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I bought it on a german internet marketplace, so that i can send it back within 14 days... but i m not sure, because: with 3.4 i could accomplish my mission... -arne

i found that link to the betaimages now... with Armbian_5.24.161226_Bananapim2plus_Ubuntu_xenial_4.9.0.img i can use the ethernet... it is even slightly faster than with kernel 3.4 (937Mbit/sec instead of 933Mbit/sec)... the sysbench CPU test is even 10% better (210sec instead of 233sec)... but cpufreq does not work in that beta version, although it worked good in 3.4... and: it can't do `#halt -p`, but archlinux's 4.9 could do that... *face palm* so i should better send it back to the seller, because: there will be no sufficient support due to design flaws? -Arne

1. On my board archlinux's 4.9.0-1-ARCH can reboot nicely and it can even do `#halt -p` and turn that red LED off in lhe end... 2. How can I test ur 4.9 kernel? How did u enable eth0 and cpufreq? 3. The board was the cheapest I could find... The seller did not say, that it can't reduce its Vcpu, and that it is not supported by mainline linux kernels... -Arne

Hi! I thought, I might save some energy by using a Sinovoip Banana Pi M2+EDU (it is like the M2+ but no WiFi and no display (EDIT: I mean 8 GB EMMC) and 512MiB DRAM) instead of an Atom N270. Here at armbian.com/download I only found "legacy" 3.4 images, which work nicely... I wonder, if it is a good idea to stick somelhing into public internet with a 3.4 kernel... So I tried to install lhe latest archlinuxarm kernel tar ball with a git clone of u-boot (using Sinovoip_BPI_M2_plus_defconfig) and it boots nicely, but: 1. There is no eth0 (so it is much safer from the public inet, than I like) and 2. there is no cpufreq (so it gets quite warm and i can't even find temperature sensors in sysfs). Should I continue to use my trusty old Atom? Or is 3.4 safe enough? Are there security fixes within short time after the CERT alert? Btw: Did somebody find the 4th pair of USB data lines somewhere on that board (according to the schematics: CON1, footprint: SIP2-254)? Is it possibly on the bottom side (the bottom side silk screen shows frames only (around the parts), I think...)? Thx. Bye Arne