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I have been using the 5.87 builds from Olimex and they seem to work fine (but it's still stretch-based). I might try some of the 5.83 builds when I have time. The board has Rev.E printed on it, and it is the "industrial component" variant A64-OLinuXino-2Ge8G-IND. Is that what you asked? It is powered using a SY0605E adapter Olimex sells as compatible with the board and a LIPO battery as a backup. It is a 1.2A supply nominally, but acording to my wattmeter the consumption peaks at over 8 W – not sure whether this is because of the losses on the power supply or whether the board itself draws more than the 1.2 A nominally provided by the supply. In any case, the 5.87 build has been runing stably (right now I am using the bootloader, kernel and firmware from the 5.87 build, but all the other SW comes from Debian Buster; and it works as long as I don't accidentally update the armbian-specific parts).

So when I try to run the Buster image for Olinuxino64, after the initial U-Boot screen it spends some excessive time with lines Starting version 241 (about a minute or two) Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... Scanning for Brtfs filesystems. done. (many minutes. Does it have anything to do with the fact I have some old data on the on-board eMMC?) These appear on the splash screen with armbian logo via HDMI, not on the serial console. When it finally boots, USB keyboard is not working (nor USB in general, dmesg shows nothing when i try to plug/unplug various devices) and the system is very unstable... It took me several times to even run armbianmonitor -u as the system otherways crashed trying to run that.