I tested the new version (Armbian_26.2.0-trunk.591_Orangepi3-lts_forky_current_6.18.18_minimal) in terms of bloototh and it's OK... but there are errors that rule out this image. Namely, the system lacks 4 working processor cores 🙂 ... only one. Something is wrong at startup because the green LED is on and the red LED is constantly flashing/pulsing. Bringing up secondary CPUs ... [ 5.092655] CPU1: failed to come online [ 5.092666] CPU1: failed in unknown state : 0x0 [ 10.217311] CPU2: failed to come online [ 10.217324] CPU2: failed in unknown state : 0x0 [ 15.341948] CPU3: failed to come online [ 15.341961] CPU3: failed in unknown state : 0x0 [ 15.342047] smp: Brought up 1 node, 1 CPU [ 15.342057] SMP: Total of 1 processors activated. [ 15.342063] CPU: All CPU(s) started at EL2 [ 15.342112] CPU features: detected: 32-bit EL0 Support [ 15.342119] CPU features: detected: 32-bit EL1 Support [ 15.342129] CPU features: detected: CRC32 instructions [ 15.342146] CPU features: detected: PMUv3 [ 15.342193] alternatives: applying system-wide alternatives It's some kind of incompatibility: U-Boot / TF-A / kernel ....

You may want to check out this thread. There's someone else doing the same with an Orange Pi 5. Might be worth comparing notes with @KhanhDTP

Hello, Which armbian you suggest to try out? Thanks h616.txt

seems like openwrt already figured this and the fix is actually upstream: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c3fe7071e196e25789ecf90dbc9e8491a98884d7 (also see https://github.com/immortalwrt/immortalwrt/commit/7ef19bb9cd59f5018fc96b01a5465ed84038cfe8) This may tell that one or more Armbian patches make things worse , no clue though which one if any.

The SBC I'm using has an 8 core CPU that's getting close to my laptop, 32GB of RAM, and currently has 256GB eMMC + 1TB NVMe.... Yes, it's something of a research project, but at the current rate, I believe that if I can get a working GPU I should be able to run a game via Steam at usable frame rate. Currently Steam can't use the GPU, because Mali doesn't have the required capabilities, but LLVMpipe is giving me ~2fps, using the CPU, while also emulating x86... My goal here is not as much a practical machine, but a test/build platform, without buying one of system76 $5000+ ARM workstations. Also, hardware video decode would be nice. It is not weak by any means tho, see attached!