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My C4 has been working well with the latest updates, including reboots with a SD card inserted. I also updated the bootloader via armbian-config, since recent release notes suggested this was needed. May be worth doing that if you are having issues. One of the updates did change the MAC address - a recent uboot update makes the fused MAC address used by default (which is good), which in my case meant the IP address changed. Ethernet still working fine, though.

Just ran an update on Buster, and its unbootable again. I was under the impression the broken kernel was removed, but it seems there is a new, also broken one now: 20.02.15. My board is somewhere remote, so I'll have to go check next week to see what happened.

For what its worth, they claim the following are "fully functional": - USB2+USB3 - USB2 OTG - eMMC - SDCard - HDMI - DVFS - Gigabit Ethernet with RTL8211F PHY <--- - ADC - Debug UART - Infrared Receiver

Hmm, I do have eMMC - a 16GB module from the manufacturer. Given that the Ethernet ports were blinking in a weirdly steady fashion after my "failed" upgrade, maybe I just ran into some other aspect of the broken Ethernet. I didnt try hooking up a serial console to see if anything came out. I dont recall if I tried a hard power cycle, though. Anyways, certainly no rush to get this up and working, I more than appreciate you guys even making a bootable test image available. I assume you already saw the patches here? http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2020-May/016638.html I think you guys already pulled the first one, but I'm not sure where the device tree patch would go.

FYI - updating the linux-image to the latest version (linux-image-current-meson64/buster 20.05.0-trunk) renders my system unbootable. Nothing comes out via HDMI, and the system never appears back on the network. I get this is an initial testing image with no support, just thought I'd warn anyone reading this thread and save them the time of reflashing. Haven't had any issues with Ethernet yet though, aside from one of my cables not sitting well in the case.

Set up my La Frite earlier this week as a unifi controller - it was impressively easy. Maybe 15-20 minutes total including updating the bootloader etc. I donated a few Euro, since I really appreciate this project making it so easy to get Debian/Ubuntu onto ARM hardware like this. Everything has been working quite well. Only issue I noticed is the readme describes writing the image to an SD card, which this device doesn't have (maybe its just generic instructions?). Either way, booting in USB disk mode from uboot and dd'ing the image to eMMC works just fine.