MikeDK

Yesterday I got my NanoPC-T6 delivered 🤩 I chose the option with the case, so it came premounted, and I have to say that this is THE best SBC-case combo I ever had, and I tried many raspi cases ... for the RK3399 boards I own (NanoPi M4, RockPro64, RockPi 4) there wasn't even much to choose from It looks like a real consumer or even industrial product, so for anyone who wants to get one of these: Buy the case! For the moment I will start with the images provided by friendlyelec (Google Drive Link) There are also subdirectories with toolchains, patched sources etc. ... so I wonder if some of these could be used for armbian support As soon as I have time to start up the thing, I will examine the devicetree, I bet this can be used nearly 1:1 for the armbian image Maybe you could hint me some more things to look for

Just ordered one of these The headline of the CNX-Software news is in fact wrong, as this board has 2x 2.5gbit ports instead of the 2x1gbit. Also interesting about this board is that spi-flash the spi flash is unequipped... I wonder if it will be too hard to add this ... for the moment it seems that nvme cannot be booted directly because of the missing spi flash, but i guess booting from the emmc will also be good enough for the start If I can be of any help getting support of this board into Armbian, please let me know. (I guess I'll have to wait at least a month to get the hands on my purchased board ... so until then I'll play around on my orange pi 5 :D)

nope, just make menuconfig && make ... this works for a 4.4. kernel, but not 4.18 or 5.x ... I am not familiar with the armbian build tools - as far as I understood, I can only do a build of a complete armbian image and not being able to only compile kernel? Besides that, the fact I am not using the armbian build tools does not explain why I get the ARM64 image magic error when trying to use a 5.x kernel package from the armbian repo... Also, theoretically, a kernel build from ayufan should work too, isn't it? Regards, MikeDK

Hi! I have the problem that when I try to boot with any Kernel other than 4.4.x, U-boot gives me the "Bad ARM64 Image Magic" Error and stops booting. I can build my own 4.4 Kernels without any problem, those will boot fine. But If I try any newer kernel, for example a NEXT Kernel (package linux-image-next-rockchip), or a DEV Kernel (package linux-image-dev-rockchip), or even if I compile my own 5.3 Kernel, a boot attempt always results in the Bad Magic error. I also have this problem when I install a whole 5.3 Armbian Image (for example https://dl.armbian.com/rockpro64/Buster_current_desktop) I have three RK3399-based boards: 1.) NanoPi M4, 2.) RockPi 4B, and 3.) RockPro64 .... And the problem is with all of them ... Any Ideas? Do I need a newer U-Boot? And where to get that for RK3399 based boards? Even Ayufan packages use 2017.09 ... Regards, MikeDK