Well. Hi.
Now I'm getting deeper into this CPU, and would love to port Armbian onto it as carefully as possible. This is a neat tiny debian I really loved on rk3399.
The above mentioned ubuntu boots and works ok, well, just before things get close to apt upgrade.
The kernel (and whole boot machine) are put aside, on a separate fat partition, never even mounted, so the "natively" installed kernel and uboot are dummy and unaware of real ones. This WILL become a problem sooner or later; I was struggling through (really weird) Rockchip boot system, and defeated it only with help of Armbian, @Igor and a qualified Rockchip technician in this forum.
So I'm definitely yours with Sunplus, too. It's the only 512M embedded DRAM system-in-a-chip that meets my needs, and I do see quite some perspectives for DIYers and profi with it - imagine 4core ARMv7 with half a gig, in TQFP (not BGA! even not QFN) package, that any baby can solder onto his PCB. Monster Arduino.
Now. I'm trying to transplant what I have out of an official buildroot/yocto into Armbian, in order to have a full-featured properly upgradable and stable system. Is there any beginner guide for this? I got stuck on the very first step: the SIP does have both uboot (customized) and xboot; moreover, the images for heterogenous cores (arm5 and 8051) must be built, available for correct upgrade, and loadable before linux starts.
Don't really want to glue a frankenstein out of a common build, despite can do so. Not a clean solution.
