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I had a quick look at the script, but it is too complex for me to see what could be wrong. Also there is netplan layer in between that I am not familiar with anymore. Maybe you can look at what is generated in terms of systemd-networkd files (e.g. in /etc/systemd/network/ ). And also use commands like ip route etc to see the actual state. 1 issue with the Armbian netplan+systemd-networkd/resolved was that it assumed GATWAY_IP=DNS_IP , might be fixed now, I don't know. I removed all netplan stuff (and all Ubuntu's) as it got too complicated for me compared to plain NM or plain systemd-networkd or even manual step by step with ip that I still have in old scripts for mobile 4G etc. In addition it cost me a week or so to figure or Rockchip BSP based kernel (6.1.115 'latest') rejected various MAC addresses on my LAN when an MT7621u based USB stick served as WiFi accesspoint. With 7.x mainline based kernel no such issue. I even ran OpenWRT in an arm64 KVM to discover/debug that issue. But it is NetworkManager based, including just text edits of .nmconnection files, I have not used systemd-networkd and hostapd (yet), but might test it as hostapd is then the same more or less as in OpenWRT.

As far as my experience is, there is no difference in final result if you do manual 'install' like you did. It runs the usual (user) setup scripts. It is even the same when you start an image as container, done that many times for various platforms. In fact writing SPI-flash is non-automatic, is manual as can be quite invasive. With modern ARM64 SBC like ROCK5B also people might threat it like a PC, with difference that PC comes with a motherboard that has already firmware/bootloader/UEFI/BIOS written by the manufacturer. Although some motherbaords also can use open source, like coreboot I think, but guessing. What to do as further tuning and customization depends on what you want to do with the ROCK5B. There is 1.5 decades between the single core ARMv6 based RaspberryPi1 and the current high-end SBC's that are 100x faster and can be treated like an Intel/AMD PC. I actually have no NVME for x86-64 (is still SATA SSD although also M.2 slot as well), but use my 500GB Samsung 970 EVO+ in the ROCK5B. I use Btrfs and compress-force=zstd for almost all Linux rootfs, so always create an extra swap partition, although a swapfile also works nowadays with special create options. I rather not use the (currently very expensive) RAM for swap when 4-lane PCIE v3 NVME is there. But that is also because my ROCK5B acts as a server, containers and KVM etc and also I use the RAM and NVME for caching a large HDD. So in terms of wear of flash storage, that caching is just way more demanding than what happens on a decade old SD-card only SBC. But NVME/SATA SSD's have perfectly readable stats and many good brands can write more TeraBytes than the specs mention from manufacturer. SD-cards can be very poorly design internally, and have no stats. So you simply don't know when they will break. If the SBC only does some simple things like camera streaming or some sensor's on GPIO pins, it makes sense to keep as much as possible in RAM. So then just keep it like it is. Or even disable journal to non-volatile storage if never any issues and only enable if troubles. One problem I had with zram swap is that on a 256MiB NanoPi-NEO, it failed when media streaming under memory pressure. mp3 or opus or h264 etc don't compress and can still buffer a lot, so the OOM killer started acting. I was not able to change the whole media stuff so stopped zram swap and put swap on normal extra swap partition.

Hmm... that's strange. Does no one really want to participate in this discussion ? Has any of you really never used the NanoPi M5 before ? Don't you want us to join forces and work together to make this SBC run great ? It is a great piece of hardware who deserves a software to match. Let's show the world that there is a community for other SBCs besides Raspberry Pi ! So far we know for sure that the NanoPi M5 hardware is capable of full 4K. It is already working in Android14 OS. We just need to move the video drivers and software library froma Android to Armbian.

This week's cycle emphasizes broad U-Boot modernization, new board and SoC enablement, and kernel and wireless driver consolidation. A large-scale U-Boot bump moves sunxi 32-bit and 64-bit targets from v2024.01 to v2026.07-rc4, with follow-on updates for self-pinned H616/H618 boards (Zero2W, Zero3, Longan Pi 3H), Mixtile Edge2, NanoPi R5S (now patch-less), and the Youyeetoo YY3588 switching to mainline v2026.04. The imx6 line (UDOO, Cubox-i) was modernized to U-Boot v2026.07 with legacy 6.12, current 6.18, and edge 7.1 kernels. Related toolchain work fixes ODROID-C1, ODROID-XU4, Recore, and X96Q builds under Trixie's GCC 14, and resolves errexit failures on Rockchip SPI boards. Platform expansion introduces community support for the Allwinner A733-based Radxa Cubie A7Z and Orange Pi Zero 3W, Rockchip Graperain G3568 v2, and Anbernic RG Vita Pro and Lubancat-5IO image entries. BeagleY-AI gained USB, PCIe, ISP + IMX219, and VPAC patches on the vendor kernel, alongside GPU acceleration fixes for TI K3 targets and TI Wave5 VPU firmware. Rockchip RV1106 support was split into distinct RV1103G and RV1103B families, and new SPI/NVMe boot and Maskrom recovery paths were added. On the kernel and driver side, sunxi received an H3/H5 DVFS RCU-stall fix, MMC/I2C PM deadlock resolution, MGLRU enablement, and LTE modem USB serial support. Meson64 gained a GPIO pinctrl cansleep series and v7.2-rc1 via bleedingedge, while SpacemiT K1 was updated to linux-7.2.y. The RTL8189ES, RTL8189FS, and RTL8192EU wireless drivers were migrated to dedicated forks with 7.2 compatibility and patch cleanup, and an RTW88 SDIO interrupt storm was addressed. User-visible improvements include swapfile creation fixes, useradd-based first-login provisioning, and video-group access to Rockchip MPP codec devices. #Armbian #EmbeddedLinux #UBoot #Rockchip #Allwinner Changesboard: visionfive2: optimize config for modern U-Boot and single-partition booting. by @zevlaoxie2010 in armbian/build#10097Add Anbernic RG Vita Pro board image. by @crackerjacques in armbian/armbian.github.io#351Add Lubancat-5IO board image and vendor logo. by @lch08 in armbian/armbian.github.io#348Add TI Wave5 VPU firmware. by @Grippy98 in armbian/firmware#132beaglebadge: drop vendor-edge u-boot target (not in ti-u-boot-2026.01). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10126BeagleY-AI Add Patches for ISP + IMX219 & VPAC. by @Grippy98 in armbian/build#10129board: anbernic-rg-ds: make OTG-C port dual-role so USB hubs work. by @crackerjacques in armbian/build#10124Build-Switches: document KERNEL_DO_STUBBLE. by @iav in armbian/documentation#928Bump/rk uboot swig fleet mkspi 2. by @redrathnure in armbian/build#10122chore(deps): patch vulnerable transitive deps. by @SuperKali in armbian/website#33ci(docs-preview): skip publish/comment steps on fork PRs. by @iav in armbian/documentation#934ci: auto-regenerate build lists when image-info.json changes. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#349ci: bump image build cap 30m → 45m. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#24ci: widen auto-retry budget and the systemic-failure threshold. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#23clk: sunxi-ng: ccu_common: Replace ktime-dependent lock wait loop with udelay. by @deece in armbian/build#10119config: rockpi-e: change rkbin repository and use spl-blobs. by @chenxmqqqq in armbian/build#10027cubie-a7z: Add community support for Radxa Cubie A7Z (Allwinner A733). by @shkolnik in armbian/build#10036docs: add Datacenter access section (Netbird VPN + board access). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#936docs: document PREFER_NATIVE_ARMHF and enrich arm64-compat-vdso entry. by @iav in armbian/documentation#921docs: exclude docs/README.md from mkdocs build. by @iav in armbian/documentation#933docs: use unpinned python3-dev in setup instructions. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#935Drop testing-wireless-performance-test.yml. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#350Enable USB and PCIe on BeagleY-AI vendor kernel. by @Grippy98 in armbian/build#10115fake-ubuntu-advantage-tools: provide ubuntu-pro-client. by @Grippy98 in armbian/build#10116family-rv1106: Split RV1103G and RV1103B, cleanup overrides. by @vidplace7 in armbian/build#10011feat(api): serve QDL board metadata and proxy-cache firehose assets. by @SuperKali in armbian/website#31feat(qdl): serve the board registry from the API. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#163firstlogin: use useradd/groupadd instead of the adduser suite. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10127Fix swapfile creation. by @pierg75 in armbian/build#10065Fix TI K3 Suite Matching for Ubuntu Hosts and Enable GPU Acceleration for BeagleBoards. by @Grippy98 in armbian/build#10112fix: stop setting LC_ALL in armbian-lang.sh. by @saschabuehrle in armbian/build#10132Guard config-disabled static helpers to silence -Wunused-function. by @iav in armbian/wifi-rtl8852bs#9Import long-carried armbian/build regd-init fix, with authorship. by @iav in armbian/wifi-rtl8852bs#8imx6 modernization: udoo + cubox-i u-boot v2026.07 + kernel (legacy 6.12 / current 6.18 / edge 7.1). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10098kernel-rust: ship prebuilt Rust crate artifacts in linux-headers. by @iav in armbian/build#10117Makena: add SC8280XP firehose and Radxa Dragon Q8B UFS provisioning. by @SuperKali in armbian/qcombin#3meson64: add GPIO shared-proxy/pinctrl cansleep series (upstream v3). by @adeepn in armbian/build#10090meson64: enable v7.2-rc1 via bleedingedge. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10079mixtile-edge2: u-boot: main: bump (generic) u-boot to v2026.07-rc5. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10071nanopi-r5s: u-boot: main: bump u-boot to v2026.07-rc5 + make it patch-less. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10072odroidc1: fix u-boot build on trixie (GCC 14) via config.mk -fpermissive. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10111odroidxu4: fix u-boot build on trixie (GCC 14 implicit-decl errors). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10110orangepizero3w: Add community support for Orange Pi Zero 3W (Allwinner A733). by @shkolnik in armbian/build#10103recore: fix ATF v2.8.0 build - drop -Wl, prefix from LD flag. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10100refactor(api): drop min_imager_version from QDL enrichment. by @SuperKali in armbian/website#32rockchip64: fix errexit build failure on SPI boards (undefined hook). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10101rockchip64_common: add board_uboot postprocess hooks. by @mingzhangqun in armbian/build#10031rockchip: add support for Graperain G3568 v2. by @rbqvq in armbian/build#10056rockchip: udev: grant video group access to MPP codec devices and DMA-heaps. by @yisding in armbian/build#10085rtl8189es: switch fork, clean up patches, bump to 7.2. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10086rtl8189fs: switch to own fork, add 7.2 compatibility, drop patches from misc. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10092rtl8192eu: switch to own fork, add 7.2 compat, remove integrated patches from misc. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10095shellfmt: run lib/tools/shellfmt.sh, no changes. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10087SpacemiT K1: Update EDGE to linux-7.2.y. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#10123sunxi (32+64-bit): bump u-boot v2024.01 -> v2026.07-rc4. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10089sunxi, sunxi64, sun60iw2: enable MGLRU in kernel config. by @ValdikSS in armbian/build#10133sunxi-6.18: fix H3/H5 RCU stall / CPU hang during DVFS (current kernel). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10083sunxi64: bump self-pinned H616/H618 boards to v2026.07 (zero2w, zero3, longanpi-3h). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10102sunxi64: enable USB_SERIAL_OPTION (module) for GSM/UMTS/LTE modem support. by @pumuckly in armbian/build#10050sunxi: pin mmc and i2c controllers to active to break circular PM deadlock. by @deece in armbian/build#10120uboot: add SPI/NVMe boot support and Maskrom SD-card/flash fixes. by @mingzhangqun in armbian/build#10030wifi: rtw88: sdio: Fix unhandled RX request interrupt storm. by @deece in armbian/build#10121WifiPerformance: update infrastructure section to autotests framework. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#931x96q: fix u-boot build hang — add missing CONFIG_DRAM_SUNXI_TPR6. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10114youyeetoo-yy3588: switch to mainline U-Boot v2026.04. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#10125youyeetoo: fix 7" touch with TPC2059 config, add YY3588 display overlays. by @SuperKali in armbian/linux-rockchip#507yy3588: fix eDP video port and timing, document panel requirement. by @SuperKali in armbian/linux-rockchip#508View the full article

This week's cycle emphasizes broad U-Boot modernization, new board and SoC enablement, and kernel and wireless driver consolidation. A large-scale U-Boot bump moves sunxi 32-bit and 64-bit targets from v2024.01 to v2026.07-rc4, with follow-on updates for self-pinned H616/H618 boards (Zero2W, Zero3, Longan Pi 3H), Mixtile Edge2, NanoPi R5S (now patch-less), and the Youyeetoo YY3588 switching to mainline v2026.04. The imx6 line (UDOO, Cubox-i) was modernized to U-Boot v2026.07 with legacy 6.12, current 6.18, and edge 7.1 kernels. Related toolchain work fixes ODROID-C1, ODROID-XU4, Recore, and X96Q builds under Trixie's GCC 14, and resolves errexit failures on Rockchip SPI boards. Platform expansion introduces community support for the Allwinner A733-based Radxa Cubie A7Z and Orange Pi Zero 3W, Rockchip Graperain G3568 v2, and Anbernic RG Vita Pro and Lubancat-5IO image entries. BeagleY-AI gained USB, PCIe, ISP + IMX219, and VPAC patches on the vendor kernel, alongside GPU acceleration fixes for TI K3 targets and TI Wave5 VPU firmware. Rockchip RV1106 support was split into distinct RV1103G and RV1103B families, and new SPI/NVMe boot and Maskrom recovery paths were added. On the kernel and driver side, sunxi received an H3/H5 DVFS RCU-stall fix, MMC/I2C PM deadlock resolution, MGLRU enablement, and LTE modem USB serial support. Meson64 gained a GPIO pinctrl cansleep series and v7.2-rc1 via bleedingedge, while SpacemiT K1 was updated to linux-7.2.y. The RTL8189ES, RTL8189FS, and RTL8192EU wireless drivers were migrated to dedicated forks with 7.2 compatibility and patch cleanup, and an RTW88 SDIO interrupt storm was addressed. User-visible improvements include swapfile creation fixes, useradd-based first-login provisioning, and video-group access to Rockchip MPP codec devices. #Armbian #EmbeddedLinux #UBoot #Rockchip #Allwinner Changesboard: visionfive2: optimize config for modern U-Boot and single-partition booting. by @zevlaoxie2010 in armbian/build#10097Add Anbernic RG Vita Pro board image. by @crackerjacques in armbian/armbian.github.io#351Add Lubancat-5IO board image and vendor logo. by @lch08 in armbian/armbian.github.io#348Add TI Wave5 VPU firmware. by @Grippy98 in armbian/firmware#132beaglebadge: drop vendor-edge u-boot target (not in ti-u-boot-2026.01). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10126BeagleY-AI Add Patches for ISP + IMX219 & VPAC. by @Grippy98 in armbian/build#10129board: anbernic-rg-ds: make OTG-C port dual-role so USB hubs work. by @crackerjacques in armbian/build#10124Build-Switches: document KERNEL_DO_STUBBLE. by @iav in armbian/documentation#928Bump/rk uboot swig fleet mkspi 2. by @redrathnure in armbian/build#10122chore(deps): patch vulnerable transitive deps. by @SuperKali in armbian/website#33ci(docs-preview): skip publish/comment steps on fork PRs. by @iav in armbian/documentation#934ci: auto-regenerate build lists when image-info.json changes. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#349ci: bump image build cap 30m → 45m. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#24ci: widen auto-retry budget and the systemic-failure threshold. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#23clk: sunxi-ng: ccu_common: Replace ktime-dependent lock wait loop with udelay. by @deece in armbian/build#10119config: rockpi-e: change rkbin repository and use spl-blobs. by @chenxmqqqq in armbian/build#10027cubie-a7z: Add community support for Radxa Cubie A7Z (Allwinner A733). by @shkolnik in armbian/build#10036docs: add Datacenter access section (Netbird VPN + board access). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#936docs: document PREFER_NATIVE_ARMHF and enrich arm64-compat-vdso entry. by @iav in armbian/documentation#921docs: exclude docs/README.md from mkdocs build. by @iav in armbian/documentation#933docs: use unpinned python3-dev in setup instructions. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#935Drop testing-wireless-performance-test.yml. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#350Enable USB and PCIe on BeagleY-AI vendor kernel. by @Grippy98 in armbian/build#10115fake-ubuntu-advantage-tools: provide ubuntu-pro-client. by @Grippy98 in armbian/build#10116family-rv1106: Split RV1103G and RV1103B, cleanup overrides. by @vidplace7 in armbian/build#10011feat(api): serve QDL board metadata and proxy-cache firehose assets. by @SuperKali in armbian/website#31feat(qdl): serve the board registry from the API. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#163firstlogin: use useradd/groupadd instead of the adduser suite. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10127Fix swapfile creation. by @pierg75 in armbian/build#10065Fix TI K3 Suite Matching for Ubuntu Hosts and Enable GPU Acceleration for BeagleBoards. by @Grippy98 in armbian/build#10112fix: stop setting LC_ALL in armbian-lang.sh. by @saschabuehrle in armbian/build#10132Guard config-disabled static helpers to silence -Wunused-function. by @iav in armbian/wifi-rtl8852bs#9Import long-carried armbian/build regd-init fix, with authorship. by @iav in armbian/wifi-rtl8852bs#8imx6 modernization: udoo + cubox-i u-boot v2026.07 + kernel (legacy 6.12 / current 6.18 / edge 7.1). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10098kernel-rust: ship prebuilt Rust crate artifacts in linux-headers. by @iav in armbian/build#10117Makena: add SC8280XP firehose and Radxa Dragon Q8B UFS provisioning. by @SuperKali in armbian/qcombin#3meson64: add GPIO shared-proxy/pinctrl cansleep series (upstream v3). by @adeepn in armbian/build#10090meson64: enable v7.2-rc1 via bleedingedge. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10079mixtile-edge2: u-boot: main: bump (generic) u-boot to v2026.07-rc5. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10071nanopi-r5s: u-boot: main: bump u-boot to v2026.07-rc5 + make it patch-less. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10072odroidc1: fix u-boot build on trixie (GCC 14) via config.mk -fpermissive. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10111odroidxu4: fix u-boot build on trixie (GCC 14 implicit-decl errors). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10110orangepizero3w: Add community support for Orange Pi Zero 3W (Allwinner A733). by @shkolnik in armbian/build#10103recore: fix ATF v2.8.0 build - drop -Wl, prefix from LD flag. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10100refactor(api): drop min_imager_version from QDL enrichment. by @SuperKali in armbian/website#32rockchip64: fix errexit build failure on SPI boards (undefined hook). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10101rockchip64_common: add board_uboot postprocess hooks. by @mingzhangqun in armbian/build#10031rockchip: add support for Graperain G3568 v2. by @rbqvq in armbian/build#10056rockchip: udev: grant video group access to MPP codec devices and DMA-heaps. by @yisding in armbian/build#10085rtl8189es: switch fork, clean up patches, bump to 7.2. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10086rtl8189fs: switch to own fork, add 7.2 compatibility, drop patches from misc. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10092rtl8192eu: switch to own fork, add 7.2 compat, remove integrated patches from misc. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10095shellfmt: run lib/tools/shellfmt.sh, no changes. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10087SpacemiT K1: Update EDGE to linux-7.2.y. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#10123sunxi (32+64-bit): bump u-boot v2024.01 -> v2026.07-rc4. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10089sunxi, sunxi64, sun60iw2: enable MGLRU in kernel config. by @ValdikSS in armbian/build#10133sunxi-6.18: fix H3/H5 RCU stall / CPU hang during DVFS (current kernel). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10083sunxi64: bump self-pinned H616/H618 boards to v2026.07 (zero2w, zero3, longanpi-3h). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10102sunxi64: enable USB_SERIAL_OPTION (module) for GSM/UMTS/LTE modem support. by @pumuckly in armbian/build#10050sunxi: pin mmc and i2c controllers to active to break circular PM deadlock. by @deece in armbian/build#10120uboot: add SPI/NVMe boot support and Maskrom SD-card/flash fixes. by @mingzhangqun in armbian/build#10030wifi: rtw88: sdio: Fix unhandled RX request interrupt storm. by @deece in armbian/build#10121WifiPerformance: update infrastructure section to autotests framework. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#931x96q: fix u-boot build hang — add missing CONFIG_DRAM_SUNXI_TPR6. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10114youyeetoo-yy3588: switch to mainline U-Boot v2026.04. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#10125youyeetoo: fix 7" touch with TPC2059 config, add YY3588 display overlays. by @SuperKali in armbian/linux-rockchip#507yy3588: fix eDP video port and timing, document panel requirement. by @SuperKali in armbian/linux-rockchip#508View the full article

I tried to build an bridged AP so that I can reach the Internet from a WiFi net spawned from the BananaPiPro. By this I followed the procedure from armbian-config (config.network.sh). After install the AP is shown in the login screen: WiFi AP: SSID: (BPi), channel 7 (2442 MHz), width: 20 MHz, center1: 2442 MHz When I try to connect from my mobile phone it either says "connecting without Internet". The output in syslog is then: 026-07-06T12:35:02.645970+02:00 bananapipro hostapd: wlan0: STA 22:50:7b:ac:e3:2e IEEE 802.11: associated 2026-07-06T12:35:02.690671+02:00 bananapipro hostapd: wlan0: STA 22:50:7b:ac:e3:2e RADIUS: starting accounting session 500A81EDD1715454 2026-07-06T12:35:02.691497+02:00 bananapipro hostapd: wlan0: STA 22:50:7b:ac:e3:2e WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN) Ort otherwise the phone just says "cannot connect". My netplan file is as follows: network: version: 2 renderer: networkd ethernets: end0: dhcp4: false dhcp6: false macaddress: "02:cd:08:83:3c:f3" wlan0: dhcp4: false dhcp6: false bridges: br0: addresses: - "192.168.178.29/24" nameservers: addresses: - 9.9.9.9 - 1.1.1.1 interfaces: - wlan0 - end0 routes: - metric: 200 to: default via: "192.168.178.1" The hostapd.conf is: interface=wlan0 driver=nl80211 ssid=BPi hw_mode=g channel=7 wmm_enabled=0 macaddr_acl=0 auth_algs=1 ignore_broadcast_ssid=0 wpa=2 wpa_passphrase=secret wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK wpa_pairwise=TKIP rsn_pairwise=CCMP ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd ctrl_interface_group=0 ieee80211n=1 ht_capab=[DSSS_CK-40][HT20+] preamble=1 bridge=br0 The output of network list is: root@bananapipro:/etc/hostapd# networkctl list IDX LINK TYPE OPERATIONAL SETUP 1 lo loopback carrier unmanaged 2 end0 ether enslaved configured 3 br0 bridge routable configured 4 wlan0 wlan enslaved failed Does anybody have an idea where to look further for a solution? As I have an AP running on my other BananaPiPro (Bookworm CLI / Networkmanager, manual config, not bridged) it cannot be a complete HW limitation, I think.

Hi, I just switched from an ancient ubuntu-rockchip install to armbian ubuntu 26.04 with the mainline kernel. I did a bit of an unorthodox installation, I wanted to install on an nvme drive, and instead of using a microSD and then copying the system with armbian-install, since I didn't have a working microsd available I did a "manual" installation, I flashed rkspi_loader.img into the SPI taken from the armbian image and then flashed the armbian img directly to the nvme drive with an usb adapter from my PC. All is good and working fine, but I'm wondering if I'm missing any settings that gets applied during the armbian-install process (are there any?) that are specific for nvme. And regarding Zram, ram2log and other optimizations that armbian uses for SDs, how should I configure them? My setup is a Radxa Rock 5B with 8GB of RAM with a Samsung 970 evo plus, should I disable zram and create a swapfile? Any other setting to look out for? I think my hdparm -t speed is a bit low, around 1300 MB/s. Thanks in advance

I was wrong, the dafault baudrate is 100 kHz - the sensor is not responding at first try, when it is in sleep mode.

Hi Dodeval, so I am having trouble accessing Gemini 3.1 pro chat about this but this sounds vaguely familiar. Things that could be the cause are the "mkfs.ext4 -b 4096" option and "debootstrap --arch=arm64". Try some of these top tier models https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models they should be able to crack the code even though you might have to wrestle a bit to get them to produce the right solution. Most things seem to work like magic I guess it is about the device tree, battery management seems fine etc.. touch needs drivers, no audio from internal speakers which is no big deal anyway as bluetooth audio works everything there works as expected. I did get this aliexpress.com/item/1005009649297050.html at a discount but I not completely get the touchpad to work comfortably with a patched input driver, a lot of miss-clicks goosh nice keyboard but still need bluetooth mouse in reality. Rii i4 Mini Bluetooth would be fine but then again it is not quite the desktop experience I was looking for.

Hi, I need help identifying the Maskrom/eMMC short points for an RK3528 TV box. Device: - TV box sold as H20 Pro - SoC confirmed as Rockchip RK3528 - Board marking: M16-R6B-L3-V1.0-260121 - RAM detected in Linux: 963 MiB - eMMC detected in Linux: 7.83 GB / 7.30 GiB - eMMC name from Linux: P1J95K - eMMC CID: fe014e50314a39354b12739109744200 What happened: - The box originally booted Android from eMMC. - Armbian booted successfully from SD using a customized joilg/x88pro-based image. - Later I wrote U-Boot/idbloader to eMMC: - idbloader.img at sector 64 - u-boot.itb at sector 16384 - After reboot, the board no longer boots from SD or eMMC. - LED stays red. - No HDMI output. - No Ethernet link/activity. - RKDevTool on Windows shows "No Devices Found". Recovery attempts: - Tried the reset/recovery button behind the AV/P2 jack while connecting power and USB. - Tried both USB ports. - Tried RKDevTool v2.86 with Rockchip drivers installed. - No Loader or Maskrom device appears. - Tried UART pads marked GND/TX/RX using ESP32-C3 as bridge, but output is not readable. Question: Can anyone identify the eMMC Maskrom short point for this board? I need to force RK3528 into Maskrom mode so I can restore the first bootloader area of the eMMC. Attached photos: - Front of board - Back of board - Macro photo of the eMMC/storage chip area - Macro photo of test pads near the storage chip

I tried to downgrade to 6.18, unfortunately it froze during the process, which left the kernel and boot loader in an incomplete state. I have decided to re-image the whole thing with 6.18.x and for now it appears to be stable again.

Your previous post reminded me that the board supplier changed the BOM of the ODROID-N2+ by using a different SPI flash vendor. He hacked the support for it into his legacy firmware build without making any further note about it. It took some effort of reverse engineering to figure that out. Mainline hasn't picked up this additional driver activation to this day, but I still keep it in my builds anyway. In my latest build for the ODROID-HC4, I also included this driver to see if they might have gone about it in the same way. But your confirmation shows that this is probably not the case. Since I don't have an ODROId-HC4 with the behavior you described on hand, I can't analyze any further what the cause of it is. These days, I also mostly avoid devices with Amlogic SoCs because of their strict closed-source policy and lack of mainline support. And the board manufacturer isn't much more helpful on this point either. Devices powered by Rockchip are much more appealing objects. So you have to help yourself if you want to find a solution.

These most recent edge updates for K1 based boards are really great! With all this mainline additions of kernel 7.2 it's finally becoming a trustworthy clean alternative to outdated vendor images. At least for headless micro server usage everything is now already provided by mainline code (e.g. temperature and CPU frequency control are indispensable for serious work on this board!) Only WiFi and BT still don't work out of the box. I personally would prefer utilizing mainline brcmfmac drivers instead of fighting with all those unmaintainable bmcdhd patches. That's working for other boards with AP6256 modules as well.

OK I see: # dmesg | grep watchdog [ 0.462093] sunxi-wdt 1c20c90.watchdog: Watchdog enabled (timeout=16 sec, nowayout=0) That would mean study 'bark' or so, forgot most of it. I guess the board should restart if IPv6 LL connection is not there for more than 1 minute or so, but in relation to NAS makes then only sense if I move from NBD to iSCSI or so.

The forum returned 'nginx bad gateway' but I see draft of may message is still there. In the meantime, I did a simple 'apt update && apt full-upgrade && reboot' and now I have: U-Boot SPL 2024.01-armbian-2024.01-S866c-P7738-Hb9d3-Vf23c-Bb703-R448a (Jun 21 2025 - 02:53:13 +0000) Kernel: Linux 6.18.35-current-sunxi I might look into HW watchdog things, no clue if it is there and able to work, but used it successfully for Raspberrypi4 to workaround USB3 lockups/crashes.

Yes, I have similar issues with 7.0.12-edge-sunxi kernel, see serial dump/log below: [ 133.382506] Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1] SMP THUMB2 [ 133.389572] Modules linked in: rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 nfs lockd grace netfs sunrpc cp210x binfmt_misc usbserial lima gpu_sched nls_iso8859_1 drm_shmem_help er sun4i_gpadc_iio sunxi_cir axp20x_adc sun4i_ts sunxi_cedrus(C) v4l2_mem2mem videobuf2_dma_contig videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_common videodev mc display_c onnector cpufreq_dt evdev cfg80211 rfkill nfnetlink ip_tables x_tables autofs4 btrfs xor xor_neon libblake2b raid6_pq pinctrl_axp209 axp20x_usb_power industrialio sun4i_ gpadc sunxi phy_generic realtek [ 133.437258] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 184 Comm: kworker/u8:5 Tainted: G C 7.0.12-edge-sunxi #2 VOLUNTARY [ 133.447746] Tainted: [C]=CRAP [ 133.450738] Hardware name: Allwinner sun7i (A20) Family [ 133.455991] Workqueue: pm pm_runtime_work [ 133.460075] PC is at __rpm_callback+0x64/0x10c [ 133.464565] LR is at rpm_callback+0x51/0x58 [ 133.468789] pc : [<c06d2e40>] lr : [<c06d2f39>] psr: 400f00b3 [ 133.475083] sp : f0a5de90 ip : 00000018 fp : c2ef5200 [ 133.480337] r10: c01761ed r9 : 000f4240 r8 : 00000008 [ 133.485590] r7 : 00000000 r6 : 00000000 r5 : c06d0aad r4 : c1e25410 [ 133.492146] r3 : 60000000 r2 : c1e25410 r1 : c1e25410 r0 : c06d0aad [ 133.498704] Flags: nZcv IRQs off FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA Thumb Segment none [ 133.506135] Control: 50c5387d Table: 43eb406a DAC: 00000051 [ 133.511902] Register r0 information: non-slab/vmalloc memory [ 133.517616] Register r1 information: slab kmalloc-1k start c1e25400 pointer offset 16 size 1024 [ 133.526415] Register r2 information: slab kmalloc-1k start c1e25400 pointer offset 16 size 1024 [ 133.535209] Register r3 information: non-paged memory [ 133.540302] Register r4 information: slab kmalloc-1k start c1e25400 pointer offset 16 size 1024 [ 133.549095] Register r5 information: non-slab/vmalloc memory [ 133.554795] Register r6 information: NULL pointer [ 133.559537] Register r7 information: NULL pointer [ 133.564279] Register r8 information: non-paged memory [ 133.569367] Register r9 information: non-paged memory [ 133.574455] Register r10 information: non-slab/vmalloc memory [ 133.580241] Register r11 information: slab task_struct start c2ef5200 pointer offset 0 size 2624 [ 133.589123] Register r12 information: non-paged memory [ 133.594301] Process kworker/u8:5 (pid: 184, stack limit = 0xe8b1571c) [ 133.600779] Stack: (0xf0a5de90 to 0xf0a5e000) [ 133.605178] de80: 60000000 c1e25410 c06d0aad 0000000a [ 133.613397] dea0: 00000000 00000008 000f4240 c06d2f39 c1e25410 c06d0aad 0000000a c06d3f23 [ 133.621617] dec0: c0ab03bf 00000402 c15b5180 c9306c24 c3790705 c34c3c70 c1813000 bf8e21ad [ 133.629836] dee0: c2ef5200 c1813000 01000000 569e35c7 c34f0c70 c1e254f8 c1e254f8 c1b9de00 [ 133.638054] df00: c1813000 01000000 c1b9de05 c1b72670 c1813000 c06d45a7 c2fb5900 c0141a87 [ 133.646273] df20: c3790000 569e35c7 00000000 c2ef5200 c1813000 c2fb5930 f0a5df50 c2fb5900 [ 133.654492] df40: c1813000 c2fb5930 c1603d80 c1813020 c2ef5200 c181305c c1813000 c0142345 [ 133.662711] df60: f0a5df78 c1603d80 f0a9deb8 c36b8fc0 c2ef5200 c0142245 c2fb5900 c2d35c80 [ 133.670929] df80: f0a9deb8 00000000 00000000 c0149e29 00000001 c36b8fc0 c0149d59 00000000 [ 133.679145] dfa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 c0100155 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 133.687359] dfc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 133.695575] dfe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 133.703775] Call trace: [ 133.703812] __rpm_callback from rpm_callback+0x51/0x58 [ 133.711641] rpm_callback from rpm_suspend+0xab/0x514 [ 133.716756] rpm_suspend from pm_runtime_work+0x3f/0x70 [ 133.722045] pm_runtime_work from process_one_work+0x12f/0x390 [ 133.727947] process_one_work from worker_thread+0x101/0x254 [ 133.733667] worker_thread from kthread+0xd1/0xec [ 133.738431] kthread from ret_from_fork+0x11/0x1c [ 133.743189] Exception stack(0xf0a5dfb0 to 0xf0a5dff8) [ 133.748280] dfa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 133.756494] dfc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 133.764705] dfe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 [ 133.771365] Code: f7ff ff7c 4640 f7ef (fd27) f104 [ 133.776186] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 133.780834] note: kworker/u8:5[184] exited with irqs disabled [ 154.802648] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: [ 154.808663] rcu: 0-...0: (10 ticks this GP) idle=4c4c/1/0x40000000 softirq=7570/7571 fqs=2625 [ 154.817336] rcu: (detected by 1, t=5252 jiffies, g=14613, q=22 ncpus=2) [ 154.824076] Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0: It was 3 weeks ago I did see this while doing some maintenance,upgrades,tests,experiments. Mine is a Bananapi M1, I use sun7i-a20-bananapi.dtb as DTB, and should be same for U-Boot, although I would need to check again what version/build I use. A difference is WiFi and some others, but my guess is there is something wrong/ongoing that is getting worse over time, as also with less newer kernels, it locks up after a few days quite often. This has been the case since december 2024 kernel 6.6.x as far as I see that written in my notes. I noticed that because I have used my Bananapi as NAS (blocklevel NBD). But it were paging issues and never really could find a pattern, always random. This error message is different, but might have same root-cause. Kernel 6.16.x I have run, but it lacked AXP PMU driver for the LiPo battery powering/charging which I use every now and then (is a great UPS like that). 6.18.x had it back again, but also lockups (same paging issue, I have already a kernel log dumping 24/7 to try to figure out what is wrong, but actually have no clue). I also used 6.12.90+deb13.1-armmp, so vanilla Debian kernel, but it has no overlays available and also no AXP PMU module, so that make it less useful. I set it back to 6.12.58-current-sunxi so that at least it runs reliably for a few days and I can use it ad-hoc as a serial console terminal for a Raspberrypi4 that also used to crash randomly due to USB3 stack issues and also for debugging and testing rather complex networking issues. I am using custom partition layout, the whole thing also runs as 32-bit UEFI KVM as well as systemd-nspawn container (same cloned MAC address so I un-power the real Bananapi then). The setup uses custom extlinux and standard grub-efi. I could easily test 7.0.x or later in a KVM, but assume it will run fine. It is really something about a combination of A20, platform HW, U-Boot, DeviceTree I think. It is a pity as this SBC is about the most useful I have due to its onboard SATA and LiPo battery management, although not 64-bit.

I don't have a Desktop installed on this device (OrangePi 4LTS). I resorted to using the rtmidi C interface instead, I made a wrapper. The Pipewire documentation is hard to figure out. I guess there should be some sort of session management for Non-Desktop sessions to load stuff?

Hi all, recently my Banana Pi Pro running Armbian 26.5.1 with Debian Trixie received a kernel update from 6.16.8 (which it has been running on for quite a while without issues) to 7.0.12. Since then, it randomly freezes shortly after booting, sometimes I also can see a kernel panic (see attached pictures). Has anyone else run into this issue? What can I do to fix this? The old kernel no longer appears to be present in /boot, which makes it difficult to return to another kernel (trying to run something like apt-get typically quickly results in the aforementioned freeze).

No, same error. We prefer to see the replicateable changes instead of running a wild binary. Does it work for you on real Odroid-HC4 hardware? U-Boot prints (use CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE): SoC: Amlogic Meson SM1 (S905X3) Revision 2b:c (10:2)

@Morales MoralesThe older build where ethernet is working: https://github.com/sicXnull/armbian-build/releases/download/mxqpro/Armbian-unofficial_26.02.0-trunk_Mxqpro-h313_trixie_current_6.12.74_cinnamon_desktop.img.xz The semi-official one where it's not: https://armbian.com/boards/x96q

Just a shot in the dark, does this build work better?

Oh, my GOD ! I used the Android14 OS image from FriendlyElec google drive, and every video format I tried worked perfectly with full hardware acceleration ! Using Kodi player, this NanoPi M5 it is even capable of playing H.265 Full-4K 60fps 10bit HDR, without frame drop ! So the hardware is perfectly functional for 4K movies. The problem is the software component that is present in other OSes besides Android. Guys, I don't understand... Can't we take the drivers that FriendlyElec used in the Android14 OS image and adapt them for Armbian ? It would be brilliant to have an OS as cool as Armbian with full video acceleration capabilities ! Since I have this board, I'll gladly help you with any tests needed to make this Armbian for NanoPi M5 functional ! Just give me some ideas on what I should do... I will be your NanoPi M5 beta-testeer.

Well I gave up on it. I can't figure out how to boot anything other than armbian on NVMe and I need to boot a USB for starters. I guess I'll have to use for armbian until a cheap board with UEFI arrives. Orange Pi 6 Plus is too expensive for me.

Hi, I think swapon is not visible because you are not root. It should already be there via required package "mount". Try tu "su -" then you will "see" the command.

$ swapon -bash: swapon: Unknown command I was about to create a swapfile and then the above command happened. Where can I find swapon?