hi. I gave up a long time ago. but now I found the board in the closet and decided to look again. I made a typo in the marking. I have rk3518. can you upload your firmware backup to google drive. or whatever suits you.

Heh, speaking of which, is there no thermal throttling on CPU? Earlier I was trying to set it up as a seedbox, running qBittorrent. Newer versions have a setting to do multi-threaded checksum verification on torrents. Making that use all 8 cores provided nice ~550 MB/speeds, but it did heat up the CPU to 95C or even a bit more! Stopped it all and installed a fan (was just a heatsink before), now it can handle that at reasonable temps.

@rm_ you have a capable platform at hand, why not build edge on your RV2? No docker b/c this is riscv64, but this should work anyhow: git clone https://github.com/armbian/build.git cd build && ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepirv2 BRANCH=edge RELEASE=trixie \ BUILD_MINIMAL=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no KERNEL_BTF=no KERNEL_GIT=shallow Mine is running, but AFAICR this is under 4h. You may want to place board upright for better ventilation 😉

But they still don't have any 7.0+ for evaluation, any idea when? Thanks

@c0rnelius thanks for the u-boot-only image. May help to sort things out. Also, the Armbian.com download pages now have downloadable RV2 and R2S images, so I can stop uploading my locally build ones. I grabbed a second NVME and placed it in the RV2 lower 2280 M.2 slot, while my upper 2230 M.2 slot concurrently holds another NVME. There is a minor quirks between U-Boot and Kernel: U-Boot output shows PCIE-0: Link up (Gen2-x2, Bus0) and PCIE-2: Link up (Gen2-x2, Bus2). U-Boot identifies 2280 as Device 0, and 2230 as Device 1. Linux swapped to 2230=/dev/nvme0n1 and 2280=/dev/nvme1n1. Both NVMEs are bootable, i.e the 2280 is booted if present, if not RV2 boots from 2230. A stopped U-Boot shows the following info => nvme info Device 0: Vendor: 0x144d Rev: 1B7QCXE7 Prod: S3EUNX0HB05786X [ 6.900] Type: Hard Disk [ 6.903] Capacity: 476940.0 MB = 465.7 GB (976773168 x 512) [ 6.910] Device 1: Vendor: 0x144d Rev: HPS4NHBV Prod: S774NX0XB34550 [ 6.917] Type: Hard Disk [ 6.920] Capacity: 122104.3 MB = 119.2 GB (250069680 x 512) while the Linux kernel has this: root@orangepirv2:~# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/nvme1n1p1 455G 1.7G 448G 1% / root@orangepirv2:~# lspci 0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: SpacemiT X60 PCIe 2.0 x2 Root Complex (rev 01) 0001:01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM961/PM961/SM963 0002:00:00.0 PCI bridge: SpacemiT X60 PCIe 2.0 x2 Root Complex (rev 01) 0002:01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller PM9B1 (DRAM-less) (rev 02) root@orangepirv2:~# hdparm -t /dev/nvme?n1 /dev/nvme0n1: Timing buffered disk reads: 1446 MB in 3.01 seconds = 480.91 MB/sec /dev/nvme1n1: Timing buffered disk reads: 1760 MB in 3.00 seconds = 585.89 MB/sec HTH // Sven-Ola