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Hello everyone! Saw that some luckfox boards were getting supported and I was like: YES!!! Flashed an sd-card with the community image. Latest I could find is 25.11.0-trunk.413. And plonked in my working Luckfox Lyra Zero W and it failed to boot. From what I gather there seems to be a missing partition called "misc" and I think it is expected about after the current unallocated 16MB(16,777,216 bytes). I tried creating a 4MB partition after the current unallocated space but it complained about something called "Magic" and my limited u-boot/rockchip/embedded linux experience made me get lost there. This is the serial output: Where the "No misc partition" is where I began. My current board has buildroot flashed to the SPI and boots if i don't have any sd-card inserted. DDR 0ac6b06a19 typ 24/11/13-17:22:47,fwver: v1.04 tREFI:4x, sr_idle:93, pd_idle:13 PHY drv:clk:40,ca:48,DQ:40,odt:240 vrefinner:50%, vrefout:50% dram drv:40,odt:120 sr_dq:0, sr_ca:0, sr_clk:0 rg:0xc-0x1-0x2, 0x3d-0x0-0x2,status:a007 rdtrn:0x14-0x30-0x4c(0x38) wrtrn:0x3-0x20-0x3d(0x3a) DDR3, 750MHz BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=15 CS=1 Size=512MB out U-Boot SPL board init U-Boot SPL 2017.09-g4d88b0a #hxj (Jul 30 2025 - 20:08:42) sfc cmd=03H(6BH-x4) SPI Nand ID ef aa 22 unrecognized JEDEC id bytes: ff, ef, aa Trying to boot from MMC1 No misc partition spl: partition error Trying fit image at 0x4000 sector ## Verified-boot: 0 ## Checking op-tee 0x00001000 ... sha256(93603ca22c...) + OK ## Checking u-boot 0x00100000 ... sha256(606b868a00...) + OK ## Checking fdt-1 0x0018baf0 ... sha256(6ae9f912c7...) + OK Jumping to U-Boot(0x00001000) I/TC: I/TC: OP-TEE version: 3.13.0-958-g46dcf51e88a #chenjh (gcc version 10.2.1 20201103 (GNU Toolchain for the A-profile Architecture 10.2-2020.11 (arm-10.16))) #2 Thu Mar 6 10:17:27 CST 2025 arm, fwver: v2.10 I/TC: Status: cluster=0xc00, core=0xe100, bootcpu=0 I/TC: Next entry point address: 0x03f011a7 I/TC: OP-TEE memory size: TEEOS 0x5e000 TA 0x1000 SHM 0x1000 I/TC: Primary CPU initializing I/TC: Primary CPU switching to normal world boot

Yes, so copied u-boot-s905x-s912 to u-boot.ext, and the image seemed to already have fdt /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb in extlinux.conf which seems to be a good candidate. What bugs me is that it just goes blank - leading me to suspect its not finding whatever bootstrap script it needs. Something strange is that when I mount the burned the SDCard, I see two partitions: armbi_boot (containing the dtb, uboot, etc) and armbi_root with an empty /boot dir.. am I supposed to copy stuff to the armbi_root partition under /boot ? amd create a /dtb dir? I otherwise don't see a /boot dir in the armbi_boot partition as described in the amlogic instruction : "In the BOOT partition of the SD card there will be a file /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf" ... there is only a /extlinux/extlinux.conf that I have been playing with.

Hi again! I'd also like to get the mediactl output of a working encoder/decoder (maybe rockchip) media-ctl -d 0 -p of course device # could be diferent .... Thanks! T.

I put it together, bumped kernels, uboot, briefly test. Anyone volunteer to become a maintainer? https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8873 https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Board-Support-Rules/#standard-support

@laibsch Hmmm, the current latest image seems to work OK. On the other hand, I tried to get the serial console working, but I did not manage to do so. I used an FTDI-based cable ( https://ftdichip.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/DS_TTL-232R_RPi.pdf ) with the recommended connection diagram, but nothing ever showed up on minicom's output. (It always showed it as Offline, and not even a single byte came through) I tried 9600 and 115200 baud for minicom, and also set `dtoverlay=uart0` in config.txt at some point. But neither helped in any way.

Debian 12 and 13 have trouble establishing the correct EDID for the monitor, which is why it doesn't recognize resolutions correctly. I spent two weeks reading and testing everything until I found the solution. You need to connect the monitor to a Windows PC, install and run the CRU program. This program correctly reads the monitor's EDID. Simply export the data and save it as a BIN file. Then, reconnect the monitor to your Orange Pi device. Copy the exported .bin file to this directory: /lib/firmware/edid/ Next, you need to load the parameters into the kernel: Edit the armbianEnv.txt file and add: extraargs=drm.edid_firmware=HDMI-A-1:edid/you_file.bin video=HDMI-A-1:1024x600@60 Set your chosen resolution. Restart and verify: `cat /proc/cmdline` Check that the string loading your custom EDID appears.

Integrated with bump of uboot and kernel. https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8873 Test image: https://k-space.ee.armbian.com/incoming/igorpecovnik/ebin/Armbian-unofficial_25.11.0-trunk_Espressobin_trixie_current_6.12.57_minimal.img.xz

Thanks for the effort and sharing! I'll do the testing in my device when I can get some time I'll probably need some help building or applying patches to the images.

As of now, the answer is no. Same CPU means very little in terms of ease of getting it supported.

@blood Thank you for documenting your progress. I recently got hold of a Helios4 and also want to get it to boot directly off SATA. I'm currently working on getting uboot for the Helios4 updated in Armbian. Let's collaborate and maybe do the same for the Clearfog?

Mangix, are you still around? Where is the code you are referring to in openwrt? I see exactly one commit in 2020 about the Helios4 and then nothing after that. I also don't see any specific patches applied.

@Sergey Lepeshkin thanks for the information.After a while search for soldering shops i didnt have any results, it seems like there is no soldering shop in my city (there are but very far away). I was expecting a alot of them since im in the center. What to do now? EDIT: I tried your modified update.zip, and it regonized it, i clicked the the Settings > device info > local update > mmcblk0 (the sd card with the update file) and it rebooted, after that that, the box didnt update anything 😕

Have you looked into hosting your own deb package cache locally? You can set the MANAGE_ACNG build switch for that purpose and have a prepopulated apt-cacher-ng proxy in your LAN. Let us know how it goes.

@Deoptimhow to build the current u-boot ? and how build MiniLoaderAll.bin?

In my opinion and experience, armbian-config is a horrible pile of hacks that are almost guaranteed to eventually eat your data. As such, in my opinion the only sane action is to stay far clear of it.

@Hqnicolas how to build the current u-boot RK356x ?

In the meantime I got HDMI also working through my AVR. I just changed the cable and that did the trick... One thing to mention: the system seems to be allergic to hot-plugging the HDMI cable. So if I connect/reconnect the cable during runtime, the HDMI output will be gone. It requires a reboot WITH CABLE CONNECTED. Not a big issue from my pov, but important to know...

Please prepend the commands with LC_ALL=C like "LC_ALL=C apt update" and post the output again.

Thank you for that patch. Do you know how to use git and github? You don't necessarily need to open an issue first. You can go straight to pushing a PR. Just explain yourself enough so that a reviewer who may not understand your board can see why your patch should be merged in.

Anybody got PCF8563 configured and running on current armbian (25.8.2 noble aarch64) on a C2? i2cdetect -y 0 is seeing the device ID (0x51) and I have added module rtc-pcf8563 but no joy. HWCLOCK does not see the device. Any help would be appreciated. Scott

@ayoub-hs I don't own one of these boxes. I got the patches from warpme's miniarch/minimyth2. Supporting the x96q is a real PITA. https://github.com/warpme/miniarch/issues/102 Comparing the uboot DTS for both x96q lpddr3 and x96q lpddr3 v1.3. I don't see much difference other than wifi. Maybe you'll find something I missed. u-boot: https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/blob/v20250306/patch/u-boot/u-boot-h616/159-add-x96-q-lpddr3-v1.3-defconfig.patch https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/blob/v20250306/patch/u-boot/u-boot-h616/150-add-x96-q-lpddr3-defconfig.patch Kernel: https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/blob/v20250306/patch/kernel/archive/warpme-6.12/0648-arm64-dts-allwinner-h313-add-x96q-lpddr3-TVbox.patch https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2/tree/master/script/bootloaders https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2/tree/master/script/bootloaders/u-boot-aw/files

I guess you need something similar to udev rule for Logitech Fn key: http:// https://github.com/sta-c0000/logitech-keyboard-udev-rules. IMHO it is more reliable and less resource hungry vs software package, but I have not seen alike for a Win key. So it might be necessary to spy on software doing this and develop udev rule for win key. May be someone on the forum having enough experience could help.

DDR Version V1.08 20210520 ln ddrconfig:3 DDR4, 324MHz BW=32 Col=10 Bk=4 BG=4 CS0 Row=16 CS=1 Die BW=8 Size=4096MB wrlvl:clk skew:0x80,0x80

Hi @Hqnicolas I have same issue with booting from SD card for a board (RK3399) . Can you please share the u-boot image or guide to compile for that chip?

@robertoj I use Nick's exact build (specify the branch) with bookworm. My tanix68 unit has a custom Hal and supplicant firmware, which I'm trying to integrate correctly, but LAN works just fine.