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Thanks for your work on getting this merged @lanefu!
 
Much appreciated.

here's an unsupported, unofficial build.  Mainline kernel, Mainline Uboot.
 
https://refuge.armsurvivors.icu/lanefu/lanefu_23.08.0-trunk_Nanopi-r5s_bookworm_edge_6.5.3/

nanopi-r5s has been added in a community support configuration.  It is available via the EXPERT mode of the builder.  It requires EDGE kernel, but mainline support is good
 
https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/boards/nanopi-r5s.csc
 
I'm using as a router on debian sid via the clammy-ng router framework

@gounthar It's working OK for me, both the FriendlyElec images and ones generated with pyavitz's debian image builder.
 
Which FriendlyElec image are you using? And which ethernet port? (Reason I ask is I think with FriendlyWRT SSH is firewalled off on the WAN interface)
 
If it's visible on your router it's presumably made a DHCP request so must be up and running.

I spent a day on this. Made some progress and some regression  I had a working nand-sata-install, could transfer to internal eMMC and boot from it but with latest images its not working anymore ... after going closer to @Cornelius patch.
 
u-boot button detection to switch booting from SD card is very unstable. It often hangs, so its some work to be done here ... Test image and a build PR: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4247 

My efforts into this are done. I was asked to make it boot and get it functioning, not to produce images for the masses. I think as that goes, I did as much. Sorry the kernel doesn't have everything "that everyone ever wanted" ticked on, but that wasn't a concern of mine at the time. With that said, I added support for it in the defconfig, if you or someone else wants to compile their own kernel for those images, you are more than welcome too.
 
Honestly, I would suggest people check the commit: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4247 and help provide proper Armbian support. 
 
Thanx