TonyMac32

the USB-C at the rear with the Ethernet port is the power-in, not hard to do backwards.

Yes, I saw that too. We'll have to start keeping a matrix, I have an engineering sample of rev 1, so I should probably look for a newer one to make sure testing is representative.

They are registered with PulseAudio, in the desktop click on the speaker, go to the second sink is S/PDIF. https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/rockchip/pulseaudio.txt shows the pulseaudio links to which ALSA device.

All Firefly hardware is expensive, to be honest. The board without the microphone is $30 if I read correctly. That said, as an IoT board, after being spoiled with $20 high-ram Linux hardware, it does seem expensive Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

And with 33M sold, they don't have to answer the hard questions on their forums... I actually just mentioned this to @chwe the other day, whether or not RPi would go RISC-V. The reality is, any SoC change destroys their little ecosystem, so why not make it a flashy change? They externally put up a front about open source and such, so why not use a fully open-source core? As far as years to implement, well: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/285856-western-digitals-risc-v-swerv-core-now-available-for-free Perhaps not quite as long as all that after all if they've been working with a bigger partner...

Ah, so I see why the original thread about the 3308 came to be: http://shop.t-firefly.com/goods.php?id=86 If T-firefly wants Armbian, they can help out. Drivers would be the fun part, not just for the RK3308, but for the raw NAND as well. (If pictures are accurate it might have an eMMC wired into the middle of where a raw nand chip would go) Might be a fun board for an appliance, which I think is the goal.

Thread to keep track of the RK3328. Boards supported with this kernel: Pine64 Rock64 (multiple hardware revs, will need board identification in case of problems) Rev1 and Rev2 Rev3 Libre Computer Renegade/Firefly ROC-RK3328-CC (same board) Current events: Rock64 Rev 3 appears to need some u-boot tweaks. time to re-assess mainline support Boards have USB3, ethernet, HDMI all working. needed: Renegade at least capped to 1.3 GHz somehow No 4K Renegade sound not set up yet, should be easy enough

Well, in case anyone wanted to run in an RPi configuration...

I don't see where the government is extorting money from you in that scenario, so no, not a socialist. I am a third party member, you're preaching to the choir. :-P

Interesting. The Giant Board is in an Adafruit form factor, so has a bunch of random peripherals ready to go, which is a pro. It also showed me that I should be able to design within relatively cheap board constraints fab wise.

Sure, you can flip a car over to avoid tire wear too.... ;-) Copper shim as also proposed by tkaiser and myself at various points, with tkaiser providing data. I think friendlyelec probably won't be making any more Amlogic based boards after the K2's seemingly disappointing performance. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

Little follow-up: I agree completely with @Larry Bank, the Nokia 5110 displays are terrible, the HX1230 is very nice.

https://groboards.com/giant-board/ Just in case anyone wanted to toss out another tiny platform for discussion. ;-) I was thinking of using this SoC, now it's "been done", but at the same time not the way I was going to use it...

When I tested this to verify it was not an issue, I burnt a fresh SD card, booted, went to command line, started nmtui, found my WPA2 wifi (Why use less?), put in the necessary bits, activated it, done. So, impractical? I think not. Please, your frustration is noted, but this has nothing to do with Armbian.

OK, that one-liner works. From what I can tell the shift from vid:pid to this firware revision was to reduce source code overhead, and it broke the 0x6010 cards that worked beforehand. I'll stick this in rockchip64 and rk3399 default kernels. For reference, my test device is https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079GSMZ7G/ I didn't realize how tiny it was. @Igor I pushed this to the two 4.4 kernel 64-bit rockchips, I obviously can't see how it works against USB2 (where perhaps the firmware revision matters?)

Right. Not a clue from over here, just thinking in type... I'm patching up a USB3 Ethernet adapter at the moment, and a discussion with some Arch guys trying to mainline wifi on Tinker, they have uhs_ddr50 enabled, so now I'm curious. And I need to try out the Bluetooth serdev setup. And figure out mipi dsi, etc ad infinitum. [emoji38] Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

Hmm, only rk3399? I thought there were only extremely minor differences between them in the vdec area, admittedly I didn't done in at all. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

I just picked up a USB-C hub, it has 3 USB 3.0 ports, 2 SD card slots (standard and micro), a DVI and a GbE ethernet. Using it with my NanoPC T4, and a test with the Renegade Elite (not Armbian) both showed an odd behavior with the GbE, the driver loads, but then claims it doesn't recognize the device after reading it's firmware. Does anyone else have an adapter based on this chip? My cell phone recognized it and used it right away [ 2186.114873] r8152 7-1.4:1.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Unknown version 0x6010 [ 2186.114896] r8152 7-1.4:1.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Unknown Device ok, found a rejected patch, so some digging should help https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/757827/

use nmtui

OK, tested, works out of the box. Are you trying to set it up via command line, gui, network manager, etc?

"Anyone Gotten Wifi to Work?" Perhaps the proper question is: Has anyone else had difficulty with wifi? No, not as of last time I built it. I will test the current image again just to see, we've had wifi working on Tinker mainline images for over a year.

I think people don't know the SoC used on the XU4, they may not be associating this topic with the board...

I didn't read the bottom and had a Bionic desktop crash and burn on me... OK, trying again.

International trade has existed for millennia, this is a government philosophy problem, which I think is strongly linked to protectionism and borderline extortion. The big difference I see off hand is that I would have to bring in something worth over $2500 for customs to care. We do have schools here , we pro/conned your government structures against our own government design as an academic exercise, and discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the common currency of the Euro. Every state within the US has its own state constitution and law, controls its own business, infrastructure and education taxes, and has wildly different standards of living and culture. (from surviving on $18k/year in West Virginia (my origins) to needing $100k/year to not be homeless in large parts of California.) This causes quite a lot of confusion with outsiders because they assume the federal government controls these things, but in reality, they simply waste money interfering (and negatively affecting the outcome) while the states conduct their business. A good example is the legality of marijuana, it is illegal at the federal level. Many states ignore this and have "legalized" it at the state level, and the federal government does not respond because the legal battles would take decades in all likelihood.

I think the point is, if you could have NVMe or eMMC, go for NVMe. Heatsink over is better than heatsink under due to basic physics. Less dense hot air rises. Honestly I'm still waiting for a board that can replace my XU4 as my media server, but since Emby will handle hardware transcoding for the Samsung SoC, that becomes tougher. What is Amlogic's code number/name for this SoC?