DeMo

Well its equivalent so other than vendor not beeing in a database does not count as custom in my books, but that is beside the point. Armbian correctly recognizes the size and I can write to it and that is important. Now flashing an existing image is simple. My preferred way is dd as described by Piter75: dd if=uboot.img of=/dev/mtdblock0 bs=4K for u-boot images and dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/mtdblock0 seek=64 bs=512 conv=sync dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/mtdblock0 seek=16384 bs=512 conv=sync if used with image tree blob. Nice thing is that if new u-boot hangs or does not boot I can just short pin 23-25 to boot from SD card and try again. Since I have an 8Mb flash I would really like to bake in m.2 to SATA drivers - for ASM1166 in my case. Any pointers are welcome. DeMo

I don't have a custom board. I have a ROCK PI 4 SE. These boards do not come with SPI flash IC soldered on the board, but have space if one chooses to solder SPI flash himself. Since I couldn't find flash IC that Raxda recommends: https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/hardware/spi_flash (W25Q64FV; GD25Q127CSIG;XT25F32B;XT25F128B) I found equivalent to W25Q64FV. The vendor Id of FL064LIF01 is different so I'm guessing that is why it is not recognized. I read that Piter75 had support for XTX flashes at first so other flash ICs can be added maybe? This is exactly what my goal is but since I'm new to this I though posting on forum and ask for some help would not hurt. Thanks

Hi. I have soldered a Spansion FL064LIF01 SPI flash on my ROCK PI 4 SE and it is not recognised by debug console: The wierd thing is that "lsblk" detect it: I have connected an ASM1166 SATA controller to m.2 slot and installing armbian to boot from SD and have root on SATA works fine, but fails if install to boot from MTD and have root on SATA. Is there any way to include ASM1166 driver in u-boot to be able to boot the board using MTD+ SATA ASM1166 adapter? Is it possible to make u-boot to cycle from eMMC->SPI->SD->USB->NVME->PXE like in RPi5 for example? Thanks