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Just to follow up, I reinstalled from the Pinebook Pro Cinnamon image listed here: https://www.armbian.com/pinebook-pro/ Using the 6.1.11-rockchip64 kernel things seem fine. I'm keeping kernel updates frozen and sticking to the stable distribution, so hopefully things will continue to work. If anyone does have any questions I'm happy to do testing. Otherwise I will probably leave this alone (I had been updating the kernel trying to get suspend working but at this point I'd prefer to keep acceleration working and just shutdown the device when I'm not using it).

Hurrah! 🎉 Congratulations on getting Armbian working on eMMC!

Honestly I would not have flashed Tow-Boot into the SPI except that at some point a U-boot update made my PBP unbootable. So I had no choice. I had to actually open the case to do this (and it took a few tries to get everything working) so it's certainly not for the faint of heart. I really wish Pine64 had shipped these things with a more reasonable boot loader from the start.

I have been running Armbian on a Pinebook Pro without issues. I use the stable distribution, but after an update about a week ago (I think) the Panfrost driver has stopped working. When logging into the desktop environment (Cinnamon) the symptom is a black screen with a cursor visible but nothing else. Checking the logs I see a bunch of lines like: > Mar 20 09:29:05 pine kernel: [ 534.502108] panfrost ff9a0000.gpu: js fault, js=0, status=DATA_INVALID_FAULT, head=0xb9f2b40, tail=0xb9f2b40 If I log in by disabling hardware rendering (choosing "Cinnamon (Software Rendering)") then the desktop does display and work (albeit very slowly). After things broke I enabled the unstable updates, but this didn't seem to fix the problem. Unfortunately I can't remember exactly which software I updated but I assume it was either the kernel or a user space program that works with Panfrost. Has anyone else seen this issue? I'm happy to provide any more details or try other steps if it would help debug the issue. Thanks!

Looks like you asked awhile ago, hopefully this is still relevant. I've been successfully running Armbian off of EMMC on my Pinebook Pro. Before installing Armbian I actually flashed Tow-boot onto the PBP's SPI (replacing the built-in boot loader). Then I was able to run the Armbian installer and installed directly to the EMMC. This set up seems to work fine for me. Hope this helps, good luck!