mirror support to redirector update workflow. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#189Add edge branch support to community targets. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#195Add exposed.map download step to download index workflow. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#190Add Hetzner server creation with cloud-init, swap, and configurable runners. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/actions#13Add new binary files for various RK35 series components. by @ghhccghk in armbian/rkbin#42Add regulator-boot-on to meson-sm1-odroid and -hc4 to fix power cycle during boot. by @ean365 in armbian/build#9217Add scripts/generate_targets.py to workflow push trigger. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#185Add workflow for enabling 16 Hetzner ARM64 runners. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#196arm64: enable AMD DC display controller for RDNA2 GPU support. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9273atf: rk3399: fix PL330 DMA controller initialization. by @iav in armbian/build#9285Bump sm8250. by @CodeChenL in armbian/build#9180Change actions folder to actions-report. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#188Change exposed.map minimal patterns from bookworm to trixie, add forky as fallback. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#194chore: use release-signing policy for Windows artifacts. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#87ci: add PR build artifacts with public download links. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#81ci: use Docker containers for unit tests. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#720cli: kernel-dtb: check dtc for version 1.7.2 before producing normalized dts. by @rpardini in armbian/build#9270config: arch: amd64: fix building kernel amd64 target with on arm64 host. by @rpardini in armbian/build#9271deps: update dependencies and document glib vulnerability. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#88Enable debug. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/actions#14Enable Firefox download from PPA, drop Jammy and Oracular. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os#424Exclude non-community trunk builds from promotion. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#193extension: grub: deploy qemu binary when doing cross build. by @amazingfate in armbian/build#9282feat: add image status warning for nightly builds and community boards. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#83fix api change since v6.17. by @Spider84 in armbian/bcmdhd-dkms#5fix api change since v6.19. by @amazingfate in armbian/bcmdhd-dkms#6Fix uptime-kuma Docker image detection regex. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#722fix: reduce board image scale and improve CI cache strategy. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#86fix: regenerate Tauri updater signatures after SignPath code signing. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#89fix: use any_changed output for reliable changed files detection. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#725fix: use published_at for release sorting. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/community#46Framework: Add "Repeat Build Options" string at the end in case of er…. by @iav in armbian/build#9276framework: add custom_kernel_make_params extension hook. by @iav in armbian/build#9284Generate separate exposed.map patterns for stable and community boards. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#192Include community boards in exposed.map generation. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#191Initial support for kernel 6.18 on Ayn odin2. by @kasimling in armbian/build#9286mainline: bump to 6.19-rc6. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9278memoize: add user feedback and configurable timeout for flock. by @iav in armbian/build#9262NanoPi R5C: Update to v2026.01; enable BTRFS support. by @okrc in armbian/build#9291orangepi5-plus: u-boot: restore vendor uboot with blobs. by @rpardini in armbian/build#9287orangepi5-plus: u-boot: use mainline ATF; bump to v2026.01; drop funky CE config options. by @rpardini in armbian/build#9261Override new yaml files - drop the code here if it works.. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os#423radxa-e54c: board config: replace 'hacky' Wayland fix with wayland-sessions-mask extension. by @schwar3kat in armbian/build#9281radxa-zero2/khadas-vim3l: u-boot: disable LWIP. by @rpardini in armbian/build#9272refactor: conditionally hide custom image button when manufacturer is selected. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#85refactor: standardize redis module and improve workflow reliability. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#723Reload redirector after we check all mirrors. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#178Remove browsers from RISC-V desktop app groups. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#186Rockchip 6.18.y: drop upstreamed patches. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9288Rockchip EDGE: drop up-streamed patches. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9290rockchip64: station-m3: Enable USB type-C port. by @kasimling in armbian/build#9246rootfs: enable loong64 in qemu binfmt registration. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9279scripts: use git commit date for 'edited' timestamp instead of filesystem mtime. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#177Switch Docker module to distribution maintained packages. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#719Update CI documentation to reflect automated target generation. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#867Use armbian-apps config for app-specific images. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#187work-around Ubuntu Rust coreutils bug in dirname affecting linux-headers board-side compile of scripts/mod. by @iav in armbian/build#9264View the full article

so whats the status on this issue is it resolved by running the rolling forky release and using network manager ?