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I got it to work and boot from spi and nvme with this image. Many thanks!

with the image from @balbes150 with efi support I got armbian to boot from spi and nvme.

I can confirm that the SPI boot with NVMe is NOT working at the moment with the Jammy + XFCE image.

Yes, I fortunately had one pretty decent one from my Sony Smartphone which has Quickcharge 3.0 so increased supply and this happened to work. Edit: With the hint from @blahblahblah on the Mali G610 driver I could get the graphical desktop working again, not rock solid, but good.

After a package upgrade, the graphical desktop is not working anymore. Only tty is working. Seems that still a lot of work is necessary.

I have been able to run armbian on a Samsung 970 Evo Plus 250GB SSD. Really nice... It is though necessary to note that only a 5 Volt USB-C power supply is working with the Rock 5 Model B.