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@usual user I don't think there is any storage device on the rock s0 other than the emmc that I can boot from. Other than SD card but that negates the point of not having the customer disassemble the device.

this is not a vote but a technical discussion, @Cancer. your hostile tone and unfounded accusations of "somebody was using windows too much" are out of place (and simply laughable). consider yourself warned. and if you don't understand the technicalities maybe it's best to keep quiet? and yes, of course bringing up or down a network interface can obviously affect the firewall. and distribution managers are free to do whatever they want with their distribution, it is theirs not yours. entitled much? this is FOSS, you have the code, change it if you don't like it. but otherwise, keep your entitled and ungrateful attitude to yourself. thank you.

Wow, that is awesome and thank you so much for sharing your findings. Let's get this applied in our repo for the benefit of all Armbian users.

@Ducdanh Nguyenyour axp chip should look similar to this

i should add some details: minimal version which is from yesterday for download, which has short description: "optimised for automation and production deployments" doesn't say too much. No idea what it means without better description. it's not in any of defined categories defined in faq. Is there any specs how to get sources and compile it for my small server with sata drive? I was not compiling kernel for about 30yrs+ however could do it with good specs . Many things changed... like even sources are not accessible as they were in the past. Naturally specs which i've seen is not the way to go.

Yes, but since this created device isn't mounted anywhere it makes no sense - no service or whatever could use it anyway, what definitely turns this creature into just waste of RAM for nothing, am I wrong?

@fevangelou nice guide. THX! but maybe it would be best to have the instruction in an separate topic! in best case it gets also pinned. so new users can find it much easier than scrolling though 18 pages (in this thread. there is also the 4gb thread) to find it......

Yes I'm aware that I can only rely on the community for any help or tip. I'm now considering to revert back to a bullseye setup with a 5.10 Radxa kernel, but I was kind of reluctant to keep an old version of Debian as my Rockpi is accessible from ouside my network... The Rockpi is powered by a PoE hat, it never had any issue so far but maybe the PoE management is the culprit. I'll try an use the Rockpi with a traditional power supply, but in any case if this is the issue it won't be a sustainable solution for my target setup.

Thanks @eselarm for the input that this should work. So I tested it. And it does! I leave a few hints for anyone who wants to replicate. When creating a new image layout working directly with the image files was the fastest for me. So you need to download one original Armbian image. I used a minimal cli image. Image preparations Create a new image file (e.g. with dd) that will be partitioned like described above. Copy all the first sectors until the first partition starts from the original image to the new image. This will copy the original partition table but more importantly also the uboot bootloader into the new image (32768 sectors = 16MB). Partitioning Partition the new image as described above (e.g. with fdisk/sfdisk) and format the new partitions. One smaller boot partition (e.g. 512MB, ext4) and two bigger root partitions (e.g. 3GB, ext4). I will use the terms rootA and rootB for the two new root partitions in the new image from here on. Get the UUIDs of the newly created boot and rootA partition of the new image (e.g. lsblk/blkid). Most likely instead of using two separate ext4 rootA and rootB partitions one bigger btrfs partition and the usage of subvolumes could be possible. But I did not test this. Copy boot and adjust Mount the new boot partition and create directories bootA and bootB and a relative symlink boot pointing to bootA. Place all files from the original image’s /boot directory into bootA of the new image. Adjust the UUID line in armbianEnv.txt that still points to the original image’s root partition to the rootA UUID from the new image. Copy root and adjust Mount rootA and copy all the files from the original image into it. Remove all files from the /boot directory in rootA as we will mount the boot partition into this directory anyway and do not want to get mixed up. Create a new directory /rawBoot in rootA. Edit the fstab of rootA and change the UUID that still points to the original image’s root partition to the rootA UUID. Add a line to fstab to mount the boot partition of the new image into /rawBoot. Add a line to fstab to bind mount the directory /boot of /rawBoot into /boot of rootA. Add an empty file /root/.no_rootfs_resize in rootA to avoid the partitions being changed if the original image was never booted before. I did all of the above also with an archived older Armbian image and put that into rootB (and bootB). With this setup we now have two separated OS versions. They can be switched by simply changing the boot symlink to bootA or bootB and reboot. Because we used bind mount we can also do kernel upgrades which end up in the correct directory. As all of the steps are easily automatable by a shell script we can now download a new earlier prepared update package place its content into the other boot directory and partition adjust their UUIDs (and maybe copy SSH keys and machine-id if we want to keep system identity) and change a symlink. If we need to go back to the older image just the symlink needs to changed back. Either from within a running system or if that is not possible by taking the card out and doing this externally. As I said earlier this A+B update scheme is not as robust as other tools. But we can stay with prebuilt images from Armbian that can be locally configured the way we want it. After this an update package can be created and distributed which could also contain a new uboot. If this is tested well before distribution I guess most errors that make the other tools so robust can be avoided.

I had the precise information about data-offset from "--examine" mdadm command, and also I was in raid1, that's far less sensitive to error than raid5 or raid0 for example. I would not have been surprised that the resync, if taken to the end, would have worked... But I will never know. As far as I know, I get the data back and I'm very lucky and happy. Thank you

@dale you need a display overlay that is compatible with tm16xx. OpenVFD overlays are NOT supported. You can read README.md and dt-bindings documentation at https://github.com/jefflessard/tm16xx-display But note that there has been many changes recently to the code base since the driver is currently in review process to be upstreamed into mainline kernel (targeting v6.18). So double check which bindings version format has been integrated into Armbian rockchip64. The GitHub repo also contains a vfd-convert utility to automatically convert OpenVFD configuration files to expected tm16xx DTSO. But : 1. It requires OpenVFD conf file, not dtso. 2. You may need to go through file history to get the version matching of what has been integrated into Armbian rockchip64.

Customizing image and customizing kernel are different tasks. For latter use the code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } kernel-config command and then copy over the created config file from output to userpatches. The framework will look for custom kernel configuration files and uses them if they're detected. More details here: https://zuckerbude.org/armbian-using-kernel-config/

That seems to have gone away. ? SNILMERG... Now using very small but 1920x1080 screen, xfce terminal text is about 7 microns tall, way too small for my ancient eyes, Simplified keyboard. ctrl&shift&+ magnify's text but when big enough to read, bottom of xfce4 terminal is offscreen below bottom of screen, so cannot see command line. Is there a keycode combo that expands text independently from terminal window size? Thank you.

Armbian kernel and BSP Debian/Ubuntu userland

You are still using an old Linux. You need Linux 6.13 or newer. You need to build your own Armbian OS. Also, don't forget the cma=256M kernel argument

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You realized the wrong thing: the topic is actual but this is not a forum where to discuss about Android or stock firmwares

Anyone an idea?

Yup, I opened a bug report about this on his github, I have yet to receive an answer. I'm having trouble figuring out if it's a hardware issue or a software issue, since I don't have a second bug to test at the same time. When I try the Makerbase OS on this same board, I don't have connectivity either, but at least, the link led turns on and off with the cable connect/disconnect.

Did you try to build the image with compile.sh and this following setting? INCLUDE_HOME_DIR=yes See https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Switches/#advanced

Yeah, also on my laptop (Arch with upstream 6.16 kernel) this problem does not happen, so it shouldn't be because of specific patches to the rtw88 kernel in the RPi kernel repo. It only happens when I use the kernel built with Armbian build system. I am completely clueless about what could be causing this 🤷‍♂️

Sorry that was resolved 2 days ago, but I don't see and never seen this long list. Only 3 options vendor 6.1, 6.12 and edge (6.16), This morning I also seen the u-boot wasn't the good one. I downloaded for rock5-itx, but had linux-u-boot-cyber-aib-rk3588-edge instead of linux-u-boot-rock-5-itx-edge, changed it, rebooted (on 6.16) worked, tried again 6.12, still no display. I needed to arch-chroot on the armbian to take a screenshot (but I've the same dispay on armbian itself): I seen 6.16.4 is now available and work, after /boot/config-6.16.4-edge-rockchip64, gcc 13.3.0 is now again used instead of old 11.x :). Debian Trixie has GCC 14.2.0 CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) 13.3.0" And after changelog on kernel.org, patch for AV1 acceleration had been applied on this version: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.16.4 Fixes: 003afda97c65 ("media: verisilicon: Enable AV1 decoder on rk3588") Sorry I maybe mix too much subjects in the same post, but: I also seen a minimal IoT version of Trixie for Rock5-itx. Can I made safely a debian os upgrade from apt? Or is it better to wait release for desktop version ? Another point. On armbian, only LLVMpipe is used, I compiled last mesa git on arch, will try to do this for debian too. and some application that need to use EGL+dri (wings3D, blender, obs) report broken DRI2 access. I'm not sure if it's due to some kernel patchs (I reuse the armbian 6.16 kernel on arch), or to the current state of mesa-git. They all works with llvmpipe. Othere applications like PPSSPPSDL work fine without it. Ex, with wings3d + forced zink: MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink GALLIUM_DRIVER=zink wings3d WARNING: Some incorrect rendering might occur because the selected Vulkan device (Mali-G610) doesn't support base Zink requirements: feats.features.fillModeNonSolid feats.features.shaderClipDistance libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen WARNING: Some incorrect rendering might occur because the selected Vulkan device (Mali-G610) doesn't support base Zink requirements: feats.features.fillModeNonSolid feats.features.shaderClipDistance

You can either experiment with the CLEAN_LEVEL switch or use kernel-patch or uboot-patch (depending on what you want to modify) to create proper patch files from the diff.

Did you download stretch already, before I remove it to put up Bionic?