8thphloor

v5.90 / 7.7.2019
All images were updated. It mainly goes for a bugfix update, cleanup, adding Debian Buster release. Beware that software maturity with Buster is not just there yet (even it was declared stable) and with some applications (like OMV) you will encounter problems. Kernel/BSP wise, Debian Buster is the same, uses Armbian kernel, as our other builds. Most of the builds were briefly tested, but bugs might be hiding somewhere. This is the best what is out there thanks to greater Debian community, those around boards and of course ours which pushes generic Debian/Linux to the sky . Enjoy the summer time.
 
What's new? -> https://docs.armbian.com/Release_Changelog/

So I was beat but I can also confirm that a new install is working fine.
 
I'm updating another banana pi that was previously running 5.36 and report back.
 
About the kworker, the problem was diagnosed on linux-sunxi mailing list : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/linux-sunxi/kworker|sort:date/linux-sunxi/bVEsjQRNVSo/nTa3rpOyAQAJ
 
If you really want to remove this load you can unload the two modules but I don't know if you'll still have thermal protection on your A20. I'm tempted to try it as it does not run too hot.

Is there a dedicated thread for this? I mean, kworker CPU load issue.
I have the same problem however I'm an archlinux user, so it seems applying to these conditions:
1) A20 CPU (or even other allwinner CPUs like H3)
2) kernel version >= 4.12 (4.12.x 4.13.x 4.14.x)
 
should be a BUG introduced by sunxi mainline effort, but I don't know where to report it.

definitely I had some thermal sensor related voices in my perf report.
sorry for poor debugging but I had to revert back asap to 5.31 because at home my cubietruck needs to stay healthy and online 24/7