I agree with you. Neural network works well on NPU. I tried to load tiny llm model, but it's still too large for NPU. The bottleneck is the sram in NPU, not computing capacity. And I found an interesting project https://github.com/NotPunchnox/rkllama

Great and amazing blog post!

Thanks for the replies. But I've decided on Linux Mainline on ARM Chromebooks (Veyron): https://github.com/velvet-os/imagebuilder/releases/tag/251115-02 which at least works from the SD card. I'm still working on the installation. 😉

Oh damn, wish I would have read this before I tried to install (26.2 with vendor kernel build on the 9th) from SD to Nvme... How can I reflash MTD if I only have a MacBook available? Note to self and the next one hitting that wall: Going to maskrom mode kinda fixed it, after that I started again from a mSD and from that running ArmBian I flashed the same img to the Nvme on the board. Another reboot and it was started from the SSD 😉

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