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I managed to boot armbian from SD card without eMMC. The way achived this is by create a bootable insomwrt with venodr u boot, using my script `./run.sh custom` then replace the ROOTFS with armbian's ROOTFS from there I could boot armbian and fix the fstab. So far it's working fine root@aml-s9xx-box:~# lsblk -f NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS mmcblk1 ├─mmcblk1p1 vfat FAT16 BOOT 1C34-0D25 200.9M 18% /boot └─mmcblk1p2 ext4 1.0 ROOTFS 6f2edfb1-adb2-4f1b-8087-46d189763c9b 5.2G 20% /var/log.hdd / zram0 root@aml-s9xx-box:~# uname -a Linux aml-s9xx-box 6.1.66-DBAI #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 29 09:52:27 +07 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux root@aml-s9xx-box:~# uptime 01:44:24 up 19 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 root@aml-s9xx-box:~# cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 26.2.0-trunk.563 trixie" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="13" VERSION="13 (trixie)" VERSION_CODENAME=trixie DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.3 ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.armbian.com" SUPPORT_URL="https://forum.armbian.com" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://www.armbian.com/bugs" ARMBIAN_PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 26.2.0-trunk.563 trixie" root@aml-s9xx-box:~#

Looks like only one HDMI port and one NVMe drive bays work on the edge kernels. Not sure whats wrong with HDMI port but two SSDs installed cause issues PCIE addressing. Probably overlay issue with the newer kernel images?

Howdy hey. What do you guys think of this Android TV Box Q19 Android16 Allwinner H618 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005011785087357.html it does claim 8GB ram and price is ~40 euro ? or 95 TV Box Android14 Allwinner H616 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009496923463.html which one is a better bet?

I tried the nightly build, and I'm happy with the result. Vulkan and OpenGL are still running on the CPU, but I'll try newer images in the future. I did a quick test with Yamagi Quake 2. OpenGL 1.4 doesn't even get 60fps at 640x480, but it looks playable. Should run a lot faster once we can run Vulkan on the GPU. https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2/blob/master/doc/020_installation.md This the make command I used: make WITH_GLES1=yes WITH_SDL3=no -j4 I also tested Stable Diffusion XL Turbo with OnnxStream. Image generated in 7m27s. Looks like the CPU performance is as expected. You do need gcc-14 and g++-14. They are available in the repository. https://github.com/vitoplantamura/OnnxStream You need to change the architecture string in CMakeLists.txt. -march=rv64gcv

@Nick A Apologies for going a bit off topic but I've been searching for the SWT6621S driver source for my open source project, and your post is approximately the only reference to it I'm finding. is there any chance you could share? I've attempted to contact the same person you were successful with but as of yet no response.

Found the "no Wayland on current kernel" (see new PR https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/9515). glmark2-es2-wayland still reports a 462 score on 800x600. Thus I updated and renamed the image mentioned in previous post with a current 6.18 kernel. You need to switch from 6.6 with /boot/switch-6.18.16-current script, anything else described in the post still is valid. @maxsub Alternatively install a M2(m)-to-M2(e) adapter in the larger bottom M.2 slot and use a NGFF Wifi card, for example RTL8822CE should run

Thanks Werner. Could you please point to me where is best last download file reference for Orangepi5b plus ?

In the meantime I brought up an access point server using the nightly armbian build. So far it is running solidly. The WiFi is underpowered, while the rest of the system seems stable.

Hello, all, I am trying to confirm the actual status of UART support on the Banana Pi BPI-R4. Does the hardware UART work reliably and appear as a character device (e.g., /dev/uart*) under Armbian Linux? Also, what is the maximum baud rate supported by this port? And one more question: Does Armbian support the Quectel EP06 modem (LTE, mini PCIe)? Thank you in advance, SY, Serge

Hello I am using: Linux nanopineo 6.12.74-current-sunxi #10 SMP Thu Feb 19 15:29:56 UTC 2026 armv7l GNU/Linux PRETTY_NAME="Armbian_community 26.2.0-trunk.464 trixie" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="13" VERSION="13 (trixie)" VERSION_CODENAME=trixie DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.3 ARMBIAN_PRETTY_NAME="Armbian_community 26.2.0-trunk.464 trixie" i am tring to bind spi1 to fbdev. Here are the configurations: /boot/armbianEnv.txt: /boot/overlay-user/spi1-st7789.dts: SPI1 is not generating any CLK or MOSI signals on the physical pins. Looking forward for any help Best regards, Genadi

Hi everyone, I'm very new to Armbian Linux. I'm about to acquire Orange Pi Zero 2W for my audio project. I have read some of the forum posts related to the SOC's native I2S, and I'd like to know if those problems mentioned in the posts have been resolved in the new kernel? Meaning that users don't have to write and compile their own device tree overlay and kernel mode driver? My project require a full duplex I2S with the CODEC as the master. Nothing fancy, just 2 channels in and 2 channels out. Hope someone can help clear the doubts so that I know for sure I will not be buying what I can not use. Thanks

I have dtb files used by manufacturers for compiling on the Android 5.1 system (OEM versions 2.17 and 2.19). It differs from boards like the firefly, for example: using a 100 Mbps network port, USB GPIO uses <0x50 0x0c 0x00>. Can anyone help with adapting this board? I want to compile it for armbian. 2.17.dtb 2.19.dtb

@xiboliyadongtu Did you try Hangover (which is Fex-emu)? https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover I saw someone had a problem with a similar online game with Box64 before. https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/issues/3073#issuecomment-3689810679

Greetings, i own a CB1, however i cannot get it to work well either. Perhaps we can help each other.

@hexdump I also have the exact constraints, I've detached eMMC from my HG680P. I've tried your u-boot using armbian and velvet's image tester, but boot of them failed to boot, and on UART I can't see anything. Any idea what should I try next ? Anyway, I managed to boot custom OpenWrt and I attached the scripts that I used to generate image run.sh insomwrt_with_vendor_u_boot.log

@c0rnelius: Thanks for the info, I'll fiddle with the GPU in the meantime. @Cristian Apas: that hack above is necessary if you use the Xunlong Ubuntu userspace. They have replaced every hint on the OEM, which includes the GPU driver name. Hack not necessary if we simply use the Spacemit Bianbu Ubuntu userspace. I hacked an image together with this (see my site https://privat-in.de goto Downloads). It has a glmark2 score of 424 (not very fast). This is not for everybody. I compiled a standard OrangepiRv2 Armbian image with a legacy kernel and put in a Bianbu 3.01 minimal userspace as root. Details from my notes: # Image creation starts with Armbian-Orangepirv2_trixie_legacy_6.6.99_minimal.img Root from https://archive.spacemit.com/image/k1/version/bianbu/v3.0.1/ -> minimal.img -- Default LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8, change: dpkg-reconfigure locales -> en_US.UTF-8 Copy from Armbian: /etc/netplan/10-dhcp-all-interfaces.yaml, /etc/fstab, /boot/*, /lib/modules/*, /etc/modprobe.d/orangepirv2.conf /etc/modules-load.d/orangepirv2.conf Purge spacemit-flash-dtbs (and thereby remove linux-image-6.6.63*) Uploaded this image to https://privat-in.de/ (Downloads) First steps after flashing UART login as root / bianbu apt-get install parted parted /dev/mmcblk0 (or /dev/nvme0n1): resizepart 1 100% resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/nvme0n1p1) apt-get install gnome-core glmark2-es2-wayland adduser a-new-user adduser a-new-user sudo Reboot and login Click on Terminal, run glmark2-es2-wayland Notes: other Spacemit K1 boards can run Bianbu without any changes, this is exclusively for OpiRV2. Expect oopses at every corner... You can install cinnamon-core and use that. Make sure to run cinnamon under gdm3 b/c starting via lightdm does not work well (e.g. menu open freezes). Also, KDE plasma only with screen artifacts and xfce4-wayland simply exits immediately. No other wayland DE tested...

@sven-ola https://lore.kernel.org/spacemit/20260310161853.3900605-1-gaohan@iscas.ac.cn/T/#t Sometime soon-ish I'll be doing another PR with early SD card and CPU freq scaling support. The above link should at least get you boot from eMMC or NVMe.

The question is: does the auto-generated version available for download with a legacy kernel include the hack to make the GPU work in Wayland, and if not, how should I compile it? Thanks

Many thanks for your efforts. I've attempted the panvk-mesa26 + protonge configuration and tried launching Black Desert Online via the UMU launcher, but the launcher crashes immediately. When using box64 + winestaging, the launcher does start, though it only displays a black screen. If you have time, could you kindly test Black Desert Online? I'd be most grateful! My system version is Armbian 26.2.1 noblevendor 6.1.115. My device is an Orange Pi 5 with 8GB RAM. Thank you very much！

when using your fork, it worked https://github.com/fensoft/rk3528-tvbox

I am currently at 7.0.0-rc1. I can upload my jump-start image so you can check if my kernel build works with your device. If you like what you see, it is only a 'prepare-jump-start ${target-mount-point}' away to install the kernel package alongside your existing system. I know about it, but since it is just another not mainline solution with another dependency mess, I am not particularly interested.

Good afternoon, I can't compile the cores for this TV box. https://paste.armbian.com/ziyasupeka

I agree with you. Neural network works well on NPU. I tried to load tiny llm model, but it's still too large for NPU. The bottleneck is the sram in NPU, not computing capacity. And I found an interesting project https://github.com/NotPunchnox/rkllama

Thanks for the replies. But I've decided on Linux Mainline on ARM Chromebooks (Veyron): https://github.com/velvet-os/imagebuilder/releases/tag/251115-02 which at least works from the SD card. I'm still working on the installation. 😉

Oh damn, wish I would have read this before I tried to install (26.2 with vendor kernel build on the 9th) from SD to Nvme... How can I reflash MTD if I only have a MacBook available? Note to self and the next one hitting that wall: Going to maskrom mode kinda fixed it, after that I started again from a mSD and from that running ArmBian I flashed the same img to the Nvme on the board. Another reboot and it was started from the SSD 😉