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Crazy ! So... even simpler components like RAM have an SPD chip... I thought that SBC surely have their base HW config stored somewhere, but it's more and more clear that Iwe're in the 80's and 90's of the PC era. I've been playing these days with a SIM7600G-H module... works fine with SIM from one carrier, doesn't work with SIM from another one. I mean, it "kind" of works, but only receives SMS, can't send. So far the flags and diagnostic messages seem the same except network info, type... signal ok, status ok. So yeah... it seems that my initial expectations of everything being plug and play ans somewhat the peak of all tech and strategies we learnt from PCs is wrong.

Hi Werner and thank you ! Sorry I missed the FAQ here, I went over a lot of text that my eyballs were rolling. Radxa's own forums point to the fact that Armbian (& Forum) is a better place to be in general, so here I am You know, the old type of kits with a "setup" or an "installer" program. I remember doing that with a SuSE Linux quite a long time ago. For example I would try to boot up a Debian from SD card and then install a smaller Linux from within Debian on the EMMC (8GB). I have a loader that boots from EMMC, but unfortunately the Radxa provided image is too large to fit in 8 GB. I noticed Armbian images are much slimer and I would investigate trying to use one on my SBC, it time allows me. I went through the FAQ and I think I got the answers I was looking for but I'm still reading it and I'll get back if I have more questions.

Hello everyone. This is my first post here. My background is software development but not very experienced in the Linux SBC world. So, I have 2x Radxa Zero 3W (not listed on Armbian) with a Rockchip 3566 MCU. And here the questions start... - why don't the Orange Pi 3B or Quartz 64B Armbian images, with the same MCU, don't work on the Radxa Zero 3W ? Aka, shouldn't an OS be portable ? I'm not expecting such of Windows, but I did expect it from Linux - what do the loaders contain exactly ? I have this situation where an older loader seems to boot with Armbian (and then shuts down) but a newer one doesn't... yet the older one doesn't work with the OS from Radxa but the newer one does. If we are talking memory address to chain-boot from, aren't these somewhat standard ? - the last time I installed some Linuxes on a PC was when socket 939 was a new thing, over 15 years ago. An installation was pretty slim, yet now a Debian image decompresses on an SD card to about 12 GB ?! - are these images actually an "in between" an official release kit and a working Linux image ? Thank you in advance for your patience !