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Instead of an A17 or A9 Cortex, there also is A15, like the Jetson TK1. Sata, quad core, but only 2GB of ram. I will keep on searching.

Did you check the power supply, the cable and the SDCard?

Thank you, I'm already using one as my `aarch64` gitlab runner.

The kernel got correctly updated tonight. Welcome to Armbian 22.02.1 Focal with bleeding edge Linux 5.16.10-bcm2711 Docker now works. Thanks a lot for your work.

You're right. It's supposed to go on a mainboard with various interfaces, but there is no USB-3 nor mSata nor M.2. Juste mPCIE for LTE modules.

Thanks. I already have one, with the "gaming console" cover, but it's only sporting 2GB of RAM. We can connect a USB disk drive, but I would also have preferred sata or M.2. It looks like there exists a version of the RK3288 SoM with 4GB there, but I don't know yet about the storage.

Hi there, Yesterday, I asked this question on Twitter, but did not get lots of answers. I know I could get an aarch64 workstation, run a 64 bits kernel on it and a 32 bits userspace on top of it, but where is the fun? One year ago or so, I built an armv7 Docker image for me, and I realized only this week that it had been downloaded more than 2 million times. What a pleasant surprise. I launched the build once again to get everything updated, but I discovered the armv7 CI/CD services I used to run my builds on were ... gone. I then switched back to my Orange Pi Zero "farm" to get the images built, but it takes ages, and you know how reliable the SDCards are. So... I was wondering if I could get a beefy armv7 machine before they all become history. I thought of the SolidRun ClearFog (2 A9 cores, 1GB/8GB eMMC, M.2) and HummingBoard Edge (4 A9 cores, 2GB/8GB eMMC, M.2) platforms, but 2 cores isn't much, and 1GB isn't much either. I then thought of the A17 Cortex which came later on, but there aren't many implementations, apart from the RK3288 (from 2014). I have not yet found a RK3288-based board/workstation that looks sturdy enough to be used as a CI/CD runner except this one. Edward Vielmetti told me about the A17 Cortex MediaTek MT6595, but hasn't found any SBC using it. There are also a few Chromebooks with 4GB/16GB eMMC, but I don't want to go that route. So... Would any of you know of an armv7 A9/A17 Cortex board/workstation/server/whatever with sturdy storage, 4 cores or more, 2GB or more of memory? I can't afford a Ampere eMag and use a 32 bits userspace, and I'm trying to buya 2nd hand SolidRun HoneyComb, but it's also a 64 bits machine. Thanks!

I think I have my answer, as the kernels are not freezed, they are updated. When it works.

Thank you so much. When that will work for me, I will try with overlay2. Will a armbian-config/System/Firmware be enough to get the corrected kernel, or should I reinstall the complete image? Armbian monitor

Hi there, I needed an aarch64 gitlab-runner asap, so I got rid of HyprioOs (32 bits) and installed Armbian on my Raspberry Pi 3B. I would have loved to stay with Debian, but went with Ubuntu Focal (as it was the smallest install available). I have a problem with Docker and `overlay2`. Would anyone know if there is anything I can do on my side to get it to work? I mean, if that does not imply rebuilding a specific image for me, as I don't have the hardware to do so. Thanks in advance.

Now that @Heisathhas explained most of them, I'm almost ok. Thanks anyway.

Thank you FurretUber, I'll try that.

Thank you Werner. I will try on a supported version of Armbian with another Zero and see what I get.

Hello there, I have an Orange Pi Zero running Armbian 22.02.0-trunk.0003 Bullseye with Linux 5.10.89-sunxi. I have followed this thread about H3 and SPI, but it does not work for me. I have checked the right (?) options in armbian-config, added spi0-spidev in armbianEnv.txt. Here is my armbianEnv.txt: verbosity=1 bootlogo=false console=serial disp_mode=1920x1080p60 overlay_prefix=sun8i-h3 overlays=i2c0 pwm spi-add-cs1 spi-jedec-nor spi-spidev usbhost2 usbhost3 spi0-spidev rootdev=UUID=1244dc6c-1888-4768-9cbd-922ca4cc3436 rootfstype=ext4 usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u I don't have any spi subfolder in /dev. I'm almost sure I have forgotten something really trivial, but I can't see what for the time being. Can anyone point me the obvious mistake I made? Thanks.

Thanks a bunch!

Oh well, it's not as easy as I thought it would be. I can't remember on which Zero I had managed to get the PWM to work for me. And even if I could find it, I guess it would be difficult to understand why it works, as I installed so many libraries. For the time being, on a fresh install, I can get the 7th pin to work as an output for GPIO, thus making a LED blink (with java-periphery or python-periphery). But this very same pin can't (for me at last) work as PWM, even if it's labeled "PI3 PWM1 / PA06 / GPIO6" with the same libraries. I also tried with the middle pin of the UART with no luck. The OPI.GPIO PWM demo says nothing, but I can't see anything switching on. sudo python3 PWM_Demo.py turn on pwm by pressing button dimm pwm by pressing button change pwm frequency by pressing button stop pwm by reducing duty cycle to 0 by pressing button change polarity by pressing button increase duty cycle but inverted so light will dim. press button to contunue duty cycle reduced press button to contunue stop pwm (it was inverted so it shoudl be full brightness), press button to contunue remove object and deactivate pwm pin, press button to contunue poddingue@orangepizero:~/OPi.GPIO/Demo$ I've seen better Sundays when I don't feel that dumb.

I now want to connect one or two PWM fans (a Delta BFB1012VH 46cfm and a Sunon pf40281bx-d060-s99 24.9cfm). I guess I should use a resistor for the PWM wire, but I don't know about the RPM wire... And should I connect the ground of the fan with the ground of the OrangePi Zero? They don't share the same voltage, so I'm kind of afraid to do so. Any input? Thanks.

Great, thanks a lot to the Armbian team!

Interesting, but not affordable: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/facebook-shares-its-time-card-atomic-clock-tech-to-speed-internet-services/

I think that's the plan, getting the time fix with the GPS module, and then use the RTC to keep it vaguely accurate until we get the next GPS time fix. I understood the concept of GPS Holdover and GPS disciplined oscillator, and hope to implement something approaching one of these days.

Interesting, thank you @guidol!

Thank you @guidol, I will have a look at it.

Thanks a lot for these hints, tparys, I do appreciate.

Really interesting, I didn't know I could afford an atomic clock. Thanks.

The problem is it will be difficult to get access to the network where the devices will be. The security is more and more demanding regarding which devices can be plugged into the network (even the guest network), so using the local network is a big no-no for the near future. The requirement for the 1/60th of second precision would be 4 hours or so, so that we can record until the lunch break. We could get another GPS fix during the lunch break. I was thinking of using an ESP32 or RP2040 for that task, but I really know nothing about them, that's why I was thinking of using a SBC running Armbian... which could get input from a microcontroller, as you suggest. Thanks.