@Alex Ling wow, that's cool. I hope they will merge soon! How was the performance?!

@KhanhDTP now panvk has a in-develop geometry shader feature branch. I've tried it and some dx11 games like Dragon Quest 11S and Octopath Traveler can run.

With the most recent minimal Debian image, Armbian_26.2.1_Bananapim2s_trixie_current_6.18.15_minimal.img on my A311D, I hit a problem with Xorg. Instead of starting up into dwm via lightdm's autologin, all I got was the blank blinking cursor screen. Working through it with an LLM, the resolution worked out to be adding a stanza to Xorg.conf. Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddGPU" "false" EndSection Is this the correct solution? Is this known or understood? I know nothing about any of this. I presume it's related to how the devices look to Xorg via the kernel, but I have no understanding beyond that level, if that's even correct.

@MMGen yeah, that's where mbr keeps its stuff. I guess my question is why skip copying the first 32KiB even if it's empty? In form of time saving, we are talking microseconds. Even if it were to be mbr that you convert into gpt, the conversion would remove the first 32KiB turning it into zeroes and put the gpt partition table on the last 34 x 512k blocks... Is there any other reason to skip it? Is it due to the encryption? Would this process not work if I don't skip the first 64x512 blocks?

Well I don't know what is that firmware and I'm not going to touch it even with a 6 meters stick, sorry. Random software from the internet is not a wise idea, even more if it is a software you are going to install onto a computer laying in your private network. About the serial adapter, I don't know, you should post logs or something useful to give you sensible guidance; giving you blind instructions won't help. If you're a newbie, probably it is better to wait for someone telling you a way to get maskrom mode on your board. I just want to ask you if you tried to put the multitool on a sdcard and boot the board with it.