In one post here I saw a "please buy hardware we recommend" quote, and I appreciate that, but I wasn't able to find a recommended boards list - is there even one? Or should I just use the standard/platinum support filtering on the main page? Anyway, I could also use some help / recommendation for a general purpose SBC as I ... didn't by one for years. I'm looking for a more recent SBC to run a small, low power server (think pihole, homeassistant, zigbee, etc). I don't have specific requirements, but I'd like the board to have some kind of "long term support" and I'd also like to choose something that the armbian team would recommend, maybe from a manufacturer that supports armbian directly, or at least provides good documentation. Headless install, may use GPIO, at least 3 USB ports, built-in ethernet + wifi + BT (not sure if there's an SBC that would support zigbee natively?). And also, avoid using an SD card. Ability to use eMMC or SSD would be important. Where I'm coming from: I still run two first-gen Raspberry Pis as webcams + dataloggers (the 26 pin GPIO ones with 256 and 512 MB RAM respectively) and I used OrangePi One and Lite as two surprisingly stable servers for years (one a small postfix mailserver + datalogger, the other even running 4 docker containers). I like using low-level hardware to its limits🙂 I have recently upgraded to an already outdated OrangePi PC+ that I found in the drawer - at least it has 1 GB of RAM and I was starting running into limits with the 512 MB ones. So yeah - I don't need the top of the range SBC but something ... reasonably priced (think ~40 €) that will run well for years to come. I heard good stuff about the Radxa boards with Rockchip SoCs but I have no experience as I haven't bought new SBCs in ... years. Thanks in advance 🙂

Hi, I got new H96 Max M9S and would like to ask some questions before flashing armbian on the device. 1. In this thread reset button is mentioned and I cannot find one on the case and neither on the board. Is there o photo of it or is it another name for maskrom switch? 2. I intend to flash from Linux, is the following method correct: - put device in maskrom mode - connect it to a computer by a USB A-A cable (to USB 2.0 port) - on a computer: rkdeveloptool ld (to list recognized devices) - on a computer: rkdeveloptool db RK3576_MiniLoaderAll.bin - on a computer: rkdeveloptool wl 0 h96_max_m9s_rk3576_20240930_1033.img - restart H96 Max M9S I also have a question regarding building Armbian image: which dtb file should I use to put in directory build/packages/blobs/h96-m9/ (is it H96-RK3576-BOX.dtb)? Best Regards and keep up the good work.

Having trouble with my klipper accelerometer every time the dtb is upgraded during a update/upgrade. I made this patch to fix the spi@5011000 { ...} section: 831c831 < status = "disabled"; --- > status = "okay"; 834a835,840 > spidev@0 { > compatible = "armbian,spi-dev"; > reg = <0x00>; > spi-max-frequency = <0xf4240>; > }; > And then dtc -I dtb -O dts -o sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dts /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dtb patch -b sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dtso opi3lts-dtb.patch dtc -I dts -O dtb -o /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dtb sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dts Not sure if this is a sane and safe way to do it, but it works for me at least. Hope it can find it's way in a sane form into a future release. Maybe it's better to do it in an overlay, rather than directly? opi3lts-dtb.patch

Hi, Not an expert here, but some educated guesses would be related to either timing, blocksizes towards the devices. Anything that might change or increase the amount of ATA commands towards the disks would be my bet to look at. You could experiment with enabling/disabling NCQ, reducing read-ahead, increasing chunksizes in case you use [software] RAID, increasing caching by tweaking vm options. Perhaps even the IO schedulers, there might have been some new IO schedulers introduced on the new kernel that show different behavior compared to the older kernel, etc. Groetjes,

Hi, If you want to know which kernel is used for your build, just run: ./compile.sh inventory-boards This will take some time. Open the resulting .csv file, which will contain all combinations possible. Groetjes,