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Support for gigabit ethernet would be nice. I wonder if this depends on the used DTB or kernel.

@SteeMan, yes, limitations understood, the expected use is (headless) server work and only wired ethernet network connectivity is needed. I'll have a deeper look and will start playing around with this shortly. Concerning the various DTBs: How do I know which one works best? The X96 Air P3 with S905X3 is SM1, so is it possible that any of the other DTBs works better (or at all?) than meson-sm1-sei610.dtb?

I know that there is no official support by Armbian, but as it seems several others have got it working somehow. The info for that is scattered all over, so I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I didn't know about Manjaro on such a box, but I'm having a look over there right now. Nevertheless, if any more (recent/complete) info about Armbian on such a S905X3 box should be available, please let me know.

I've just started looking into installing a Linux distribution on my X96 Air P3 with 4 GB RAM and 64GB eMMC, but as it seems there is a lot of conflicting info around, especially concerning the gigabit ethernet port that is supposedly only working with 100Mbit/s? Is there any tutorial on how to get started and choose the right image + proper DTB? The intention is to install to the eMMC and use the box as a small home server exclusively